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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 3h
substack.com/@ohhthatsric...
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Ohh that’s RICH (@ohhthatsrich)
James Donald almost told the truth about socialism 🤯
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 3h
how much more evidence is necessary to assess that Trump has undermined U.S. national security and is working for Russia? And how much longer will Republicans in Congress continue to protect him as he does it? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...
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October 10, 2026
So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 15h
it was clear we would see no military installations nor meet with any military leaders while in Qatar. It was an outrageous decision - part of a coordinated cover up to hide the true costs and consequences of the war. open.substack.com/pub/chrismur...
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Behind the Scenes: My Visit to the Middle East
I refuse to accept this moment as normal.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 16h
This is fake
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 17h
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 18h
The loss of 200 year old trees is significant anywhere. But in the Sonoran desert, a delicate ecosystem that can be quite harsh, their loss is devistating.
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200-year-old Arizona tree cut down in minutes during federal raid on anti-border wall protest
For more than two months, protesters occupied a stand of cottonwood trees in the San Rafael Valley to block construction of a second border wall in southern Arizona.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 22h
Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2
The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers
who testified, including:
1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the
testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug
transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner,
the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer
the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any
reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony;
2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was
"misidentified" as the target of the operation;
3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties;
4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion;
5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally
suspect, but contain false statements;Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents.

6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as
described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and
7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h
Exclusive: Sen. Darline Graham, the Republican Senate candidate in South Carolina, has pledged to crack down on China. But her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles in two companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing, company filings show.
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Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.
The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 19h
Per Scott McFarland Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
substack.com/@snyder/note...
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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution
Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s always a tweet
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today, after ten years of cozying up to Vladimir Putin, Trump openly allied the United States with Russia against Ukraine. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-9-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 9, 2026
Late Wednesday afternoon, Dana Mattioli, Drew Hinshaw, Rebecca Ballhaus, and Joe Parkinson of the Wall Street Journal reported on the tawdry grifting of Kimberly Guilfoyle, former fiancee of Donald Tr...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pete Hegseth says the military will live-stream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter. He’s making a government-sponsored snuff film. What a sick bastard. open.substack.com/pub/politics...
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Sick bastards
Live-streaming an execution might excite sociopaths but demeans the country.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Let me make it a little bigger for the folks in the back… VOTE FOR ME NOV 3RD! Make your plan to vote today at AngieNixon.com/vote. Change can’t wait, Florida! LET’S GO! #AngieForFlorida
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The vice president made up his own bizarre definition when asked what he thinks socialism means. trib.al/ebeGirV
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Watch JD Vance Try to Define Socialism
The vice president made up his own bizarre definition when asked what he thinks socialism means.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Freedom-loving people need to plan ahead to counter any Trumpian coup. Fortunately, there is an effective blueprint that we can follow. newrepublic.substack.com/p/if-trump-s...
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If Trump Steals an Election, Here’s What to Do
Nonviolent rebellion has proven again and again to be the most effective way of ousting even a determined autocrat.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The collapse of NaNoWriMo is really interesting to me. They said they were financially insolvent and… this thing used to just literally be a message board to discuss producing a first draft in November. Then it got gussied up, got too big (I suspect financial shenanigans) and died of AI indigestion
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Read the whole thread. "A Nazi trillionaire is trying to buy a seat" seems like it should be a pretty easy Democratic campaign line in just about every race in the country.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/10/2026
Kurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who's been a leading Trump-administration proponent of false claims the 2020 election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after failing a polygraph test, sources told Reuters reut.rs/3TI8C3k
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Failed polygraph played role in the loss of Trump ally Kurt Olsen’s security clearance, sources say
Kurt Olsen, a Justice Department lawyer who has been a leading Trump administration proponent of false claims the 2020 ​election was stolen, had his DOJ security clearance terminated last month after ...
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
substack.com/@lucasbean/n...
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Why Weak Americans Run Towards Fascism
Escape from Freedom
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity is a stark reminder that evil doesn't always wear a mask of malice. Sometimes, it wears the blank, unseeing face of the conformist, the unthinking follower open.substack.com/pub/philosop...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Terrifying Theory of Stupidity
Why It's More Dangerous Than Evil
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Newsom’s press office followed up with: “Let’s be clear: The President is advocating for an attack on 10+ million U.S. residents in two of America’s largest cities. This is not normal. None of this is.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-...
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October 6, 2026
Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A video from GOP candidate Brandon Herrera’s now-deleted Sons of Confederate Veterans YouTube page.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But we must not allow ourselves the luxury of surprise. We must continue acting and voting and calling Trump out. substack.com/@snyder/note...
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Timothy Snyder (@snyder)
From the beginning of the war in Iran, I’ve warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders — from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hunga...
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the beginning of the war in Iran, I’ve warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders — from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hungary — who have used foreign wars and real or manufactured threats to expand their authority.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's good, but not American
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: By driving past this pole, you agree to have your license plate photographed, stored and searched by police across the country. You never clicked "I agree." Tell Congress to ban Flock: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Ban Flock mass surveillance cameras
Contact Congress today!
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Russian president has reason to believe that he has bought off Trump and his envoys with flattery, fake talk of “peace” and business deals. He repeatedly stops Americans from helping Ukraine. anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/who-is-ame...
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Who is American foreign policy for?
Definitely not Americans
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the same story: the deliberate destruction of the post–World War II order those who had lived through the horrors of World Wars I and II put in place to prevent another world war. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-...
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October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
substack.com/@martymcswee...
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Truth Matters (@martymcsweeney)
One possible scenario we should not rule out for how events will play out on November 3rd. The simple way to prevent this is a Democratic win too big to dispute. It’s time to pull on those big boy p...
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The corruption of the administration is matched by its incompetence, and neither will come out well in congressional investigations. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-4-...
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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JJay99 @jjay99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Say NO to these concentration camps. This is the USA. Good people help the poor, not torture them.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
how many people are going to even believe this was suicide
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The American right has its internal struggles, but one thing that unites them is they think Russia is twice as powerful and wealthy as it actually is, and we could all learn lessons from their manliness.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2026
I don’t give a damn if Theo Von and Joe Rogan change their tune and become full-out Democratic socialists. They will say whatever is deemed widely popular in the moment to retain their podcast audiences. They gave you Donald Trump.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A good frame
Photograph of the winged victory at the Louvre it's seen in the from a reasonable distance it's the top of it's seen in the from a reasonable distance it's the top of a Stairway and over it is a huge round Arch and a skylight perfect setting for it
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Missed this story about Trump's efforts to elect his buddy Bolsonaro Jr in Brazil. The US is also heavily tampering in Bolivia right now. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Brazil briefed French, German officials on alleged US, Russian election interference
A French and German delegation travelled this month to Brasilia, where intelligence officials briefed them on alleged ​US and Russian interference before Brazil's election, according to sources and do...
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Truth Matters (@martymcsweeney)
Trump is using your hard earned tax dollars to campaign AGAINST your best interests. Are you OK with that. If you are, can I suggest you make a doctors appointment and get some help? Take a moment t...
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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