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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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Trump could also tear down the Statue of Liberty, DOJ argues in defense of White House ballroom
Justice Department lawyers said the courts are powerless to intervene in the dispute over the former East Wing.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
BOSTON (AP) - Federal judge halts effort by Trump administration to force states to comply with conditions to get SNAP funding.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
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ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
NBC edited out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post laid off 300 journalists. Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

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That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
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You and Bad Bunny should be deported
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Getting a sense that regular people are starting to pay attention to politics in a way I haven't seen in a non-presidential year.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
HAYES: “They want Black people banished from power. How much more obvious could it be? There is a clear pattern. They’re pursuing a racist agenda. That video - usefully, perhaps - was just Trump fully taking the mask off.” no isolated incident Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DUf5mY-...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/02/2026
Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
David Remnick on the destruction of the WaPo: "I feel like someone forced to watch an arsonist torch the house he grew up in." www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
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Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight
The dismantling of the Washington Post is a choice, not a necessity, and the blame lies with Jeff Bezos.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In slamming the half time show Trump is lecturing us about the "disgusting" dancing that children might see. Holy Epstein and Access Hollywood!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/02/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice is falling apart. Attorneys are leaving, courts are overwhelmed with immigration cases, and actual crimes are slipping through the cracks. Is that by design? Andy McCabe and I cover it all on today's UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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"This Job Sucks" - UnJustified - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · UnJustified · 02/08/2026 · 59m
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/02/2026
Whoa! Longtime conservative columnist, professional Dem hater, and spittle-flecked Obama/Biden critic Andrew McCarthy has a new piece in National Review ... absolutely taking Trump to task for corruption. Openly acknowledging it's far worse than anything Biden was even accused of.
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The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review
Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.
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Ashlie Weeks, Esq.--"Mo" @ashlieweeks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics Good times.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
As corporations shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many have said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real.

They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/02/2026
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/02/2026
Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish. www.pbump.net/o/actually-l...
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Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny
43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm gonna have a big ol bag of chips and I don't look and sound like a desiccated meatball trying desperately to speak human English so whose diet is really working here?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/02/2026
Seattle is a great city of great people, and good for them.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Topol: The same thing occurs with all these wellness influencers—the latest being Peter Attia. There are hundreds and hundreds of these so-called longevity hackers. One cardinal rule I have is this: if somebody is selling something, they have no credibility. Zero.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We give this guy billions of our tax dollars to support his ADHD.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen. “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Minnesota should move to arrest the ICE officers or CBP agents involved and prosecute, just as Idaho prosecuted the FBI sniper at Ruby Ridge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
WATTERS: Have you been watching this New York Mayor Mamdani guy? JD VANCE: Heh heh heh. The guy who wants to take all property away from white people?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tim Walz has got nothing to lose. He needs to leverage the full power of the state government against ICE. Right now.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Last January, when many of us were telling everyone that Trump's appointees were all terrible, The Washington Post gave thumbs up to many of the worst of the worst. Listen to and support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/01/2026
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/01/2026
The killing in Minnesota and the lies that followed. www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...
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The killing in Minnesota
They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.  And I don’t mean some ambiguous, imaginary “they” like the one the right blames for trying to kill President D...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“ICE claims in its own mission statement the whole point of the organization is to ‘ensure the safety of the public and our communities.’ In what world does this ensure public safety? I can’t see how a community could possibly be protected by the same people who are actively coming to kill them.”
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ICE Fatally Shoots US Citizen in Minneapolis
Mayor Jacob Frey tells ICE to “Get the f--k out” after agents murdered a US citizen in broad daylight while Trump blames the "Radical Left"
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/01/2026
Today was a hard day. Be kind to yourself and each other. Love you guys.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/01/2026
Am I correct that there’s no federal statute of limitations for murder so this could be prosecuted federally if we elect a Dem president in 2028?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
LT Gov. Flanagan: She had stuffed animals in the car for her child, for her six year old child
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Department of Justice has sued 24 states and the District of Columbia for access to sensitive voter data on more than 100,000,000 Americans. My law firm has intervened on behalf of voters to fight DOJ in 23 of the 25 cases. Tomorrow we will do the same in the remaining two. Stay tuned.
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