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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"State legislative races—which already attract too little attention—just got a lot more important..." newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Trump’s border wall expansion just bulldozed an ancient tribal site
Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...
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Former Salvadoran refugee named new bishop of Wheeling-Charleston Diocese
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the retirement of the Most Rev. Mark E. Brennan, 79, as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which serves Catholics across all of West Virginia. Pope Leo has appoint...
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WOFAVA @wofava.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
No School. No Work. No Spending. If you are able to join us on May 1 in this day of economic action and power, we’d love to have you march with us ➡️ www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... #Virginia #may1st #mayday
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/05/2026
TODAY: Americans are walking out of school and work to wield our power as workers, consumers, and students. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Find one of the more than 3,000 events planned for May Day: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... #MayDay
MAY DAY 2026

NO WORK
NO SCHOOL
NO SHOPPING
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Suzy Brandon Ph.D. @suzywbrandon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy #MayDay!!!
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DJ Black @djblack21.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
MAY DAY STRONG maydaystrong.org #MayDay 🔵🌍Please stand together in solidarity. 🌍🔵
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/04/2026
NEW: The SEIU-UHW says it has collected 1.5 million signatures to put the Billionaire Tax on the ballot in California this November. That's nearly twice the required amount. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Billionaire tax supporters submit signatures to place measure on California's ballot
The proposal, which has divided Democrats in the state, would implement a one-time tax on wealthy Californians if it qualifies for the ballot and is approved by voters in the fall.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Trump has two priorities: Stay out of Prison Take as much money as possible That's all his Presidency is about.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I’m sorry what?? Spencer Pratt is running for Mayor of L.A.? As if our descent to idiocracy could not be more complete 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026
DeLauro gets fed up with Lee Zeldin's arrogance and condescension: "You do not have the right to say climate change does not exist, that it's a hoax! And that's where this administration is coming from ... I don't have to listen to this BS."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/04/2026
Indonesia train crash toll rises to 7, rescuers work to remove trapped passengers reut.rs/4mVsji3
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Indonesia train crash toll rises to 7, rescuers work to remove trapped passengers
The death toll from a train collision in Indonesia has risen to seven with another 81 injured, a railway ​official said on Tuesday, as rescuers worked to extract survivors ‌trapped in the wreckage.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Notice that the Trump regime is not just blaming one violent person for what happened Saturday night. It’s blaming 8 million peaceful “No Kings” protesters as well as you and me posting peacefully on social media. Trump isn't opposed to violence. He's opposed to resistance.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/04/2026
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026
HARDER: What are the health harms of this repeal? ZELDIN: It could be 0 HARDER: You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution is going to result in 0 health harms?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously supported President Trump... “I didn’t think these things existed,” she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. “I thought when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Opponents of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Maryland put their fight on a new billboard. "The sign posted on Dual Highway in Washington County reads, 'ICE Camp is planned 5.6 miles ahead." It adds, “Not in our community'..." www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/b...
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‘Not in our community': Billboard protests Williamsport ICE facility
Opponents of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Maryland put their fight on a new billboard. The sign posted on Dual Highway in Washington County reads, “ICE Camp is planned 5....
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"This is part of a broader national campaign led by Indivisible, with similar billboards going up near detention sites across the country..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/washington...
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Washington County Commissioners Tried to Keep the ICE Detention Center Quiet. We Put It on a Billboard.
Hagerstown Rapid Response and Washington County Indivisible partner with Indivisible.org to take the fight over a proposed ICE detention center public with a new billboard.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"More than 250 people turned out. They held handmade signs with messages that read, “Ban warehouse detention camps” and “This is not okay.” A tuba player joined the protesters as cars drove by and honked in support..." www.abc15.com/news/region-...
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Surprise residents protest planned ICE facility following attorney general lawsuit
One day after the Arizona Attorney General’s Office sued to block a proposed ICE facility in the West Valley, community leaders and residents gathered to protest the facility.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Gainesville, Florida -- www.gainesville.com/picture-gall...
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Protesters rally on University Avenue against ICE detention
Baker Interfaith Friends joins Disappeared in America for a protest opposing ICE warehouse detention as part of a nationwide day of action.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Marietta, Georgia -- "We're absolutely and unequivocally opposed to ICE buying up warehouse space and turning them into human concentration camps..." www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
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Marietta ICE protest draws clashing views as activists decry detention expansion, others defend enforcement
Saturday's "Communities Not Cages" demonstration in Cobb County highlights the deep divide over immigration policy under President Donald Trump.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Romulus, Michigan -- "Hundreds of protesters marched about 1.5 miles from Romulus Middle School to the warehouse on Cogswell Road to protest the Trump Administration's plans to build an immigration detention center in a warehouse near Detroit Metro Airport..." www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Protesters march against ICE plans to build Romulus detention center
People gathered in Romulus on Saturday to protest the U.S. Homeland Security Department's plans to build an immigration detention center in a warehouse near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Salt Lake City, Utah -- "Protesters gathered outside the Governor’s Mansion, voicing their opposition to the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to create a mass ICE detention center at a warehouse southwest of Salt Lake City International Airport..." gephardtdaily.com/local/hundre...
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Hundreds rally yet again in weekend anti-ICE protest outside Utah Governor’s Mansion | Gephardt Daily
The protesters outside the Governor's Mansion Saturday evening held homemade or printed signs, urging passersby to oppose the ICE detention center planned for a warehouse area southwest of the Salt La...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Rochester, New York -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3Y...
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Local protestors speak out against ICE detention center expansions across U.S.
YouTube video by News 8 WROC
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Socorro, Texas -- www.ktsm.com/news/protest... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfUU...
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Protest against immigration detention centers in Borderland
YouTube video by KTSM 9 NEWS
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
San Antonio, Texas -- www.kens5.com/video/news/c...
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Community members rally against planned ICE detention facility on San Antonio’s east side
Protests erupt over a planned ICE warehouse on the west side. Tonight, we hear community concerns and learn more about a fight that could be coming.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known
U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For all the studious, self-serious, resource-sucking attention on every utterance from the president, I'm surprised this one very unique, very consistent tic of his hasn't had more attention: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Expert quits US HIV role, rebukes Trump's global health approach
The chief science officer for the U.S. flagship HIV/AIDS program left his role this week and criticized the Trump administration's cuts ‌to foreign assistance and what he said was its use of aid as le...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Unsafe conditions, intimidation, medical neglect and delays in legal assistance prompted the hunger strike among hundreds of detainees at North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan... "Advocates gathered Sunday outside North Lake in solidarity..." www.axios.com/local/detroi...
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Reported hunger strike renewed at Michigan ICE detention center
An advocacy group says hundreds of detainees were participating as of April 22.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"State law requires a city/county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention. "Advocates say they had no opportunity to raise concerns at public hearings before ICE began using the new site." calmatters.org/justice/2026...
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ICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prison
California Democrats tried to ban companies from turning former private prisons into ICE detention centers. They failed, and now 3 are holding detainees.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Glenwood Springs, Colorado -- "Local residents and advocates have been protesting the ICE facility in Glenwood Springs for months, pressuring the city, the building’s condo owners association and the facility’s landlord to remove ICE from the center..." www.westernslopetrellis.com/as-data-show...
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Glenwood Springs Weighs ICE Facility Permit After Detention Concerns
Glenwood Springs officials recommend upholding an ICE facility permit despite reported detention violations, with new oversight measures under consideration.
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10/11 News @1011now.com · 27/04/2026
Suspect in USF students’ killings asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body, prosecutors say
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Suspect in USF students’ killings asked ChatGPT about disposing of a body, prosecutors say
The suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing, according to a report filed by prosecutors over the weekend.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22/04/2026
Lufthansa will scrub 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on jet fuel, which has doubled in price since the start of the Iran war.
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Lufthansa to Scrub 20,000 Summer Flights to Save on Fuel Costs
Deutsche Lufthansa AG will scrub 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on jet fuel, which has doubled in price since the start of the Iran war.
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Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm Zach Wahls. A sixth-generation Iowan and a new generation of Democrat. And I'm running for U.S. Senate to defeat Joni Ernst.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
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5nark Twain @5narktwain.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#ScientificDecapitation #DV1 #ProudBlue this thread is a continuation of my earlier thread on the disappearances of th enation's top scientists 🧵 in this thread, we explore the UAP/private entity angle Previous thread here: bsky.app/profile/5nar...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not
For the attorneys who helped fuel the president’s efforts to remain in office, the consequences have been severe. Take John Eastman, for example.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Very normal stuff. "Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful... "At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor... www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears
The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.
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La Sanya Rucker @sanacardi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire Source: Fortune share.newsbreak.com/i5v416bb
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Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire - NewsBreak
The top 1% increased their wealth by nearly $34 trillion over the last decade—enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over.
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La Sanya Rucker @sanacardi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
White employees at Tesla factory made ‘gorilla noises’ at Black colleagues, lawsuit says Source: The Independent share.newsbreak.com/i5368cx6
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White employees at Tesla factory made ‘gorilla noises’ at Black colleagues, lawsuit says - NewsBreak
A Black employee at a Tesla plant in Nevada is suing the electric carmaker over what he describes as “ongoing severe, pervasive, race-based discrimination
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/04/2026
DACA protections are important to voters like me. Dreamers are here through no fault of their own. They grew up here, went to school here, built their lives here. They are part of our communities, and they deserve protection. This is where Xavier Becerra actually did the work. 🧵
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@Adventurer56 - Don’t Major in Minor Things! @adventurer56.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..." www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...
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'We are missing data': NWS weather balloon changes scrutinized as tornados hit Midwest
For much of Monday, the agency didn't anticipate a tornado threat for Kansas City — then five hit that evening. Did a change in weather balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"ICE's account does not match the police report or timestamps and content of witness video..." www.wbaltv.com/article/ever...
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