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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The word that comes to mind for those who’d prevent soldiers who will be on frontlines of climate catastrophe from knowing what they’re facing is “treason.”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump Admin canceling mRNA research is, literally, them standing in the way of a cure for fucking cancer
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/08/2026
The $25 MILLION ICE stun gloves are fucking diabolical. If you want to see how they’re supposed to work, watch this video. There’s no way this ends well. Now add this to the fact that DHS has already said body-cam footage will only be released when it’s “beneficial” to ICE.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/08/2026
A new analysis found that Third Way, a “centrist Democratic” think tank that is reportedly preparing to pour $15 million into an effort to combat the rise of candidates who support Medicare for All, is funded by health care insurance groups, Republican-run industry groups, and Big Pharma.
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Think Tank Battling Progressive Policies Gets Funding From Insurance Industry
Third Way has announced it is “preparing for the next war” within the Democratic Party against democratic socialism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026
Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've worked in Democratic digital comms for a long time and pay attention to campaign metrics across platforms. Increasingly I'm seeing Dems who crosspost on X, Bluesky, and Threads get better engagement on Bluesky even with far fewer followers. Here's @jamestalarico.bsky.social's clip last night:
Social media analytics for different platforms and screenshots of James Talarico speaking on stage in his clip across platforms.

There's a lot of data in the analytics and it shows that Bluesky has the highest engagement rate with the least amount of followers at 19.62%
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵
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ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 months
The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is what it looks like when you view your country like an underage model who you are totally prepared to defile and ruin and then discard, leaving all her future dreams destroyed, and her with PTSD and clinical depression requiring years of reparative treatment, if she can even qualify.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps: apnews.com/article/immi...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/04/2026
A new analysis estimates that the average American taxpayer shelled out over $4,000 to the federal government last year “for militarism and its support systems” such as the Pentagon, meaning 50 workdays’ of income taxes went to weapons and war. In contrast, only $2,492 went towards Medicaid.
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The Average US Taxpayer Spent $4,049 on War and Weapons Last Year
For 50 days out of a year, an average U.S. worker’s income taxes were wholly paid toward militarism.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says
Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This week's cover @thelancet.com
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEW: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has formally requested Trump Administration refund $13.5 billion to New Yorkers from Trump's rejected tariffs
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...
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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Sure paying taxes sucks, but at least we got to pay for another bucket list trip for Kash this week.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026
The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“Aides said [Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Chief of Staff John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter.” —Miles Taylor, who worked for the first Trump Administration.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Which line of the poem is you?
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
By the power invested in me, I hearby proclaim this woman, "White Woman of Next Month!" (sorry, you cant have February.) Not all heroes wear blue jeans
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
solutions-oriented thinking www.kshb.com/news/crime/w...
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Woman sought after setting fire to Kansas City, MO, warehouse once considered for use as ICE detention center
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is looking for a woman who allegedly set fire to a south KCMO warehouse that had been considered for use as an ICE detention center.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
You don't say 🤔
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It will very much be worth your time to read this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Krissy Lunz Trujillo @klunztrujillo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Ubreu had been detained after federal agents rammed into his car and broke his car window...he had been delivering groceries for mutual aid work through his church when he was detained. She said he’s a legal immigrant." AND they won't give him meds that he'd likely die without. Heinous & cruel.
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
To be fair, World's Economy Held Hostage by Child Sex Trafficking Ring is much less important than Plan to Save Elephants Turns Deadly.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The constitutional prohibition on using federal law to abridge the freedom of the press is unusually explicit and really does mean what it says.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/01/2026
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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