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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I dunno, this feels more antisemitic than anything Piker has said
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
This system is known to flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens, creating new barriers for Americans who have every right to cast a ballot. We should be protecting the right to vote, not putting it at risk to solve a manufactured crisis.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words doesn’t matter how loudly Dems condemn, the machine is already in motion and will invent its own fuel"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Patrick Baker @pbjmbaker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“Unhumans is not a scholarly work. It is a twisted political incantation designed to inspire hatred and terror. It seeks to influence weak minds by framing the political stakes in horrifying and violent terms. It grooms Republicans for civil war and, quite possibly, something far worse.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Geo-engineering seems to be forever an attempt to not do the very doable greenhouse-gas reduction things we can do, know how to do, are doing, but not nearly enough. To reject a proven, viable solution in favor of a wild gamble that could create its own catastrophes.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Just yesterday, House Republicans voted to strip fruit and vegetable benefits from nearly 5.4 MILLION women and children on WIC. That's on top of Trump's Big Ugly SNAP cuts, as food prices continue to surge. The GOP wants Americans to go hungry to make the rich even richer.
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Phil Weiser @philweiser.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As your next governor, I will always fight for the people of Colorado, for housing, food and healthcare they can afford; opportunities to build a good life and career for our kids; and safe and thriving communities. Learn more at philforcolorado.com. www.durangoherald.com/articles/phi...
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Opinion | Phil Weiser: Why I’m running to be Colorado’s next governor
Editor's note: The Herald Editorial Board invited Democratic and Republican candidates for Colorado governor to submit guest columns for publication. Columns are published as submitted, subject to...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this
A photo from the inside of the mutual aid tent to benefit the families of detainees at Delaney Hall. Boxes of donations, clothes  and materials are strewn all over the floor, documents and boxes open and thrown everywhere. NJ state police are evil.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/05/2026
An Indiana University biology professor has been kicked out of his university lab after speaking up in defense of international postdocs who were targeted for deportation. www.science.org/content/arti...
After USDA request, Indiana
plant biologist locked out of
lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes
complained about the government's
prosecution of Chinese postdocs
9 MAY 2026 . 1:55 PM ET . BY JEFFREY MERVIS
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/03/2026
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
CBS and Fox are both state tv.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/01/2026
IMMORAL… This drawing was made by one of the 5 year old El Gamal twins. It shows children behind bars with the caption, “I’m 5 years old.” An immigration judge denied them bond, citing “insufficient assets.” These children could remain in detention for years while their case is appealed.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/01/2026
Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.
These House Democrats just voted with Republicans to give ICE more money:
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Tom Suozzi (NY-03)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
(Indivisible logo)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 23/01/2026
When Donald Trump invokes “large scale perjury,” he obviously knows whereof he speaks. He is the undisputed living master of the Big Lie. But can he and his cult followers identify a single lie Jack Smith told?
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Imagine what a tiny little man you would have to be to feel threatened by a dancing fox.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
IMHO, this is the best way to frame this. Whether the shooting was or was not legally justified (and remember that the legal precedent tends to be incredibly cop friendly) is very different from whether the Trump administration is telling the truth about what happened. They are not. They are lying.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 18/12/2025
Donald Trump's vengeful plan to dismantle NCAR and cut millions in federal grants is the latest attack against Colorado. I will not stand by while Trump weaponizes the federal government to punish our state.  [1/2]
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Trump officials to dismantle ‘global mothership’ of climate forecasting
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Release the Epstein files.
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
A career official answered: Less humanitarian aid would mean more people would die. “You could say that about any of these cuts,” Russ Vought replied. A person familiar with the meeting described his reaction as “blasé.” www.propublica.org/article/russ...
propublica.org
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/10/2025
See more job postings from ICE, courtesy of New Yorker Humor: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murm…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11/10/2025
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees who were interned in Trump's shuttered Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp have now disappeared without a trace. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 27/09/2025
Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being detained by ICE for over 100 days. His crime? Livestreaming a “No Kings” protest. If you were outraged about Jimmy Kimmel, you should be more outraged about Guevara. It’s time to #FreeMario now!
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 22/09/2025
Uh, I think I’d like a second opinion.
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Jennifer @feistywiddershins.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."
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