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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This 👇
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another pre-midterm bribe to voters: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump promises another round of checks before the midterms
The president said he’ll send “nearly $100” checks to 20 million seniors.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the mpls star tribune. It really would be nice if the NYTimes etc write clear, truthful headlines like this
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Leaked audio of Ken Paxton: Q: Do you think Trump is a bit of a drag? Paxton: To be honest with you, when we did that midterm convention, it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Yeah. Not good.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Streisand Effect, Activate.
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The wrong Alice @bethafus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do NOT mail your voted ballot. The US postal service IS GOING TO DELAY VOTED BALLOT DELIVERY to the SOE. VOTE EARLY IN PERSON If you must use a mail in ballot, drive the completed and signed ballot to the SOE office in your county and drop it in the collection box yourself. This is not a drill.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There’s lots of empty land in and near Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, and for that matter at the very spacious estates of the tech oligarchs and the nice campuses of the tech companies. Those seem like easy places to put data centers.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On this I cannot disagree. Mainstream media and legacy media have been bought and paid for and are willing turning a blind eye to an obvious coverup. No one is willing to go to the hospital and find out the truth? Shameful.
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The national debt just surpassed $40,000,000,000,000. Meanwhile, Trump is focused on building a lavish ballroom featuring Italian carved columns.
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New details of plans for the Kennedy Center and White House ballroom include columns carved in Italy, plaza named for Trump
The latest court filings in cases involving the Kennedy Center and the White House ballroom project detail the work being done at the two institutions.
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Alan @lownslowav8r.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The stupidity of the Trump and his military commanders is world class. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War (Gift Article)
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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is alarming: ICE will spend $20M on electric shock gloves for its agents. This comes as ICE whistleblowers continue warn of new recruits' lack of training and violent backgrounds. Meanwhile the social safety net is gutted — just to funnel billions to Trump's masked thugs.
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P. Inglish @gmpinglish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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BellaRossa @bellarossa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In case you're curious how many are in your neighborhood already: maps.deflock.org?lat=39.8283&...
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DeFlock Maps | ALPR Camera Map & Privacy Routes
Explore ALPR camera locations and plan privacy-optimized routes across the United States.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/08/2026
No matter where we are on the political spectrum, we should all be able to agree: Our privacy should never be traded for profit.
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Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.
In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
James Talarico CAN WIN TEXAS..!! Just think if we all send him even $1 how great it will be to help his campaign Hope you saw him on Maddow tonight How to send that great little $1 (or more) Just go to : jamestalarico.com @jamestalarico.bsky.social
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
CBS reports that Ashley Moody did precisely what the entire GOP has accused Tim Walz of doing -- and yet, somehow, that crack fraud task force has not arrested the GOP nominee for Senate. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
As Florida Attorney General, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation. And the Attorney General did so without placing any of the safeguards or guardrails her office would typically require to make sure the money was properly spent.

These funds were intended to expand Medicaid for children in Florida, but instead they ended up in the bank accounts of a pair of political action committees, one of which was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff, James Uthmeier.

And that was the money that DeSantis used to defeat Amendment 3.

Amendment 3 garnered 56% of the vote in November 2024, just shy of the 60% needed to pass. And two months after the amendment failed, DeSantis appointed Moody to the United States Senate, and he appointed Uthmeier to replace Moody as attorney general.

The diversion of $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation and then into the political action committees fighting Amendment 3 was uncovered through a series of legislative hearings in 2025 in the Florida House. And it prompted one Republican legislator to call it a criminal act.

"This is a misuse of Medicaid money," Republican State Rep. Alex Andrade told CBS Miami in August 2025. "This is money laundering."
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Andrew Fear 🎃 @andrewfleer.com · 28/07/2026
Tweet from @MrChonkers

Me as a kid: ha ha Homer Simpson is a fat dumb loser.

Me now: homer has a wife and kids, a stable job, and owns a home in his 30s, he's doing vastly better than me
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 27/07/2026
A multimillionaire Republican senator told Americans to endure soaring energy costs for “a few more months.” Now a conservative budget expert is calling the message political malpractice. #JohnKennedy #GOP #IranWar
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‘LET THEM FEEL THE PAIN’: Millionaire GOP Senator’s Stunning TV Remark Could Become a Midterm Nightmare for Republicans
WASHINGTON — With families already watching fuel prices climb and household budgets tighten, one Republican senator went on national television and asked Americans to endure even more pain. The pol…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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RadicalMovement @radicalmovement.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mamdani continues to show how right-wing and even centrist narratives about NYC + him as a Democratic Socialist Mayor are total bullshit. I suspect this will get virtually zero coverage by the billionaire boot-licking outlets. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
nyc.gov
Mayor Mamdani Announces "OPEN for Small Business," Over 50 Reforms to Slash Red Tape and Increase Support for Small Businesses
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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gisele600.bsky.social @gisele600.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
That’s the mantra that the Dem. Party should be adopting instead of wringing their hands and running to failing consultants. Listen to Heather Cox Richardson’s June 25th podcast where she reads the 1956 Rep. Party’s platform that could have been written by Mamdani. #news #following #EconSky
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
MELONI, to Trump: “.. my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/06/2026
Axios: "If Paramount Skydance's deal with Warner Bros. Discovery goes through, Bari Weiss would oversee all news editorial across both CBS News and CNN."
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Scoop: Paramount seeks business counterpart for Bari Weiss at CBS News
If the Warner Bros. Discovery deal goes through, Weiss would oversee all news editorial across both CBS News and CNN, while her possible counterpart would manage business operations across both compan...
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
they shut down half of midtown so that this dying rapist could nap through two and a half quarters of an NBA Finals game
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404 Media @404media.co · 02/06/2026
SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.
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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 26/05/2026
Canada turning red is the geopolitical version of your golden retriever finally biting you.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Reminder: Jon Husted has taken $552,225 from corporate PACs, accepted $116,892 from Epstein co-conspirator Leslie Wexner, and is embroiled in a $60 million bribery scheme. #MostCorrupt2026
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Not an Extremist @ex-expert.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not enough people know this. It's why our country is in such a mess. #politics #Republicans www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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They Blew Up the Debt, Stalled America’s Future, and Stuck You With the Bill. All to Enrich the Top 1% and Win Elections…
Republicans yesterday proposed an appropriations bill that will allocate a billion dollars to pay for Trump’s Golden Epstein Dance Hall (aka “Ballroom”). Every penny of it will be borrowed and we’ll…
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Calling the Voting Rights Act “far-left partisan Democratic legislation” is what happens when historical ignorance meets bad faith. Reagan reauthorized it in 1982, Bush signed an extension in 1992, and George W. Bush signed its reauthorization in 2006.
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KingFitch Channel 1🤴🏿🏀💙🗽🌁🇺🇸🦺 @kingfitch1990.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sherrod Brown has won the Ohio Democratic Senate primary. He will run against Trump-endorsed Republican Senator Jon Husted, who supports cutting Medicaid and has taken over $115,000 in donations from Jeffrey Epstein associates.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hilton is a rubber stamp for Donald Trump's fascist takeover of America! Trump, who invaded our states with masked armed federal cops who shot Rene Good in the face and called her an F'ng bi*tch. Then Trump & Bondi called him & Alex Pretty terrorists! I agree with Katie Porter, F Trump!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/04/2026
Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies are "deadly serious" about building machines that outperform humans at everything and they don’t know if they’ll be able to control them.   So why hasn’t Congress taken meaningful action to regulate AI?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/04/2026
🚨 WOW! BIG news here! Jerome Powell says he will remain on the Fed board after stepping down as chair—a move not seen since 1948. He specifically pointed to legal pressure from Donald Trump and the need to ensure Fed independence. Trump’s attacks have backfired in a big way.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today Trump had his FCC seek to strip ABC's license if they don't fire Jimmy Kimmel over his joke mocking Trump and had his DOJ indict James Comey over a picture of seashells he posted in May 2025 mocking Trump. The GOP is 100% on board with this. Our freedoms are on the ballot this November!
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is from right wing "journalist" Jack Posobiec who has access to the White House. He clearly called for murdering President Biden in 2021. Why wasn't he charged by Trump's DOJ for doing exactly what James Comey did?
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Bernie Sanders Leads Senators in Demand to End Super PACs in Democratic Primaries www.commondreams.org/news/sanders...
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Bernie Sanders Leads Senators in Demand to End Super PACs in Democratic Primaries | Common Dreams
​“We cannot allow unlimited outside spending to distort our elections or drown out the voices of working people."
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Democratic House Rep. Rosa DeLauro on Donald Trump and making a "deal" with fossil fuel executives: "This appears to be one of the only promises president Trump has actually kept. He has decimated environmental protections..." Nailed it!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege
The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It only takes 3.5% of a population engaging in peaceful protest to overthrow an authoritarian regime. That’s 12 million Americans we need today. No Kings 1: 5 million protested No Kings 2: 7 million protested WE CAN DO THIS! Hi from NJ ❌👑 #NoKings
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Absolute unconscionable behaviour 🤬🤬🤬 This U.S. Citizen was kicked and beaten by ICE agents, who refused to identify themselves, and who threatened to "blow my head off." Everyone needs to see this. You cannot fund this terrorism. FUCK ICE.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/03/2026
ICE agents detained a Texas father trying to deliver milk to his infant daughter in the neonatal intensive care unit, disregarding his status as a DACA recipient. trib.al/BOeMew3
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ICE Seizes DACA Recipient on His Way to Visit Baby in NICU
ICE knew he was a DACA recipient—and detained him anyway.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Lapdog Lindsey scolds our allies for doing a bad job of keeping track of Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. Someone tell this simpering toady that it was the *United States* that pulled out of the treaty with Iran that allowed inspectors in that country.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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