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Leslie Pierce

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Might fuck around and do unto others as I would have them do unto me
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John Hatchard @johnhatchard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.yacnews.com/denmark-and-... oops I should have posted it. Now this is journalism.
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Denmark & Greenland defeat Trump takeover bid. US settles for military access it largely already had
Greenland will remain part of Denmark under a planned US-Denmark-Greenland security deal, despite Trump claiming the US secured “permanent control.” The pact largely preserves or expands military acce...
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The President of the United States is a rapist and traitor.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The most incompetent administration in history by far, populated by idiots from top to bottom putting all of our lives in danger.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Omar Introduces Bill to 'Make ICE Pay' for Destruction to US Cities www.commondreams.org/news/omar-ma...
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Omar Introduces Bill to 'Make ICE Pay' for Destruction to US Cities | Common Dreams
"Our bill will force ICE to pay the price for the damage they’ve left in their wake and ensure that these devastating operations can never be repeated," said the Minneapolis congresswoman.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Donald Trump is again violating the First Amendment. Perhaps this can be noted during the White House Correspondents Association's next black tie dinner honoring Donald Trump. Support independent media that stands to the felon rather than eating with him.
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Late555 @late555.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm not saying that all journalists that still have access to the President are corrupt, but I'm not NOT saying it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEWS: House Republicans, fearing Hegseth impeachment, sends Congress home until after the election. New video shows Mitch McConnell struggling to vote. Federal Reserve defies Trump, raises rates. Russia helps Iran. Congresswoman calls Trump incompetent to his face.
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NEWS: GOP Sends Congress Home to Dodge Impeachment, McConnell Struggles to Vote, Trump Lashes Out as Fed Defies Him
House Republicans spent this week doing everything they could to avoid a fight they’re clearly terrified of losing.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel suggested at a Senate hearing Tuesday that federal agents may be present at the polls in November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kash Patel suggests FBI agents may be at polls
“I don’t know that we can’t legally do it,” Patel told lawmakers. “I’m telling you we’re going to house our agents and intel analysts in our field offices for election security.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike Rogers is just trying to take another swing at the revolving door of politics. 🚪 But if you want somebody who’s never taken a dime of corporate PAC money, then I’m your guy.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
DOJ lies like everyone else in the WH.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thousands marched on Washington to defend voting rights…Ninety organizations signed on … Bernie Sanders…AOC… Martin Luther King III attended… The march they buried.
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THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AIN’T GONNA LET YOU SEE THIS. Thousands are marching on Washington to defend voting rights; ninety organizations signed on, and Reuters sent photographers, yet apparently that wa...
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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. *∙ ☽ 🔥𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔶𝔎𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩🔥 ✧ .° @skarletkardinal.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
wtf is up with men throwing dildoes onto the court at wnba games? like, what fuckin' rationale is there for doing that? anyone who does that should get banned forever from all wnba or nba games.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/08/2026
BIg Beautiful Bill
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Convicted election denier Tina Peters has been out of prison for just over two months, but she may already have a new job lined up that would allow her to meddle with voting: assistant registrar of voters in Shasta County, California. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Tina Peters gets alarming new elections job in deep red California county
Peters’ new gig will once again give her dangerous influence over elections, including the critical ballot counting process.
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Totally Angry 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @totallyangry.rosered.org · 19/08/2026
Accidentally leaked handwritten FBI notes allegedly directly implicate Epstein's best friend in human trafficking, in his own words.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Let me get this right? There’s been a massive number of lynchings in the US over the past year and we are not hearing about this from the NYT, WaPo, LA Times, or any other major outlet? Can we get @propublica.org to cover this?
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Jimmy Lonetti @djgloverepair.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Making the Dodgers visiting the White House look even worse.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 18/08/2026
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
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DeSantis Ally In Florida Arrested On Child Sex-Abuse Charges
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Reporter: DHS plans to spend $10-20M on Taser gloves so when they arrest people, they will be tased. Hochul: That appears to me, on its face, to be a civil rights violation. James: It appears to violate several laws. Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They really are the Gestapo, and they just keep escalating their use of force. The Department of Homeland Security is now moving to equip ICE officers with gloves capable of delivering electrical shocks.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Security forces say that the Kremlin is cooking up a plan to use captured Ukrainian drones to stage provocative incidents across Europe.
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Desperate Putin’s Wild Revenge Plan Leaks
The Russian leader has been taking a brutal beating from Ukrainian drones.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The next time someone argues that the Aborigines “did nothing with the country for 65,000 years”, instead of arguing back I will keep my answer simple: “Unlike the white fella, they looked after the place.” theaimn.net/what-if-the-...
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What if the highest achievement of a civilisation is not what it leaves behind, but what it leaves intact?
Every so often – very often – someone declares that Aborigines “did nothing for 65,000 years.” Usually it is presented as an indisputable fact, as though it settles the argument. It doesn’t. It merely...
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci …because I value EVIDENCE over conspiracy, DATA over rumors, and SCIENCE over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence EVERY time. #medsky #publichealth
I stand with Dr. Anthony Fauci because I value evidence over conspiracy, data over rumors, and science over politics. No public official is beyond criticism, but there’s a difference between honest scientific guidance and misinformation. I’ll choose evidence every time.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Women’s March @womensmarch.com · 05/08/2026
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/08/2026
It was revealed the president's bank accounts got shut down by Capitol One for money laundering but the media is too obsessed with Francesca Hong's take on Thanksgiving to notice.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
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Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A lot of white Americans seem to think that all Muslims are responsible for 9/11, and really, that every non-white group is responsible for anything bad anyone from that group has ever done
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/08/2026
Americans are paying more for groceries, gas, and everything in between. So what is Donald Trump focused on? Building new ways for his family to profit from the presidency. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Imagine If Trump Worked This Hard At Governing
Trump is working harder than ever. Just not to improve the country.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but we’re not even half way through this presidency.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Breaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No to any election deniers. No to attempting to hand in FAKE ELECTORAL SLATES. That's a double-edged sword....hurts us all. Hurts the states and the country as a whole. WIN ON MERIT/the people's votes, not cheating. Thankful Mike Pence is loyal to democracy and denied corruption.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“Our government has become the largest human trafficking organization in the world.”
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Prisons in the sky: Human trafficking at Hanscom airport fueled by complicity with ICE
Jared & Laurie Berezin, co-organizers of Bearing Witness @ ICE, August 2nd 2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/08/2026
Excuse my ignorance, but if Todd Blanche is confirmed, couldn’t he just issue a new memo under a slightly different framework that still gives Trump the slush fund and the immunity he wanted? We can’t trust these people.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The “Why would a woman I’ve made worry that I will hurt her if she displeases me cook to placate me?” question is only asked by the least self-aware domestic abusers.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/08/2026
🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: Todd Blanche has released what he calls a rescission of the slush fund (left). The last lawsuit he mentions is mine (Gill v DOJ). This doesn't change the fact that the "settlement" setting up the fund is still in effect. On the right, Blanche is LEAVING IN PLACE Trump's tax immunity.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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