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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 7m
Conservation Groups Ramp Up Fight Against 'Despicable' Trump Assault on Endangered Species www.commondreams.org/news/changes...
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Conservation Groups Ramp Up Fight Against 'Despicable' Trump Assault on Endangered Species | Common Dreams
Conservation groups updated their legal challenge to the Trump administration's recent harmful changes to the Endangered Species Act.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.
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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’
Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Citing 'Civilizational Extinction Risk,' Khanna to Intro Bill to Ban Recursive AI www.commondreams.org/news/ro-khan...
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Citing 'Civilizational Extinction Risk,' Khanna to Intro Bill to Ban Recursive AI | Common Dreams
Rep. Ro Khanna introduces comprehensive legislation to regulate AI industry, including temporary ban on recursive AI. Civilizational extinction risk must be taken seriously.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is running political ads on your tax dollars, including a recycled one from his campaign It's against the law, & it should make everyone mad My take w/ @arimelber.bsky.social on @ms.now👇 -TN
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Updated Google Satellite Images Show 'Apocalyptic' Destruction of Gaza by Israel www.commondreams.org/news/google-...
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Updated Google Satellite Images Show 'Apocalyptic' Destruction of Gaza by Israel | Common Dreams
One Palestinian from Gaza said the imagery "shows you the Israeli barbarism and terrorism that the world lets happen."
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New York Times Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7 www.commondreams.org/news/benjami...
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New York Times Affirms Haaretz Report: Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct. 7 | Common Dreams
The New York Times affirmed Haaretz's reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by another world leader about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.
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More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled
More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The difference between Elizabeth Warren’s & Abdul El-Sayed’s policies is that he is a brown man. DR. EL-SAYED is not a member of the DSA (I am though). He is a progressive liberal. “Moderates” like you, Fetterman, & Scholten who treat him like a “socialist threat” while embracing Warren are bigots
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
September 24, 2026
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September 24, 2026
After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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gotellthespartans.bsky.social @gotellthespartans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Worth the read. Dan Froomkin, writing for Salon: "[ A Democrat win ] will require the kind of aggression — the kind of fight — the current crop of Democratic party leaders has never shown."
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The Democratic playbook for taking on Trump after the midterms
The party will have many tools to hold the administration accountable — if it uses them
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the richest, most powerful country in the world, it just shouldn't be this hard to afford groceries, pay your mortgage, or see a doctor.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE.
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨 EPSTEIN BREAKING NEWS: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse seems almost giddy as a federal judge is now forcing the DOJ to release the FBI‘s 37 page response to the 302 victim testimony. 👏👏👏👏👏
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They hate the Bill of Rights because freedom is a threat to people in government who want to hide the truth about what they are doing from the American people. So they behave like tyrants because that is what they are. Vote this party out of power.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mike Rogers couldn't be bothered to show up to the debate, but here's what I would have asked him if he wasn't such a coward:
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mike Rogers refuses to talk about gas, groceries, seeing a doctor, or our broken infrastructure. Mike Rogers only wants to talk about old culture wars fought by small people with smaller ideas and no solutions to our actual problems.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And Kanye West can sing "Heil, Hitler" and no one bats an eye. Bc Israel doesn't suppress anti-semitism. It promotes it bc they need anti-semitism to justify their ethnostate. They suppress the truth of the atrocities they're committing.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Speaking of chickens... Today is the day that I will debate...an empty podium. Because Mike Rogers is…well…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're in a moment where the challenges we face have more to do with the ways that politicians are bought off than actually having a conversation with the broader public. If Mike Rogers had showed up, he'd say that this race is about him or me. It's not. It's about you.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'll work with anybody to achieve our policy goals. That includes Trump. But I won't sell short my own values.
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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El-Sayed: "I'm not running to fight a culture war"
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/09/2026
$4.7 million in Epstein-connected money flowing directly to the Mike Rogers campaign. They’ve bought his loyalty. www.metrotimes.com/news/donors-name…
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A whistleblower is alleging that immigration agency USCIS directed officers to misrepresent themselves to access state voter records, then label people "unlawful voters" — including U.S. citizens — using unreliable data. Story to come.
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Michigan Democrats @michigandems.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Epstein-associated donors gave nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers' campaign and political committees while he opposed releasing the Epstein files, arguing for more redactions to "protect somebody who got an airplane and rode with him." www.metrotimes.com/news/donors-...
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Donors named in Epstein files gave nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers and groups backing him - Detroit Metro Times
A Metro Times review found that donors named in the Epstein files have given nearly $4.7 million to Mike Rogers’ campaigns and groups supporting him.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2026
Any time any anchor ever asks a Democrat about Hasan Piker, the correct response is “Piker isn’t running for anything. Republicans have a literal candidate supported by Mike Johnson who refers to kids as cum trophies. You’re asking the wrong questions.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It just shouldn’t be this hard to get by — let alone get ahead — in the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world.
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Michigan Jill @whitchmi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shoot this into my veins! What struck me as a Michigander, is that MAGA is going after Talarico in the same way they're attacking Abdul El Sayed. These 2 Democrats differ in faith, zip, and ethnicity, but their message and motives are the same: Government must work for The People again! 💙
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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(Lizzie)🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @pip-kin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a hero Spiderman mentioned. This dearest of souls, who showed us all what the very best of us can do, & did do that awful day. 💖💔💖 The man in the red bandana. Welles Crowther - Wikipedia share.google/nwblO7qxNhNX...
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Warning AI 'Could Mean the Demise of Humanity,' El-Sayed Backs Development Pause www.commondreams.org/news/el-saye...
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Warning AI 'Could Mean the Demise of Humanity,' El-Sayed Backs Development Pause | Common Dreams
"Enough is enough. We need to make sure that the pace of development isn't outpacing the pace of risk."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Commemoration is a chance to reflect. Americans in power will try to use this anniversary to say that everything happened exactly as it had to, and that we should bow our heads rather than use them. We went along twenty-five years ago. We should not do so again. snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th...
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Very Clear and Easy Case for Abdul El-Sayed www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-...
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The Very Clear and Easy Case for Abdul El-Sayed | Common Dreams
And why Mike Rogers would be a disaster for the country.
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights
Unfriendly skies: On United, checked bags might ride next to tank parts bound for Israel. Direct flights to Israel are set to resume tonight.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/09/2026
The newspaper Haaretz recently published excerpts of a forthcoming book detailing its reporting that UAE president Mohamed bin Zayed warned Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the October 7 attack that Hamas was planning a major operation, and that the Israeli leader failed to inform his security chiefs.
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade www.commondreams.org/news/jacob-c...
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Anthropic Researcher Quits, Citing Internal Fears That AI 'Could Kill Us All' This Decade | Common Dreams
"Most tech geeks don’t resign from their roles because…the tech they’re building could end humanity," said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, running for US Senate in Michigan.
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
El-Sayed Plays 'The Price Is Wrong' With Michigan Voters to Expose Cost of Trump Trade Wars www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...
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El-Sayed Plays 'The Price Is Wrong' With Michigan Voters to Expose Cost of Trump Trade Wars | Common Dreams
US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed calls out Trump's policies with a handmade sign reading "The Price Is Wrong," highlighting the impact of tariffs on everyday goods in Michigan. Are you feeling the p...
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flora2024.bsky.social @flora2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate and Grief www.commondreams.org/further/a-mo...
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A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate and Grief | Common Dreams
The latest of thousands of innocent victims of inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player, aspiring doctor and "beautiful soul" in Ohio w...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie, and reporters should look at the evidence. 4**** www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Satellite Images Contradict Border Agency on Construction in Big Bend
Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. Visual Investigations’ satellite specia...
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