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Helena Handbasket

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bleeding blue in music, MLB, and at the ballot box 💙 Make Due Process Great Again With Liberty & Justice For All

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No one should be shot in the back and denied urgent medical care. The shooting of Venezuelan DoorDash driver Wilber Garcés Pérez by ICE in Austin demands a full investigation. Abolish ICE. Prosecute rogue agents. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-shot-a...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Childcare in America should be free. The Free Childcare for America Act would make care free for millions of families, pay family or friends who provide care, ensure childcare workers earn a living wage, and provide $1,000/month for parents who stay home.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I represent a district in Silicon Valley. I know the culture. I’ve been in the rooms. Mr. President, you cannot trust tech billionaires to write the rules to keep us safe or protect our jobs.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Telling a Black woman who is a descendant of enslaved people to leave America, JD Vance. I do not know what to say. Even I didn't believe you would go this low.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 22h
989 billionaires are now worth 22% of our GDP. We have more wealth concentration than the gilded age.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 20h
Our immigration enforcement system is simply broken. The deportation of children and innocent families is inhumane and unacceptable. No small child should face a judge without an attorney. 
It’s time to abolish ICE.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 10h
From CBS News: Palestinians held a mass funeral on Thursday in Gaza City for more than 100 people whose remains were recovered from beneath the rubble of a residential building hit by an Israeli strike nearly three years ago.
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 49m
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1h
It is profoundly grotesque that Jared Kushner plays at diplomacy while he also profits from bombing children in Gaza “In his..diplomatic role in the Trump administration, Kushner..helped broker a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, though Israel has continued to launch daily strikes against Gaza”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 46m
International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 2h
10/3 Yes, Maine Congressional candidate Paul LePage really did describe Social Security as “welfare, pure and simple" #maine #MEpolitics
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h
“Jared Kushner is literally a war profiteer. That’s what we should refer to him as. Peace would be bad for business.” @timmiller.bsky.social & Tommy Vietor react to the CNN story about Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s obvious conflicts of interest with 🇮🇱 companies
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 2h
Toledoans are tired of paying more because Washington is caught up in corruption and expensive foreign wars.   They want a leader who will be a voice for hardworking Ohioans – I’m in this fight for them.
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 1h
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1h
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21h
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 17h
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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Cynthia J Krueger @cynthiakrueger.bsky.social · 11h
My Medicare Advantage Supplemental Health Insurance was canceled today starting 1-1-27. It cost $1300/year plus $6000 deductible and $40 copays. 325,000 seniors in MN got the same news. Medicaid was hit worse. Trump is garbage.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h
Tomorrow they’re holding a funeral in Springfield for the Haitian college kid Pierre Damas Bel who killed himself. On the same day in nearby Dayton Ohio suburb President trump will be there holding a fun little rally, not far from the body of the student his policies appear to have, you know, killed
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 17h
First the wedding, now the ballroom — “Trump/Russia” gets smellier and smellier.
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19h
In retrospect, it’s kind of incredible that Elon Musk couldn’t resist juicing Grok’s racism, even if was at the expense of the autonomous thinky machine fiction he’s selling. 
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 19h
“We hope that other cities will take it as a lesson: We don’t have to bow down [to] the fascist deportation machine. We certainly don’t have to let its perpetrators benefit from our local economies and infrastructure.”
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Ben @ben9311.bsky.social · 21h
This government is a child rapist mutual defense league. They protect any and every child rapist they can get away with protecting, in or out of government. And all without coordination because they all understand their position in the conspiracy. This is why we have RICO.
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Real Blue Patriot @realbluepatriot.bsky.social · 19h
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Helena Handbasket @erthcrclr.bsky.social · 20h
Kegsbreath seems unfamiliar with the American motto E Pluribus Unum. We are a diverse country blending into a cohesive nation; diversity is indeed our strength. His TRT apparently has atrophied both his testicles and his brain.
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Pete Hegseth's 'Warfighter' Crusade Isn't About Killing
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has prioritized eradicating "woke" from the military, and making sure no one questions Trump's orders.
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tech oligarchs don't want a human army. Humans can refuse orders. Humans can revolt. The Pentagon just launched a 4-star command for killer robots. Hegseth announced it at Quantico. When the robots are told to pacify citizens or bomb schools, do you think they'll object on conscientious grounds? #AI
Pentagon announces killer robot program
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 02/10/2026
Watching Maria Elvira Salazar flip her talking points like a pancake on a scorching griddle cracks me up. That frantic flipping says it all, voters are mad as hell, and she can feel the heat rising. #Blues #TurnOutTheVote
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt: "Were you or were you not the pirate captain of the Black Pearl" Jack Smith: "Sir I believe that was Jack Sparrow"
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 23h
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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump funnels more money to the guy who is funnelling money to his party is the only way this make sense. If the Washington Post were still a real newspaper it'd be telling that story.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
A little over a year after leaving government service, Elon Musk is set to return in a limited capacity, co-directing a Pentagon initiative known as Project Meridian, focused on the future of warfare, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced. wapo.st/4ytVaiG
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI — Paxton admitted Trump is a “drag” on Republicans and said the weird Trumpapalooza midterm narcissism convention “dropped our numbers” 👀🤷🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Los Angeles Dodgers @dodgersbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No time like October.
A photo of Yoshinobu Yamamoto smiling with a t-shirt that says “No Time Like October.”A photo of Freddie Freeman kneeling and smiling while holding his bat.A photo of Shohei Ohtani hitting in the cage.A photo or Kiké Hernández wearing his “No Time Like October” t-shirt.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this guy can barely talk, folks
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maryland just released its own vaccine recommendations based on guidance from established medical and scientific organizations instead of the Trump administration. With unqualified leaders at the helm, states can and—should—step up to protect their communities.
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Maryland issues first-ever statewide vaccine schedule to push back against Trump administration
Under new legislative authority, the Maryland Department of Health has issued a state-level vaccine schedule based on guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading independent e...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 30/09/2026
The US Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint on Wednesday against judges in Minnesota who gave interviews to the New York Times about the immigration surge there, alleging it was unethical and partisan.
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US Justice Department files complaint against Minnesota judges who gave interviews about immigration surge
The US ​Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct ‌complaint on Wednesday against judges in Minnesota who gave interviews to the New York Times about the immigration surge there, ​alleging it was unethical and partisan.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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blueduck 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽 @orblueduck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bibi is one of the most evil cancers on earth, along with Putin and his orange asset
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔥 @shawnryan762.bsky.social: "Israel is the one thing since 9/11 I've seen EVERYBODY rally around- we're tired of paying for your universal health care, education, missiles, fighting/dying for your wars... We're just a cow pasture full of cattle to send 🇮🇱 tax money + fight their wars."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Ed Miliband to Zeteo UK: The UK Will ‘Not Be Bystanders’ Over Palestine" The foreign secretary, speaking to Zeteo UK’s political editor, Shehab Khan, at the Labour conference, has said he is ‘very serious’ about doing the ‘right thing’ in Gaza.
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Ed Miliband to Zeteo UK: The UK Will ‘Not Be Bystanders’ Over Palestine
The new foreign secretary, speaking to Zeteo UK’s political editor Shehab Khan at the Labour Party conference, has said he is ‘very serious’ about doing the ‘right thing’ in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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