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Philip Morton

@hopeaintlost.bsky.social
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Screenwriter & archived @HuffPost. Views expressed r my own except all others I like! #NoDemUnder1K #Resist #FBR #Biden #feminism #Vote #Blue 💙 mortonphilm.com

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Leaker reveals the true danger of Trump’s Reflecting Pool witch hunt On Thursday, an insider from President Donald Trump’s first administration laid bare the true level of danger posed by the Reflecting Pool renovation debacle.
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Leaker reveals the true danger of Trump’s Reflecting Pool witch hunt
On Thursday, an insider from President Donald Trump’s first administration laid bare the true level of danger posed by the Reflecting Pool renovation debacle.
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www.alternet.org/trump-reflec...
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Leaker reveals the true danger of Trump’s Reflecting Pool witch hunt
On Thursday, an insider from President Donald Trump’s first administration laid bare the true level of danger posed by the Reflecting Pool renovation debacle.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
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Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 14h
www.thedailybeast.com/scott-jennin...
thedailybeast.com
Scott Jennings Throws Kimberly Guilfoyle Under the Bus Over Cash Demand
The conservative host suggested the 57-year-old is now “a problem” for the Trump administration.
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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What a dumbass president! According to the NY Federal Reserve, if Trump hadn't illegally imposed tariffs on most countries, the cost of most of what we buy would've continued on Biden's path & would've actually declined. And then the cocksucker goes to rallies & blames Biden!
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interesting that we don't hear about this. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
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Trump’s Iran conflict sees 81 US aircraft damaged or destroyed costing billions
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But I also want to make sure everyone in America understands that the President of the United States is *so mentally deranged* that as soon as he saw this photo he publicly declared that the NYT had *secretly sent agents to his club* to blacken and yellow it before taking a photograph. Yes, really.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sergio Codespoti @codespoti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hilary Price
Cartoon by Hilary Price
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...
rawstory.com
Jeanine Pirro ensnared by grand jury misconduct questions amid Reflecting Pool fallout
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro faces calls for a watchdog probe into whether her office recalled a grand jury witness to "manufacture" a felony charge against an Olympian later cleared.Lawyers for three-...
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-twist...
thedailybeast.com
Trump’s Twisted Revenge Plot Plunges Into Crisis
Even loyalists are ditching the probe into the president’s enemies.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-midter...
rawstory.com
Trump 'out of control' as rampage 'coming back to haunt him': biographer
President Donald Trump's longtime biographer says the president is now "out of control" as the reckless moves in his second term backfire.Michael Wolff, who has written four books on Trump, made the r...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gasoline prices were briefly sky-high under Biden, in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Then they came down, well before his term ended. Gas is up +39.4% from a year ago. Diesel it at ALL TIME high prices, up +67.0% from a year ago.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/10/2026
About 60% of people enrolled in the Arkansas Medicaid program that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' ad promoted are white, and about 18% are Black. That didn't stop conservative critics from insisting she was wrong to cast a white man as her Medicaid freeloader.
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MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people enrolled in ARHOME, the Arkansas Medicaid program covered by Sanders' new work requirements, are wh...
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
Traitor Congressman Kevin Kiley is REFUSING to condemn Donald Trump’s comments calling for Iran to nuke California.
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Election deniers stoke Trump-driven ballot security fears before midterms Former and current officials who bolstered claims of voter fraud in 2020 make fresh allegations of vulnerabilities ...
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Election deniers stoke Trump-driven ballot security fears before midterms
Former and current officials who bolstered claims of voter fraud in 2020 make fresh allegations of vulnerabilities
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nope. Trump 100% meant what he said.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump plan will link marriage and birth rates to federal transit funds In the midst of dwindling pre-election poll results, the Trump administration has announced its plans to move forward with one of its long sought after goals — and specific communities are set to reap the benefits.
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Trump plan will link marriage and birth rates to federal transit funds
In the midst of dwindling pre-election poll results, the Trump administration has announced its plans to move forward with one of its long sought after goals — and specific communities are set to reap the benefits.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Name one thing Republicans have done since they took over that made your health care cheaper. I'll wait. I've got 28 days. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump signed the biggest Medicaid cut in history on the Fourth of July. Happy Independence Day. Five million people are now independent of their health coverage. Now it's time to make Republicans independent from their control over Congress. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Health insurance premiums jumped 58% this year after Republicans let the tax credits die. Reply with what yours went up. Let's show them the bill before they see the ballot. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Laura Packard @laurapackard.com · 06/10/2026
“These cuts affect everybody because it’s a health care system.. doctors and hospitals have to charge more to make up for the money they’re not getting.. pretty much everybody is facing higher health insurance premiums"-me #RepublicanHealthCareCrisis
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Healthcare advocacy group launches bus tour in Bangor
Protect Our Care’s “Sick Of It” Fix Healthcare Now bus tour kicked off Monday in Bangor.
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for this article. 🙏 which proves once you go over a can of nuts, you can’t put them back in.
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Gas is nuts in California.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "In Texas, he talks about 'I'm a vaygan I'm a vaygan' he's a vaygan vaygan meaning he likes lettuce"
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
certainly a choice to make fun of people for liking lettuce right after presiding over a historic multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis that sent a bunch of people to the hospital and killed a few
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How nice for them. Next question: which act of Congress authorized this expenditure of federal funds? Quaint it may be, but our constitution forbids drawing funds from the treasury except pursuant to acts of congress.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best way to fight back is to elect progressive women.
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Vote Early - Thousand Oaks/Conejo Valley” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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No Kings: Vote Early - Thousand Oaks/Conejo Valley · No Kings
It's time to get LOUD! Help encourage people to vote and vote early. BE heard, be seen, and be the difference we all need! When: Oct 17, 2026; 4pm-6pm Where: Intersection of Lynn Road and Hillcrest ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Poindexter: Every allegation has been met with defamation lawsuits and all these different silencing tactics that he uses. And we’re not going to be silenced because people need to know who Max Miller is and who they’re voting for come November 3rd.
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Philip Morton @hopeaintlost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FlyDubai Co-Pilot Used Crash Ax in Attack, Says U.A.E. - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AdaEqGorhSLy...
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FlyDubai Co-Pilot Used Crash Ax in Attack, Says U.A.E. — The Wall Street Journal
Emirati attorney general suggests attacker likely didn’t need to smuggle a weapon on board
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's capitalism if you're big, socialism if you're small. getting it yet, small business owners? and btw but not inconsequential: this is the policy of both parties. we need a new one. or reform one. or have *none*.
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GOP==CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#usdemocracy The GOP CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE is NOT interested in justice! The GOP works hard to PREVENT justice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bayz...
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Jack Smith Drops Bombshell On Trump Case: Strongest Witnesses Were Republicans | Chris Coons | N18G
YouTube video by CNN-News18
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The family of Renee Good have filed a wrongful death lawsuit and a civil rights conspiracy lawsuit against the MAGA regime and MAGA officials including dog murderer Kristi Noem, white supremacist Stephen Miller, Nazi thug Gregory Bovino and more. Good, sue them all, they murdered her.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Misspelling the name of your own country in a document about super intelligence is an impressive feat 😂😂😂
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is no bottom to JD Vance!
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