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San Antonio Current @sacurrent.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Hundreds of people filled downtown San Antonio’s streets Friday as part of a nationwide protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), its aggressive tactics and the recent shooting deaths of two Minneapolis residents.
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Everyone we saw taking to San Antonio's streets during Friday's ICE Out protest
Hundreds of people filled downtown San Antonio's streets Friday as part of a nationwide protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
If there’s nothing to hide, why hide everything? Five Democratic state legislators were denied entry to Florida’s new immigration “detention center” deep in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/07/2025
You wouldn’t vacation in Dachau in 1935. Don’t vacation in Florida in 2025.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer
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Janeinak @janeinak.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
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Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Big news a few wks back when 4 Paul Weiss partners annc'd they were leaving to form a new firm. At least 6 more PW attys have left since (3 partners/3 assoc) & the new firm now estimates ~19 PW attys have/will be joining. That's...a lot. If anyone's doing a costs-of-capitulation study, I'm all ears.
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Navigating Litigator Exits, Paul Weiss Leader Contends Firm is 'Healthier Than Ever' | Law.com
In a meeting with partners this week, the firm chair said that six of the 10 largest matters in the firm over the past month are litigation matters, according to sources.
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Marie Antoinette @wildnpcfl.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BEST clapback!!
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Senate Finance Committee proposal doesn’t meaningfully improve the elements of the House bill that would cause some 16 million people to be uninsured & unable to afford needed care. In fact, in several ways the Senate proposal is worse. ⬇️ www.cbpp.org/blog/trackin...
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Senate Finance Committee Proposal Would Leave Millions Uninsured | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Senate Finance Committee proposal doesn’t meaningfully improve the elements of the House bill...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
"Resistance and protest can’t bring Hortman back, and the No Kings demonstrations won’t end MAGA political violence. But the fact that so many refuse to bend the knee is a vital rebuke to those who think that they can end our democracy with terror." — @nberlat.bsky.social
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MAGA political violence claims more victims
Trump’s movement relies on terror.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
Trump: "The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them, that's why. That's the ultimate protection."
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 16/06/2025
this is on me, but i genuinely didn’t expect thune to be even more shameless than mcconnell
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Having President live tweeting this war probably isn’t the best idea
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/06/2025
sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad
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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Tommy Tuberville's decision to run for gov means an open Senate seat next year in Alabama. Dems have to decide whether to try to contest it. Former Sen. Doug Jones told me last month he'd look at it: "the way things are going right now, you can never tell where that lightning might strike."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Retiring US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger tells @CBSMornings - the pardons of 1500+ Capitol rioters were a "slap in the face" to police and his department =====>
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Shark Bubbles @sharkbubbles.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
No, Linda. That’s incorrect. Universities don’t change their research every time a new president is elected. You moron.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/05/2025
Trump is literally trying to centrally plan the American economy. I always thought Republicans were against that sort of thing.
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Trump orders US chip designers to stop selling to China
Move is latest US effort to stymie geopolitical rival’s technological advance
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Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
He was an uninformed idiot in the first term. Even with such a low bar, his incompetence and stupidity is even worse in his second term.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hidden fees in live-event ticketing and hotels are now illegal under a Biden-era FTC rule that just took effect. Kudos to former FTC Chair Lina Khan, whose leadership could finally make junk fees a thing of the past.
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Sorry Ticketmaster and Airbnb — America's era of hidden fees is over
Ticketmaster and Airbnb now have to list prices up front, instead of tacking on hidden fees at the end. This new "all-in
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Marie Antoinette @wildnpcfl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/05/2025
President Donald Trump has signed full pardons for imprisoned reality show couple Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2022 for a conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million, according to a White House official. Read more: cnn.it/45rCXX8
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.
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Janeinak @janeinak.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop Trump’s Political Retaliation and Deportations!
This is not a drill. Trump is weaponizing ICE and Homeland Security to arrest and disappear people, including students, fathers, academics, among other everyday people, in yet another power grab demon...
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Janeinak @janeinak.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop Trump’s Political Retaliation and Deportations!
This is not a drill. Trump is weaponizing ICE and Homeland Security to arrest and disappear people, including students, fathers, academics, among other everyday people, in yet another power grab demon...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
HEADS UP: FBI Director Kash Patel faces questioning at 2p today at a U.S. House subcommittee hearing on FBI’s budget
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers. This is corruption. Always call it out.
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DOGE Aide Who Helped Gut CFPB Was Warned About Potential Conflicts of Interest
Before he helped fire most Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers, DOGE’s Gavin Kliger was warned about his investments and advised to not take any actions that could benefit him personally, ac...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Day 26. 🇺🇸
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/05/2025
May the fourth be with you, Illinois.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Fuhrer wants a Nuremberg style parade on his birthday.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts
Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Trump Administration has done it: their first _conventional_, Pinochet-style "disappearance," in which a whole human has disappeared off the face of the Earth, and no one has any idea where they are or if they're still alive. Even the Nazis kept records. This is the full-on vanishing of a life.
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An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 26/04/2025
The corruption is astonishing. The opportunities for graft are endless. @warren.senate.gov and I are demanding answers.
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n... 1) At least eight immigration judges received notices that they would be put on leave and their employment would be terminated on April 22, according to two people familiar with the firings and to the
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Trump fires more immigration judges even as he aims to increase deportations
Getting rid of judges adds to criticism of the Trump administration for not giving migrants or noncitizens enough due process before they're deported.
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Comic Sands @comicsandsnews.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Walz, the wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, spoke on X to condemn HHS Secretary RFK Jr. for his ableist comments about kids with autism.
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Gwen Walz Slams RFK Jr. For His 'Deeply Unsettling' Comments About Autism
Thank you for speaking out, Gwen.
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Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Urgent: We've learned that USDA funding cuts will prevent 630,000 lbs of food from reaching Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. This would've been distributed to our most vulnerable neighbors–– and was to be sourced from US farmers, who are now losing out on crucial revenue. We need your help
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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Makes sense.
On behalf of, I dunno, EVERY FAT KID IN the USA, l'ma go ahead and call BS on the whole bullying creates mass shooters narrative. LGBTQ kids, kids of color, disabled kids, poor kids, girl kids are bullied. Who's doing the shooting? White boys whose parents don't secure their guns
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Peggy A @pamiller791.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
An American airstrike hit a densely populated area of the Yemeni capital on Sunday, killing 12 people and injuring 30. STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES - FIRE PETE HEGSETH NOW!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w...
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U.S. Airstrike Hits Yemeni Capital, Killing 12, Local Health Officials Say
Witnesses said an airstrike on Sunday hit a densely populated area adjacent to the Old City in Houthi-dominated Sana.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds — who is running for governor — was loudly booed at a town hall event in Estero, Florida, while answering a question about Elon Musk and DOGE’s cuts to the Social Security Administration. "Don't boo," Donalds pleaded in vain with the jeering crowd.
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Byron Donalds tells town hall "don't boo" as he is loudly jeered
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds is vying for the state's governorship.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.
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Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us
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NJ 50501 @nj50501.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Vigil for #Karim TONIGHT at Stangl Factory in Flemington. Starts at 7PM #FreeKarim
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Lil Marco is learning that diplomacy is difficult, despite the fact that his boss promised to end this war in 24 hours with one phone call & said it “wouldn’t even be that hard to do.” What he won’t say is this isn’t getting done because Putin WANTS war.
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