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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Man, if you're pissed that Nolan put an LGBTQ person in his fictional movie about an ancient Greece, you're going to have a fucking stroke when you learn about actual ancient Greece.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/07/2026
Angus: MAGA politicians are threatening our sovereignty, saying they’ll cross the border if we don’t solve the climate crisis. We’ve always crossed the border to help each other. Today we’re mourning a Canadian firefighter who died helping fight a wildfire in Aspen, Colorado.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/07/2026
Flock cameras—solar-powered, automated license plate readers, weighing less than 3 pounds and designed to be unobtrusive—can be found on 80,000 street corners throughout the country. Now, dozens of reports are emerging of police using the cameras not to solve crimes, but to stalk people.
motherjones.com
Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people
Advocates say it's too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.
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Howard Goodall @howardgoodall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏
England and France players embracing at the end of a 10-goal World Cup football game for 3rd place
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hey folks: I can't beam in right now -- at my normal History Matters time. Last night, I recorded some comments for this morning. You can find them here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jRS...
youtube.com
Lies and Lies and Lies
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump had one of the worst weeks he's had in months. His own judges, his own donor, his own IRS deal—all of it came apart. Corporate media barely noticed. We counted all eight.
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Trump Had A Brutal Week. Corporate Media Barely Noticed.
Eight times the regime lost—here’s every one they didn’t want you to see
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.
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Lady Renegade ❌👑 @ladyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Climate change/planet burning in one photo last night in NJ. (The party is asking us not to believe our eyes, noses, or lungs.)
Pinkish red July sun low in the gray, smoke filled sky
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
propublica.org
Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
FYI: The Farm Bureau is not a small farmer’s organization or union. It’s an insurance company and lobbyist group. It’s evolved into an arm of the Republican Party.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Two Utah nonprofits and their founders have sued Fox and celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary — alleging they were defamed when O'Leary repeatedly claimed on the network that they were operating on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
politico.com
Fox News, Kevin O’Leary sued over China claims against data center critics
Two Utah nonprofits allege they were defamed after the “Shark Tank” investor portrayed them as Chinese Communist Party proxies on the network.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The FCC will vote at its Aug. 6 meeting to remove a longstanding ownership cap restricting the reach of the largest television broadcasters, Chair Brendan Carr announced on Wednesday. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
politico.com
Brendan Carr sets a vote for bigger TV station mergers
The FCC will vote next month to scrap a longstanding media ownership limit. Some opponents say only Congress can make the change.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rosie living it up in her deluxe apartment in the sky.
Little green budgie hanging out in a cage in a many-windowed apartment.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says Coin commemorating 250th anniversary will be released this fall and marks first time a living president appears on currency How very dictatorish and less hair more jowel
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New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says
Coin commemorating 250th anniversary will be released this fall and marks first time a living president appears on currency
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
vance? a grifter? i’m shocked
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I would just like to highlight here that even bags of meth (or any other drug) do not create justification for the use of deadly force. Even if the subject is fleeing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
"By voting to confirm him, Republicans are putting their stamp of approval on a DOJ that investigates the president’s enemies & treats every Q of law as a question of loyalty. It’s a grotesque perversion of the legal system, & it’s beyond anything Roy Cohn could have imagined." — @lizdye.bsky.social
publicnotice.co
Todd Blanche is Roy Cohn ... but worse
Republicans own the orgy of corruption that will follow their vote to confirm him.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Hungary parliament votes to remove president from office
Tamás Sulyok was widely seen as a loyalist of former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who lost power in April after 16 years.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sure as hell is.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Umm…. There are going to be several hundred early American historians in Philadelphia, beginning tomorrow. Maybe some of us will have something to say. They supposedly did this last night because of the All Stars game. They goofed.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Novo Nordisk charges $1000 a month for Ozempic in the US. A Yale study found that it costs $.29 to manufacture. It could sensibly be sold for $.89 to $4.73 with a reasonable profit margin included. The disposable pens cost ten times more than the medicine, about $2.00 ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THAT?
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MN-Julie @jmiedtke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Smoke from the wildfires just came into the yard. It’s like a fog I heard More evacuations by Ely..Big Lake area
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
Blanche refuses to agree with Blumenthal that ICE agents shouldn't fire weapons into cars
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
July 14, 2026
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July 14, 2026
In August 1870 a U.S.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sen Blackburn complains that during the Biden admin, she couldn't subpoena Epstein files. The difference? DOJ was involved in ongoing prosecution/appeals of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & the records could not be released until her appeal was finalized. It's disingenuous, at best.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/07/2026
830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.
A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”
A Highly Unusual Move
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions for seven senior Navy officers, mostly women or people of color.
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 14/07/2026
the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
Sen. Cynthia Lummis defends Trump grifting billions of dollars on crypto schemes while in office with blatant lies: "The president made his money on digital assets *before* he took the oath of office. So we have to make sure people when they are private citizens retain their rights to make money."
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Susanbeth5781 @susanpatrick1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ironic, a cartoon character has more wisdom than the entire tRump clown cabinet combined
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 14/07/2026
"Doctors and human rights experts with PHR and HRC documented 412 verified incidents of the “misuse” of these crowd control weapons, also known as “less-lethal weapons”, from June 2025 through May 2026."
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‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds
Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’
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Kristen @kristen10.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nice
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The Doctor @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."- Sir David Attenboroug
A Great Egret stands in the water near reeds
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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Tell me you know you're committing crimes... #USDemocracy
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Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court
Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
President Trump signed orders to reduce the size of two Utah national monuments: the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region, the White House said.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
THIS
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 13/07/2026
A scalding, blistering judicial opinion calling out Trump’s sham litigation, striking down his corrupt IRS immunity, and holding his sycophant lawyers to account. That’s a good start. Impeachment is next.
Forbes
Judge Smacks Down Trump’s IRS Settlement And Orders Sanctions
ByAlison Durkee,Forbes Staff.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
a reminder that the president has nothing to do with the election of senators, that's the state's role Georgia ran those elections, determined in each who won, and sent Ossoff & Warnock to Washington so very very stupid
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
And if anyone needs Jan 6 footage, or a review of all Trump's bullshit lawsuits and maneuvers in 2020, feel free to reach out. (The Jan 6 Big Timeline has the whole buildup other than some legal stuff.) Again, please! You have 3 days. Enough to write an article, not just transcribe a speech. 2/
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Jan 6 'big' timeline - lead-up, Jan 6, aftermath
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