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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump claims the federal government can "supersede" Iowa and calls Iowans "troubled people"
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump claims he's more popular now than when he was elected in 2024 (His disapproval rating just hit 60% for the first time ever)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/09/2026
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, running for the Senate in Iowa, minimizes the war with Iran because it's "thousands of miles away." But two soldiers from Iowa, Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien and Sgt. Declan Coady, died in a March 1 drone strike in Kuwait. Their families' pain isn't thousands of miles away.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 31/08/2026
Shit’s too expensive, and America’s CEOs gave themselves a huge raise and now make 312x what workers do. Working people built this country, it’s time that we had an economy that works for us, not just CEOs and billionaires. Our Executive Paywatch report: aflcio.org/paywatch
The average CEO gave themselves a 21% raise | AFL-CIO
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In June I told @joetrippi.bsky.social I’m watching the Iowa secretary of agriculture campaign, where Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social is making the race a referendum on clean water. A new poll suggests Jones could beat GOP incumbent Mike Naig. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/08/12/p...
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Poll shows Chris Jones "within striking distance" of Mike Naig
An internal poll found the Democrat leads Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig after respondents read information about both candidates.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
👇🎯 Today in “Upton Sinclair remains undefeated”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2026
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Call Mark Zuckerberg before Congress and offer him a glass of water from the site, Erin Brockovich-style
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Twitter screenshot by s (@big_sam_atari") quoting a tweet by "non aesthetic things" that shows pictures of Pope Leo XIV wearing nikes. comment by s: "Forgive me, Father, for I have dripped."
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John Brown’s Body @jbrownsbody.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ohio Republicans overruled their state Supreme Court to implement their gerrymander anyway: Time for Virginia Democrats to do the same.
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Ohio Republicans Are Just Ignoring The State Supreme Court’s Anti-Gerrymandering Rulings. It’s Working.
Ohio Republicans have unlocked a secret of subverting their state’s constitution: Simply...
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Classic NYT headline!
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Jill @jillburggg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If the marginal tax rate is 90% and the tax system is supposed to say something about values, then that marginal tax rate is saying we don't want people to make above that amount in income bc you're just exploiting people & system at that pnt. This was the tax rate in 50s w/ over 2 million today $.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting.
She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said.
ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities.
After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Via @zacharyos.bsky.social: "While sitting on a House subcommittee that oversees drug pricing, Iowa Rep. Miller-Meeks was renting her DC apartment from lobbyists paid millions to fight prescription drug cost reforms on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry." iowastartingline.com/2026/04/13/m...
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Rep. Miller-Meeks spent as much as $26,000 in taxpayer funds to rent DC apartment from pharma lobbyists
Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks rented a Washington, D.C. apartment from two lobbyists whose firm was paid $1.8 million to lobby Congress on behalf of one
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We will not be complicit in a barbaric genocide and destruction of civilization. The 25th Amendment should be invoked today. And Congress needs to reconvene and take back their War Powers immediately.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
13% cut proposed for Interior. The president wants to cut national parks, wildlife refuges, and public lands by 13% so he can pay for his illegal war on Iran without raising taxes on his billionaire buddies.
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brad is wearing the cursed amulet @bradicality.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
He does just want to dance
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
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Tradwife movement ‘attracts men who are hostile to women’
The strongest predictor of support for women staying at home and deferring to their husband is not, as researchers expected, chivalry but ‘hostile sexism’
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh for the calm and crystalline moral clarity of Afroman...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
By the way, shoutout to @jamellebouie.net for first bringing my attention to The Darkened Light of Faith. This book strikes me as a critical intervention in the historiography of small-r republican political theory, showing how Black antiracist thinkers sustained the tradition in the US.
In The Darkened Light of Faith, his recent survey of some of the Black anti-slavery and anti–Jim Crow figures operating in that tradition, Rogers highlights the writings of David Walker, the abolitionist author of An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. In Rogers’s reading, the very title of this tract is performative: By making an appeal to citizens, he was performing a particular type of democratic engagement. “To petition is to see oneself as an agent, a person for whom something is at stake and in need of attention,” Rogers writes. Similarly, by referring to “colored citizens,” Walker was “criticizing the American polity for its horrific treatment of blacks while endowing those same individuals with a political status otherwise denied.” Rogers is describing a performative utterance in the Austinian sense.

If anything, the performative dimension of democratic politics is even more front and center when it comes to the work of some of the other figures that Rogers considers. Frederick Douglass had himself photographed more frequently than any other 19th-century American man, precisely because he understood the influence that depictions of his dignified countenance could have if widely distributed. These portraits were, like Walker’s tract, a performance of citizenship that, by their very existence, helped to call the reality of that citizenship into being.

Later in The Darkened Light of Faith, Rogers highlights the power of Billie Holiday’s live renditions of the anti-lynching anthem “Strange Fruit”—both a literal series of musical performances in the colloquial sense and a performative act in the Austinian sense that, according to Rogers, “is not exclusively concerned with helping us understand lynching…but to help us feel what should be felt and to display the appropriate emotions to it through a mimetic display of the horrific.” By dramatizing the horror of lynching, Holiday compelled otherwise dispassionate white listeners to feel...(truncated)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Matt @nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Good morning to everyone who voted for Kamala Harris.
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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 05/03/2026
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sabinstargem.bsky.social @sabinstargem.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The man who got his arm broken, is Brian McGuiness. He is running for the Senate in North Carolina. If you can, vote for him. We owe him that much for his arm, service, and his intent to do right.
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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Please call Senator Tim Sheehy’s office and let them know what you think about this violent assault TIM SHEEHY (202) 224-2644
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The US Justice Department withheld Epstein files that contained information about Donald Trump attempting to rape 13 year old child. #OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump "who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out."
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/02/2026
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I had never seen this Fox News dropdown before. Many fairs, such balance.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
0-3 minutes / 3+ minutes
Norman Rockwell freedom of speech memeMan being hauled off under arrest for speaking too long.  He's wearing the same shirt!
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Great. Now we have to bomb Iran to distract from this.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
On Thursday morning, Iowa House Republicans moved the latest anti-abortion bill, restricting abortion medications and imposing new burdens on doctors, through subcommittee and the full HHS committee. My video from the subcommittee hearing, which was far too short: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdN...
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Iowa House hearing on abortion medication restrictions (full video)
YouTube video by Bleeding Heartland
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Louise Auerhahn :propride: @lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
Wow, this blew up. Let's keep it going, everyone! If you live in Silicon Valley or the SF Bay Are and want to learn about future organizing to stop ICE, sign up with Bay Resistance: www.bayresistance.org If you're elsewhere, check out Purge Palantir […]
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here's to all the intellectuals not in the Epstein files. They're the ones the Epstein class feared. They're the ones who could spell. virginiaheffernan.substack.com/p/toni-morri...
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Toni Morrison Is Not in the Epstein Files
Let's talk about the serious intellectuals, the ones not on the Lolita Express, the ones who could spell.
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The Jer Witch Project @neveronbrand.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.
Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is tomorrow’s front page for The Minnesota Star Tribune. In a moment in which much of legacy media are enabling and condoning the worst actions of the Trump admin, the reporters and editors of the Star Tribune are not holding back one bit.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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