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BA Poly Sci, MBA Detroit Tigers devotee• Enough with the cruelty, chaos, corruption, and crimes! Vote Dem! Detroit, Michigan

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Who else would have an interest in high oil prices, strained NATO relations, and distractions from Ukraine? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 14/03/2026
Jared Kushner is cashing in on your government's influence. It’s the biggest conflict of interest in history, happening in broad daylight.
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Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
1. Let me see if I have this right. The Russians are now helping the Iranians kill Americans, first by providing “targeting information,” according to the Post. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say
The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.
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e pluribus cartoonum @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Iran War Game #Iran #StraitOfHormuz #OilShock #Trump #Putin #Khameini #Russia
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Everything’s fine. #IranWar
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm not sure the coverage is really making enough of Trump spending blood and treasure to replace a dying hard liner with a younger hard liner who now has a burning personal reason for revenge. And gloating about what a success this is.
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Stu Cowan 🇨🇦 @stucowan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Dear America: Appearently you now have a President AND a Prime Minister. Not to worry though, they are both criminals.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
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Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This is an atrocious statement from an American defense secretary. Video game videos of bombing. Arrogant rhetoric. But no clear strategy for a billion dollar per day war
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mickhare2129.bsky.social @mickhare2129.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
By her own definition she's not welcome.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11/02/2026
Apropos of nothing much, a reminder that Nixon’s Attorney General served 19 months in prison.
John Mitchell’s full body mug shot
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
That’s, like, almost all of it. 😔 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/c4f8...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “For better or for worse, what people most admire in Canada, certainly more than success, is the capacity to endure,” Stephen Marche writes. “What liberal democracies need now, more than ever, is the sheer will to go on, without nostalgia for what once was.”
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Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage
The world is angry. Canada’s been there all along.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/02/2026
"Imagine all of those venues and memorials stripped down to steel supports, to be rebuilt by the man who fancies himself the tastemaker for a nation of people who don’t know what good taste is until he foists his vulgar vision upon them."
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Trump and the Kennedy Center: Renaming, Rebuilding, Revolting
For locals, this demolition project hits home.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti. It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them.

But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title.

His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him.
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
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e pluribus cartoonum @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Expert Opinion #Trump #Constitution #AntiquesRoadShow #Congress
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 24/01/2026
The Senate will vote on the DHS funding bill next week and it can’t pass without Democratic votes. That means Democrats have real leverage to rein in ICE, but they won’t use it unless we force them to. Call your senators: indivisible.org/ice-out-sena... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For the past year, the Trump admin has abused federal statistics and confidential records, mostly through deletions and censorship. But some of the most disturbing developments don’t involve data the administration is suppressing, but rather data it’s *collecting* www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...
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Trump’s Chilling Weaponization of Confidential Government Records
Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities?
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Front page of tomorrow's Star Tribune.
Banner headline: Children as young as 5 detained
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Disrupting a church service is a bigger crime than shooting someone three times.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When the Supreme Court gave Trump legal immunity, they had to understand that was de facto immunizing anyone executing his wide range of criminal commands, right?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It was 10 degrees when they did this.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/01/2026
Every hour of the past year has been another Republican offering up the post-2020 “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” quote in some new context.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.” Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
Screenshot of Fox News from Jan. 15, 2026 with picture of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and chyron: "Breaking News: Noem: U.S. Citizens Should be Prepared To Show Proof."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This administration excels at finding different ways to harm our children. Assaulting and kidnapping them joins a long list -- bringing back deadly diseases like measles, slashing education funding, supporting Twitter's CSAM, and, of course, protecting the president's pedophile sex trafficker pals.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Don't Tread on Me For @rawstory.com nickanderson.substack.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT: “.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..” (via @apnews.com)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed's headquarters.
In a statement released Sunday evening, Powell rejected the notion that the action was driven by his testimony or the renovation.
"Those are pretexts," Powell said. "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president."
Powell added, "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions - or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Chances of a retraction when the inevitable happens?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A deep, profound, and dangerous madness has over taken the leadership of our country.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🚨 230-196, House PASSES bill to revive expired Obamacare funds for 3 years 17 Republicans join all 213 Democrats in support of the legislation. A significant victory for Hakeem Jeffries who held firm on a clean extension. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House votes to revive Obamacare funds as senators plot a scaled-back bill
The legislation to continue ACA funds for three years passed with unanimous support from Democrats and a group of Republicans who rebelled against party leaders to force the vote.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Really incisive analysis here. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
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Annexing Greenland Would Be a Strategic Catastrophe
Any attempt by the United States to claim the island would quickly spiral out of control.
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