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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Anniversary to @sebenton.bsky.social ! 20 years of love, ups, downs, kids, dogs, moves and so much more. Love you!

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 24/09/2026

Texas mothers are dying, and instead of giving us answers, Abbott’s administration is hiding that data. Texans deserve the truth. They deserve transparency. And our state officials have a legal obligation to give it to them. I’m demanding the report be released immediately.

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Millionaire athletes asking poorer fans to gamble for betting site paydays, is pretty 2026 America. 🇺🇸

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rewatching The Faculty. Those casting directors picked a really good crew.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026

PSA: Intelligence and net worth are not the same axis, no matter how hard the winners want you to conflate them. Plenty of brilliant people die broke, and plenty of rich people can't reason their way out of a paper bag. Wealth measures leverage, timing, and inheritance. It does not measure the mind.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's impossible to ignore, Trumpism attracts a type.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just glad we didn't elect a woman president so we didn't get trivial nonsense about what color her hair is today or how much make up she's using.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use union-busting laws to further exploit workers 5) Rinse and repeat How we break this cycle? Build back a powerful labor movement.

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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We spent thousands of years trying to produce enough food, shelter and energy for everyone. We finally became capable of doing it. Then we invented shareholders.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You can’t say you weren’t warned

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm awaiting the Stephen Colbert response. She was one of his favorites. Dolly and Stephen reminiscing, and she makes him cry youtu.be/aG9FHb7tpCk?...

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Dolly Parton's Mom Used To Sing Songs That Told Great Stories

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 25/08/2026

From forecasting the apocalypse to rambling about the Antichrist, these AI billionaires have lost the plot. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more unfiltered journalism.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING MUST CREDIT: US Trade Representative doesn’t understand how trade works

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A possible romantic relationship between a president and one of his aides isn’t something the public needs to know about. by Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/08/2026

The Trump Admin has now approved a bank charter for World Liberty Financial, Trump's family-owned crypto scam. The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core. As I said in February to the Trump official in charge of this: it was only a matter of time.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Gambling apps partnering with news organizations are the natural endpoint of horserace journalism. What’s the point of a horserace if you can’t bet on it

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/08/2026

CHARLAMAGNE THE GOD: If Jesus came back today, which political party do you think would be most uncomfortable for him? TALARICO: I think both political parties would be deeply uncomfortable. Jesus is far more radical than any political party. And when I say 'radical,' I don't mean extreme.

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is not AI. It is an actual billboard down the street from my office. In 2026! WTAF! #fightthepatriarchy

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This pretty much sums it up: 1/2

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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@magaziner.house.gov is schooling Doug Burgum. Laying bare how Trump officials twist themselves into knots to avoid reason, truth, and contradicting Trump. We have so many good Reps and Senators who know how to get the job done. Why are Schumer and Martin and Jeffries suppressing this talent?

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James Benton @jamesbenton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@rephuffman.bsky.social is taking Burgum to town this morning. Pure joy. Some perfect blend of geniality, passive aggression, unmasked disgust, and great humor.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The fantasy of a university that is “cutting edge” without disciplinary basics and does football but not history and produces knowledge first but also profit first and makes expertise but improves nothing and saves the sector by cannibalizing it is incoherent, besides being a project of social harm

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How Donald Trump remembers THE GODFATHER Wait for it...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pope Leo today: "Blessed are the peacemakers." "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/04/2026

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Exactly 💯

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Rafael Cruz was born in Alberta, Canada. His father was Cuban-born. Because his mother was a US citizen, he acquired US citizenship at birth under American law, even though born in Canada. He renounced his Canadian citizenship only after it became public for his political career.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Are federal officers really being assaulted? Or is the government lying to us about the numbers? You guessed it. They are lying. Call Congress at 202-224-3121 today and demand accountability. #ICELawlessness

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026

"There’s a scramble by the administration and GOP sycophants to cobble together some Rube Goldberg contraption combining international law, domestic law, and executive authority that would somehow make this totally cool and legal, but there’s no way to make it work."

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Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis

Congress's refusal to do its job is now the world's problem.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Mike Johnson's strategy to allow the Trump admin to do whatever it wants with zero oversight or congressional authority or input is just to keep the House out of session repeatedly for extended periods of time.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026

The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

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The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling

The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/02/2026

Texans: After nearly three decades in charge, “we can fix it” sounds like a confession.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/02/2026

Rep. Moskowitz: "Trump's name appears more times in the Epstein files than God's name appears in the book about God, by the way, this is the Trump Bible." Bondi: "Nothing is funny about mocking the Bible and holding up a Trump Bible."

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Pamela Jo is in a contest with Jim Jordan as to who can yell the loudest in an indoor room.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

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