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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Josh Turek: We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 07/10/2026
My constituent Melanie from Chelsea was abducted by ICE, taken away from her young children–one with autism–& her husband. She has lived lawfully in the U.S. for years and is being held by ICE with an active ear infection & denied access to her anti-anxiety medication.
wgbh.org
ICE detains mother of two outside Boston Police Department following alleged shoplifting arrest
The agency and BPD say the woman had been detained for shoplifting. The family says it’s a misunderstanding, and she was helping shop for Uber Eats.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Chat is it good when an Ambassadorial nominee writes "Stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous ... if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control" to the man who paid her $300,000 to help resolve his tax issues with the IRS?
That same month, Guilfoyle sent a congratulatory note to Long after his confirmation as IRS commissioner. She attached a letter Deters had written outlining his tax dispute: “Don Jr. and I are very close with Eric Deters and his wife and I know he sent you a letter,” she wrote. “I am hoping I know how busy you are that you could give some time and attention to it.”

Two days later, Deters sent her a photo of a printed memo addressed to her: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years,” he wrote. “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”

In response, she told Deters to “stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous.” 

“Just call me on signal,” she wrote.

As for Long, she would call him the next day, she assured Deters. “I wrote him a very nice message. Told him how important it was that you’re close to me and to don.”

“Also very privately,” she continued, “if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control.”

That afternoon she texted an update: Long had written her back. 

“BOOM,” she added.

A week later, on July 3, she placed two missed calls to Deters’ phone, and sent him instructions on how to wire money to an American Express account. 

“Your needing $100,000 urgent unfortunately is not going to work,” he wrote. “I can’t do this without getting a divorce.”

“I’ve been calling you for over a week straight,” she replied. “You could be here meeting with Billy Long.” 

Long is now the U.S. ambassador to Iceland. Embassy officials there referred reporters to a State Department media office that didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ties to the KKK bc of course. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-candid...
thedailybeast.com
Trump Pick’s Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations
Affiliates of Georgia candidate Mike Collins have ties to a group he has denounced as a “hate organization.”
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leaked audio of Michigan Republican Sen. candidate Mike Rogers mocking Americans struggling with skyrocketing prices: "Oh my gosh, coffee went up. You know, horror!"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Mincepies @mincepies8888.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
USA Vote:URGENT Registration ends: TODAY - MO 9th - OK 13th - DC, MD, NJ, OR, WV 14th - WI 16th - NE 19th - AL, DE, SD, WY, PA, CA 23rd - ID, UT, VA,TX Help Desk: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Please copy/paste everywhere to remind other Americans. Vote Vote Vote
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Homeland Security sought confidential voter records, pressed for access to voting equip, & raised rejected fraud claims, tried to ban Dominion voting machines. Aggressive efforts to validate Trump’s claims & expand federal control over state-run elections. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
reuters.com
How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
The effort to prove the 2020 election "stolen" failed. Diehards remain undeterred.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 07/10/2026
Tropical Storm Isaias will become the season's first hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, with rapid intensification likely the next few days. The storm could also deliver substantial rainfall to the DC region this weekend. Track it here: www.capitalweather.com/tracking-isa...
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Tropical Storm Isaias tracker
The storm will likely deliver some impacts to the DC region after making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast as the season's first hurricane.
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kelsey ables @kelseyables.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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The White House Revives a Pressure Tactic Against the Smithsonian
The Trump administration is threatening $190 million in museum funding.
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Families Over Billionaires @fobaction.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
HEADS UP: Over the next decade, 2 to 3 million Americans who earn student debt cancellation after making payments for 20+ years could be hit with a massive "tax bomb" because of Trump's Big Ugly Bill. #TaxJustice
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Left A “Tax Bomb” for Families Who Earn Student Debt Relief. Congress Can Still Fix This.
Over the next decade, 2 to 3 million Americans who earn student debt cancellation after making payments for 20+ years could be hit with a massive tax bill.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
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Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This 👇
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - Cornell says ex-deputy attorney general Sally Yates will lead review of university's handling of sex assault claims.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Crank RFK Jr. blames circumcisions for autism
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/10/2026
Freddie Jackson, whose smooth vocals swept an entire generation off its feet, dies at 70.
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Freddie Jackson, R&B star who sang ‘You Are My Lady,’ dies at 70
Jackson’s silky voice earned him two Grammy nominations and a slate of platinum and gold records.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Mr. Hearn was deprived of his liberty, indicted for a crime he didn't commit, threatened w/ incarceration of up to 10 years & endured defaming of his name" Former Olympian charged w/ discredited Reflecting Pool criminal case asks for Dept of Interior watchdog probe of agency
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Andrew S @hmniajs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same KFF poll: voters trust Democrats over Republicans on health care costs 42% to 22%, a gap that's widened since April. A month out from the midterms, the most popular idea in the poll is the one most candidates are still nervous to say out loud.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Roughly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of Medicare-for-all, according to a new KFF poll, the highest share since the health policy research and news organization began polling on the idea 10 years ago.
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Medicare-for-all support is rising, KFF poll finds
The survey also found that the public’s views of a national health plan are highly malleable.
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While making an arrest or conducting a search, ICE MUST present either a signed, judicial warrant to enter private property, or an admin. warrant from the government agency authorizing an arrest or seizure. Spread the word!
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Know your rights.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ladies and Gentlemen HE HAS TOLD YOU FOR YEARS ABOUT HIS HEALTHCARE PLAN.... NOTHING ...HE HAS NEVER HAD A HEALTHCARE PLAN BUT HE'LL KEEP TELLING YOU LIES.. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis Vote these do nothing Republicans out
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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@GrandpaHarris65

Can someone tell Trump that Obama went to school at the Electoral College? He’d probably dismantle it.
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AMHotFlash @amhotflash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RFK, Jr is batsh*t crazy and everyone knows it. He was put in charge of HHS to kill people, especially children. One of their main goals is #PopulationMinimization. www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...
usatoday.com
This disease has now been declared an emergency. Maps show where it's spreading
The U.S. measles outbreak continues to grow, with 3,887 cases reported nationwide in 2026, according to the CDC.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
While this hearing didn't proceed, it's clear the Trump admin is continuing what a judge has called a "vindictive prosecution" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As I said from day 1, if they can do this to Kilmar, they can do it to anyone. We'll keep fighting this political persecution.
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Kilmar Ábrego Garcia hearing on his deportation case is suddenly canceled
The government was moving to vacate a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from detaining and deporting him, while his legal team was trying to make the injunction permanent.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 06/10/2026
turns out GM was right, Americans piss and moan that there aren’t any cheap EVs but they will not buy them if you make one www.motortrend.com/news/2027-ch...
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Owners of the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt May Be in Rare Company
GM may build only about 35,000 examples of the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt before ending production, making America’s most affordable EV also a somewhat rare one-year-only model.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👀 ICYMI: The House Judiciary Committee Ds produced a report that "reveals sprawling network of Trump insiders & influence brokers that have helped wealthy criminals secure pardons escaping $1.7B owed to victims, taxpayers." ⚖️ democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center... 📺 bsky.app/profile/over...
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New Judiciary Democrats Report Exposes MAGA’s Cash-for-Clemency Racket Which Gives Unrepentant Criminals a New Lease on Life and Leaves Victims in the Dust
Washington, D.C. (August 21, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a new Committee staff report, “Pardons, Inc.: How Trump and His Clemency-for-Cash...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/10/2026
AI models used in bank cyber attacks, warns South Korea’s president ft.trib.al/4NjT1TW
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AI models used in bank cyber attacks, warns South Korea’s president
Lee Jae Myung highlights public anxiety over what one official calls a ‘completely new kind of crisis’
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
South ⁠Korean officials are investigating whether A.I. agents were involved in recent hacking incidents against banks after President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday that “signs have emerged” that A.I. models had been used in some of the cyberattacks in the country.
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South Korea Investigates Possible Use of A.I. in Hacks on Its Banks
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.
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❌👑🐸 Deb Verla 💙 Register Democrats 🌎 Save the world ❌👑🐸 @villaverla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Air passengers flying into Moscow from Irkutsk where a lab technician died of the plague are now being given mandatory temperature checks by masked staff before they’re allowed to disembark.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Federal agents swarmed a protest encampment today, arresting a dozen people and allowing contractors to remove a live protester from, then cut down, an ancient, giant cottonwood "Grandmother Tree" to make way for border wall construction. Protesters had been at the site near Lochiel, AZ for 71 days.
Image: Protesters and Border Patrol agents square off Monday morning near Lochiel, AZ. In the background, a cherrypicker removes a protester from a cottonwood tree that minutes later was brought down.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Andrei Kolesnikov: "It is amazing that a contemporary modernized and urbanized society can degenerate at such a staggering rate, especially in terms of morality and psychology." He writes about Russia, but the same is true of Trump's US. What a tragedy!
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Heather Mac Donald and Megyn Kelly are really neck and neck in the race to the bottom, straight to hell.
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Allyship @allyship.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact: In asking Iran to hit LA and San Diego, Trump asked Iran to take out a US Navy Homeport for over 50 ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, with a population of over 24,000 military personnel and 10,000 civilians on base. Los Angeles Air Force Base supports 6,300 to 7,000 military personnel.
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