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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The leader of the Republican Party is stealing money paid by American taxpayers to buy campaign ads for Republicans in the midterms. You can’t vote him out in 5 weeks, but you can vote out the people he’s trying to help with your money he’s thieving while they remain silent.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Republicans passed the Big Ugly Bill, they cut SNAP benefits so they could give tax breaks to billionaires More than 5 million people lost food assistance-including thousands of kids who no longer get breakfast or lunch Remind #TrumpsCorruptCongress of their cruelty during the midterms
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So, it turns out that now CNN and CBS News are under the control of the Ellison family, they are considering asking Elon Musk to join them. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can you make it through this video without crying? Or getting angry? I couldn't! Let's take that sadness, rage, fear & frustration & use it to fight for our democracy! Volunteer or donate to candidates! Let's create a big #BlueWaveIn40Days so we can stop Republican cruelty.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Apparently $12M was moved from HHS's Office of Minority Health to help fund RFK Jr's security, while grants supporting preventive care for low income communities were canceled. Waste, fraud, abuse, and a spectacularly bad use of public health dollars 😒
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our government is purely racist and evil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“His upper right eye socket and temple were swollen as if he had been punched,” Garton said. The man’s face, he added, was scraped “as if it had been ground into the sidewalk”.

Garton, 56, said one agent had his knee on the man’s back and was “beating up on him”, even as the person shouted: “I’m a citizen, leave me alone.” The witness said about five people were standing nearby, yelling at the agents to stop.

a sign saying 'justice 4 Wilber' is placed next to candles and flowers
Venezuelan shot by ICE seeks medical care as lawyer says bullet lodged in back
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Garton said he urged the officer to get off the man so he could inspect his injuries, and also asserted that the officer acknowledged that he was already aware the man was a US citizen. When the agent stepped away, Garton said he saw bloodstains in the shape of handprints on the man’s shirt.

The man told Garton that he had been walking to a pharmacy to pick up a prescription when the agents stopped him.

Another eyewitness, Michael Lipson, the owner of a store across the street from where the incident occurred, said he saw the federal officers wrestle the man to the ground as the alleged victim repeatedly yelled that he was a citizen. The man’s face looked “badly messed up”, Lipson told the AP.

Lipson said the officers checked cards and papers from the man’s wallet before leaving them scattered on the road. Lipson said he laid out his sweatshirt for the man to rest on while Garton inspected his injuries.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sure does 😕🤷🏼
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.
nyti.ms
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Mr. Trump is deploying the might of the federal government…his long-running media clashes have grown into a sweeping campaign to control speech in America…the president’s intent is apparent: to punish, intimidate and silence dissenters.” (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
nytimes.com
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026
I should be inured to it by now but stories like this continue to just fucking infuriate me. The people in our society with the most wealth, the most social & institutional capital, were the *weakest* in the face of Trump's authoritarianism. Utterly cowardly and contemptible.
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The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13/09/2026
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has called the state’s current system of felony disenfranchisement “a shameful relic of our Jim Crow past” and expressed support for a ballot measure this November that would end it.
boltsmag.org
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that was banning people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A missile just crashed into the building I was sleeping in. Built up residential complex intentionally attacked in Odesa. The building is still on fire. Barbaric terrorism.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
August was the warmest month on record for the planet. I discussed the implications with #BBCNews:
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
America’s richest 10 percent owns nearly 27 times the wealth of the bottom half. Tax cuts, unequal recoveries, and public debt built the divide and shape who feels secure now. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-riches...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 09/09/2026
Do NOT use VoteSafe[.]org Do NOT use VoteSafe[.]org
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"The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org" #ELB
Popular Information: With the midterm elections approaching, it’s a good idea to make sure you are registered. Each state has a tool to do so, and the federal government has set up a page that directs...
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 09/09/2026
Yes, you need to check your voter registration. Yes, vote.gov will do that for you through the EAC. 🚨 NO. Do NOT use VoteSafe[.]org 🚨 It belongs to Elon Musk & Itty will absolutely hoover up your personal data from ip address to links you click & more. Musk's American PAC is funding that site.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2026
Carney on what he'd say to Putin at the G20: "Get out of Ukraine. Give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine. End this war."
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Leaked Video Shows Flock Taught Cops How to Hunt No Kings Protesters newrepublic.com/post/215116/... via @newrepublic.com
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Leaked Video Shows Flock Taught Cops How to Hunt No Kings Protesters
Flock hosted a webinar on how to use its license plate–tracking cameras.
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it used security-related justification to revoke the legal status of students who expressed views it didn't like. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A grand jury says $8.5 million diverted by Ron DeSantis’s administration moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, linked to his wife Casey’s initiative, into GOP political spending. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/florida-gr...
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Florida Grand Jury Finds DeSantis Administration Diverted $10 Million in Taxpayer Money
A grand jury says $8.5 million diverted by Ron DeSantis’s administration moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, linked to his wife Casey’s initiative, into GOP political spending.
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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To my dying day I will regard it to be the blackest of marks that the US electorate conferred upon one of the worst human beings to have ever lived the US presidency, not once but twice. 🇨🇦
de Adder cartoon of US President DJT shooting himself in the foot.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1/2 His son is serving America aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. His father..19 years in the U.S., a work permit, no criminal record was arrested by ICE while waiting for him to come home. THIS is Trump’s America. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apnews.com/article/uss-...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him.
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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ᴋɪɴɢᴘɪɴ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴᴋᴘᴇɴ @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
nytimes.com
Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 21/08/2026
Pentagon officials fired Max Lederer today ahead of his planned retirement. (Article from yesterday) Erik Slavin, Editor in Chief of Stars and Stripes has also been fired today. Stars and Stripes has been an impartial source of news for our nation's servicemembers. This could easily now change.
theguardian.com
Stars and Stripes publisher could be fired before planned retirement, sources say
Max Lederer, longtime head of the US military news outlet, says his ‘philosophy of leadership’ differs from Pentagon’s
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...
apnews.com
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Beshear criticizes Mitch McConnell for not at least putting out a proof of life video, and John Thune for not caring that McConnell apparently doesn't the capacity to work anymore
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She “declined?” “Declined”? You can’t just decline to get a security clearance. You either get one or you don’t have a job. So much dysfunction in this White House. When will the GOP have had enough? Why risk the country for this? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2026
Remember the electric shock gloves ICE just paid $20 million for? The ones human rights groups have called “readily misused for torture”? Well, despite the manufacturer’s warning against shocking children, school resource officers across the country have used the gloves for years.
motherjones.com
Cops love ICE's new shock gloves. Parents want them out of schools.
Omaha requested 40 pairs of the gloves for just under $66,000 in 2025.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW: Trump is moving to open 45 million acres of national forest to logging and development. 45 million. Acres. Land that belongs to you, that your grandparents protected, that nobody gets to replace. We just launched this. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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McSpocky™ @mcspocky.substack.com · 15/08/2026
tRump’s people waited until the protesters and cameras left, then started bulldozing the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Just straight-up wrecking a protected national treasure once nobody was watching. Please share… substack.com/@rawstory/no...
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Raw America (@rawstory)
BREAKING: The Trump administration is now bulldozing the mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon in Texas’ Big Bend National Park. They waited until after protesters and journalists left to do it. Share widel...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/08/2026
Wow! Not even nursing homes are sacred when it comes to voting rights and the Trump administration. New federal guidance could make it harder for 1.2 MILLION nursing home residents to vote, while warning staff they could face fraud investigations for crossing the line when helping residents.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/08/2026
Trump’s Treasury Dept. is deleting a database used to track dirty money, wiping out info that could help investigators follow fraud, trafficking, and money laundering. @crampell.bsky.social on how Trump is making life easier for financial criminals. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Uyd5W4?utm_...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Four days after Alex Pretti was fatally shot, DHS quietly opened an investigation. The target was not the agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, but labor unions, a climate change group, socialists, groups they claimed had provided help and money to “violent opportunists and agitators” on the street.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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