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Kathy Mattsson

@kathymattsson.bsky.social
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Life long Democrat, NEVER a Trump supporter! All MAGA will be blocked. Tran’s Rights Are Human Rights Love is not a crime! BLM

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Joe1973 @nefeerr2.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The Republican Party supports and encourages Nazis.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents apnews.com/article/dani...
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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents
President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents who were investigating a tip t...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Some States Are Turning Miscarriages and Stillbirths Into Criminal Cases Against Women How a person handles a pregnancy loss — and where it occurs — can be the difference between a private medical issue and facing criminal charges. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/10/31/s...
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How Some States Turn Pregnancy Loss Into Criminal Cases Against Women
How a person handles a pregnancy loss — and where it occurs — can be the difference between a private medical issue and facing criminal charges.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Trump says United States doesn’t have talented people to fill jobs domestically www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Trump says United States doesn’t have talented people to fill jobs domestically | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday night the United States doesn’t have talented workers to fill jobs needed domestically, defending the H1-B skilled worker visa p...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Fact check: Trump’s lying spree about inflation www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Fact check: Trump’s lying spree about inflation | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump went on a lying spree about inflation last week.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
FACTCHECK POSTS Trump Falsely Claims Democrats Want $1.5 Trillion for ‘Illegal Aliens’ www.factcheck.org/2025/11/trum...
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Trump Falsely Claims Democrats Want $1.5 Trillion for 'Illegal Aliens' - FactCheck.org
Over the course of the six-week shutdown — which may be ending soon — President Donald Trump has repeatedly made the false claim that Democrats "want $1.5 trillion for health care for illegal aliens."
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.allrisenews.com/p/vets-say-n...
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'Vets Say No': Protesting Trump's 'moral injury' on troops in U.S. cities
Courts and veterans are pushing back on Trump's self-styled war on blue cities.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Two Signs That Democrats Flipped Trump Supporters on Tuesday It wasn’t just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Two Signs That Democrats Flipped Trump Supporters on Tuesday
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force www.propublica.org/article/memp...
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“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...
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Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertio...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents…..Some citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Noem watched. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Ignoring evidence, Kristi Noem says no citizens have been detained by immigration agents
Noem’s comments might’ve appeared encouraging to those who don’t know better, but there’s ample evidence to suggest she was lying.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
abovethelaw.com/2025/10/trum...
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Trump Floods The Zone, Swamping This Story - Above the Law
Has the Trump administration hit the immoral trifecta?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Lofgren: Now, instead of the president weighing in, we’ve got him doing weird little dances as he lands in Asia, and he’s missing in action. The Senate is refusing to negotiate across party lines, and the House of Representatives isn’t even meeting. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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'Newsom Flags Telltale Sign Trump's Doctors Are Worried' and Then Some
You would be plenty worried if you had a patient like the one you're about to read about. What to do, hypothetically speaking, if you had a 79-year-old patient, who self-identified as weighing 239 lbs...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence
The former New York congressman had been sentenced to seven years in prison. In a social media post, Trump said his commutation would release Santos from prison "immediately."
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Northshore La” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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NO KINGS Northshore La · Indivisible
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** ## 🔥 PROTEST & RALLY — NO KINGS 2: POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🔥 📅 OCTOBER 18, 2025 📍 PROTEST & RALLY — Location: Zemurray Park, 400 S Oak St, Ha...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
VIOLENCE AT PORTLAND’S ICE FACILITY IS COMING FROM ONE SIDE: THE OFFICERS!! therealnews.com/violence-at-...
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Violence at Portland’s ICE facility is coming from one side: the officers
“People of all ages showed up on Sunday, some of which had a small picket line going, others blowing bubbles and using their voices to condemn [law enforcement’s] behavior. But it doesn’t matter what ...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The government shutdown, led by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, has frozen military pay, leaving active-duty military families wondering how they will pay their mortgages, feed their kids, and afford life-saving medicine. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Shutdown Is Wreaking Havoc on Military Families and Veterans
The Trump administration is using the government shutdown to lay off federal workers, while leaving active-duty military wondering about their pay.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mass Coral Die-Offs Confirm First Breach of a Major Climate Tipping Point
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues Trump administration over First Amendment threats in Chicago www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats
David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This isn't a functioning democracy any longer when — in the middle of a high stakes funding fight Trump illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats to punish the political opposition www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
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The Energy Department canceled billions in funding. Democrats say it's retribution
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Surreal Moment for America’: ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building​ “We’re under siege,” said one witness. “We’re being invaded by our own military.” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-rai...
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'Surreal Moment for America': ICE Agents in Chicago Drag Children Out of Their Homes, Ransack Building​ | Common Dreams
Federal law enforcement officials in Chicago conducted a controversial raid, dragging residents, including children, from their homes.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We're Being Ruled Over by the World's Biggest Losers They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up. www.discourseblog.com/p/were-being...
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We're Being Ruled Over by the World's Biggest Losers
They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-...
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GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The sleeping giant always remains asleep until some venality becomes so noxious, some action so disrespectful of the common good, some brutality so noisy, that he has no choice but to awaken. www.alternet.org/sleeping-gia...
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Trump finally awaken the sleeping giant  — and now he's roaring and stomping
I can’t tell you exactly how I know but after sixty years in and around politics I’ve developed a sixth sense, and my sixth sense tells me the tide is now turning on Trump.This past week did it. On Mo...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Disney only brought him back because the public backlash hit their wallets. Their stock tanked. Their execs got exposed. This wasn’t justice. It was damage control. KEEP IT UP!!! www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel...
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'They failed': Trump ridiculed for failing to take down Jimmy Kimmel
Disney announced on Monday that it screwed up when it suspended late-night ABC host Jimmy Kimmel "indefinitely." It isn't a shocking announcement, Dylan Byers from Puck News told MSNBC after the news ...
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
(1,3) With a government shutdown looming, I would like to give some free advice to the @senatedems25.bsky.social. STOP SHOWING UP AT THE DC OFFICE. The current occupant of the White House already instructed the @senategop.govpeeps.us to not talk with you or negotiate with you.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
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Luke Johnson @ljohnson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration" www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Based on government and independent analyses, right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001 www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence, data shows
Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the United States. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government’s annual report on hunger in America The tax and spending cuts bill Republicans muscled through Congress in July means 3 million people would not qualify for food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits. apnews.com/article/trum...
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After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America
The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies.″ The decision comes two and a hal...
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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert has done the morally right thing- unwilling to fabricate false charges against @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Letitia James, he resigned as #47 was pressuring him. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...
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U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes Resigns After President Seeks to Oust Him
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Rep. Johnson To Chief Justice Roberts: Democracy Under Category Six Code Red, Six-Alarm Fire
'My hope is waning. Time is running out for hope, for justice, and for democracy itself'
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is what it looks like when a society’s elite rolls over in the face of authoritarianism. It never ends well. www.vox.com/politics/461...
vox.com
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
MAGA organizer calls for 500,000 people to be “possibly killed” in response to Charlie Kirk murder www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/maga...
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MAGA organizer calls for 500,000 people to be "possibly killed" in response to Charlie Kirk murder - LGBTQ Nation
He wants Trump to "avenge his friend" Charlie Kirk and start mass arrests with a possible death penalty.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These numbers show Charlie Kirk's 'American Comeback' relied on lies of the morbidly rich www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
rawstory.com
These numbers show Charlie Kirk's 'American Comeback' relied on lies of the morbidly rich
When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he was sitting under a tent that had “The American Comeback Tour” printed in huge letters across all four sides. It was the theme of his tour of college campuses, a...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2025
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
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Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, truly just a group of Americans who love Israel? Or does it wield undue influence on US politicians? #AIPAC #IsraelLobby #USElections #ForeignPo...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Trump violated law for sixth time in withholding FEMA funds floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/16/r...
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Watchdog agency says Trump violated law for sixth time in withholding FEMA funds • Florida Phoenix
WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office released a report Monday concluding the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated the law “when it withheld or delayed the obligation o...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Russia operates 'potentially unprecedented system' holding Ukrainian children in 210 facilities, Yale researchers say
"The impact of the alleged crimes perpetuated by the Russian government is likely to leave generational scars," Yale researchers said, adding that Russia "aims to foldUkraine's children into the Russi...
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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‘I’m not familiar’: Three months later, the White House struggles with Minnesota killings
It’s worth appreciating the differences between the president’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death and how he responded to Melissa Hortman’s.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Trump’s cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...
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Analysis: Trump’s cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric | CNN Politics
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s plea for people to stop turning Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a political food fight appear to have fallen on deaf ears among many on the right.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The right laughs at trans people’s deaths but demands people be sad over Charlie Kirk A hierarchy of the value of people's lives is inherent to the authoritarian project, and the GOP is using its power to make everyone comply. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/the-...
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The right laughs at trans people's deaths but demands people be sad over Charlie Kirk - LGBTQ Nation
A hierarchy of the value of people's lives is inherent to the authoritarian project, and the GOP is using its power to make everyone comply.
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Kathy Mattsson @kathymattsson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Pentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strike Nick Turse • 1d The Trump Administration is Lawless and Out of Control. What will it take for Republicans to pick country over party? theintercept.com/2025/09/15/v...
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Pentagon Barred Senior House Staffers From Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strike
A former Pentagon official says “U.S. forces went out and committed murder" in the drone strike off the coast of Venezuela.
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