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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 26/03/2026

This week, I met with parents of transgender youth to hear about the suffering they & their kids are enduring under this administration’s cruel attack on trans children. Put simply, leave our children alone! I will always stand with trans & non-binary youth.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So road trips are out And like, buying stuff

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DavidTarrell @dixiecupdrinker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If I argued in court “when my client punched the victim, he was defending himself because his friend was about to punch the victim and my client thought this would have prompted the victim to punch him in response,” I’d lose my license to practice law.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

OMG GUYS LEAVE ORWELL ALONE!

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies, but There Is Someone He Wants the Best For www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o... This is really well done and worth a read I’ve gifted it

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Opinion | Trump Says He Doesn’t Want the Best for His Enemies, but There Is Someone He Wants the Best For

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms. It’s never been more important.... Barack Obama

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/11/2025

The 54th annual New York City Marathon is underway. Follow along with our live updates from all five boroughs. nyti.ms/4nKTj2U

A headline reads: "Live Updates From the New York City Marathon." In the foreground, five female marathon runners, wearing sunglasses and race bibs, run on a street over a white-striped crosswalk. In the background are city buildings and a traffic light. Photo by Vincent Alban/The New York Times.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 31/10/2025

It’s Halloween, but the only thing spooky here is the way Republicans are abandoning the American people.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Prosecutors are facing discipline for telling a judge the truth in a sentencing memo. This post traces the case, its facts, the sentencing process, and helps us understand why this completes the cycle of corrupting the Justice Department Trump has set us on. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Is Justice Done?

You’ve probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight’s post.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/10/2025

Today marks 30 days of the Republicans’ shutdown. Now, 42 million Americans, including 3.5 million Texans, are at risk of losing access to SNAP. Enough with the games. It’s time for them to show up and do their damn jobs.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/10/2025

“We are facing the gravest danger of nuclear war that has existed on the planet since the end of the Cold War, and possibly worse than it was during the Cold War,” says nuclear disarmament advocate Dr. Ira Helfand.

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highlisam.bsky.social @highlisam.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Today as I was watching Face the Nation, I heard my first commercial recruiting angry white men to join ICE, because they sure weren't recruiting me and every other democracy-loving American citizen.

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highlisam.bsky.social @highlisam.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

But it's the left, not right wing radicals AKA white guys, who are committing violent acts against American citizens.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

All of the last week’s posts from my Newsletter, Civil Discourse, in one place so you can make sure you didn’t miss anything in a pivotal week for democracy. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Sunday Morning Wrap-Up

Here’s your Sunday morning wrap-up!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court? youtu.be/xtiISydG9l0?feature=shared

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The Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket,” Explained

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/08/2025

My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...

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I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos

On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Citizens United. Presidential immunity.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/08/2025

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

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highlisam.bsky.social @highlisam.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The pizza is good. The tap water is FREE! Saved 3.00. What a nice lady!!

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highlisam.bsky.social @highlisam.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We are being conditioned to accept the worst possible living conditions so that the oligarchs can exploit our tax dollars. RESIST!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Rep.Ted Lieu calls out ICE for mass racial profiling and reminds people filming ICE is legal

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The Code of Virginia defines transition-related health care as medically necessary and prevents health insurers from discriminating against transgender people. The SCOTUS ruling today does not change that law we passed with bipartisan support in 2020 (my bill HB 1429). Here’s the actual text:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 38.2-3449.1 as follows:

§ 38.2-3449.1. Prohibited discrimination based on gender identity or status as a transgender individual.

A. As used in this section:

"Gender identity" means an individual's internal sense of gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female and which may be different from an individual's sex assigned at birth.

"Medically necessary transition-related care" means any medical treatment prescribed by a licensed physician for treatment of gender dysphoria and includes (i) outpatient psychotherapy and mental health services for gender dysphoria and associated co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses; (ii) continuous hormone replacement therapy; (iii) outpatient laboratory testing to monitor continuous hormone therapy; and (iv) gender reassignment surgeries.

"Transgender individual" means an individual whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned to that individual at birth.

B. A health carrier offering a health benefit plan providing individual or group health insurance coverage shall:

1. Provide coverage under the health benefit plan without discrimination on the basis of gender identity or status as a transgender individual; and

2. Treat covered individuals consistent with their gender identity.

C. A health carrier offering a health benefit plan providing individual or group health insurance coverage shall not deny or limit coverage or impose additional cost sharing or other limitations or restrictions on coverage, under a health benefit plan for health care services that are ordinarily or exclusively available to covered individuals of one sex, to a transgender individual on the basis of the fact that the individual's sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or gender otherwise recorded is different from the one to which such health services are ordinarily or exclusively available.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

😲 Is the United States sending a widebody 767 with a capacity of over 200 shackled & chained passengers to Mauritania--one of the few places on Earth that still widely practices slavery⁉️

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

As anyone who saw the video knows, Senator Padilla *didn't* lunge at silly Kristi Noem. He "lunged" at the floor--when pushed by the America Gestapo trying to take away his First Amendment rights and his duty to engage in congressional oversight. This administration is full of shameless liars.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🚨 Israel just struck Iran

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/06/2025

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/06/2025

Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Trump deploys U.S. military to the streets of a U.S. city--and threatens to do so elsewhere whenever he wants. And people ask whether he has crossed the Rubicon. Yes, he has. As he's been intending to do for a quite a while. @samsteindc.bsky.social and I discuss. youtu.be/slAY7oxOu-Y?...

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Trump Wants Riots To Unleash His Authoritarian Playbook

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump administration effort to dismantle Jobs Corps. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/06/2025

DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.

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God @thegodshow.com · 03/06/2025

You don't get a job in the Taco Administration unless you know jack-shit about fuck-all for the position you were given.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/06/2025

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow

Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Weakened courts, happy heirs, and work requirements. The House-passed version of Donald Trump's tax plan takes from poor, gives to rich.

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highlisam.bsky.social @highlisam.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Joni Ernst is a complete and total piece of shit

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

JUST IN: Judge Chutkan allows lawsuit seeking to enjoin Elon Musk and DOGE's operations to proceed. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 27/05/2025

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but two people were killed and nine others were injured during a mass shooting in Philadelphia yesterday and it barely even registered as news. In most countries, that would be a massive story. Here in America, it’s just another day.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Prices are rising nationwide and Trump’s gaslighting everyone about why. His tariffs and failed policies are driving costs up. He’s spent $200 billion more in his first 100 days than the same period last year, delivering less to Americans at a greater cost.

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