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haptrails.bsky.social @haptrails.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He doesn't have a trade or even a tariff policy. He has a revenge policy
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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laurelbgood.bsky.social @laurelbgood.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
List of all the ways Obama's approach to Iran was superior or comparable to trump's failed war and compromise. Hint: trump killed thousands to raise oil prices for American consumers.
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Michael G. L. @theled.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I’d like to hear serious people start talking about what needs to happen to assure us that a Trump type individual will NEVER AGAIN gain this kind of power.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!
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Mike Kelly @ezralbntseliot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I don't know whether anyone else has drawn your attention to this, @kkdumez.bsky.social, but I thought this pairing was...interesting.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Just a reminder that when the United States of America invited a healthy young Donald Trump to represent his country on the global stage, he secured five different draft deferments to get out of it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:
The
Economist
Anatomy of Trudeau's fall
Inside Iran's sanctions-busting
Russia's spies go feral
Starship and the economics of space
OCTOBER 19TH-25TH 2024

THE ENVY OF THE WORLD
AMERICA'S ECONOMY:
A SPECIAL REPORT
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Trump is not actually president. Who is running the White House? This pardon is legally invalid.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My short and simple sign for tomorrow. #NoKings
Sign for Frederick Maryland No Kings protest reading “Unmask ICE - no secret police”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. . Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Trump vigorously opposed Biden's infrastructure program, calling it "a loser for the USA." But now that projects are being built, he's putting his own name on them, claiming credit for the law he tried to kill. @richardfausset.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
nytimes.com
​​Trump Tried to Kill the Infrastructure Law. Now He’s Getting Credit for Its Projects.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
“Trump had nothing to do with Epstein” “Trump was a confidential informant that helped take Epstein down” “Releasing the Epstein files will destroy the Democrats” Then why the fuck is Trump threatening to primary the Republicans who are trying to release them?
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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Constitution is fair game tho
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
REMINDER: Netanyahu convinced Trump in 2018 to withdraw US from Iran nuclear deal that Obama and allies had negotiated. That Deal would've prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The death and destruction we're seeing now is 100% bc of Trump & Netanyahu www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/06/2025
Bruce Springsteen speaks on the American moment
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/06/2025
Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What’s interesting/ignorant about this is that we *do do the big things here - the AI and the weapons systems. And we don’t do T shirts and textiles at scale. Once again, he has no idea how any of this works.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.
Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.”

The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration:
	•	February: 53.8% (7 out of 13)
	•	March: 74.3% (26 out of 35)
	•	April: 76.1% (51 out of 67)
	•	May: 96.3% (26 out of 27)

The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president:
	•	Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36)
	•	Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92)

Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL
Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial
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Mike Kelly @ezralbntseliot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How long will it take for Trump to take credit for the selection of the first pope from the US?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
PANTHEON MACRO: “.. Manufacturing investment intentions are plummeting. .. signalling a big drag on the economy from weaker investment over the next few quarters.”
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Guy who claims to be a master dealmaker can’t even strike a deal with one of his closest allies to secure the return of a man he mistakenly sent to prison?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
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Dr. Pete Meyers @dr-pete.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I'll never get over how these folks complain about "meritocracy" while digging up the most talentless sycophants imaginable.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Remember that the people who are cheering the haphazard mass firing of federal employees — because they hate federal employees and think they are the “deep state” — are simultaneously happy to accept ICE’s unreviewable, often clearly wrong determination of which aliens are most dangerous. MURIKA
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Former judge Maryanne Trump Barry, the president's sister: "The issue ... is whether an alien who is in this country legally can ... be forcibly removed ... in the unfettered discretion of the Secretary of State and without any meaningful opportunity to be heard. The answer is a ringing 'no.'"
The issue, rather, is whether an alien who is in this country legally can, merely because he is here, have his liberty restrained and be forcibly removed to a specific country in the unfettered discretion of the Secretary of State and without any meaningful opportunity to be heard. The answer is a ringing "no".
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 10/03/2025
This was always the risk with Gabbard and Patel at the head of our intelligence gathering. We not only will lose our own sources who won’t trust them, but we will lose intelligence from our close allies. This makes a terrorist attack on US soil much more likely.
dailymail.co.uk
Britain urged to form breakaway 'Four Eyes' alliance without the US
Some in the defence establishment are now suggesting forming a sub-group in the existing 'Five Eyes' alliance to allow intelligence sharing without a US veto.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
lol
Opinion
Fareed Zakaria
Opinion
Fareed Zakaria
Why DOGE is an
essential and important idea
"Tech bro Maoists' are torching the country that made them rich
I'm not holding my breath. But even failure could be instructive.
November 22, 2024
DOGE is performance art, playing into MAGA movement fantasies about humiliating the establishment.
February 28, 2025
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I think Americans have to understand things won't go back to normal and no one is coming to save us. The self destructive decision to vote for Trump is going to cause long term pain, damage and weakness. We have to survive and try to rebuild something better. Generational effort sadly.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth
Marco Rubio trying to disappear into the couch
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/02/2025
the "russia hoax" was always real
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.
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Fishie Noodle @misspunklesmom.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
He says what we've been shouting that MAGA just wouldn't hear but he says it in a way that some of them will hear. He's a rural farmer who speaks how they speak. @hcrichardson.bsky.social I posted 4 you to watch bec I think he's the missing link in our messaging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4CR...
youtube.com
From One Farmer to Another
YouTube video by The Back Forty
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
someone needs to tell DOJ that in a public corruption case you're supposed to *prosecute* public corruption, not *do* public corruption
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I have just finished reading Danielle Sassoon’s memorandum in its entirety. It is a tour de force. Its correctness is obvious. She’s an American hero. Emil Bove ought to be investigated by his state’s bar association for discipline and possible disbarment, at least.
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