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Grateful Mom

@gratefulmom.bsky.social
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Pressed flower artist (because we need more beauty in these dark days), Wharf Rat, blue dot in a red state, resister, big fan of democracy, supporter of allies 🇨🇦🇲🇽 🌸 (~);} 💙

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 14h
@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social with an excellent dive into the expansion of ICE’s new spy program.
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 22h
Will a Zacharia be shorter than a Scaramucci?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reup: 4 HSI Agents--like the people who raided Ilhan Omar today--have lied to judges at least 36 times to target Dems and other Trump opponents, one to excuse following a Todd Blanche order, another to do Harmeet Dhillon's dirty work. emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...
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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats - emptywheel
There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 05/10/2026
This is the exact play CoreCivic made after selling two other California prisons this summer: collect a windfall from the government, get awarded the operations and wraparound contract, and then execute a stock buyback to increase shareholder value.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The System Is Broken - Paxton called the FBI to charge 7 alleged illegal voters. - Texas needed a vendor to fix a bug blocking 178,000 Voter Registrations it never sent to Counties. Updated your license online lately? Check Voter Registration before Oct 5. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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Thirty Years of Republican Rule, And They Still Can't Mail A Form To A County
If you updated your license online in the last year, check your voter registration before October 5.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump used the presidency to wipe out his own real estate debt while adding trillions to ours. If any worker did this with company funds, they'd be in handcuffs. The Oval Office has clearly become a personal ATM for him. #CorruptTrumpRegime
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve been hesitant to go this far - because I think party division will only hurt us in November - but seriously, fuck Fetterman.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026
what is the world is going on with Trump's hair? (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
pic of Trump waving at an airport yesterdayzoom in on his hair, which is suddenly black
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's been reported the U.S. is paying other governments to accept immigrants, it can't "legally" deport. The U.S. detention centers are privatized for profit business. ICE is a deportation trade for human trafficking and no-one is talking about this. Vote accordingly. #AbolishICE #SheShed
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ken Paxton got a $250,000 donation from the chair of Texas Tech’s Board of Regents. The next day, he threatened to sue the Big 12 to protect Brendan Sorsby, the Tech quarterback who was caught illegally betting on his games. Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in Texas.
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm talking to you, Carville, Begala, Axelrod and all the boys at Third Way...
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Democratic Candidates Have Embraced Unity. Dem Pundits? Not So Much.
Losing candidates have prioritized the big tent and embraced their former rivals. Why can’t the media and pundits get on board?
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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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Russian asset?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
Insane that this has been normalized and is probably not even gonna crack the news.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.   That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
As Americans struggle with rising costs and high gas prices, this is how Trump is choosing to spend taxpayer dollars. His priorities are clear. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump administration set to spend at least $900 million on White House construction
The price tag is much larger than what has been previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts, and taxpayers would cover most of it.
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Goodness. What could go wrong here? Soulless 🤡 now using defenseless kids as an excuse to shovel $ to his buddies, who we can bet will do as good a job helping those kids as his Reflecting Pool buddies did w 🤡's disaster in DC. Those poor kids.
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Trump-Linked Firm Picked to Represent Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids
The head of an immigrant rights organization called the law firm “clearly unqualified.”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You misspelled "wine box".
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ben McKenzie maps out the potential crypto crimes of Trump & members of his Executive Branch—specifically how they’ve benefited from their financial ties to the shady foreign operator, Tether. Gulp down this #CupOfJoe full of significant facts.
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Still miss him every day. Happy birthday, Jerry!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Everything trump touches DIES.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The corruption is endless. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Spot the difference
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Ioannis Ziogas @ziogas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.
NYT headline (July 2, 2026): U.S. Hiring Continues at a Steady PaceNYT headline (July 2, 2024): US Job Growth Extends Streak, but Signs of Concern Emerge.
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
100% truth!!!
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/06/2026
Trump just posted a Truth Social attack on this pink frog. Bless you, Amphifa!
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Bless The Team Algae Protesters!
"Algae is smarter than MAGA."
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I'm not a scientist but I do have Google. Who could have predicted peeling paint from hydrogen peroxide?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/06/2026
There’s a lot of news about this administration buying stuff high and selling it low. DHS warehouses, luxury jets. I can’t help but wonder whether Trump is using the treasury to launder money or skim off the top.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
That’s why this program is so secret & why this reporting is so crucial. They literally plan to switch out the legit Vote.org site with a dummy site of the same name…that runs highly sophisticated surveillance tech & sends the data to another site, using it to decide which votes to pre-deny.
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/05/2026
@brianedsall.bsky.social profiles photojournalist Michael Nigro, who documented ICE’s arrests of immigrants in a Manhattan courthouse in 2025.
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A Snapshot Into Darkness: Bearing Witness Inside 26 Federal Plaza
One year ago, Michael Nigro happened upon masked agents detaining immigrants in a Manhattan courthouse. From January 6th to the war in Ukraine, this has become the hardest story of his career.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: Look at this. $DELL just won a five-year $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement for the US military. But Trump also bought $DELL. He bought multiple times since February 10th, up to more than $5,000,000. On May 8th, he said: "Go out and buy a Dell." Unusual.
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Please watch! We need investigative reporters on this open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 21/05/2026
Every job posting warns of exposure to toxic chemicals and extreme temperatures at the facility, which the state has argued in court was built to store goods, not house people.
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GardaWorld Accelerates Hiring at Surprise Warehouse Despite Pending State Lawsuit
Every job posting warns of exposure to toxic chemicals and extreme temperatures at the facility, which the state has argued in court was built to store goods, not house people.
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Please watch! Your tax dollars are making the rich even richer
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_H...
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Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry - Wikipedia
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Grateful Mom @gratefulmom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
HE IS COPYING EVERYTHING HITLER DID!!! Wake up, people! He is literally building concentration camps here in this country for immigrants. Are we going to wait until millions are dead?
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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