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Heather Martini

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h
Trump can’t talk his way out of this one. He fumbled part of his most recent speech so badly that he ended up with the suggestion of Iran bombing U.S. cities. In typical fashion, the White House is saying you didn't hear clearly that which you obviously did. (link below)
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 8h
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h
Thom Tillis voted to confirm these people. Now he wants credit for telling us how terrible they are. And oh so conveniently, Thom Tillis has a new book to sell. Spare us.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The G7 just agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil, in exchange for the US agreeing not to ban diesel exports.⁣ ⁣ That's not a solution. That's political leaders agreeing to look like they're solving a made-up crisis. youtu.be/I8waaPcvpQA
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22h
Every time I see how the GOP is trying to make voting a trial, I appreciate California notifies you via text and email when your ballot is on the way, has convenient drop boxes, and follows up to confirm they received the ballot with lightning speed.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22h
Weird how the biggest state in the union seems to have locked down voting while much smaller states are in an eternal struggle.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always seemed like Republicans did a masterful job avoiding any collateral damage from Dennis Hastert. Genuinely wonder how many in MAGA even recall the story at this point.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I mean, how much did Trump benefit from QAnon convincing gullibles that Democrats were the party of pedophiles?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great story by @gillianbrockell.com about progressives on the Chicago city council forcing a private equity firm trying to buy city parking meters to divest from Omni Air International, the charter airline that did ICE’s longest & cruelest flights. The spun-off Omni is now in huge financial trouble.
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a city contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re living through a time when far too many men — including privileged young men at a frat house in an Ivy League university — feel impunity when it comes to attacking women. I don’t think it unrelated to the impunity felt by the man now occupying the highest office in the land.
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Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump
Friends,
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war.” - President Zelenskyy Since Putin’s order in September, russia has intensified its strikes on Kyiv, including attacks on schools, hospitals, grocery stores, gas stations and data centers.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In retrospect, it’s kind of incredible that Elon Musk couldn’t resist juicing Grok’s racism, even if was at the expense of the autonomous thinky machine fiction he’s selling. 
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 02/10/2026
🚨TRIGGER WARNING🚨 Discussion of rape/sexual violence & strong language. ☑️ Bear ☐ Man This spoken word poem stopped me in my tracks The bear was never really the point. The point is why so many women understood the answer immediately Listen to her words. They matter. —Claire Donohoe🐻💜 #SheShed
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hard to disagree with this.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A couple of additional points. 1. Trump is intrigued by the Insurrection Act, and loyalists are urging him to invoke it. He might try to. Are we ready? 2. Hegseth is a man of overweening ambition. He wants to be president. He'll try, by means fair or foul. www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Fascism is both a permanent temptation, and, as history teaches and current events show, a powerful one. As history also teaches, it can be defeated. But first one has to recognize it for what it is. Trump and Hegseth have helped us in this task." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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Pete Livengood @plivengood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And…there it is.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still amazed that Eric Schmitt made the MAGA media rounds as if he wasn't thoroughly humiliated. Like Wile E. Coyote doing a press victory lap fresh off smashing into a painted tunnel.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We haven't seen much of Judge Jeanine lately, have we?
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Liberals🇨🇦🇺🇦 @saynotobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The facts 👇
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It was nice of Trump to throw the glitzy lunch for the AI guys and sign off on their no-safeguards policy. It should make it even easier for Dems to say that Trump and his party are bought and paid for by big AI. The tsunami forecast could turn out to be right." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ai-b...
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Trump + AI = Blue Tsunami
It doesn’t take super intelligence to realize the GOP is screwed.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. Seoul had expressed its regret to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ‘that what was reported today went beyond what had been agreed,’ he said.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. They’ve already started building,” Trump said. “.. That’s not true, according to TV6 Investigates’ review of Lee County land records. The review found no major property purchases tied to the project this year.” @kwqc.com #Iowa www.kwqc.com/2026/09/29/t....
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Trump’s new AI chatbot wasn’t hallucinating, he lost the 2020 election. But when the newest rollout from the White House contradicted Trump’s rhetoric, they pulled the plug. Now when asked about it, the AI tool says “I do not offer political commentary on elections” and dismisses the question...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jamil Jivani and the Very Masculine™ Jacob Mantle think that acknowledging homosexuality in schools is "a threat" as they spout debunked "gender ideology" bullshit, while calling people traitors. Yeah, the Conservative Party is headed down a really healthy path, guys. Yikes. #canqueer
provincialtimes.ca
ADAMS: Inside the Restore the North event at Liberty Church
Inside a church in his own riding, the fury Jamil Jivani has spent a year channeling finally turned on a constituent who asked the wrong question
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
George W. Bush had plenty of opportunities to speak up. January 6th. The January 6th Committee. Trump’s return to power. Mostly silence. But now he’s stepping back into politics to help Republican senators get reelected? Yeah. I have some thoughts.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Because if Americans disapprove of Trump, then we really need to get rid of this democracy nonsense... bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are the very good wars in the room with you now?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...
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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel
DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.
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