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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon Musk's America PAC is quietly donating to the most consequential races of November's midterms, and @wired.com is tracking all of it - in real time. amazing work from @dell.bsky.social, who built this, and big lifts from @hugolowell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social:
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Activists have launched a 'defendants union', likely the 1st project of its kind in the modern history of US political protest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @dnbrgr.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social @sdonziger.bsky.social
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans are laser focused on making life more affordable for you.
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*deep sigh* www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DONATE AT DOUGJONES.COM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Florida has at least four Senators at the moment, which seems vaguely unconstitutional. www.npr.org/2026/06/13/n...
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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville faces a residency challenge to run for Alabama governor
Senator Tommy Tuberville is facing a residency challenge that could prevent him from running for governor of Alabama.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 17/09/2026
The jury in Jeffery Lee's trial voted for a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. The State of Alabama plans to execute him today. One of his jurors is praying that God saves Mr. Lee's life.
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A Juror’s Prayer
Ozetta Thomas and a majority of jurors voted to spare Jeffery Lee’s life. The State of Alabama is planning to execute him anyway.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Sen. Katie Britt was publicly defending Trump's tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff & Trump's US Trade Representative, obtained via FOIA by @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 11/09/2026
Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’
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Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’
President Trump snapped at yet another female reporter for ABC News, telling her she's "the worst" while he was pressed on his promise of $5,000 checks. The post Trump Gets in Female Reporter’s Face Over $5K Check Proposal Grilling: ‘You’re the Worst!’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
can someone rename gas to $2/ gallon
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Cameras off the president right now”: Authorities forced the press pool to look away as the president had an altercation with his wife--and none of the major outlets have acknowledged this blatant assault on the freedom of the press. fair.org/home/network...
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Networks Were Ordered to Stop Filming Trump—and They Didn’t Protest the Illegal Censorship
"Cameras off the president now": The command was an astonishing call for press censorship on behalf of Trump and a direct violation of the First Amendment.
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
<3
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning
YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
last Thursday was the first time in over 15 years that American prisons executed 3 people on the same day i did a lil digging and was confused at first to find that executions are at a modern high, even tho public support for the death penalty is at a modern low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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How Republican Politicians and Conservative Judges Work Together to Preserve Capital Punishment
Public opposition to capital punishment is growing. But more people are being executed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/08/2026
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up thousands of mustangs around the U.S. and quietly selling them on the cheap to buyers who are exporting them for slaughter abroad, an examination of government records by The New York Times found. nyti.ms/4grb8Co
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration has been quietly selling thousands of wild mustangs to slaughterhouses for as little as $25 a horse — more than doubling sales since taking office, according to a Times analysis of government records
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Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'
Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y...
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 20/08/2026
A researcher at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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A researcher at the Old State House discovered slave auctions had once taken place on museum grounds. Her bosses told her to stay silent. - Arkansas Times
“They immediately said, ‘Do not mention this to anyone.’ They said to keep researching, but don’t say anything about it because they might be watching,“ researcher Tessa Wahlquist said. “They” were me...
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Worked out my anger about the craven dismissals of the 2020 protest movement over at The Nation www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump is already planning for the 20*30* Census. This time, not only does he want to stop counting noncitizens, he wants to stop counting race and ethnicity. Can't have an unconstituional racial gerrymander if you pretend not to know where Black people live. My latest in @thenation.com
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The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books
From adding a citizenship question to not tracking race and ethnicity, the administration wants to minimize Black and brown political power.
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
*ahem* As the big brother to the scientifically perfect Honda Fit, The Odyssey brings much of that sporty appeal to the family car imo. Get it if you love your family and don't want to accidentally mow over your 5-year-old in your front driveway cuz you can't see over the hood of your big SUV.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/11/2025
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
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Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
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WAFB @wafb.com · 23/06/2026
New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans…
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New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease
Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s Hospital.
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🌍✈️🫘A Traveling Ass Bean🫘✈️🌍 @haughtybynature.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth, frens!
Historic chair swat from the Montgomery Riverfront Brawl
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
in trying to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against xAI, Trump's DOJ is both retreating from its legal duty to enforce Black people’s right to a livable environment, and declaring that Black people have no rights under the Clean Air Act that xAI is bound to respect ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Trump DOJ Is Trying to Do Elon Musk a Big Favor
The government claims that it has the power to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against one of the president’s political allies.
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Em @emwils.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excuse me????
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/06/2026
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio said that his state should abolish the death penalty, a marked split from his fellow Republicans, who broadly support executions.
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Ohio Governor Says State Should End the Death Penalty, Breaking With His Party
During a news conference on Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, called on state lawmakers to end all executions, a practice he once supported.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio to abolish the death penalty, saying it is not a deterrent
Gov. Mike DeWine says he believes Ohio should abolish the death penalty. The term-limited governor, who has repeatedly postponed scheduled executions, said Tuesday that data shows the death penalty is...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We're hearing reports that police have tear gassed a group of protesters outside the Senatobia Walmart where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
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Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk's incitement of pogroms in Belfast reveals he'll use his immense wealth and influence to foment untold fascist violence in the future. Only a global movement can break his power. New piece from @polphilpod.bsky.social and me. Threading highlights below. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2119...
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Elon Musk’s Race War Just Took Darker Turn—Time for a Global Response
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Alabama Department of Corrections has confirmed it will not move forward with the execution of Jeffrey Lee, per an order by the United States Supreme Court.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here's how Alabama explained to SCOTUS why a firing squad is impossible: "Alabama has one executioner: the Warden of Holman Correctional Facility, Terry Raybon. To use firing squad, the State would need five executioners—i.e., five individuals willing to kill another person."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Every awful thing about this guy has been excused because he's supposedly the secret key to winning [insert lockstep GOP voting demographic here]. ... but against Collins he polls below generic Dem and below Mills. Every single thing about him is bullshit.
19. Did what you heard about Graham Platner make you feel more positive or more negative about him? (Asked only of respondents who answered 'yes' to heard_news_platner) (n=1430) 13% 57% 30% 20. If the November 2026 general election for U.S. Senator from Maine were held today between Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Graham Platner, who would you vote for? 49% 51% 21. If the November 2026 general election for U.S. Senator from Maine were held today between Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Janet Mills, who would you vote for? 48% 52% 22. If the November 2026 general election for U.S. Senator from Maine were held today between Republican Susan Collins and the Democratic candidate, who would you vote for? 45% 55%
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We may need a new definition for "ceasefire" www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
Israel and Hezbollah Kept Up Attacks Despite Ceasefires Daily recorded attacks by Israel and Hezbollah since the start of the war Israeli airstrikes Hezbollah attacks by: • Rockets • Drones • Mortars 80 60 40 20 20 Other projectiles 40 60 80 100 i March April April 7 ceasefire April 16 ceasefire May June Bloomberg

Source: Institute for the Study of War and AEl's Critical Threats Project Note: As of June 5, 4 p.m. Beirut time. Direct engagement events and other armed clashes have been excluded.
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