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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is no insurrection -- there's a Nov. election, & Trump doesn't like his odds What he's really afraid of is voters. If he reaches for the Insurrection Act to get around them, @democracydefendersaction.org & our partners will meet him in court More on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social👇 -TN

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New: The Trump administration is using a mechanism widely viewed as illegal to cancel nearly $100 million Congress appropriated for college-level foreign-language instruction and to support migrant farmworkers seeking GEDs and college degrees. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump, Bucking Congress Yet Again, Cancels $100 Million for Education

A "pocket rescission" hits programs for migratory farmworkers and college-level language instruction.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026

Enough with the skywalkers already. Do the Thrawn ascendancy trilogy you cowards

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/09/2026

This is theft from the American people, plain and simple. These are funds Congress has delivered on a bipartisan basis and should be helping people—not cut off by a president more focused on building a ballroom than investing in families.

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Trump declares $1B canceled in ‘pocket rescission’ in another affront to Congress’ funding power

Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the tactic is illegal.

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Am I liberal or conservative? Yes, of course!

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026

CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.

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Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and his wife put down roots in Sarasota, hosting fundraising events, obtaining real estate and fishing licenses and filing paperwork from the coastal Florida town while the senator worked in Washington, D.C., and claimed Kansas as home. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...

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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18/09/2026

This is the first really broadly-seen-as-reputable poll of the Kansas senate race, and it has Hamilton — a Methodist megapastor running as a Democrat — up by 2 points. Off all the polls I’ve seen this year, this is the biggest “wow” I’ve uttered yet. (Stay tuned for more reporting on this race)

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It has always seemed obvious to me that you have much more influence being part of the team that wins than you do being a fractious entity that worked to cause a loss and I don't see why that isn't universally obvious

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You took your 4-yr-old on “a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.” A man with awesome hair, a brilliant smile, and sweet cowboy boots. Your 4-yr-old is way too pumped to sleep.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/08/2026

Trump is letting taxpayer money meant for our kids' schools go to waste—all so he can claim the Department of Education doesn't work. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse! We ALL need to speak out to protect our kids' education.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is not true at all. Trump took the neo confederate ideology that had always undergirded Republican base desires and just ran with it publicly rather than under the guise of traditional conservatism.

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thank you, Kansas. On to November.

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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Federal law does not allow the “terminations of awards based on new program goals or agency priorities that an agency identifies after granting the award,” the court concluded. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

The court denied the Trump administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 20 states.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Imagine dying and then the whole country wakes up to have a discussion about it, but that discussion is entirely whether we are all being too generous or too cruel about it. Because absolutely no one is like "Man, I'm really gonna miss that guy." It's gotta suck to suck that bad.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I know some think we should all cede America and its symbols to bigots and fascists, and that’s all the country ever was anyway. And to that, my answer is no. A hard no. I will not.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/07/2026

Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The White House Office of Management and Budget is still withholding more than $2 billion Congress appropriated in February for competitive Education Department grant programs. More than $1 billion will expire in three months if nothing changes. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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White House Blocks $2 Billion for Education: See All the Affected Programs

We're tracking federal education funding that Trump's federal budget office has stalled.

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fitzgibblons Quality Furniture - I’m always gonna be in ya house

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New: The White House is blocking more than $2 billion Congress appropriated in February for K-12 and higher education. Here's a list of all 34 affected programs: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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White House Blocks $2 Billion for Education: See All the Affected Programs

We're tracking federal education funding that Trump's federal budget office has stalled.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

On the Brown v. Board of Education anniversary, history teaches us that the struggle for justice continues as a continuous line across our nation’s history. That’s why we must stand up and organize like our democracy and lives depend on it—because it does. THIS is the fight of our generation!

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Rep Stansbury: A Weekend Defending Voting Rights, Brown v. Board of Education Anniversary

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

They think that you’ll just move on after they dodged your question once or twice cause you have limited time. I’m more than happy to spend my entire time getting the answer to my damn question.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

RESULT: GOP’s effort to install an ally as Dem’s Senate nominee in Nebraska fails. An anti-abortion pastor has lost big to Cindy Burbank, who has signaled she’s likely to drop out to help independent Dan Osborn defeat the GOP Senator. GOP tried to kick Burbank off ballot but courts stepped in.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 06/05/2026

Trump Holds Back $2 Billion for Education Grants. What Will Happen Next?: The White House is keeping congressionally approved money locked up through a little-known process.

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Trump Holds Back $2 Billion for Education Grants. What Will Happen Next?

The White House is keeping congressionally approved money locked up through a little-known process.

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Their trucks would get bigger and bigger and bigger

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thechantepleures.bsky.social @thechantepleures.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hey Bluesky peeps, Our latest single, “The Last of Sheila” is out today. It’s a Jesus and Mary Chain inspired tune with noisy guitars and pulsing synths. Play it loud! Cover photo taken in Platja d’Aro Costa Brava, Spain circa ‘91 by B Felix open.spotify.com/track/4vhycY...

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The Last of Sheila

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2026

New in PN: How MMA defines the Trump administration "Everywhere you look in the Republican Party today, you see insecure men trying to show how manly they are. And the performance of manhood to which they are most attracted is violence."

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How MMA defines the Trump administration

It's a movement of insecure men trying to show how manly they are.

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I bought one of your Bob shirts. It’s fucking awesome.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job

JBS WORKERS BEGIN 2 WEEK UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE AGAINST JBS

Nearly 3,800 JBS-owned Swift Beef workers in Greeley, Colorado represented by UFCW Local 7 took to the picket lines today protesting unfair negotiating tactics and unlawful reprisals.

Greeley, CO – United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members at Greeley’s Swift Beef Company, owned by JBS N.V. began a two week Unfair Labor Practice Strike at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, March 16, 2026. Workers will remain out on the picket lines until JBS comes to the table to negotiate fairly with workers and rights its unlawful union busting.

In February, after months of negotiations, workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against JBS as a result of the Company’s refusal to negotiate fairly with workers and fix the company’s pattern of wage theft, provide raises to workers that keep pace with the rising cost of living in Colorado, and ensure stable health care costs for workers. Instead of shifting toward fair treatment, the Company has recently doubled down on its illegal tactics by threatening workers with termination if they did not resign from the Union and refuse to strike. These recent actions come on top of a pattern of retaliatory conduct against a member of the bargaining committee and others who have spoken out against the Company.

UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova, the Union’s chief spokesperson, stated, “For months now, JBS has been insisting on poverty-level wages for workers at the plant, offering less than 2% in average annual wage increases, far below the level of inflation in Colorado, while at the same time putting all the risk of rising healthcare costs on workers. Meanwhile, despite being the world’s largest protein producer, JBS has been stealing from workers’ paychecks to fund the Company’s profits. JBS must do right by these workers and negotiate lawfully. Make no mistake, JBS chose this strike in an effort to lower worker wages nationwide, just a…

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

There definitely needs to be more of calling ICE agents weenies.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

America is praying for Austin. But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem we're not willing to solve ourselves. God moves and works through us. God has no other hands but our hands. We must act.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/01/2026

Rep. Bacon on Trump's aggression toward Greenland: "I feel like it's incumbent on folks like me to step up and say these threats and bullying of an ally are wrong. And on the weird chance he's serious about invading Greenland, I want to let him know it will probably be the end of his presidency."

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/11/2025

I’m taking a victory lap for my coverage of young voters over the last year. I’ve argued that Trump’s 2024 gains with voters <30 stemmed mostly from anti-incumbent sentiment from high inflation — and that “GOP gains” / a youth “realignment” was a mirage. Tuesday’s results suggest I was right.

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Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections

Democrats outran their polls and swept statewide races from Georgia to New Jersey, on an agenda of affordability and a broad anti-Trump backlash

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Boneaux @boneaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Stop. What you’re doing. I’m assigning you a task. Get THIS on your HiFi. Now. And don’t forget to breathe, and crush your weekend. Here’s @thechantepleures.bsky.social with a tune that just might save your life. open.spotify.com/album/3Hewsj...

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Senate Appropriations Dems @senateapprops.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

NEW: Trump continues to illegally block funding that Americans are counting on. Click to view our updated tracker with @democrats-appropriations.house.gov detailing how the $410+ BILLION that Trump is holding up affects you.

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Trump’s Unprecedented Funding Freeze Hits Communities Across America | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This in-depth story by @kansascarpenter.bsky.social examines allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by a golf coach who was also the superintendent — and efforts by school board members and the high school principal to keep it quiet. #ksleg #ksed kansasreflector.com/2025/09/02/a...

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A Kansas student reported her coach for harassment and touching. School leaders kept it quiet. • Kansas Reflector

A student's allegation of sexual harassment against a Kansas superintendent raises alarms about safety of children and risk of districts awash in secrecy.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

New: The Trump administration in recent weeks has quietly begun cancelling dozens of competitive education grants for projects already in motion. Hundreds more grant awards, worth more than $1 billion, appear delayed, and could be next on the chopping block. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Trump Cancels Dozens of Education Grants—With More Terminations on the Horizon

More than $1 billion in already-awarded grant funding has yet to flow as expected.

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Education Week @edweek.org · 01/08/2025

U.S. senators from both parties on Thursday decisively rejected virtually all the Trump administration’s proposals to slash K-12 education investments. Additionally, they pushed back against its efforts to shrink the U.S. Department of Education and move its functions to other agencies.

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Senators—Including Republicans—Reject All of Trump's Proposed Education Cuts

The budget bill could go before the full Senate as early as September.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New: Ten Republican senators wrote to the Trump admin. today urging the restoration of $6.8 billion for education Trump impounded earlier this month. Cutting federal education funding with no notice runs counter to "returning education to the states," senators say. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Republicans Urge Trump to Release $6.8 Billion in School Funding He's Held Back

The funds that were supposed to go out July 1 pay for teacher training, English learner services, after-school programs, and more.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It’s a shame that so many Republicans vote for something they know will hurt their constituents & the country simply because they are afraid that Trump will threaten them if they don’t go along with it, & they are more concerned about his vindictiveness than they are about them.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/06/2025

Russ Vought is already illegally withholding hundreds of billions in federal funding from our communities. Now, he's refusing to rule out cutting off even more funding with a new, illegal end run around Congress. He's ignoring common sense & the plain text of the law.

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fasterchad @fasterchad.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Derek Guy hats. Any hat - top hats, cowboy hats, ball caps. They just say Derek Guy in bold print.

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Mark Lieberman @marklieberman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Federal investment in K-12 schools is in disarray: -Grants canceled -Contracts terminated -Allocations delayed -Rules changed -Communications ceased -Bigger cuts threatened www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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A 'Tsunami' of Uncertainty Is Crashing Into Federal Funding for Schools

The Trump administration has cut grants, terminated contracts, delayed funding estimates, and cut off communications to districts.

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