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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t... #Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
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Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says
The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/10/2025
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A lot of people are about to learn how to contact the companies the own their local network affiliates.
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Oh. That’s really bad timing. People have been mental preparing to leave & then Disney is going to give them another reason.
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
CNN just figuring this out now.
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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says
U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/09/2025
“Jimmy, I stand with you and your staff 100%,” Colbert told his audience at “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” “This is blatant censorship,” he said, adding that “Tonight, we are all Jimmy Kimmel.” cnn.it/4mp2wNw
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Late night hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert defend Jimmy Kimmel and free speech | CNN
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart defended Jimmy Kimmel and free speech during their Thursday night shows, after ABC indefinitely suspended his popular late-night show on Wednesday amid a controversy over recent comments made by the longtime host about th...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/09/2025
Analysis: The overwhelming majority of the 30,000+ documents released on Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee about Jeffrey Epstein were nothing new.
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Analysis | What’s in the Epstein files? Not much new.
The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. The House Oversight Committee released some Epstein files; no bombshells emerged.
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minty tear gas 🏳️‍⚧️ @nihilamacabre.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
November Rain
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
She sold everyone out (especially her fellow female service members) & then she’s bowing out like a 🐓.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/08/2025
"All I really want is honesty. Mass shootings are the price we pay for the Second Amendment. It’s as simple as 2+2. Why can’t gun defenders just say that?"
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The CDC. The Fed. The FBI. The National Guard. Do you get it now?
Trump is waging war against the American government. When he’s done, he’ll use his government to wage war against Americans.
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If only people paid attention before the election.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
JUST IN: Judge Berman agrees that effort by DOJ to unseal Epstein grand jury files is a “diversion” when DOJ could just release a trove of far more comprehensive documents without court involvement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
In a stunning moment, Elise Stefanik was booed off the stage twice at an event in her district.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/08/2025
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New from @budgetlab.bsky.social: the combined effect of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and his tariffs leave the bottom 90% of America poorer on average, with only the top 10% of America better off.
top 10% 1.5% better off. everyone else worse off
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Low key one of the worst anbuses of power ever? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I just learned that Newsmax — the Skinemax of News — named Alex Acosta, the guy who cut Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal, to its board of directors last month
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Newsmax Inc. Names Paula Dobriansky, Alex Acosta to Board of Directors
ACCESS Newswire is the leading global press release distribution service. Tell your story and reach millions of journalists. Contact us today to get started.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
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Forbes @forbes.com · 04/08/2025
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
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Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries
The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2025
None of the Epstein/Maxwell survivors were notified of Maxwell’s transfer to the minimum security facility.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 01/08/2025
Not only is today’s employment report uniquely bad, but revisions to the prior months show that, on average, we have seen 35k net new jobs created for the last 3 months: JAN: +111K FEB: +102K MAR: +120K APR: +158K MAY: +19K JUN: +14K JUL: +73K No way to put lipstick on this pig.
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror. The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.
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Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV
Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/07/2025
"As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to end the Ukraine war on his first day in office and swiftly bring the Gaza war to a close as well," writes Brett H. McGurk. "Now more than six months into his presidency, peace on both fronts appears further away than ever." | Analysis cnn.it/3GKupkw
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Analysis: The wars Trump promised to end are escalating. Why? | CNN Politics
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to end the Ukraine war on his first day in office and swiftly bring the Gaza war to a close as well. Now more than six months into his presidency, peace on both f...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 28/07/2025
1 out of 8 residents of #MI01 will either lose coverage entirely or have to pay through the nose or fill out a mountain of paperwork to keep it due to the #MAGAMurderBill.
MI-01 breakout of healthcare coverage for entire population
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Border agent charged with child sex trafficking, fraud in Cochise County
A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against CBP employees in Arizona.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“He’s not involved in the global child trafficking ring. The lady in charge of the global child trafficking ring said so, and why would she lie about the guy who pardoned her for her role in the global child trafficking ring?”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Andry Hernandez, one of the detainees who was also released just over a week ago, told NPR that guards routinely beat prisoners with batons in the hallway — or dragged them to a small, windowless cell known as "La Isla," or "The Island," where the abuse was even more brutal.

According to Hernandez, 32, the prisoners would be dragged out of their cells for complaining about their conditions, taking a bath outside designated hours, or even for making too much noise.

Hernandez, who is openly gay, said he was once taken by the guards to "La Isla" after guards noticed him bathing with a bucket outside designated hours.

He said that he was beaten by three guards wearing masks. And forced to perform oral sex on one of the guards. After a couple of hours, he was dragged back to his cell.

"CECOT was hell on Earth," Hernandez told NPR from Capacho, Venezuela, where he's now back with his family.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
When I suggested Democrats hold daily press conferences to share stories of Republican pedophiles, I meant they could bring up all the old stories. I didn’t think that we’d get new stories about a GOP pedophile every day, but whatever works I guess
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
MORE: Whistleblower Aid says that one of its clients “has lawfully disclosed evidence to the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General that corroborates the thrust of the whistleblower claims regarding Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials actively and deliberately undermining the rule of law.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“It was a nightmare.” “(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.” “We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.” Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador. Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...
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‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN
For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I would love to see Dems use the 30 hours of debate until right wingers confirm Emil Bove to a lifetime appointment as reward for sending these men to a concentration camp by reading their stories of torture, one after another.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/07/2025
Relatives of an unarmed man who died as he was being detained by police last year say they recently viewed body-camera footage of the incident that showed Alabama officers kneeling on the man’s neck while he repeated “I can’t breathe.”
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Family says video shows Alabama man died after officer knelt on his neck
The medical examiner ruled Phillip Reeder’s death a homicide but determined heart issues and drugs were contributing factors.
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
SCOOP: The Pentagon inspector general has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar w/ the matter said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told
The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 22/07/2025
Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Files can’t be blackmailed. Files can’t be extorted. Files can’t be pardoned. Files can’t be bribed. Nothing can substitute for the release of all of the Epstein files.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
1/ The Epstein files don’t have an incentive to lie for a coverup. A convicted sex trafficker in search of a pardon does. The dead giveaway: DOJ can simply release all the Epstein files, but refuses. Also, what's with the wiggle words in Blanche's statement?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It also covers two-thirds of all nursing home stays.
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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
New: Epstein victim urged FBI to investigate Trump and his relationship with Epstein during interviews with agency in 1996 and 2006. Records of these interviews could be in FBI files that Trump admin now refuses to release. @mikebaker.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/u...
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An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Why do Americans always have to learn the hard way.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%. Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7 #medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.
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Jessicat @jesspurple.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This type of crap should be illegal.
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