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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 25/02/2026
This is how tariffs take the tax burden away from rich people and give it to poor people.
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USDemocracy @usdemocracy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
BREAKING: The House GOP is pushing MULTIPLE voter suppression bills through Congress—all designed to block millions of American citizens from voting. This isn't about security; it's about silencing voices. #StopTheSaveAct #USDemocracy
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 20/01/2026
As you pay more for groceries, housing, and health care, Trump has used the presidency to enrich himself. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
ICE Trump regime agents kidnapped a 17 year old boy working at Target, the regime thugs beat and tortured him then dropped him off 9 minutes away from his job site when they realized he was a US citizen, he was bloodied and bruised when witnesses helped him.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
it's the unitary executive, the tribune of the people, the all-powerful sovereign, the sun and the moon. it can bomb fishermen and deport citizens. but it cannot, it turns out, free up money to pay for SNAP—there are laws, after all.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Rage Against the Regime. Put August 2 on your calendar. Wherever you are, however you can: Keep talking. Keep writing. Keep standing up. #GoodTroubleLivesOn #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
1/3 The GOP just pulled a political heist.After announcing they were done ‘til September, they snuck a bill through committee that could obliterate worker rights. H.R. 1319 affects EVERYONE with a job, union protections, or employer health insurance #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
WORKERS ARE TAXED AUTOMATICALLY WITH EVERY PAYCHECK. THEY DON'T NEED IRS AGENTS TO AUDIT US BECAUSE THEY ALREADY HAVE OUR MONEY. THEY'RE CUTTING THE IRS BUDGET BECAUSE THEY WANT BILLIONAIRES AND CORPORATIONS TO BE ABLE TO STEAL FROM US WITH ZERO CONSEQUENCES. WAKE THE HELL UP.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. 

A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. 

And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. 

To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- 
Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- 

A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different.

Q:  They're not really. 

A: Those are like different genres. 

Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. 

A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
spending taxpayer dollars to make an expressive point about clean energy
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
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elliesc.bsky.social @elliesc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out r...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17/06/2025
This is an insurrection.
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elliesc.bsky.social @elliesc.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’m here in the US eating a bowl of fresh summer fruit picked by immigrants while the US is suppling an army that is killing civilians in line for a bag of flour to feed their starving families. I am so grateful for what I have but at the same time disheartened by my and other governments’ cruelty.
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Str8Grandmother @str8grandmother.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
USE THE HASHTAG USE THE HASHTAG It is the ONLY way we can group ALL the protests and action. USE THE HASHTAG #NoKings
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social
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bethbramble.bsky.social @bethbramble.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Watch this video and **save it to your phone**—it’s got everything you need to know to protest safely. From legal rights to phone safety, de-escalation tips, and emergency prep, this guide could protect you *and* your community. Don’t just watch—be ready.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/06/2025
NEW: The CBP confirmed to @404media.co that it has been flying Predator drones over LA amid the protests. These Predator B drones are military-caliber UAVs used for aerial reconnaissance that can be armed. It further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters. More here:
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The High-Flying Escalation of CBP's Predator Drone Flights Over LA
Custom and Border Protection flying powerful Predator B drones over Los Angeles further breaks the seal on federal involvement in civilian matters typically handled by state or local authorities.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social analysis finds final House-passed reconciliation bill’s #Medicaid & marketplace cuts will increase uncompensated care costs by $204B/10 years. Failure to extend the expiring enhanced ACA premium credits will add $79B more: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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State-Level Estimates of Health Care Spending and Uncompensated Care Changes under the Reconciliation Bill and Expiration of Enhanced Subsidies
In this brief, we use updated CBO projections of the increase in the uninsured associated with the House-passed reconciliation bill and a revised methodology that leverages new analysis from our HIPSM...
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Attention @senatedemocrats.bsky.social , @housedemocrats.bsky.social - investigate the private immigration detention centers! Please meet thus moment!
There's nothing wrong with wanting better for the party.  This isn't about tearing the party down. 

It's about rebuilding it into something that can actually win-boldly, consistently, and for the people. 

THE REFORMERS 

We ARE the Democratic Party
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Irony is officially dead.
From: Andy Borowitz

I swear I am not making this up. Tonight
Trump will go to the Kennedy Center to see
"Les Miserables," a play about a mass uprising against a tyrannical king. I hereby retire from satire.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🤡 now sending the National Guard out nationwide to cause chaos and panic at #NoKings events, with full MAGA GOP complicity. They DON’T want us: 📢 Standing up for our constitution 📢 Protesting having a wannabe dictator LET THAT SINK IN ✊🏽 Anyhoo, find a NK location here: www.nokings.org#map
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Millions of Americans will lose Medicaid and food assistance under Trump's proposed tax bill, all to pay for more tax breaks for billionaires who don't need them. #TrumpsBillWillKill #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 05/06/2025
🚨NEWS: Amid a wave of campaign cash, senators put a line in the new crypto bill that could require banks to drain money from your savings account & give it to crypto investors to reduce their losses. The bill says crypto gets "priority" over deposits. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
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Crypto’s New Bailout Fund: Your Savings Account
The GENIUS Act would require banks to prioritize stablecoin owners over customers if there’s a financial collapse.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Don’t be fooled by Me-Lon’s criticism of the BBB It was a plant in preparation for this- Senate Republicans are eyeing possible Medicare provisions to help offset the cost of their megabill as they try to appease budget hawks who want more spending cuts embedded in the legislation! #SaveMedicare
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Medicare is a target as Senate GOP faces megabill math issues
Republicans have so far kept hands off the politically sensitive program. But senators are now desperate to find additional spending cuts.
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 04/06/2025
🚨MAYORAL RUNOFF ELECTION - SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS🚨 Democrat: Gina Ortiz Jones Election Date: 🗓️THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH🗓️ Note: Gina Ortiz Jones’ opponent is a Republican backed by TX Gov. Greg Abbott. Democrats need an overwhelming, resounding win here to send a message across Texas.
Gina Ortiz Jones, Democratic candidate for Mayor of San AntonioMap of San Antonio, TX
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The dictator of one of the United States' enemies is using the President of the United States to announce military attacks on a United States ally.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 03/06/2025
On June 14, we are showing up and showing OUT! THAT is the day that we show Donald Trump and the GOP that WE, the PEOPLE, hold the power. From small towns, to large cities, we have a simple message: No thrones. No crowns. No Kings. LFG!
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/06/2025
NEW: For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. WIRED went through hundreds of records that reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat. Unpaywalled as part of our FOIA-based coverage.
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Terrorists
For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A jaw-dropping Must Read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
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elliesc.bsky.social @elliesc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
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We must protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness forever
A vast collection of peer-reviewed science shows that if the proposed Twin Metals mine was built along the rivers and streams flowing into the Wilderness, pollution and environmental degradation would...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2025
Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.
propublica.org
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Trump cut a secret deal with the Mexican cartels, Mexican security chief Omar García Harfuch confirmed cartel family members entered US in a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump regime. President Sheinbaum is demanding an explanation from the US which tried to keep it secret.
 Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Urista, file)

https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011
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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Not to distract from the fact that Yamal Said is an Austin TX resident since the ‘80s & a lawful permanent resident, he was on his way OUT of the country. WTF is going on here??
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My God, Elon has created HAL 9000.
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Alex Heard @aheard.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Alums of Outside magazine are donating a complete collection of back issues to the Outdoor Recreation Archive at Utah State in Logan, UT. We need to get them from Santa Fe to Logan. If you or anybody you know is planning a trip from NM to UT, please contact me. And please RT.
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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
GOP on record supporting Trump tariffs. Keep that in mind over the next few months!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Is this correct: Musk said he would unlawfully continue to spend 1-2 days a week on DOGE after his 130 days are up and supposedly rational finance types are clap-clap-clapping as if that's candor?
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
NEWS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas. But then she voted in Hawaii.
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Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics
Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity ...
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elliesc.bsky.social @elliesc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff best protest signs from Santa Cruz CA
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elliesc.bsky.social @elliesc.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff Santa Cruz ha about 5k people.
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