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Grant Moran

@grant-moran.bsky.social
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Emmy-winning children's media writer-producer; Founder, Kids Entertainment Professionals for Young Refugees (kepyr.org)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
Chippendales Recalls 4,000 Tons Of Tainted Man Meat
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
wingnut DEI
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Claremont has direct proximity to and influence over the government right now. The guy who led the mass deportation campaign for all of 2025 believes this shit. So yeah, this is fringe, racist, batshit nuttery. It's also a serious threat. www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-to-bl...
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Grant Moran @grant-moran.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Good luck with that.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 21/07/2026
“It’s going to be a hate election,” a consultant close to the Trump White House told Axios. “Voters have to hate the Dems more than they hate us." bit.ly/4fLlMVc
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Do Voters Hate Democrats More Than Republicans?
The GOP is staking its chances on the idea that that Americans are more dissatisfied with the opposition party than the one in power.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/07/2026
The U.S. government’s rejection of the ICC’s jurisdiction is not about “American sovereignty,” as Trump claims, but about “impunity,” for both Israel and the U.S. itself. “Marco Rubio knows that bombing Iran without Security Council authorization constitutes aggression under the U.N. Charter.”
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Trump Admin’s War on ICC Isn’t About US Sovereignty — It’s About Impunity
“To this administration, law itself is the enemy,” and it’s trying to do abroad what it’s doing at home, says an expert.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/07/2026
It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-181956…
It Only Tuesday
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/07/2026
The far right offers willing women their own sense of superiority. They can never be superior to the men, but even so, the second rung of the social pyramid affords a considerable distance between Laura Ingraham and the people doing her gardening.
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Who’s to Blame? Ask the Far Right—They Have a List.
Feminists, immigrants, professors, and just about everyone else: a look at the movement’s ever-expanding catalogue of villains.
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Sue Moran @greatislandkitchen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Vinylarchaeologist @vinylarchaeologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Steve Scalise — the wheel is turning but the hamster’s dead.
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DocBray Is Thinking About Pumpkins @iamdocbray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I was today years old when I found out the keyboard guy for Journey is a dip shit americansongwriter.com/honestly-shu...
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“Honestly, Shut Up”: Rock Legend Slams Bruce Springsteen as an “Annoying, Bitter Old Man”
Jonathan Cain dubbed Bruce Springsteen an "annoying, bitter old man" while dissing the singer's political outspokenness.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/06/2026
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
At least a few people who once liked Trump must now see that he is embarrassing and ruining America If he can't *clean a pool* without stealing money from us, hiring the wrong people, overpaying, conspiracy-theorizing, lying to us and calling in the Guard, he can't run a country
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2026
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."
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Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been protesting for over a week to revolt against their corrupt govt as well as criminal slumlord traitor Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka for plotting to seize their land. Americans could learn a thing or two on how it’s done.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sir Keir should bring the hammer down on Elon in any way he can.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
That’s called a bribe.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.
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Mina Hanse @mina-hanse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The EU is preparing its 21st sanctions package, targeting up to 90 Russian banks and 12 crypto platforms to curb evasion of Western restrictions. This move will bring the total number of listed banks to over 100. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🎯🧵"Once the principle of religious discrimination against non-Christians is established in American law, the next step was always going to be reclassifying huge swathes of Christians as non-Christians, so they can be marginalized, too."
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/06/2026
Musk fomenting violent race riots in Northern Ireland should have everyone to the left of Reagan fleeing the platform he owns and directly controls but they've already excused so much more, they've abdicated their capacity for moral indignation and disgust
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The 6 Roberts Court justices usually in the majority are many things: GOP loyalists, conservative, libertarian, and pro-religion. What they are not in any way are originalists and they should come clean. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/06/plea...
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Please Stop Calling the Roberts Court Justices Originalists
Professor Larry Solum,  in addition to running the influential Legal Theory Blog, is one of the country's leading academic originalists. He ...
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Nathan @ngtcollectibles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Not one, but two starting NFL QBs now sharing total garbage ass propaganda. Honestly, the fake Biden stuff is just silly, but the AIDS epidemic "commentary" is both wildly homophobic, and just plain horrible in so many ways.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump during the campaign on Feb 2, 2023 to Fox: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even be hard. You have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to them, which I won’t reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will end immediately.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The toll on press covering Delaney Hall:
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 29/05/2026
Under Trump, the United States is a bully looking for weaker and weaker victims in order to mask its own fragility. bit.ly/43ARPAi
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Trump's Violent Threats Can't Hide the Truth: He's a Humiliated Bully
Under Trump, the United States is looking for weaker and weaker victims in order to mask its own fragility.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is why I don't just feel outraged by men who beat and rape women. I hold them in utter contempt. That is the behavior of a weak and sad person, who can't pick on someone his own size. Anyone who punches down. You do that because you're weak. Full stop. Courage is taking on hard fights.
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Jane Feldman @jtfdenver.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Michael Bennet's Independent Expenditure Committee is paying people to post favorably about him on Instagram. I post favorably about my friend @philforcolorado.bsky.social free because I believe he is the best person for the job. #PhilforColorado #PhilforGovernor
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene. Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/05/2026
JUST IN: Martina McBride announces she will NOT perform at the Trump Freedom 250 event, saying she was misled — echoing claims made by several other artists who were listed as participants.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Trump officials plan to build arch without congressional authorization. To build a triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, the administration hopes to rely on a 101-year-old authorization for a different project on the site. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials say they can build 250-foot arch without Congress’s approval
The administration say they are building on a project authorized by Congress a century ago. Lawyers and Democrats said the argument is an attempt to evade federal law.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/05/2026
Nearly a decade ago, Donald Trump infamously asked Black voters: “What do you have to lose?” The Federal Reserve answered Trump’s question in a recent report: Black Americans lost more financially than every other racial group in 2025.
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Black Workers Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine During Trump 2.0
In 2016, Trump asked Black voters what they had to lose if he was president. In 2026, the answer is clear.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/05/2026
Tobacco industry executives donated millions to a Trump super PAC two days before a meeting with Trump at his golf club in Jupiter, Florida. A week later the FDA reversed its ban on flavored vapes, which was enacted in light of evidence that they were driving an epidemic of youth vaping.
truthout.org
Tobacco Company Gave $5M to Trump PAC Days Before FDA OK’d Flavored Vapes
A recently filed financial report shows Reynolds Americans donated to the super PAC MAGA Inc. in April.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 21/05/2026
Tech elites are building political machines powerful enough to rival the Democratic and Republican parties. bit.ly/3PAm9Ys
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Crypto and AI-Funded Super PACs Are Metastasizing
They’ve amassed more than $322 million in 2026—with much more to come.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
News from DeSantistan
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Jane Feldman @jtfdenver.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The lawyers involved should be fired and then disbarred.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Insane framing. It is not "blood libel" to write about the numerous NGO reports alleging sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
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The New Blood Libel
This is what globalizing the intifada looks like.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/05/2026
Nation Begs Frozen Fruit Companies To Keep The Giant Flavorless Blackberries Coming
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2026
hachi machi
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/05/2026
i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.
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CounterPunch @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There is a metastasizing culture of Islamophobia in the United States, where politicians have discovered that Muslim hate is a reliable path to election and commentators have built empires of followers on the broken backs of a vilified community.
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The San Diego Mosque Hate Crime and the Political Leaders Who Lit the Fuse
A hate crime had struck close to home. On the TV screen, more than four dozen police cars, blue lights swirling in a cold, mechanical rhythm. The news ticker crawled across the bottom of the TV screen...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
"The ICE agent's version of events would not have come under such scrutiny had the federal government not gotten greedy and charged Aljorna and Sosa-Celis with assaulting a federal officer who was performing their official duties. And that’s where things started to fall apart." — @snipy.bsky.social
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How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies
Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.
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socialirreitant.bsky.social @socialirreitant.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The best any economist can do right now is get the order of magnitude right, and my math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions. "War is hell. And hell comes with a hefty price tag."
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