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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New deal bars IRS from tax audits of Trump, his family and businesses - USA TODAY #grift #corrupt #youvegottobekiddingme
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A Democratic congressman is urging the Cabinet to remove Donald Trump from office — arguing not only that his recent threats toward Iran are dangerous, but that his attacks on voting rights and fair elections pose a direct threat to American democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Lawmaker cites Trump’s anti-voting crusade in push for removal under 25th Amendment
Taken together, Thanedar argued, Trump's actions represent a sustained assault on democratic norms — one that, in his view, rises to the level of disqualifying Trump from office.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 08/04/2026
🚨Urgent action alert🚨: The National Park Service just proposed a sweeping plan to strip critical protections away from wildlife across millions of acres of national parklands in #Alaska. The #PublicComment period closes TOMORROW, April 9th. Please speak up for these animals before it's too late. ⬇️
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Protect Bears and Wolves in Alaska
The National Park Service just proposed a sweeping plan to hand management of federal lands in Alaska to state officials — stripping critical protections away from wildlife across millions of acres. T...
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
CALL YOUR SENATORS/HOUSE members now! **Ask them to exert pressure on military leaders and personnel to NOT OBEY illegal orders to strike Iranian civilian targets. Anyone who follows these orders CAN be later held accountable for committing war crimes. NUREMBERG!**
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A madman has control of the most powerful military in the history of the world and the leaders of his party are too afraid to say or do anything to stop him.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 06/04/2026
We just filed an emergency legal motion today alongside Alaska Wildlife Alliance seeking to prevent the state from killing an unlimited number of brown and black bears across roughly 40,000 square miles in southwest #Alaska this summer. More info: biodiv.us/48y8reW
A black bear and a cub stand on moss-covered rocks in a lush green forest. A quote overlay readss: "I really want to see the Mulchatna caribou herd grow and thrive, but this unscientific and cruel approach of killing every bear in sight across southwest Alaska can’t be the way forward.” It is attributed to Cooper Freeman, Alaska director.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Urgent: Tell Congress: End the Illegal War on Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
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Tell Congress: End the Illegal War on Iran
Trump's unauthorized, unprovoked war in Iran has cost the lives of US service members and thousands of civilians in Iran and across the Middle East. And now, Trump is threatening a ground invasion and...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Saturday April 25 www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...
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Communities Not Cages · Mobilize
National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The emperor has no clothes. Time for the #25thAmendment. Congress and the Cabinet must act.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Don’t let this fly under the radar: the Trump administration wants to kick ~6 million more people off of food assistance programs, including nearly 2 million children. That would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/03/2026
The EPA “violated its duty” to protect Americans from harmful products and a Bayer victory at the Supreme Court would only further the “deadly” consequences of inconsistent and inadequate warnings, said Nathan Donley, environmental health science director for the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Even when EPA finds a pesticide cancer risk, agency rarely requires warnings
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is failing to put warnings on pesticides linked to cancer — even when the agency itself determined a product’s ingredients are carcinogenic, according to t...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/03/2026
NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed. Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)
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Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say
About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
$1.5T defense budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $300M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ for Trump to golf $75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran? Priorities.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Thou Shalt Not Assault Marines While Sending Them To War
U.S. Senator Sheehy Is going to Hell.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner
Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The fuck kind of answer is this
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate — ProPublica
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump’s blatant lawlessness will haunt America and the world — and civilization — for years to come. It is our sacred duty, to ourselves and future generations, to peacefully and legally put an end to it. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mora…
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Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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QuitGPT — ChatGPT takes Trump's killer robot deal
Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.
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Zorro Rozic @zorrobluefox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Post from Bernie Sanders - YouTube
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2026
You made history last night
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.” NPR apple.news/AZMvtugWmS0m...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump — NPR
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else. If elites can be held accountable in other parts of the world, why can't they be held accountable in America?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The U.S. merchandise trade deficit hit a record $1.2 trillion last year, despite Trump’s promise to eliminate it by imposing the highest tariffs in eight decades on foreign-made products. U.S. trade deficit remained high in 2025, despite Trump’s tariff policy apple.news/AVQiUkvONScy...
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U.S. trade deficit remains high in 2025, despite Trump’s tariff policy — The Washington Post
The U.S. trade deficit for goods hit a record level despite President Trump’s tariff policy.
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Doctors bear the burden as ‘medical freedom’ fuels worst US measles outbreak in 30 years — Reuters
About a dozen times each day, medical staff at Parkside Pediatrics in Spartanburg, South Carolina, head to the clinic’s parking lot, reaching inside cars and minivans to check children and their paren...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive. It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water. Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote. Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple. Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Trump revokes basis of US climate regulation, ends vehicle emission standards — Reuters
The administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, and eliminated federal tailpipe emissions sta...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/02/2026
NEWS: Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler has RESIGNED after newly released emails exposed a years-long personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — including advising him on handling sex crime accusations, media scrutiny, and accusers.
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won't lower prices — Grist
Last week, President Donald Trump announced the United States would temporarily increase the amount of beef the nation imports from Argentina — by 80,000 more metric tons this calendar year.
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Democracy Defender @indiviswestand.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote — The 19th News
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House on Wednesday passed the SAVE America Act, which would implement strict limitations on voter registration and casting a ballot — including new rules that could make it more...
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Simplify your life & focus on peace & love @simplifypeacelove.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/02/2026
Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG: “I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.” The ad aged. The internet remembers.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Way-hey! After concerted local pushback, New Jersey company decides not to contract with ICE: "The contract with ICE will not move forward, a Holman spokesperson told Patch. "I have been informed that we declined that particular body of work," the spokesperson said... patch.com/new-jersey/c...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/02/2026
Today’s performance by Pam Bondi was not only unacceptable, it was clearly a smoke screen for a coverup, and her anger is at herself because her shattered moral compass still has a pulse.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026
We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
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Access Now - A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act
We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed...
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