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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A nursing home boss stole his workers' Social Security and Medicare money. He got 18 months and $4.4M restitution. A Mar-a-Lago dinner erased it. If pardons go to whoever can afford a plate, workers get robbed twice: once by him, once by the system. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 22/09/2026
Tierra Walker was denied an abortion even after multiple hospitalizations due to an extremely high-risk pregnancy because she lived in Texas, which bans abortion. Her son found her dead on his 15th birthday. Abortion bans are killing women. This needs to end.
19thnews.org
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump’s third country deportation policy has subjected immigrants to horrific abuse and violence in countries they have zero connection to. It’s good to see a federal court rule against this policy and side with groups like @nwirp.bsky.social. Stop third country deportations NOW.
wapo.st
Appeals court says Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy is unlawful
The decision marks a major setback for the administration, which has removed tens of thousands of unauthorized immigrants to countries where they are not citizens.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They have deported 25,000 people - to third countries - without papers - without money - without speaking the language - without knowing anyone - without any help Indefensible.
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨Texas Republicans have decided to close 92 polling sites ahead of the midterm elections. That’s roughly a 30% reduction of places Texans can go to vote. Republicans are doing everything they can to make it harder for Texans - and Americans everywhere - to exercise their right to vote.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
every single day elon musk says or endorses stuff on x dot com that is worse than any of the quotes they've pulled up for hasan piker and he will be the single biggest political donor in the entire country, supporting republicans up and down the ballot somehow none of them are asked about it
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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People are dying and being killed in concentration camps on American soil.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security posted a video of Black Haitians in chains after ending the TPS program
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026
DeSantis stole $10M from poor children and funneled it into republican political campaigns. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
cbsnews.com
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I mean this very, very seriously: It is absolutely an option for us to ignore his idiotic Lake America stunt. We can do that. We can just tune it out like you would block out a child howling at you in the cereal aisle, recognizing that to do anything else would be to give the whiner what they want.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"the money, which was supposed to be used to provide health insurance for poor children, was instead hastily passed through multiple organizations before eventually landing in the bank accounts of two political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida." www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
cbsnews.com
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 26/08/2026
ICE's standards say these cells shouldn't be used to confine people for more than 12 hours. But that's not how it works in Miramar, Florida.
reason.com
This ICE office detains people for days in overcrowded holding cells
ICE's standards say these cells shouldn't be used to confine people for more than 12 hours. But that's not how it works in Miramar, Florida.
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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration is deporting migrants to countries they aren't from—including places in upheaval—to expel people who have been granted protection from their home countries.
reason.com
The U.S. is sending deportees to countries they’ve never called home
The Trump administration is using so-called "third-country deportations" both punitively and to expel migrants who have been granted protection from their home countries.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 21/08/2026
First Liam Conejo Ramos. Now Liam Tadeo.   How many five-year-old boys need to be taken by ICE before Republicans will admit to the cruelty of this mass deportation campaign? Where is our humanity? How can we justify putting a five-year-old through this?
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“we’re witnessing the growth of a massive public-private bureaucracy that’s metastasizing in unnerving new directions. It now appears to entail extensive domestic surveillance operations as well.” Essential from @gregsargent.bsky.social This is what the next Dem admin must dismantle
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is extraordinarily dark: government agents surveilling peaceful protestors and trying to entrap them into breaking the law. It’s a classic measure of an authoritarian state.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/08/2026
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration’s policy aimed at deterring illegal migration.
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Liberia agrees to take 1,200 deportees from the US
Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States. Authorities in the West African country announced this on Tuesday.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 18/08/2026
Trump’s own banking regulator just gave the Trump family crypto business conditional approval for a national bank charter. This is going to end badly. The federal government he runs is greenlighting a bank his family profits from. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
cbsnews.com
Trump family crypto business World Liberty gets preliminary approval to establish a bank
The plan has sparked criticism from Democrats, who argue that granting bank status to a business affiliated with the Trump family poses a conflict of interest.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "Mike Collins needs to release every communication -- email, text message, phone record, encrypted chat -- between his office, his chief of staff, and those white supremacists, and he needs to release those communications today ... there is no place for white nationalism in the Senate"
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Democrats should pursue a select committee dedicated to investigating how the president’s family members have profited from their relationship to the White House – and what that has meant for both taxpayers and American interests.” @cjcmichel.bsky.social @justsecurity.org
justsecurity.org
Congress Needs a Select Committee That Focuses on Trump Family Corruption
Trump's family is profiting spectacularly from proximity to power, providing an opening for Congress to investigate, modeled after the Church Committee.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The conditions in ICE detention centers are outrageous. Worms. Standing sewage water. Measles outbreaks. 52 people have died so far. No American - no matter what your view is on immigration - should stand for this inhumanity.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/08/2026
Sickening that corporate media has been directed by their billionaire handlers to ask every Democrat about the DSA platform in an effort to divide the party, instead of the GOP platform of kidnapping, starvation, murder, and death.
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Your regular reminder that a jury found trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Stavros Halkias: I don't wanna do the both sides bullshit because it's not true. One side is worse than the other, objectively speaking. One side is disappearing people and one side wants children to have healthcare. A lot of stand up comics happened to have some of the dumbest opinions on Earth
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
These are the actions of an authoritarian state. Instead of investigating the agent who killed Alex Pretti, Trump's DHS conducted sweeping surveillance of Minnesota organizations that were peacefully standing up to this Administration's lawlessness. Despicable.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 13/08/2026
The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been... www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/the-fak…
techdirt.com
The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters like to claim he's a...
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I know there’s numbness to the authoritarian drumbeat but this is rubicon-crossing. DOJ subpoenaed years of records from some of the largest unions in the country, infiltrated protest groups & tried to engineer a takedown of the institutional left in MN/nationwide. It is making COINTELPRO look tame
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The only thing the Administration is not incompetent at is corruption. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/08/2026
Trump administration has revoked more than 175,000 visas, State Department says reut.rs/3UpcPbT
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Trump administration has revoked more than 175,000 visas, State Department says
The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals under President Donald Trump's administration, ​as it continues a sweeping immigration crackdown that has stripped travel and ‌immigration privileges from tens of thousands more people.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There is just 1 day until polls close on August 11. Your vote can make a difference in this race. Make your plan to vote, then send this post to three friends and make sure they have a plan to vote on or by August 11! MNVotes.org
1 day - Vote by August 11
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Deaths of newborns have risen by 81% in just a year, for the most vulnerable people across sub-Saharan Africa, in the wake of global aid cuts Deaths of babies in the first year of life are up 111% in a year. Deaths of under-5s have risen 50% in a year www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
independent.co.uk
Newborn deaths are surging in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Here’s why
Mothers across sub-Saharan Africa face a perfect storm of conflict, displacement and global aid cuts that are leaving them without the help they need in the most dangerous countries to give birth. Liz...
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WisDems @wisdems.org · 07/08/2026
Wisconsin, our primary is on August 11! Absentee voter in Wisconsin—we strongly recommend that you do not mail in the ballot at this point. Instead, absentee voters should make a plan to deliver their absentee ballot to ensure it's received on time. 🖥️ wisdems.org/vote 608-336-3232
IMAGE Sealed envelope of an official absentee ballot 

TEXT "Attention Wisconsin voters: Voters who have not already mailed their absentee ballot should arrange a plan to drop it off before election day."TEXT "Need information about how to drop off an absentee ballot? Visit wisdems.org/vote or call or text (608) 336-3232"
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What Israel did to activists who tried to go to Gaza: Detained activists were beaten, shot w/ rubber bullets & Tasered One woman said she was raped Medical records show "fractured ribs, a fractured vertebrae, a broken coccyx, a firearm wound and a collapsed lung" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/w...
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There are just 4 days until polls close on August 11. Your vote can make a difference in this race. Make your plan to vote, then send this post to three friends and make sure they have a plan to vote on or by August 11! MNVotes.org
4 days - vote by August 11
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There are 5 days until polls close on August 11. This election is too important to sit back or sit out. Make your plan to vote, then send this post to three friends & make sure they have a plan to vote on or by August 11! MNVotes.org
5 days - vote by August 11
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There are 6 days until polls close on August 11. This election is too important to sit back or sit out. Make your plan to vote, then send this post to three friends & make sure they have a plan to vote on or by August 11! MNVotes.org
6 days - vote by August 11
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There are 7 days until polls close on August 11. This election is too important to sit back or sit out. Make your plan to vote, then send this post to three friends & make sure they have a plan to vote on or by August 11! MNVotes.org
7 days - vote by August 11
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
Trump's lawyers ADMITTED to STEALING money from blue states, just because they didn’t vote for him. I am demanding every last cent be restored. This isn’t Trump’s money. These are taxpayer dollars and I won’t let this kind of lawless corruption stand.
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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · 28/07/2026
The conditions at ICE’s Dilley Trailer Prison are nightmarish. Worm-infested food, dirty drinking water, and cruel family detention. We must put an end to this child abuse and hold the Trump Administration accountable for the trauma it has caused. #ShutDownDilley
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WisDems @wisdems.org · 28/07/2026
Wisconsin voters! Starting TODAY you can go early vote in person. Have questions about early voting? Find answers 👇 🖥️wisdems.org/vote ☎️ 608-336-3232
HEADLINE Fall Primary

WISCONSIN Early voting has begun! Got questions?  Visit wisdems.org/vote or call 608-336-3232
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I was always gonna boycott the Harry Potter TV series but I would urge anyone on the fence to stop engaging with the franchise as long as JKR is using her proceeds to fund her continued attacks on trans people and allies. Reheated nostalgia slop just isn’t worth it.
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Rep. Chuy García @chuygarcia.house.gov · 13/07/2026
ICE has killed another person. This pattern of violence and blatant disregard for human life cannot continue. There must be a full, independent investigation into every single death involving ICE, and accountability for all crimes committed by its thugs.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 13/07/2026
A scalding, blistering judicial opinion calling out Trump’s sham litigation, striking down his corrupt IRS immunity, and holding his sycophant lawyers to account. That’s a good start. Impeachment is next.
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Judge Smacks Down Trump’s IRS Settlement And Orders Sanctions
ByAlison Durkee,Forbes Staff.
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