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Probably at Epcot or planning a Broadway trip. The good in this world… it’s worth fighting for🌈

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 30/06/2026
Every time I watch PBS Newshour, I’m swiftly reminded of what an actual news broadcast should be.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
So, here's a moment for a billionaire to do some good in this world...start a network. Bring back Colbert, get all the folks from 60 Minutes and call it 61 Minutes or something. Do good nightly news! Hire all these fantastic journalists who were let go recently from WaPo, NYT, AJC, NPR, etc.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Watch Stephen Colbert's show and then never watch CBS again. Make em feel it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
And this is one good reason that respiratory precautions should still be standard in healthcare settings. Because what happens when the doctor gets the thing?
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Dear NBA, I KNOW it is all about the money and you don’t care about our convenience, but this having to use 3 different streaming services to watch playoff games each night is, (and I say this with all the love I can for the game,) complete horseshit.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The incidence of cardiovascular disease in people with #LongCovid is elevated, as seen in a prospective study of >1.2 million individuals in Sweden, specifically coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, and heart failure www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
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Long COVID and risk of incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study using the Multimorbidity Integrated Registry Across Care Levels in Stockholm (MIRACLE-S) cohort
Long COVID is associated with increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease, particularly cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and coronary artery disease. These findings underscore the need for sy...
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 24/03/2026
Love this. Also, fastest way to end issues at airports would be to ground private jets, due to capacity constraints, until TSA problem(s) resolved. Over in 24 hours.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Obama will always be the better man.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Midterm message:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Rep. Becca Balint's grandfather died in the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. Pam Bondi just suggested Balint was antisemitic.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The nurses are pissed
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/01/2026
Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?
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laura @lauraillustrates.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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illustration of a cute brown bear wearing blue wizards robes and pointed hat. the robe is clasped with a round, yellow jeweled brooch. the bear is looking at the view with a star wand out, emitting a spell with cute magical effects. below the bear are the words "hocus pocus don't lose focus"
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Bill Emory (he/him) @oldmanemory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
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NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/12/2025
But Fox News said...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Eileen Higgins blows it out in Miami, wins 59%-40%!!!! In the last 2 years Dems have flipped Florida’s two largest cities, Jacksonville and Miami. Great work everyone! www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/eileen-hig...
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Eileen Higgins Blows It Out In Miami, Wins 59%-40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great work everyone!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Another stunning photo encapsulating how far America has fallen
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/11/2025
Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Any Democrat who "trusts" notoriously deceitful Republicans to keep their word on an ACA vote deal is too naive/stupid to be in office. Let's fix that next time they are up for election. #PrimaryTheIdiots
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10/11/2025
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
You are not a patriot if you have contempt for people who use SNAP benefits to eat while simultaneously not caring about a $300 million dollar ballroom, you are exactly what they molded you to be, a pawn in their game to divide us and enrich themselves. Congratulation, you lose.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Religious leaders' request to give communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied again
Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the vil...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Kim Jong-un shit. Keep that phrase in your head—as it’s the proper response to most of what Trump has done since midsummer.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
John Dickerson announces he’ll be leaving CBS at the end of the year. Not a great sign for the network.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/10/2025
WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/10/2025
Good. No matter what, we'll always fight to protect every students' freedom to learn.
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Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases
The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 80th day out of the last 92. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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