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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is random, but I wanted to extend my gratitude to Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty for her tireless effort in protecting the Kennedy Center from being fully destroyed by a vindictive jealous petty classless criminal. 💙👊
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Truly absurd headline. And most importantly, grossly factually inaccurate. Beyond any reasonable doubt, Trump is a sociopath; he does not grieve, nor is he capable of grief. Even if journalists are too timid to report that truth, they should not report the contrary as truth.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Russia keeps choosing war. It is both grotesque and bewildering that people in positions of power still refuse to acknowledge this basic reality.” open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
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Russia, the unmysterious aggressor
Europe keeps trying to crack the Russian riddle: Why invade neighbors? Why the war crimes? But the answer hides in plain sight.
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is exactly what we need.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
tomorrowsaffairs.com/how-russian-...
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How Russian services gain access to encrypted conversations without breaking the encryption
In the coming years, most competition between intelligence services will be driven by the human factor rather than by attempts to break encryption
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Monty 🇨🇦 @onlymonty.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ha! Supreme Court can’t get him out of this mess…
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Reminder that Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer refused to let Ukraine strike Russian oil and gas, even with their own weaponry. Will somebody in US leadership, someday get Russian policy right?
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
FUUUCK SCOTUS The most-corrupt Supreme Court in America's history.
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Catherine Subsisting in revolting times...Unbelievable @glasscatty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And I get asked why I despise muskrat.
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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Whoever drew this, they are right on the money. This is the truth. They divide us and then they conquer. It has worked for them for years they will never stop doing it unless we all team up together against them.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Tulsi’s Final Intelligence Failure
When truth and propaganda can occupy the same briefing
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“America’s strategic performance was nothing short of appalling—its alienation of allies…its failure to protect Gulf States, its rough handling of an ally that had fought alongside it…were all signs of ineptitude and even incompetence.” (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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War and Consequences
The damage will not be undone when the Trump administration is gone.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is an old post but it shows how corrupt he is.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We should visit in the thousands and do our hands in the water. Make them arrest us all.
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Ms. Unformation @msunformation.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Cool algae formation on my walk around the Reflecting Pool today.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The inmates have taken over. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...
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Trump’s new acting intel chief Bill Pulte arrives early, eyes firing hundreds | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s pick for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, showed up at his new job a day early on Thursday after asking for a list of every employee in the office so he c...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/06/2026
FYI: JUST the act of lifting sanctions nets Iran about $5B PER MONTH. That's in addition to the $24B in unfrozen assets, and the $300B that will probably be managed by Kushner's hedge fund for a fee.
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cbum-in-co.bsky.social @cbum-in-co.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
From today, and every day that traitorous rapist sack of shit is corrupting our country, I will post #TrumpWillNeverBeMyPresident
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🤣🤣
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Outstanding theins.press/en/inv/293888
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Not-so-secret services: One of Russia’s most highly classified officials has a social media problem
Top-secret FSB counterintelligence documents obtained by The Insider show that since the start of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, foreign intelligence…
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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The War Comes Home: Ukraine’s Moscow Refinery Strikes and their Strategic Rationale
Two strikes in a single week have set Russia’s capital alight. These are the sharp edge of a maturing strategy designed to change the arithmetic of a war that Putin still insists he can win.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Next step. White only bathrooms in the Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
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Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
“We were left with no option but to come to the negotiating table and accept billions of dollars.” theshovel.com.au/2026/06/19/c...
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Cuba Offers To Give Up Nuclear Weapons It’s Not Developing in Return for US$300B — The Shovel
"Cuba has also agreed to open the Straight of Florida. Yes, it is already open. But under this deal, they have agreed to keep it open … for the next 60 days, and then they will start charging us to ac...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“A U.S. president who promised Iran’s “unconditional surrender” will be delivering its unlimited survival.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...
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Opinion | Everybody Is a Loser in This Middle East War
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Were Russia to accept a settlement along the current line of contact…would be an admission of the war’s fundamental senselessness. The poor quality of his strategic thinking and his hubris could then become a pressing political factor within Russia.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/o...
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Opinion | Putin Has No Good Way Out of His War
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“In the hands of a political operative, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence can become a platform for laundering partisan narratives through the authority of classified information.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...
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Opinion | I Worked for the C.I.A. for 28 Years. Bill Pulte Is a Dangerous Choice.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The case that helped lead to disaster in Iraq. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Swinging at Curveball: When You Want It Bad, You Get It Bad (with Bob Drogin)
Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · June 7 · 53m
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Good
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thank you
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/05/2026
The GOP is going to have to spend tens of millions of dollars defending this seat. Meanwhile, the democrats have TONS of free Ken Paxton attack ads made by the National Republican Senate Committee and the Texas Republican Party. Thanks, y'all!
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and weatherman Evgeny Tishkovets envisioned destroying Odesa and Kharkiv, sinking NATO ships and making the world tremble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6tP...
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Vladimir Solovyov threatens Ukraine and the West
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Sadly, every word is true. The American experiment is over. Killed in the middle of Fifth Avenue and no one in power blinked an eye to stop it.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Trump’s regime just built a $1.776 billion slush fund with YOUR tax dollars. Who gets it? Jan 6 rioters who beat cops. Who doesn’t? Homeless Vets and active-duty troops. It’s a brazen act of corruption, and Veterans are stepping up to call it out. 🇺🇸👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/vietnam-ve...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The plaintiffs are represented by the Becket Fund whose board includes Leonard Leo, a longtime member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), the Christian Right’s umbrella organization. The CNP was co-founded by the late Gary North who explained the Christian schooling agenda as follows:

"Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
~ GARY NORTH
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
12/ “North was a founding board member of the…conservative leadership network, the Council for National Policy”
In addition to his involvement in the Coalition on Revival, North played leading, but not news-making, roles in other significant entities. He founded his own think tank and publishing house, the Institute for Christian Economics. He was a founding board member of the pioneering Christian Right law firm, Rutherford Institute, as well as the conservative leadership network, the Council for National Policy. He was an "Associated Scholar" of the libertarian Mises Institute
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
11/ You can read about Gary North here.
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Gary North (1942-2022) Sought to Deny Religious Liberty to 'the Enemies of God' — But He Was Willing to Wait Patiently For The Revolution to Develop
If you’ve never heard of Gary North that may be because he wanted it that way. Nevertheless, when North died in Georgia recently at age 80, he’d quietly become one of the notable religious and politic...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The Supreme Court has “agreed to hear from Catholic preschools that say it's unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won't admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.” 4/20/26 … 1/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Supreme Court will hear from religious preschools challenging exclusion from taxpayer-funded program
The faith-based facilities argue it's unconstitutional to bar them from a taxpayer-funded free preschool program because of their admission restrictions on LGBTQ+ families and kids.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Trump has given private prison company GEO Group billions in federal contracts with ICE. Recently, Trump chose a former GEO Group executive to be the acting ICE director. It's not a coincidence that the company donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC in 2024—it's corruption.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The brazen corruption continues www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Exclusive: Trump officials tried to ban half of U.S. voting machines, citing conspiracy theories
President Donald Trump’s election-security czar last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states by asking whether the Commerce Department could declare their components n...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New Economist/YouGov polling shows only 18% of voters strongly approve of Trump, his lowest, including less than half of his 2024 voters (47%).
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is world class trolling
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
At Jacobin, a walk through the whole Jeffrey Epstein-Peter Thiel correspondence. Epstein played a key role in transforming Thiel into what he is today: a pro-war figure in bed with the national security state, and a major part of the right-wing project surrounding Trump.
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Jeffrey Epstein Encouraged Peter Thiel's Political Journey
Peter Thiel has gone from reclusive billionaire to high-profile political overlord. Hundreds of emails show that that journey was encouraged and facilitated by the late billionaire who considered him ...
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2legit2quit4eva.bsky.social @2legit2quit4eva.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yesterday, Tim Snyder told Katie Couric how Victor Orbán faked a terrorist attack to gain sympathy. It's at 25:48 in this interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0I...
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Historian Timothy Snyder on Orbán's Defeat, Christian Nationalism, and What Trump Is Really Planning
YouTube video by Katie Couric
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 26/04/2026
Am I understanding this correctly? The President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House AND the Secretary of Stare were all at the White House Correspondent's Dinner together and security was so laxed that a guy ran through security with a long gun? I call bullshit.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned: Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
Elon's latest baby mama exposes the MAGA narrative machine
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This Lego video for drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is fantastic. 🔥
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
4/ I screen grabbed the video too. Maybe I’ll post it later. It brags about Thiel bankrupting Gawker.
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