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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When the neighborhood bully meets the real OG . 🤣
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kelstar491011.bsky.social @kelstar491011.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is planning to host a third gala for the top investors of his $TRUMP crypto coin. He and his family have raked in $2.2 billion from their crypto ventures, while their investors have lost almost the same amount. They’ll fleece anyone they can — even their own supporters.
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kelstar491011.bsky.social @kelstar491011.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Nearly 800,000 Louisianians voted yesterday and won, rejecting all five state constitutional amendments put forward by Gov. Jeff Landry...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.
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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector
Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Today is Endangered Species Day. The Trump administration has rolled back protections for: —Wolverines —Sea turtles —Monarch butterflies —Bison —Polar bears —Rice's whales —Alligator snapping turtles —Saltmarsh sparrows —Florida panthers
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.
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kelstar491011.bsky.social @kelstar491011.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “Good Trouble Mass Call: Solidarity with the South” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Good Trouble Mass Call: Solidarity with the South · No Kings
The fight to protect voting rights never ends, and right now, the stakes are high to keep voting power in the hands of the people. We’re witnessing a Jim-Crow era effort from politicians and their b...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...
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DHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detention
The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Translating: The Trump administration is considering settling a lawsuit that Trump filed against the Trump administration (to get a huge payout straight out o from US coffers).
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kelstar491011.bsky.social @kelstar491011.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
💜 The Boss!!!!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A haze of flowering saxifrage... The magic of an Irish rainforest.🌍
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Really, really excited to share our new deep-dive polling on affordability and the economy -- what it means for Americans across the country (and, yes, what the potential political ramifications are.) Main story here: www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...
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‘My life is not affordable. No one cares’: 76% of Americans call the cost of living their biggest financial problem | CNN Politics
CNN’s poll, conducted by SSRS, finds a surge in people naming high prices and the cost of living as the top economic problem facing their own family.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...
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Experts Wonder 'Where Is The CDC?' As A Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds On A Cruise Ship
“The CDC is not even a player," said Lawrence Gostin, an international public health expert at Georgetown University. “I've never seen that before.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
“She is, by her own admission, working on policy that will likely directly impact her own financial interests. And they’re not even trying to hide it..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump official says she’s involved in policy changes that benefit her family’s ranches, video shows
A top Interior Department official acknowledged her involvement in grazing policies that benefited her family’s ranches, while speaking at an event in December.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The House is in such bad legislative shape that Republicans have canceled all votes planned for today. DHS funding / Farm Bill / FISA still stuck without a clear path forward.
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We now live in a world where Americans are being lectured because of their inept leader by the Pope and King Charles.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/04/2026
Australia is proposing to tax digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters.
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Australia moves to tax Meta, Google and TikTok to fund newsrooms
Australia is proposing to tax digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/04/2026
About 6 in 10 U.S adults say they actively try to avoid news stories about President Donald Trump “often” or “sometimes,” a new AP-NORC survey finds.
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Many Democrats are stressed out by the news. They still can't turn away, a new poll finds
A new AP-NORC survey finds that most U.S. adults try to avoid news stories about President Donald Trump at least “sometimes.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him | Robert Reich
The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV vowed to keep working to overcome differences with the worldwide Anglican Communion during a meeting with its first female leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally.
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Pope Leo vows to keep working to overcome differences in meeting with first Anglican female leader
Pope Leo XIV has vowed to keep working to overcome differences with the Anglican Communion. He met Monday with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, the first female leader of the Church of England.
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 27/04/2026
City councilors will consider a proposed expansion of Portland's buffer zone between entertainment venues. www.mainepublic.org/business-and-ec…
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Portland set to consider land use changes that could derail Live Nation music venue
City councilors will consider a proposed expansion of Portland's buffer zone between entertainment venues.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
As Americans continue to speak truth to power in our schools, demand our workplaces refuse to comply with injustices, and defy modern day slave patrols in our streets, #AllOfUs who believe in equality over erasure will march and rally as one on July 27th.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The $2B a day we've spent on Trump's Iran War could have saved 87 million lives, according to an estimate from the UN. Instead of helping save lives, Trump is ending them. The “peace president.”
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US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets
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Maine Public @mainepublic.org · 23/04/2026
The 3-1 vote came after months of pressure from local residents and activists. www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
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Cumberland County commissioners cut ICE from jail contract to hold federal detainees
The 3-1 vote came after months of pressure from local residents and activists.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20/04/2026
The historic midnight ride of Paul Revere is set to be reenacted Monday but with some modern-day tweaks: It will be run in the middle of the day, and the horse and rider will have a police escort.
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Paul Revere's midnight ride to be reenacted — but in broad daylight and with a police escort
The historic midnight ride of Paul Revere is set to be reenacted Monday but with some modern-day tweaks: It will be run in the middle of the day, and the horse and rider will have a police escort.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 20/04/2026
Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL
A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear sprinkled throughout.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..." www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
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Oil company founded by DOE chief Wright paid no US taxes last year
Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This argument was largely based on the work of French philosopher Montesquieu, who argued that without separation of powers, there is no liberty. This principle is also used to criticize the concentration of power in administrative agencies that act as law-maker, enforcer, and judge. As in...
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Institutionalization of Social Murder creates Social Inequality. This Social Inequality creates Oligarchy that swiftly turns into Tyranny.
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AnneNotAnn🦋🐈‍⬛💙 @annenotann.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I feel like people are not understanding that the checks and balances that prevent misuse of power are gone when one party controls all three branches
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
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"I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity
ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Link to the ruling. I am not sure I’ve seen a judicial opinion with this many tweet screenshots in it before storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Opinion and Order – #93 in State of Oregon v. Kennedy (D. Or., 6:25-cv-02409) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER signed on 04/18/2026 by Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai: Defendants' Motion to Dismiss or, in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment (ECF No. 73 ) is DENIED. Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary ...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The days of health insurance companies eating before our families do have got to END. We need Medicare for All. 📍Westland, MI
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Janh1 @janh1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Bore da! It's a sunny Sunday. Here's a Welsh mountain stream from a walk yesterday 💙 Have a lovely day 😎🌼
A stream running through rocks with flowering gorse either side.
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Democrats this weekend: Obama, Mamdani, Jon Ossoff, Pete Buttigieg, and Xavier Becerra. Republicans: drunk Kash Patel joins Kegseth as part of senile felon's Liquor Cabinet. We are definitely not the same.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture ShowTim Curry in ClueTim Curry in The Three MusketeersTim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/04/2026
The prediction that Iran will be America’s next Vietnam is already in general circulation among Americans—and at this point, that “sounds less like a curse than like a relatively optimistic scenario for all involved,” @gcaw.bsky.social argues:
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Iran Could Speedrun the Vietnamese Path
Let’s hope so.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/04/2026
Pope Leo “may not be Trump’s greatest opponent, as some of the president’s critics had hoped,” Francis X. Rocca argues. “But neither is he the quiet bystander that the president’s supporters might have wished him to be.”
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The Iran War Showed a New Side of Pope Leo
Don’t call him the quiet pope anymore.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.
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867-5309 @jennbrown.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I wish I enjoyed Dave Matthews Band music as much as their politics. But one outta two ain’t bad
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The President of the United States calling NATO a paper tiger is Soviet propaganda and I hope someone is writing all this shit down for later
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD…
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29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/04/2026
The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said Saturday that two gunboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran said it has reimposed restrictions on the vital waterway. Follow AP's live updates.
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Live updates: Trump hints at resuming attacks if ceasefire with Iran expires without a deal
U.S. President Donald Trump says the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain and attacks will resume if no agreement is reached with Iran, after Tehran said it had fully reopened the strait to commercial vessels but threatened to close it again.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/04/2026
French president Emmanuel Macron said one soldier was killed and three others were injured on Saturday morning during an attack against UNIFIL, the multinational U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
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Live updates: Iranian gunboats fire on tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran reimposes restrictions
Trump says the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain and attacks will resume if no agreement is reached with Iran.
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