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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/10/2026
Susan Collins wants voters to believe she is a moderate Republican who stands up to Trump. But the truth is Collins only takes sides against the regime when she knows her vote won’t stop Trump.
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In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him (Gift Article)
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It is deeply shameful that this is what the president was doing the same weekend more American service members were dying in the war he started.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There is no universe where what the Israeli gov is doing is not evil - the cold blood murder of innocent people - genocide funded by US tax dollars.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2026
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America during war. He is unaccountable to the public. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. He cannot offer a coherent justification for what's happening or a plan for what comes next. When we say "No Kings," this is why.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/03/2026
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Jeffrey Goldberg: Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate
Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 28/02/2026
"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ETPolitico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership

Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis.

12/21/2018
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brian pillion @anaphoristand.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is some genuinely psycho shit...
Pam Bondi loves dogs. Always had them, one after another. She got involved with dog shelters and dog rescue, and once pulled off to the side of a busy road and got out of her car to chase down a stray. Another dog she helped was a Saint Bernard named Master Tank. She adopted him from a shelter after he was lost during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, not long after her own Saint Bernard had died. The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a “walking skeleton” and “dying from heartworms” when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. “She lied,” Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. “My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.” The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Who has more leverage over Trump – Vladimir Putin or Ghislaine Maxwell?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Trump's immigration human-rights nightmare isn't pulling back. It's about to get much worse A planned op this week in Springfield, Ohio targeting hard-working Haitians who came here the right way is nothing less than an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio
A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Reporting and analyzing from the ground in Philadelphia! People here are terrified we'll be Noem's next target. But some city leaders, including DA Larry Krasner, have a plan to scare off ICE. I think it would work — if the mayor will allow it. www.salon.com/2026/01/28/p...
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Philadelphia's ambitious plan to scare off ICE
City leaders know how to shield the community — if the mayor has the guts
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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just got an email from my kid’s basketball coach outlining the safety precautions the host school has put in place, including when and how they’ll go into lockdown if the federal secret police show up. Again, schools making plans to protect children from their own government.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II. A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
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Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/12/2025
of all of the things I am going to not watch, this is the thing I am going to not watch the most
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I know there’s a lot going on but are we ever circling back to the Epstein Files? The president’s involvement with his best friend’s scheme of sex trafficking minors seems a little important
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal". Sound familiar?
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Trump receiving the FIFA Peace Prize, proudly smiling as they explain that the trophy is made from the severed hands of migrant laborers who died constructing the World Cup stadium in Qatar, encased in gold.
Trump smiling wearing a medal, standing next to the FIFA Peace Prize, a golden trophy of a globe being held up by severed hands.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
And now, the worlds ugliest trophy for the worlds most famous sexual predator. Trump’s an actual toddler. Grabs woman’s private parts without asking, and he shits himself if he doesn’t get a shiny new toy every 5 minutes. (Probably shits himself even if he does, if we’re being honest)
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
At left: a New York Times letter to the editor from October 9, 2001, warning that "the newly formed homeland security office" could lead America to a very dark place At right: Tweets today from the Trump Department of Homeland Security
To the Editor:

To aid the newly formed homeland security office, some Americans have advocated the formation of a volunteer ''army'' of citizens -- retired or otherwise -- that would be ''enlisted'' for purposes of neighborhood surveillance and investigation (letter, Oct. 9).

This idea strikes me as frighteningly Orwellian. Will every out-of-the-ordinary activity be monitored? Will we have to keep our curtains drawn and doors shut for fear of being turned in by our neighbors, friends and children? Have recent events changed our worldview so radically that we are willing to endorse a police state?

Is America to become a nation of spies?

STUART LUTH

New York, Oct. 9, 2001DHS tweets:
The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.
Help Deport Them: [link to job site] 
Help Arrest Them: [link to tip site]
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon. 77 million people voted for this.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics

This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000.

Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts.

Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age.

Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts.

Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations.

The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Elon Musk tweet

“Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says ‘I will always love you’” with an AI illustration of a woman smilingDisaster girl meme
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/11/2025
Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
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Marsha @firstthings.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
There’s a flight between Philadelphia and Wilmington. Their airports are only 23 miles apart. 🤦🏻‍♀️
The arriving flights board at Philadelphia International Airport lists the statuses of several incoming flights. One of these is an American Airlines flight coming from Wilmongton, Delaware.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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