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H.Arendt

@harendt.bsky.social
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Here to connect w/people who want the U.S. to be a multiracial pluralistic democracy, not a white nationalist theocratic autocracy. 💙

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21h
Hey WHCA -- u up?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
Excellent point.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h
Suddenly they’re all too busy to get on a stage with Trump.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2h
This is how you do it. This is how you write it. “The Trump administration says none of this is happening…. We’re showing you every case — the reality that the administration denies — along with the receipts.” projects.propublica.org/american-cit... Thank you, @propublica.org.
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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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
All but one of the 53 Senate Republicans voted to confirm anti-vax crusader RFK Jr. as health and human services secretary. When you vote for Republicans, you're voting for measles.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h
Trump has such contempt for the voters of South Carolina that he elevated someone utterly unqualified for senate who knows absolutely nothing about anything connected to the job who reads scripts given to her by MAGA handlers while calling the qualified Democrat names and slurs.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
<ThisIsTheWay.gif>
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Kazzie (🔞) @kazziemono.bsky.social · 11h
Undoubtedly the worst *human* to ever live, by far. A boiling pot of literally every worst possible quality anyone could ever have. It’s like a writer decided to design a character to be comically and laughably evil to the point that it’d be hard to believe a real person behaving that way.
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John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 13h
In fact, it seems whenever given a choice, even if he doesn't benefit from it, Trump pretty much always, consistently, opts for the more evil choice that will hurt the most people.(as long as it's not him) Because he equates evil with strength & proof of agency.
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K @kate10010.bsky.social · 16h
It’s really crazy that the President of the United States might be in the top 5 worst people to ever live Just an absolute monster with not one redeeming quality
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
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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Rhon🌻✌️☮️📎🦋👂🙉 @hollyhockcottage.bsky.social · 15h
How about putting him in jail?
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CurisQui 🦋 Anti-Fascist ❌👑 @demokittygirl.bsky.social · 14h
Absolutely. No more of that shit. We don't reach across the aisle to "work with" Fascists! Shame them and blame them. And don't ever stop.
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Dragon Nexus @dragonnexus.bsky.social · 15h
I don't want to hear one goddamn word about "reaching across the aisle" ever, ever again.
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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 15h
Trump erasure is absolutely a necessary (not sufficient) requirement for my vote. I want *every vestige* of this motherfucker gone. Every label, every likeness. Gone. I don't give a solitary shit about the time or the cost. Don't agree? We have nothing more to talk about.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 16h
No matter where you live, you can help us get out the vote for @justinjpearson.bsky.social and other Democratic candidates in key elections by visiting 2026.indivisible.org#action.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15h
RFK Jr really has made his dreams come true 😢
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We’re training volunteers across the US to defeat Trump’s next coup attempt before, during, and after the election!! Join us: Linktr.ee/NoKingsFall ❌👑
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H.Arendt @harendt.bsky.social · 10h
This should result in immediate impeachment and removal and it’s horrifying that he won’t face any consequences at all for saying this.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13h
Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21h
I am darkly enjoying how the popularization of founder-driven go-direct communications has led to a situation where the public is getting real-time direct exposure to the reality that the major AI actors are led by sociopathic lunatics
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h
Millions of Americans are ready to get into election protection formation. Join us at the next No Kings Day to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the nearly 2,500 events planned for the next No Kings Day on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19h
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21h
There are battleground districts in Colorado that we need to win next month — and no matter where you live, you can help make that happen! Let’s contact Colorado voters to make sure they have all the information they need to elect Democrats who will fight for working families.
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Indivisible for Manny Rutinel and Jessica Killin in CO Phone Bank Series · Indivisible
Join Indivisible as we engage voters across the country to get out the vote and take back Congress in 2026. We’ll make calls into Colorado to get people to the polls on or before Nov 3rd and share the...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h
Congrats to the NY Times. Trump is calling for its "arrest" on the same day NYT ran a fawning story about his former press secretary, the "steely” and “nimble” Karoline Leavitt. When the Times' staff is frog-marched out of the newsroom at gunpoint, will they realize they brought it on themselves?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18h
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 23h
As a longtime Chicago journalist I want to say that if you fail to put Hastert's serial CHILD SEX ABUSE in the headlines about his death, you are doing it wrong. So far, this is the only headline I've seen that has been crystal clear about what the Illinois pol did to kids. Credit @reuters.com.
Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
Spot the difference
Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Would be very easy for the NYT to simply write those three words in the hed, dek, &/or lede. Pure factual reporting. No value judgments at all.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h
There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." 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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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20h
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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H.Arendt @harendt.bsky.social · 19h
From @markjacob.bsky.social:
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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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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h
Trump mailed in his own ballot while calling mail voting "cheating" Then he tried to run our elections through USPS & the Supreme Court stopped him Now he's telling GOP to vote by mail? His "election security" crusade was only ever about one voter : him -TN
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Trump Urges Republicans to Vote By Mail After Criticizing Practice
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 21h
Hey, AZ, Arkansas, GA, FL, IN, KY, LA, MS, MT, OH, TN and TX! TODAY is your last day to register to vote! REGISTER NOW TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS! Think you’re registered? Double check. ESPECIALLY if you’re from Texas! But wherever you live—just check. It takes two seconds.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h
Karoline Leavitt isn't "fierce"—she's dishonest. And Karoline Leavitt isn't "nimble"—she shamelessly dodges both questions and the truth. She is the same type strenuously unhelpful liar Trump has always had for his press secretaries.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h
Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is the real deal. Iowans, make sure your friends vote!
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h
Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...
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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent
Posting Through It · Episode
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h
It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @barackobama.bsky.social is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24. Get. Ready.
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