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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Its National 🌮Taco 🌮 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 The modern word "taco" is believed to have started in the silver mines of Mexico. Miners used charges of gunpowder wrapped in paper, which they called "tacos." Their tortillas wrapped around a spicy filling looked like these sticks, and the name stuck.

1882 First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
1939 WWII: Adolf Hitler speech at the Reichstag celebrates the defeat of Poland, offers peace to France and England, and mentions need for "settlement of the Jewish problem
1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a seat for his goat for Game 4 of the Baseball World Series, is escorted out, and casts a goat curse on the Chicago Cubs
1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it soon replaces Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
1961 John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeinian undesirable person
1979 Pope John Paul Il is the first pope to visit the White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C.
1996 Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton meet in their first debate
2018 Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn in to the US Supreme Court amid protests and following an FBI investigation
2021 Los Angeles votes in some of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country, requiring vaccinations before people can enter indoor businesses and events
2023 American Simone Biles wins all-around gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, becoming the most decorated gymnast with 34 World and Olympic medals
2023 New research confirms fossil footprints 23,000-21,000 years old at White Sands National Park, New Mexico, as probably the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Don't confuse "wealth" with "super-wealth". The wealthy already pay their fair share because their wealth generally comes from earnings. But the super-wealthy pay nothing because they earn very little on paper. They instead make money with their money — which isn't taxed because we only tax earnings

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Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 18/09/2026

Trump administration weighs drastic cut to U.S. forces in Europe of 25,000 or more nbcnews.to/4gYvd4t

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SiLveRFoxXx @silv3rfoxxx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Labor Day on first Monday of every September recognizes the men and women who labor to build this country. Through a time-honored tradition with roots in the coordinated efforts of the labor movement of the 1800s, we salute the American workforce. We will be ok

1866 Frederick Douglass is the first Black delegate to a national convention in the US
1901 US President William McKinley is shot and assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
1916 First true supermarket, "Piggly Wiggly," is established by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee; the grand opening is delayed by construction until the 11th
1939 First German air attack on Great Britain in WW II
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories are ordered to wear a star
1949 America's first mass killing: Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in 12 minutes in Camden, New Jersey
1985 Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31
1954 Alan Freed leaves Cleveland for NYC to join WINS radio
1976 Singer Frank Sinatra brings surprise guest Dean Martin to his appearance on Jerry Lewis's 11th Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the first time Martin and Lewis share a stage in 20 years
1983 Soviet Union admits to shooting down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on
September 1
1987 Conjoined twins Benjamin and Patrick Binder are separated at Johns Hopkins
Hospital
1995 US Senate Ethics Committee votes 6-0 to recommend the expulsion of Senator Bob Packwood over allegations of sexual abuse
1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, is held at Westminster Abbey in London
2023 Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide, building on an earlier state-by-state ruling

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3 MILLION GALLONS — GONE. A waterline leak tied to a DATA CENTER in El Reno reportedly cost residents 3 MILLION gallons of treated water this week. Maybe before we rush to throw up data centers everywhere, we should STUDY what they demand

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Data center leak costs residents more than 3 million gallons of water

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Volunteer Blue @volunteerblue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Up through November 3rd, our job is to unify against the fascists to win the midterms - and anyone who doesn’t understand that is helping the fascists. We can worry about policy differences on November 4th.

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Corrupt immoral parasite Lindsey Graham’s sister Darlene absolutely destroyed herself in her own Senate debate after failing to answer even basic national security questions. She was literally hoping to be handed her brother’s seat without any effort and it shows. How embarrassing.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Badass Congresswoman Joyce Beatty who successfully sued the MAGA regime and forced the removal of the orange felon’s disgusting name from the Kennedy Center just filed an emergency motion to block his corrupt board from trying to add it back to the facility. 💙👊

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s National Senior Citizens Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 According to the 2017 census, 47 million seniors live in the United States. By 2060, that number will nearly double. Their wealth of knowledge, skill, and experience offer so much to the next generation. We will be okay Love Foxy

1897 Oldsmobile is first manufactured by Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan
1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre Museum by Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia, recovered in 1913
1931 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit
600 career home runs as NY defeats the St. Louis Browns 11-7 at
Sportsman's Park
1949 Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 strikes the Queen Charlotte Fault below Haida Gwaii at 8.1 magnitude, knocking cows off their feet
1955 Chicago teenager Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives, a week before he is murdered
1967 China reports the downing of two US bombers
1987 "Dirty Dancing," a film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, opens in the US
2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges, including making illegal payments at the direction of Trump to women with whom Trump had affairs
2018 Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, is convicted on eight counts of fraud in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A turtle doesn't know the plastic bag isn't a jellyfish. A bird doesn't know the fishing line is a trap. A crab doesn't know the tiny pieces of plastic surrounding it shouldn't be there. They didn't create this problem. We did.

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Sea Turtle Swimming in Seagrass Ecosystem

ALT: Sea Turtle Swimming in Seagrass Ecosystem

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

After top officials and the president dismissed or downplayed reports of issues on the USS Abraham Lincoln, in 1 day: 1) the Navy said its being sent home and replaced 2) head of the Navy acknowledged mental health incidents on board 3) the head of Central Command flew to meet with the crew.

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Child trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell sits in a comfortable prison courtesy of Trump while members of the US military are trapped in deplorable, traumatic conditions. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.npr.org/2026/08/15/n...

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Families of USS Lincoln crew say Trump should be 'ashamed' of conditions on board

President Trump said the USS Abraham Lincoln deployment is "not nearly long enough." A family member of a sailor on board that ship said those comments are shameful.

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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Trump is trashing a national treasure for donors —and Texans can't stop it Bipartisan outrage erupts as private bulldozers begin tearing through Big Bend National Park under a redundant $1.7 billion border wall contract. ...

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Trump is trashing a national treasure for donors —and Texans can't stop it

Bipartisan outrage erupts as private bulldozers begin tearing through Big Bend National Park under a redundant $1.7 billion border wall contract.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

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Amy S✌️💙🤷‍♀️🍿 @saintsophia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

bandon.tv Dumb. 😂

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"I am asking you to put your shoulder in the work to make sure that we defeat Mike Rogers and send a blow to Trumpism, and we do the work of building that next 250 years that all of us deserve. Because at some point, the future will ask you, what did you do in this moment?"

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jimwaterworks.bsky.social @jimwaterworks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No more distractions! Looks like more Trump-Epstein Files maxxing will be required...

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cliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s National Love is Kind Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 National Love is Kind Day encourages you to become aware of how you are treating people, how people are treating you, and how you can become emboldened, supported, and empowered to lead the joyful and productive life you deserve We WILL be Okay ❤️🦊

1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina
1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina
1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Goghshoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise and dies of his injuries 2 days later
1909 Orville Wright successfully tests the Wright Military Flyer, the world's first military airplane, with a record flight of 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 40 seconds, flying approximately 64 km (40 mi
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
1940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart; "PIl Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey, with vocals by Frank Sinatra, is ranked #1
1942 Transport #11 departs Drancy, France, with 1000 French Jews sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; 13 survive until the war's end
1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148-game errorless streak
1962 Martin Luther King Jr. is jailed in Albany, Georgia
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette manufacturers to print health warnings about the effects of smoking on all cigarette packages
1976 Former Beatle John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in the US
1987 First expedited salvage of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3-day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
2007 Two news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTV collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. It is the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2019 US President Trump calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess" and holds Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
2021 Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683

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Love this life ❤️ 💙 💜 @teachingmomma87.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hiii, im so close to clearing my teacher wishlist. I was just moved to 2nd grade 4 days ago and had nothing for it. Left on my list is read alouds, teaching items, rewards, indoor games, and basic school supplies. Please share, look, and purchase. Thanks. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

me trying my best #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Its National Hot Dog Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 So here is the debate: Is a hot dog 🌭 a sandwich?? Whether you call it a wiener, a frank, a footlong, or a red hot hot dogs are a staple of summer barbecues Now the other debate: mustard or ketchup We will be ok Love Foxy

1869 Margarine is patented by Hippolye Mege-Mouries for use by the French Navy
1914 Mexican President Victoriano Huertaflees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1915 The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a New York City subway; an examination of its content reveals extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US
1922 First duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in the US at Bronx Zoological Park in New York City
1939 Clara Adams is the first woman to complete a commercial round-the-world flight from New York, lasting 16 days and 19 hours
1942 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1959 The US steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history
1960 Chubby Checker releases his version of "The Twist" in the US (date approximate
1972 "Honky Chateau" becomes Elton John's first No. 1 album in the US, includes hit "Rocket Man"
1974 American TV news reporter Christine Chubbuck shoots herself live on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida; first person to commit suicide in a live broadcast
1980 Billy Carter, the brother of US President Jimmy Carter, registers as a foreign agent of the Libyan government after it was revealed they paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars
2012 Korean pop singer Psy releases single "Gangnam Style"; it becomes a worldwide hit, topping the charts in over 36 countries
2022 Elton John kicks off the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Remember when Lindsey Graham and Donald Trump ran against each other and Trump publicly announced Graham's cellphone number? Remember when Graham tweeted: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it"? Remember when Graham sucked up to the fascist criminal anyway?

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Donald Trump Gives Out Lindsey Graham’s Cell Phone Number

It’s officially war between GOP Presidential contenders Trump and Graham.

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Taylor Swift Updates @taylorswiftinfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Dolly Parton’s message thanking Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their $2 million donation to her Imagination Library! “I'm blown away and overjoyed with that gratitude. Now, it's evident that you two have made giving back a key part of your lives.”

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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#TODAY Largest veteran led action since Vïetnam about to step off in #Phïlly. There is no organized resistance against rising authoritarianïsm in this country‼️ #Freedom #Fäscism #PA

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Senadora Julie Gonzales @senadorajulie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Colorado, this is it. Today is Election Day. If you haven't voted yet, head to a drop box near you to drop off your ballot, or go to a polling place to vote in-person! Polls are open until 7pm, and today, we have the opportunity to make history.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Daily Reminder: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY!

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Dona Dickinson @donadickinson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

SCOTUS refused to hear E. Jean Carroll. So it’s official: he is a predator.

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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

#RiseUp #WETHEPEOPLE #Minnesota Rochester Virtual Phone Bank Virtual event Join from anywhere Tuesdays through Oct 27 5:30 – 7pm CDT www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It’s National Flip Flop Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Each year on the Wednesday after Memorial Day, National Flip Flop Day encourages us to wear our favorite flip flops and show them off! Although they have been around for thousands of years the term “flip flop” started in the 1960s. We will be okay 🦊

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1692 William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorizes a special Court Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine"), to administer Salem witch trials
1896 Tornado hit St Louis, killing 255, leaving thousands homeless
1916 President Woodrow Wilsonaddresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives public support to the idea of a League of Nations
1930 The 1,046-foot (319-meter) ChryslerBuilding in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public
1940 British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) during
World War II
1942 Attempted assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich by a grenade thrown by Czech rebels in Prague during Operation Anthropoid; he dies a week later from an infection.
Adolf Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered in revenge, leads in June to the annihilation of Lidice.
1958 Ernest Green becomes the 1st African-American to graduate from Little Rock's Central
High School
1969 Walt Disney World construction begins at Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida
1981 John Hinckley, Jr attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol pain relief medication
1995 Actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
2023 Vice President Kamala Harrisbecomes 1st woman to deliver commencement address at US Military Academy graduation ceremony in West Point, New

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

🐈‍⬛ Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛ 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 I apologize for my tardiness. Unfortunately I’m dealing with a very uncooperative shoulder. Let’s all enjoy the long weekend and be thankful for each other and the connections we made Do you have any exciting plans for your holiday weekend? We will be okay

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

DOJ appeared to hit another roadblock in its unprecedented effort to obtain sensitive voter registration data from every state, as a panel of federal judges sounded deeply skeptical of the government’s argument for access to state voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Court bashes internal DOJ legal memo that Trump admin used to justify voter roll grab

The memo claimed the department has the legal authority to demand sensitive voter data not because of some federal law, but because the DOJ said so.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/05/2026

NEW: A gun chain’s stores repeatedly violated rules designed to deter illegal sales. Although authorities recommended revoking their licenses, the problem stores all remain open. Now the Trump administration is weakening penalties for failure to comply.

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This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns.

The Indiana store is one of several Range USA locations that faced losing its license for breaking rules designed to deter illegal sales. Now the Trump administration is weakening penalties for failin...

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 20/05/2026

Trump gutted USAID last year. Now the third-worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded is spreading in the DRC and Uganda, and the global health infrastructure America once led simply no longer exists to contain it.

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Trump Decimated Our Global Health Network. Then Ebola Hit.

Scientists and officials don’t think it’ll become a pandemic. Here’s why they’re worried anyway.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Supreme Court 2026

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RichLBI @richlbi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Posted by Occupy Democrats. Spot on 100%.

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