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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The world is less kind without Dolly Parton. youtu.be/mfIvRKR3OHw?...

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Dolly Parton - Coat of many colors

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This administration continues to insult the intelligence of the people it is supposed to serve Outright lies and rehashing of long disproven “hypotheses.” There is no middle ground here. No compromise approach The human toll from this utter nonsense is already clear to see. Criminal negligence

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21/07/2026

This isn’t about fraud - it’s about cutting your healthcare so that Trump can afford the tax cuts he gave to billionaires. They’re cutting more money in healthcare than they’ve prosecuted for fraud. The math doesn’t add up. www.cbsnews.com/news/medicai...

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Trump administration halts $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of fraud crackdown

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is pausing $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minnesota.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When it happens, please remember that those of us who published lengthy books about January 6 explicitly said that month—and every month after—that the Insurrection never ended and Trump would eventually move to end our democracy permanently. We've been saying it for five years.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/07/2026

When it happens, I want Mitch McConnell to be honored the way he honored Justice RBG. That is all.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thanks to @maddow.bsky.social for covering my report on the decimation of the voting section of the Justice Department and the dangerously inexperienced lawyers who now work at what was once call the "crown jewel" of the DOJ You can read it here: www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This guy doesn’t understand this metric at all—likely because he has never carried a balance.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.

Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2026

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My little hamlet showed up for today’s event. #nokings

No Kings protest poster reading Make America Decent Again

No kings protest poster of a lunar butterfly reading: no kings, no ice, no fear: immigrants are welcome here.

Protest poster of a crown on an orange in a blue suit with red tie looking like an anus reading no kings.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top House Dem appropriator, says DHS is actively choosing not to pay TSA workers while paying employees at ICE, CPB, Coast Guard and Secret Service. And that the TSA administrator confirmed this herself on Weds. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

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DHS Is Choosing Not To Pay TSA Workers While Paying Others, House Dem Says

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Gupta: If we’re making choices, we’re making a clear choice right now about how to spend $200 billion over three months. That money could very easily be repurposed to fund a public option and provide healthcare to everyone in the United States who needs it for years.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is going to surprise, well, no one who has been paying attention, but Trump's birthright citizenship legal arguments are based on the theories of a former Confederate officer, white supremacist, who went on to argue the segregationists case in Plessy v. Fergueson. www.vox.com/politics/483...

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The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court

The peculiar legal argument behind Trump’s attack on citizenship was invented by 19th-century anti-Chinese racists.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The next time a career politician says Universal Healthcare isn’t a right because it would “bankrupt” America, I hope all of us will remember these past few weeks and the $200 billion PeteHegseth and @POTUS want for their Iran misadventure

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We need to: ✅ overturn Citizens United ✅ ban Congressional stock trading ✅ get dark money out of politics To get corporate influence out of our politics and return it to the people.

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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I’d prefer we were known for many other things. This is sick.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/03/2026

All this talk of advanced AI targeting and the U.S. still fired a Tomahawk at an elementary school where an outdoor playground has been visible on Google Maps since 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Iranian school was on U.S. target list, may have been mistaken as military site

The strike on an Iranian elementary school killed at least 175, many of them children, raising questions as to whether the military’s use of AI-enabled targeting was a factor.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 02/03/2026

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Important: Pentagon admits that Iran was not planning on striking the United States, undermining Trump claims Hegseth says regime change is not the goal, undermining Trump Trump admits the U.S. killed individuals he expected to take over Pentagon officials grow paranoid over stockpile issues

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Important Update: Pentagon Admits Iran was Not Planning to Strike United States as Narrative Justifying War Begins to Fall Apart

Good morning everyone.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake. And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone. And lied about it. They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid. And lied about it. What does this tell you?

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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Good stewards? MN pays in more than it receives back—while this administration increases spending/debt and reduces services/benefits. Do citizens believe this nonsense?

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We did a deep accountability check on the substance of Trump’s healthcare claims last night. Check out more here across all topics: www.ms.now/news/state-o... @ms.now

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026

Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"

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Heather @hmsbluebird.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My word, that Attorney General is insufferable.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The administration story is that Liam Ramos mother refused to take her son. In actuality she was inside with another child. If she opened the door they would all be detained. She literally had to make Sofie’s choice. I can’t. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...

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Habla la madre de Liam Conejo Ramos: "Yo presencié la escena desde la ventana, tenía miedo de que también me detuvieran"

"Mi hijo Liam me decía: 'Mami, ábreme la puerta', estaba aterrorizada. Mi esposo me gritaba 'no abras la puerta' y no lo hice por miedo a que mí también me arrestaran y dejara solo a mi otro hijo. Al ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026

Ellison: "We have the right as a state, as a co-sovereign, to do our own business with our own tax money. What the federal govt has said is, 'if you don't do it our way, we're gonna saturate your state with 4,000 ICE agents until you cry uncle and obey us.' That's unconstitutional and illegal."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.

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Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions

Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 26/01/2026

In closing, here's Minnesota: “The state of Minnesota comes here today to protect its sovereignty—to stop the harm to its sovereign rights under the Constitution that sets states up as independent sovereigns. If we can’t come to the court and vindicate those rights, where else does the state go?”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"They are locking up two-year old and three-year old kids who are here in the United States legally – just for the purpose of traumatizing them." Senator Chris Murphy

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE's actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...

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A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill

Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.

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