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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 52m
Trump’s new AI chatbot wasn’t hallucinating, he lost the 2020 election. But when the newest rollout from the White House contradicted Trump’s rhetoric, they pulled the plug. Now when asked about it, the AI tool says “I do not offer political commentary on elections” and dismisses the question...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
I questioned the government chatbot about Trump’s attacks on voting. Here’s what it said. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-17907830690...
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Even Trump's AI won't back his election lies
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21h
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell your members of Congress to vote to protect the Kennedy Center. It’s up for debate.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the past 3d, russian drones have been bombing Kyiv nonstop. russia is particularly targeting education infrastructure. This horrifying photo shows people escaping a massive fire through a window in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. russians also bombed 2 schools and 2 kindergartens.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievable. Apparently at the same time Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress, he offered to sell arms to Xi Jinping, despite the fact that China is aiding Iran and Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 24/09/2026
Joyce Chisale grew up in #Malawi, where the #KINDFund — our partnership with @ms.now's @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social — allowed her to complete secondary school. This year, Joyce graduated from medical school! 🎓 Learn how she's encouraging the next generation of girls in Malawi to dream just as big:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#ResistanceRoots Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born on this day in 1825 in Baltimore, Md. She was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and one of the first Black women to be published in the U.S. She had remarkable opportunities that she used to lift others rather than for personal privilege. /1
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in 1893, a photo that appeared in L.A. Scruggs’ book Women of Distinction: Remarkable in Works and Invincible in Character, published that same year. Harper stands as one of the most prolific, versatile and influential architects of American social reform. A century before the term “intersectionality” existed, she championed the idea that human rights are indivisible. As a lecturer, she helped galvanize public opinion against slavery and demand that newly emancipated people be guaranteed voting rights. As a gifted writer, she weaponized fiction and poetry to humanize the enslaved and combat patriarchy. Through her journalism, she challenged white supremacist violence, demanded that political leadership be held accountable and mobilized the Black community. Ultimately, Harper dedicated every gift she possessed — her voice, her pen, her education and her income — to the collective uplift of her people.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The video here certainly offers strong reason to suspect this should be charged as Attempted Murder What will happen instead is that this man, possibly paralyzed, will be sent to an African country for torture while the shooter gets promoted
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Hairball 😡🙄😡🙄🌊✊ @hairball-redux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is horrific. This man was shot in the back by ICE and has been taken out of the hospital and put back in detention, *with the bullet still in his back and his entire left side paralyzed.* He was forced to sleep on the floor and given no pain medication. www.macombdaily.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was being held Tuesday at a federal center in South Texas.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Semi driver stops filling up his tank when it hits $1,000 "Almost thirty years of driving trucks and that's a first"
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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wow this is EXCELLENT and his suggestions on how to reframe these conversations at the end is well worth your time BUT this description of the internal logic created by ideologies that preach we are “good ones” in contrast to some other “bad ones” is a must read:
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Raoul: The president is a combination of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. He needs a brain and a heart, and Congress is a Cowardly Lion that needs courage to stand up…
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social on the final chapter of her incredible 250 to 250 series. "We hoped to remind people that the story of the USA is the story of people who woke up one morning & chose to do the right thing. We have it in our power to begin the world over again." youtu.be/B-tBlDQYNms?...
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YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
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Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs (Gift Article)
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
40,000 one-ton bombs. $2.8 BILLION. Biden paused these weapons over concerns about mass civilian casualties in Gaza. Trump is moving forward with the sale. A decision with potentially deadly consequences, and it deserves full attention.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 16/09/2026
This is why I introduced a bill to ban stock trading across all three branches of government.   No one should get a free pass when they’ve been trusted to work in the best interest of the people they serve.   Especially not the President.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The truth finally comes out. The contractor behind the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation says the peeling and blistering of the pool’s new blue liner was caused by mistakes made during the repair itself.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
One year of strikes and 227 killings later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he intends to expand his campaign to land in Latin America.
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Pete Hegseth's year of blowing up boats
The Pentagon has now killed at least 227 people in the Caribbean.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump's secret police moves to create an enemies list for the White House. The database would have all US voters, their party affiliations and their political preferences. Now for the question: what does any of this have to do with immigration enforcement? www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A career lawyer at DOJ said “she received a message from DOJ leadership asserting that all of the Dept’s lawyers - including its civil rights attys - needed to be fully on board with the President’s agenda.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republicans who see Canada as an enemy has leapt up this year, similar to how Republicans’ approval of Putin shot up in 2016. Virtually no anti-Canada US constituency before this year, and virtually no pro-Putin constituency before 2016. Out of nowhere. Now millions say that’s their position.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
WATCH — @chefjoseandres : “The IDF knows there was no excuse. Enough with the odious smears, excuses, shifting blame… we want an independent investigation.” The Israeli commander who ordered the bombing of 7 @wckitchen workers says he is “not sorry”
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interculturality.bsky.social @interculturality.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
History will not be kind to us.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"The Haitians being fitted with monitors are not fugitives. They are showing up when the government tells them to...One woman had given birth twenty days earlier and lost the baby. 'She came to the office. She could not even walk. But they put the shackle on her.'” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...
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The Cruelty Comes to Springfield
And the city’s faithful are coming together in opposition.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/08/2026
Ten people who were deported and taken to Liberia this month described a harrowing journey that included months in detention in the U.S. before being sent to nations where they had no ties. All of them said they experienced or witnessed what they described as abusive or violent treatment by ICE.
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/08/2026
“It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” one career diplomat said about the second Trump administration's wholesale slashing of foreign aid. “Who knows how much damage was done.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing to see here, folks! “The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh” is a major shareholder backing a new U.S. bank the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture is preparing to launch…” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
They’re Slaughtering Wild Horses jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/theyre-sla...
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They’re Slaughtering Wild Horses
Nothing is sacred to people who believe everything is disposable.
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026
On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/08/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social on a child begging to go home to Venezuela while her pregnant mother is held behind razor wire, denied an ultrasound, and kept in detention despite having broken no laws: “This is fucking sickening.”
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'm trying, Chris.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Mr. Trump, you are the first president in American history to start and lose a war by yourself. You have made America more weak, more alone and less respected. Congress needs to take back the steering wheel from this impaired driver."
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