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Velvet Thunder

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Velvet Thunder @hammond-hammond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I signed this petition organized by Rights & Democracy. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/rightsdemocr...
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Demand Governor Ayotte & AG Formella to investigate the threats from the Libertarian Party in NH · Rights & Democracy
Dear Governor Ayotte and Attorney General Formella, We are writing to demand a thorough investigation into recent posts by individuals associated with the Libertarian movement in New Hampshire that p...
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
mitch mcconnell died doing what he loved, keeping a federal office vacant for several months leading into an election
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Are they really trying to bring back the Red Scare? It’s starting to feel that way. During the Red Scare, politicians warned that communists had “infiltrated America”, fueling fear, expanding government power, and encouraging people to view their fellow citizens as enemies.
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Candice @candicemakes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
My neighbor has a band. They were practicing late into the night, so I sent the following text. "Tell your bass player he needs a click track; he's consistently a 32nd note late on the attack." The music stopped entirely shortly thereafter.
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haterofhate62.bsky.social @haterofhate62.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥
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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2026
if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
One nice thing about these NYTimes safaris into the minds of Trump voters is that they prove the futility of chasing any Trump voters. No Democrat should make any effort to get their vote, their decisions are entirely outside of your power to influence. Stick to Dems and Dem-leaning.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”
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What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy
Protests show people they are not alone in caring about an issue.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration has quietly killed an effort that would have helped secure America’s future in the crucial semiconductor industry,” writes German Lopez.
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Opinion | American Chipmaking Suffers a Blow Under Trump
The administration is further weakening the country’s position in the critical semiconductor sector.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/03/2026
Well would you look at that
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Troutman @robotrowboat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Patel has fired 10 FBI employees who were involved in the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and related probes.
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Kash Patel fires at least six FBI agents tied to 2022 Mar-a-Lago search
The dismissals come as the FBI director said his phone records were obtained by federal authorities during the Biden administration in connection with investigations into Trump.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/02/2026
Still blows my mind that my medication, Emgality, is like $1,000 with insurance but if I print out a special cheat code from the manufacturer's website its $35. And they don't automatically give this cheat code to people so that elderly and sick people end up accidentally paying full price.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2026
Breaking News: The EPA is allowing coal-burning power plants to release more heavy metals like mercury, a powerful neurotoxin linked to brain damage.
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E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants
The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner against mercury pollution.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/02/2026
A Palestinian-American teenager was laid to rest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday, a day after he was killed by an Israeli settler, according to a resident who said he had witnessed the shooting and the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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Palestinian-American Teenager Killed in West Bank Is Laid to Rest
Nasrallah Abu Siyam, 19, was shot dead by an Israeli settler, according to a witness and Palestinian health officials, amid rising violent settler attacks in the Israeli-occupied territory.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Police in St. Paul are investigating an immigration arrest last month that left a man with a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. Immigration agents have claimed his injuries were caused by him “running into a wall,” but it’s a false narrative agents beat him during the arrest.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.
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Mimey @lordmimey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ultimately RW "culture" would basically be the same thing infinitely repeated: "We whites are perfect, everyone else is trash, the State always wins, the Left are losers." and so on and so forth. Funny enough DS9 had a great take on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORN...
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Stark Trek DS9: Bashir & Garak on Cardassian Literature
YouTube video by NickSheridanCuts
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/02/2026
The Trump administration has been ordered to temporarily restore displays about George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people at a monument on the site of his former house in Philadelphia, after a judge said that the government did not have the power to erase or alter historical truths.
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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Displays About Slavery at Washington’s House
The judge said the government did not have the power to erase or alter historical truths after the administration took down displays about slavery at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/02/2026
A U.S. military strike killed three people and blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. Southern Command said, raising the death toll in the Trump administration’s five-month-old campaign against suspected drug smugglers at sea to 133.
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New U.S. Boat Strike Kills 3 in the Caribbean
The attacks since early November had specifically targeted suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Those fuckers should have donated
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
YES. A turn to state constitutions for substantive protections from federal authoritarianism is a necessary development under the present circumstances. I've long seen federalism as on balance bad for rights—Jim Crow, after all, lasted nearly a century. But today, its potential can't be denied.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/02/2026
given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The political science research on VID laws is clear 1.) It doesn't stop fraud, because fraud is non-existent. 2.) It does decrease turnout by 1-2%, but not in a way that advantages Rs. 3.) Much of research on VID was done before Trump, who wins low propensity voters.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
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Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/02/2026
After a Border Patrol agent shot a Chicago woman five times in October, Gregory Bovino reached out to the agent via email to offer his praise, newly released evidence shows.
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Top Border Official Praised Agent Who Shot Chicago Woman, Evidence Shows
A Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times, claiming that she tried to run him over. Newly released videos and text messages reveal fresh details about what happened.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2026
"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2026
or you could take the bullshit at face value because you think it makes you seem savvy, your choice
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The sheer number of Serious People in the Epstein files helps explain why the elite institutions were the first to fold at the mere suggestion of authoritarianism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/01/2026
Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Spotted Wearing Glove Over Head
Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Spotted Wearing Glove Over Head
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/01/2026
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
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5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official
The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.
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jbatch.bsky.social @jbatch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The solution I s simple: Tensions will ease immediately after ICE leaves the state. The corporate titans should call their boy in the oval and tell him to call off his Gastapo.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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peaceful warrior Lieu de Resistance NAFO Fella @caytiekt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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