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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/06/2025
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
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Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Chicago congresswoman @repdeliaramirez hands Kristi Noem a letter of resignation and encourages her to use it 👀
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I know others have said this, but all this tomfoolery could end literally tonight if Congress had 1 ounce of its historical forebears’ gumption
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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Musk literally a few weeks ago
Archived clip of Elon Musk: The single biggest thing that they’re worried about is that DOGE is going to turn off fraudulent payments of entitlements. I mean everything from Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, disability, Small Business Administration loans. Turn them off to illegals. This is the crux of the matter. This is the thing that — why they really hate my guts and want me to die.

Ted Cruz: And do you think that’s billions? Hundreds of billions? What do you think the scale is of that?

Elon Musk: I think, across the country, it’s well above $100 billion. Maybe $200 billion. So by using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants.

Ted Cruz: And buy voters.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025
once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We're approaching dangerous levels of "so back."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
release the long form texts or we can only assume that there is cover up of crimes. questions swirl.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/03/2025
Great fucking job @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov, @cortezmasto.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov. Tell me again how this was worth it, now that the GOP is laughing at you and planning to continue to abuse and humiliate you while destroying the US
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“Globalist” “polluted” “weak” I mean the man knows his genre, am I right
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Did you know the Seattle Public Library provides 72-hour access codes to the New York Times website — including Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic — as well as web access to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post?
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Learn how to get started with our digital magazine and newspaper services.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The right’s decade-long lurch toward Vladimir Putin’s Russia -- a thread.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/03/2025
This paragraph is one of the dumbest things I've seen written by a Supreme Court justice. It's literally suggesting that a judge has no right to stop the executive branch from blatantly ignoring Congressionally ordered payments.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/03/2025
tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)
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Opinion | Trump’s Revenge Tour Finds Its True Target (Gift Article)
It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is unconstitutional. A violation of the First Amendment. A violation of federalism and the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutionally vague. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 04/03/2025
Tonight Trump will address a coequal branch of government for which he has shown total contempt. Meanwhile my constituents are seeing their livelihoods destroyed by illegal actions. What he is doing is not normal, it is not acceptable, and I won't be attending. www.youtube.com/shorts/MlTIB...
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Rep. Don Beyer Announces He Will Not Attend Trump's Address To Congress
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/03/2025
i don’t think dems should attend the trump speech on tuesday. skip it! youtube.com/shorts/w2mTb...
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don’t go
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How it started/How it's going
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Democrats should make Musk the face of it all. Just steal from the rights own playbook re Soros and Pelosi. But start it now, don’t wait for the midterms
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/02/2025
Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So he's now just using the Great Replacement Theory to justify why he and his DOGE boys need to have unfettered access to our entitlement programs, payment systems and personal information...
The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. 

That’s what it’s all about.

Truth.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025
The uncomfortable truth is the "Trump campaigned on egg prices" thing is something Dems tell themselves to rationalize what happened in November. Trump actually campaigned on hate and abusing power -- and won! The sorry state of the American electorate is a difficult thing to come to terms with.
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He's not even trying to hide it
Trump's Time Magazine interview exposes a malevolent fool.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/02/2025
"...the most terrifying part? Donald Trump... is oblivious. He has no grand ideological project beyond his own power. He does not understand the system being built around him, nor the fact that his own presidency is merely a vehicle for forces that see him as a... battering ram against democracy."
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I'd love people's help getting this out into major subreddits. Especially ones frequented by technology workers. The more people in Silicon Valley who know the truth, the better. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
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The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/02/2025
One reason that there is a legislative process for appropriating money is so that uninformed liars can't submarine programs on a whim.
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Cigar Thoughts @cigarthoughtsnfl.com · 25/11/2024
Re-post if your favorite team is in 1st place in the division
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Erik Creighton @ecreightonwx.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
However many times this was on your feed today, it wasn’t enough. Absolute perfection.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/11/2024
just block them
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)
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