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Pug lover. Bleeding heart liberal for life.

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quiltersblock.bsky.social @quiltersblock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We know what this is. Voter suppression 101. Removing nearly 100 polling sites makes it exponentially harder to vote. But it won’t stop us. LDF’s Black Voters on the Rise election protection team can help voters navigate the chaos: LDF.vote fortworthreport.org/2026/09/01/a...
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Tarrant County’s November elections will have 92 fewer places to cast ballots than 2022
County commissioners approved a list of sites that drew criticism from voting rights advocates and local civic groups.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
JB PRITZKER Said These Words Yesterday, July 31 2026.......👏🏻
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/07/2026
We identified a network of at least 10 political nonprofits that raised more than $33M on the promise of supporting admirable causes, but that spent little on activities that could be construed as having a political purpose. (Published June 2024)
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How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/07/2026
Thousands of Americans are getting sick from a foodborne parasite. What federal policy shifts played a role? Members: Join us on Aug. 4 to hear how food and farm regulations are failing to keep workers and consumers safe. Not a member? Any gift makes you one: propub.li/4vQYJgv
ProPublica Members-Only Virtual Event - Inside the Big Story: Exposing Harm in Food and Farms. Tuesday, Aug. 4. 4 p.m. Eastern time. Image: Two gloved hands picking green fruits and placing them into a red basin.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/07/2026
NEW: Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after @wbur.org and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit operators.
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Senators Push Federal Regulator to Prove School Bus Safety Data Is Accurate
The request from two Democratic lawmakers comes after WBUR and ProPublica found that the federal safety record was missing dozens of fatal crashes involving one of the nation’s largest public transit ...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We could have health care for all. We could have a national child care program. We could have free community college. Instead, Trump spends the money on detaining, brutalizing, & killing immigrants & an illegal war in Iran that's cost us over $103 billion in just a few months. #TrumpsWarofChoice
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Rep. Andrew Clyde owns a gun store. He sits on the committee that funds the ATF, and he's spent years trying to gut its budget. A gun sold by his store just turned up in a federal trafficking case. meidasnews.com/news/a-congr...
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A Congressman's Gun Store Is Linked to a Federal Trafficking Case. He's Trying to Defund the ATF.
A sitting member of Congress owns a gun store. He also serves on the House committee that controls funding for the federal agency responsible for regulating
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Thousands of Trump supporters on the National Mall ordered to evacuate from the thunderstorm have sought shelter inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Y'all...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
MacFarlane: There are literally dozens of pending pieces of legislation to try to lower food costs, gas costs, college costs, housing costs. These things are all sitting idle because Trump and Republican leadership have absolutely jammed up the congress
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
WSJ editorial page says that Trump & family are totally crooked. His 2025 disclosures are "an unseemly display of using the Presidency for family profit. It’s hard to believe the Trump boys would be able to do same deals if Dad wasn’t in Oval Office... GOP corruption will resound through 2028."
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Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’
They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“The Confederate flag at the North Carolina booth is a fitting symbol of how this whole enterprise has been managed. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…” open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Of Course a Confederate Flag Showed Up at the Great American State Fair
The Great American State Fair couldn't even get through its first week without embarrassing itself.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/06/2026
"This is not the time for people to be judged by the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the country from which they come.”
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"We want you here": Springfield rallies—and grieves—after SCOTUS clears path to deport Haitians
The city that Trump made infamous stood by its neighbors as the court opened the door to mass expulsions.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Greg Dolezal, GOP nominee for Georgia Lt. Gov., said he submitted fake mail ballot applications to test system
Dolezal said he and "a number of friends" deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with intentionally altered signatures — including forms signed by children — to see whether officials would...
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sylviseb 💙🌈☮️🌊💙💛Maga➡️blocked💛💙🌎🌻✌️🦋 @sylviseb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Reading about the Obama Center opening, seeing photos, videos, hearing speeches, reading commentaries confirmed a STARK contrast between two presidents. DJT's is consumed with hate, anger, delusions of grandeur and getting retribution. He is evil. He's NOT presidential. He needs to be removed.
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Ron Morrison @kentuckyron.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My God. The opening ceremony of the Obama Center is a beautiful display of American hope, diversity, and integrity. What a contrast to the pathetically stupid display at the White House last weekend.
Live shot of the Obama Presidential Center opening on 18 June 2026. Eddie Vetter performs with a group of teenage musicians, singers, and rappers.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2026
In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Maybe we need to fix our media outlets so they will stop supporting or generating bias.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/05/2026
NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Kimm Rogers @kimmrogers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity. It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030. Taxing the rich is a global necessity.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is a no-brainer.
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Hilary @hvos.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
McGovern: He’s doing nothing to make healthcare more accessible. They say we don’t have the money—but we have a billion dollars a day to blow on this crazy war. I don’t think he gives a shit about the American people. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and he’s golfing.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "When American service members are returning in flag-draped coffins... this White House treats war like a [videogame]. It's a disgrace... it speaks to the moral rot of this administration." It's a shame this is where we are as a country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
He would have fit right in during the January 6th Insurrection if he'd been a Senator back then. I'm certain he could have beaten even more cops into a coma alongside the MAGA traitors whom Trump pardoned.🙄
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Six Americans have already lost their lives. But President Draft Dodger doesn’t care if more service members die.
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Trump promised to lower costs on Day One. Instead, he’s driving them up with a reckless, illegal war in the Middle East.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
BREAKING: A 4th U.S. service member has been killed in the military operation with Iran. I want you all to remember that we had a way to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons. It was a nuclear agreement that the international community all agreed was working.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones. This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
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