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@grammyhelen.bsky.social
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💙💙💙I’m a refugee from twitter. Proud to say I voted for the prosecutor, and I have never voted for the orange felon. My interests are politics, books, true crime podcasts, crocheting, and I love dogs and cats. #AbolishICE

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10h
Join me in Mt. Pleasant on Friday to knock doors and talk to voters about our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All!
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Knock Doors with Abdul El-Sayed in Mt. Pleasant! · Team Michigan
We are so excited to welcome Abdul El-Sayed to Mount Pleasant! Please join Abdul and One Team Michigan as we meet and then go out and talk to voters! Join the Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson campa...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 9h
Sneaky Death Cult
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mike Rogers led the charge to flood opioids into our communities. Here's what happened.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Still telling the “vandalism” lie not a single soul believes 🤥
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he didn't commit, threatened w/ incarceration of up to 10 years & endured defaming of his name" Former Olympian charged w/ discredited Reflecting Pool criminal case asks for Dept of Interior watchdog probe of agency
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
Disgusting and disqualifying.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Democrats surge. Senate map shifts. Trump’s Latino collapse. GOP panic in Kansas and South Carolina. Trump’s LA/SD disaster. Measles spreads. Trade deficit explodes. Russia’s mysterious lab scare. And a whole lot more in today’s Bulletin.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 475. 10/6/26
… A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans now identify as Democrats than at any point since 2009.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h
It‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Trump said the June 2025 B-2 strikes “ended” the war with Iran, despite launching the current war on February 28, 2026.
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Trump Says Iran War Ended Eight Months Before It Began
In a rambling Baltimore speech, Trump claimed the B-2 strikes of June 2025 effectively “ended” a war he didn’t launch until February 2026. Seven months later, the fighting continues, U.S. weapons stoc...
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h
Troy Jackson clearly won tonight’s first Maine Senate debate, repeatedly putting Susan Collins on the defensive over Trump, Kavanaugh and her record in Washington. Collins leaned heavily on seniority and what she’s delivered for Maine — but Jackson landed the sharper punches by far.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20h
Sex trafficking rapist pedophile Andrew Tate had beastiality porn of horse and eel as well as videos of minors. A reminder that creepy racist scumbag JD Vance and the orange felon fought to bring him and his vile brother Tristan to the US to protect them. MAGA empowers monsters.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I agree with this comment. Just as the 50 Snapchat guys that did nothing are part of the Cornell 57. Republicans are the same as the Cornell 57 for not calling out accountability to the Pedo-in-Chief. This is disgusting and irresponsible 🤮🤬🖕🏼
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17h
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h
Treason
Donald J. Trump
would rather bomb his own country than lose in midterms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2026
Wrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h
A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 21h
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis calls Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick “nuttier than squirrel shit.”
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Mikey197710 @mikey197710.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Gov. Shapiro: RFK is playing games with people’s lives here in Pennsylvania.” He won’t even acknowledge the deaths here in Pennsylvania. He actually accused me of fabricating it and making it up, even when the families of those loved ones who have perished have expressed their sadness and grief.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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sunshinelaughter.bsky.social @sunshinelaughter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For all of them it is
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Fox News gave Dennis Hastert, whom a federal judge called a “serial child molester,” a warm “In Memoriam” sendoff.
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Fox News Runs ‘In Memoriam’ for Serial Child Molester Dennis Hastert
The network gave the disgraced former Republican House speaker a solemn televised sendoff, describing his sexual abuse of teenage boys as “allegations” that merely “tainted” his reputation.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Everything about her and everything about the way he interacts with her and everything about their relationship and everything about the US president going around the world with arm candy decades and decades younger than him is just thoroughly grotesque before you even consider that she's a cultist
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want Elon Musk, the Ellisons and the Saudis deciding what "news" you're allowed to get, vote for Republicans in the midterms. If not, don't. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’
Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Use the 25th Amendment Now
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Mybuddysully @mybuddysully.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hundreds join protest at Cornell University to call for frat members to be expelled after rape allegations
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Hundreds join protest at Cornell University after fraternity gang rape lawsuit
Demonstrators held signs reading: ‘Jane Doe deserves justice,’ ‘Alcohol is not consent,’ and ‘Hold them accountable’
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Make no mistake, blue states like California and New York are what keep fascist republican controlled red states from going completely bankrupt. That’s just a fact.
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
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Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Trump stood at a rally and said "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Then politicos rushed to explain what he "really meant." We won't sanewash him. Today's midday updates are up, paywall free:
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Tuesday Updates: Media ‘Sanewashes’ Trump, Plague Claims Another Victim, More Tankers Struck – 10/6/26
Important updates. Paywall free.
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