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Ruben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vote November 3rd Public Servants Not Kings #USDemocracy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FLORIDA — @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon ♥️ : “I was a single mom for 12 years. I struggled. I was able to purchase a home for me and my daughter because the government did the right thing… Trump cut those programs. Those lived experiences are why I fight. You got me crying on TV.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Our reporting found that in Arkansas, one private school continued to operate even though the founder served jail time for permitting child abuse. Join us Oct. 6 at 4 pm ET for a discussion about the changing private school landscape: events.propublica.org/wild-west-sch…
Virtual Event: The Wild West of School Vouchers. Join us to discuss how a surge in public funding is changing the private school landscape and what it means for families. Tuesday, Oct. 6. 4 p.m. EST. Illustration: A giant orange pencil points up and to the right. In the background is a pattern made up of gray school chairs.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 03/10/2026
The White House stole official government funds to create and televise a campaign advertisement, right before the midterm election. If Democrats take control of the House next year, the Appropriations Committee and I are ready to undo this waste, fraud, and abuse, and hold people accountable.
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Lawmakers call for action on ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote Trump
House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for president’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Remember that at this very moment Greg Abbott is trying to protect the mass deportation agents currently terrorizing Texans and community members all over this country.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
NEW: Just got a lovely email from the Alex Vindman campaign asking us to UNITE behind Angie Nixon and to donate in support of her campaign. Thank you, @avindman.bsky.social! You can contribute here: angienixon.com
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 20/08/2026
The group’s main advocacy work has been to defeat the Credit Card Competition Act, a bill that aims to break up Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly by forcing credit card issuers to provide merchants with competitor payment processing networks so they can choose the option with lower fees. buff.ly/LZefd30
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The Credit Card Operative Helping Shape Democratic Primaries - The American Prospect
Peter Kauffmann, vice chair for VoteVets, which has raised $20 million to spend in primaries on mostly moderate candidates this year, is running a front group fighting to keep credit card fees high.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The Islamophobia we're seeing is not organic... it is used cynically by Republicans to distract... because it is used as a tool to manipulate public opinion." I was on @msnownews.bsky.social with @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talking about the GOP's anti-Muslim attacks on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social:
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/07/2026
Florida has ranked last in the country in the availability of home health care workers. Experts warn that the revocation of Haitian citizens' temporary protected status will only worsen this crisis. "In the end, the patients most likely to bear the brunt of the end of TPS are the elderly."
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Florida’s nursing homes are bracing for life without Haitian TPS workers
The Supreme Court ended their legal status. Patients will pay the price.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump blowing up his own ceasefire is the latest evidence that his "short-term excursion" in Iran has become a forever war. Senator Bernie Sanders warned of exactly this a decade ago.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)
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Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again. (Published Nov. 2025 w/ @startribune.com)
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is about to sign a voter suppression law. Super lawyer Marc Elias is ready to file a lawsuit to stop it: “Florida will be sued.” 🍿
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2026
BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/03/2026
2.8 million public school teacher salaries 2,857 luxury 737 jets, bedroom included 2,666 Melania sequels 1.4 years worth of annual ACA subsidies, 10 years of paid family leave funding Approximately 1 tank of gas, when this is all over
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Trump wants $200 billion for bombs. Here's what that could buy instead.
7 years of free school lunches. 3 years of Medicare dental coverage. 2,000 Trump heads on Mt. Rushmore.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd
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Join me at the next No Kings Day
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/03/2026
NEW: David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for DHS while the Trump administration is relitigating the president’s baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.
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This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.
David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration is relitigating the presiden...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 13/03/2026
If we kill innocent people with impunity, some of the family members of the people we kill will want to kill us back. And that's how cycles of violence go on for generations. That's why the obligation to stop the violence always rests on the folks with the bigger guns.
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Nick Wilson @nickbwilson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Glock pistol used in deadly shooting at Old Dominion University was illegally sold to shooter, a convicted felon under probation, by a man federal ATF agents knew was selling guns illegally. He previously received a "warning letter" & had to write an apology. It's time to enforce our gun laws
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hillary Clinton never even met Jeffrey Epstein, but was forced to testify about him. #CoverUp
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote. “[The government] knows this.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
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Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2026
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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kadougherty.bsky.social @kadougherty.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
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[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union · MoveOn
At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and t...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.
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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Minneapolis protesters arrested during one-month anniversary of Renee Good’s death
Several demonstrators taken into custody Saturday after marking killing of Minnesota woman by immigration officer
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
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Erin 🦆 @erninlow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
So vote no. Everyone needs to vote no
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/01/2026
ICE can't seem to stop shooting people.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/01/2026
The suspiciously lucky account, created on December 27, has only bet on two things: the U.S. invading Venezuela, and its president, Nicolás Maduro, being forced out of leadership by January 31. In less than a day, the mysterious user made over $400,000. trib.al/4rnJbxR
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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