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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And yet, every single Democratic member of Congress and every progressive organization (except @indivisible.org) still uses X as their primary method of breaking news. The pro-democracy movement really needs to boycott X.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles on the way. You want to see a horror show? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles. You want to see some bad things happen?"
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become ambassador to Greece when she asked a donor for $100K to pay AmEx, in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to AmEx.” Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Journalists observe this on a daily basis, and not one of them asks the question: “Why.”
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ohio doesn’t have anyone in the Senate fighting for us – we’re changing that this November.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
MUST WATCH: This is how Trump’s war is raising your prices.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's threat to the Kennedy Center may provide a faint echo of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but with protesters standing before wrecking equipment instead of tanks. We got here because law firms capitulated, universities chickened out, corporations cooperated, individuals knelt. Few just said, "NO."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
idk i kind of feel like the response in the first paragraph makes it seem like the second paragraph is impossible
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/09/2026
Donald Trump is making it more expensive to raise a family. Back-to-school prices are up 11% compared to last year: Notebooks: +23% Index cards: +22% Lunchboxes: +27% Sandwich bread: +22% Apple juice: +20% Animal crackers: +16%
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’s better to know What’s Coming, even when it’s straight out of a Stephen King horror film. Always read @elienyc.bsky.social 👇 www.thenation.com/article/poli...
= The Nation.
Even if the court eventually rules on the merits that this EO is unconstitutional, Trump will simply issue another one, and then another one. If he's not allowed to prevent the post office from sending mail-in ballots to voters, his next move will be to order the USPS not to return the ballots from people who are not on his preapproved list of voters. Then he'll order elections officials to not count the ballots once they're received and threaten them with lawsuits if they do.
Every one of those executive orders will be challenged by states, but the Supreme Court has given Trump every reason to believe that one of these unconstitutional, antidemocratic orders will hold up in court and that he can keep muddying the procedures for running elections— potentially right up to Election Day.三
The Nation.
The only people being obtuse in this moment are those who insist that the Supreme Court is a reasonable actor, committed to maintaining American-style democracy against the threats posed by the Trump administration.
If you don't believe me, just do what Mr.
Rogers told all of us of a certain age to do:
"Look for the helpers." The Republicans on the Supreme Court are the helpers.
They're just helping evil.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.
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John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
lmao Gianni looked like he was about to tackle Trump to get him out of the shot
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every word of this. Lindsey Graham's misogyny - he repeatedly sponsored national abortion bans - has been overlooked. He hated women. And it was on full display at the Kavanaugh hearings.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sticking to the patently false suggestion that the surrender of liability as part of the settlement agreement is a typical move that they do with all kinds of litigants
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/07/2026
Her nullification of the settlement does NOT end the settlement, per se. Her ruling here punishes the government for dragging the court into their scheme, but until we get a new president, Blanche and Trump can still do this on their own, but it's illegal. Though, who is going to stop them?
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Trump/MAGA/GOP/Project 2025 medieval attack on science is causing great harm to our society. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Another red alert for American science
Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
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Roberto Shenanigans @robertoshenanigans.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell today over the phone for around 20 minutes and he told me that LeBron is going to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
WOULD SOME NEWS ORGANIZATION TREAT THIS AS IT SHOULD BE TREATED? -->President Donald Trump posted a doctored photo defaming his predecessor, President Barack Obama, and his wife. Trump regularly posts doctored and AI-produced graphics with racist and Nazi content. He is unfit for office.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
So does Trump also think that Flo Balogun is a citizen or nah? Could somebody who is a White House reporter ASK HIM ABOUT THAT instead of merely republishing his press releases??
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/07/2026
Mississippi: -40,350 Missouri: -48,436 Montana: -6,937 Nebraska: -16,873 Nevada: -70,965 New Hampshire: -1,514 New Jersey: -40,506 New Mexico: -17,106 New York: -147,176 North Carolina: -177,415 North Dakota: -4,938 Ohio: -106,133
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yes. I miss the “nuance” of “unconstitutional bigotry against an entire class of people is necessary to my kid has a better chance of getting a hockey scholarship.” Clearly, the fault is mine.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Celtics: Should we trade our best player in his prime in our conference so he can have a vendetta against us for the rest of his career? Philly: Umm...We've got a bad contract and some lottery balls. Celtics: Deal! Knicks: COME ON Celtics: Now we can get Mitchell Robinson. Knicks: COME ON!!!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com
thenation.com
The Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Ruling Goes Well Beyond Sports
The ruling is about whether trans people have the same rights as everybody else—and the Court said they don’t.
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Southern Poverty Law Center, Minnesota Protesters… the list of those who are not “political” opponents but advocates for rights and justice is growing. Intimidating investigations that seem calculated to threaten people into silence is dangerous and threatens all of us!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jack Smith on MS NOW: "I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely."   "I think the state attorney generals have a tremendous role to play here … And I would also say that I think a thing that all of us can do is support election workers and election officials."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Now in post form www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
Birthright Citizenship Lives to Die Another Day
The Supreme Court’s decision upholding birthright citizenship is a victory that may contain the seeds of a future defeat.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Katie Phang is a bad ass. This journalist / lawyer may have figured out a way to get around the wall erected by the DOJ around the Epstein files. And a judge just granted her motion for some of the most important missing material. My write up in the link in comments.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
And he got FOUR VOTES for this shit. Thomas, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were all like "yeah, we also don't understand the concept of people making a choice unless that choice is approved by the government."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Katie Phang ... brings this action against Todd Blanche ... claiming that he has improperly withheld information and failed to comply with other requirements in violation of the Epstein Act." "[T]he Court GRANTS Ms. Phang’s motion." 1/🧵
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com
thenation.com
The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism
The court took a look at Trump's obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, "Nothing to see here."
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
53 years ago today, 6/25/73 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a coverup of Watergate & more. Nixon resigns 13 months later. Telling the truth matters.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/06/2026
The Supreme Court believes that there are exactly two forms of racial discrimination that the law must prohibit: Black people going to college, and Black people voting
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My print piece on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is up. I point out that the rest of the country is still desperately trying to get the same rights the white man gave himself 250 years ago. In @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights To Everyone Else?
If we want to make it another 250 years, the Constitution is going to have to do a lot more than protect individual political and civil rights.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 24/06/2026
Our communities are under attack and voters want Democrats who fight back. That demand is shaping the future of the party — and it starts in primaries with candidates like Brad. We're glad NY-10 will soon be represented by a Democratic fighter who puts his constituents ahead of special interests.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We truly live in the dumbest, most self-destructive country. Imagine having so much and just...squandering it. Remarkable.
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calliesue.bsky.social @calliesue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“it’s good that you did that Donny. real good!”
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Twilight Zone: Good Thing - Smiling Boy
ALT: Twilight Zone: Good Thing - Smiling Boy
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 11/06/2026
The New York Times’s bombshell reporting confirmed what we already knew: Todd Blanche, JD Vance, and other top Administration officials are more focused on protecting the President than getting justice for survivors—even using convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell to do it.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Phony (often silly) "libertarian"/GOP/MAGA policies actually do make the world worse. This from Ideastream Public Media -
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