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Popular Information @popular.info · 27/07/2026
Amazon and Walmart are two of the largest and most profitable companies in the country — collectively generating $100 billion in profits in 2025 — but many of their employees still qualify for Medicaid because their take-home pay hovers around (or below) the poverty line.
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Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/05/2026
And the public may never know who their money was spent on.
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Trump just gave himself a $1.8 billion slush fund to reward his friends
We don't know whether there was a settlement deal or what was in it—and that's the problem.
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Politico @politico.com · 13/05/2026
White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
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White House cuts $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz has repeatedly targeted the state over hospice care.
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/05/2026
Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less
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Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less
As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/05/2026
NEW: The RNC announced it is deploying “poll watchers” to at least 17 states in what it calls a nationwide “election integrity” operation for the midterms. The move comes as the GOP intensifies attacks on voting access, fair maps and election results in key states.
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Republicans launch election monitoring operation in 17 states ahead of midterms
The RNC has not named the 17 states, but the RNC chair described the deployment as part of a broader strategy to maintain Republican control of Congress after 2026.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Even FOX can't hide this reality. Pay attention to what is happening in Louisiana. Canceling the election is going to be his only option. Start preparing NOW!!! WE THE PEOPLE WILL VOTE!!!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 22/04/2026
Newly released documents show the Trump administration set up a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in anonymous private donations to fund a planned White House ballroom, while limiting the scope of federal conflict-of-interest ‌reviews tied to the project reut.rs/3OERZCT
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Trump ballroom deal shields donor identities, limits conflict safeguards, contract shows
Newly released documents show the Trump administration set up a legal framework allowing hundreds of millions of ​dollars in anonymous private donations to fund a planned White House ballroom, while l...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 24/02/2026
The Federal Trade Commission accused Pepsi and Walmart of conspiring to drive up grocery prices. The Trump administration killed the lawsuit. Both of Ohio's candidates for U.S. Senate in 2026 declined to talk about it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/24/t...
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Trump axed a probe into grocery collusion. Ohio's U.S. Senate candidates won't talk about it • Ohio Capital Journal
The Federal Trade Commission accused Pepsi and Walmart of conspiring to drive up grocery prices. The Trump administration killed the lawsuit. Both of Ohio's candidate for U.S. Senate in 2026 declined…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/02/2026
he's stealing billions of dollars of taxpayer money for his personal slush fund the most corrupt, criminal administration in history and despite how high a bar that is it isn't particularly close
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 17/02/2026
The Epstein files are full of rich and powerful men spouting theories about population decline, the supposed inferiority of nonwhite people, and what rights women should and shouldn’t have. These theories are bigoted and evil, but they are also very very dumb. bit.ly/3ZCT8gn
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Epstein Class Clowns
One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: The rich and powerful just aren't all that bright.
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Popular Information @popular.info · 17/02/2026
“Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully… Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.”
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 17/02/2026
For generations, Border Patrol has maintained a high presence in South Texas and has operated with minimal oversight and accountability, shaping a culture in which terrorizing immigrants & their families has become part of our daily life. Now this culture is being exported to the rest of the U.S,
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My Home Is Treated Like a War Zone. That Militarization Expanded to Minnesota.
There have been many violent murders at the hands of Border Patrol agents. This is not an aberration but part of a broader federal apparatus built and refined over decades.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Far too many ICE agents are lawless, cruel and despicable bullies.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I suspect it's because they think all video will be replaced by AI in the next couple years
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
the Eugene Police Department narrative that protesters broke a window and attempted to enter the federal building is a lie. The entire basis on which they declared a riot and CBP justified its later escalation was a lie.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
This new file released appears to show Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick discussing visiting Epstein's island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he cut off ties around 2005 with Epstein after being revolted by him.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/01/2026
NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...
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Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island
Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
These Epstein files are pretty bad. Time for some distraction bombing?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/01/2026
"Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform" from Admiral Bill McRaven www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Never Fight Alone
Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.
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Logan M. Davis @loganmdavis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This will be, or should be, featured in a million campaign ads
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erl-king.bsky.social @erl-king.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Hey, young people! Fuck your dream of homeownership. Gotta keep house values high for them that’s got.”
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Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There's really something going on here. They know they have a huge economic problem looming. This explains the Fed's fights, its obsession with interest rates, and its limiting of Wall Street investments in single-family housing. They are looking at every gimmicky way to goose the economy.
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BooooonetteWreck @brunettewreck.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I think not enough white people are taking the voting rights issues seriously enough. They are killing people and then offering to stop killing if the state gives up the voter registration data. This should be setting off massive alarms for EVERYONE. (I’m looking at you, white people.)
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The World @theworld.org · 27/01/2026
Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation.
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China's stunning military purge - The World from PRX
Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who spe...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2026
Social media posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song associated with far-right extremist groups.
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Trump Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown. It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In Chicago Tribune editorial: "This is an inevitable consequence of both political parties, fearful of their extremes, punting for years on an immigration policy." Not in the editorial: Trump ordered Republicans to kill a bipartisan immigration bill in 2024 so he could use the issue to get elected.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In news from the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reports Israeli soldiers are forcing Palestinians to evacuate a number of buildings, including schools and kindergartens, in the town of Kafr Aqab amid escalating Israeli raids across the West Bank.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday that it will continue to endorse vaccines protecting kids against 18 potentially life-threatening diseases, such as Covid, the flu, hepatitis A and B and measles.
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Doctors break with CDC on vaccine guidance for children
The leading group of pediatricians in the U.S. continues to recommend kids get shots to protect them from 18 diseases.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Israelis forcibly displace over 37,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem in a single year, murder at least 1,109 and injure or maim nearly 11,000 www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260126-ove...
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Over 37,000 Palestinians displaced last year in occupied West Bank in all-time high: UN
More than 37,000 Palestinians were displaced in the occupied West Bank in 2025, a record high amid unprecedented levels of illegal Israeli settler violence, the UN warned on Monday, citing new figu…
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Munga @globalcitizen1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: State election leaders and voting rights advocates across the country are blasting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for exploiting the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer to “blackmail” Minnesota into handing over access to its unredacted voter rolls.
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‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders
“This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan www.juancole.com/2026/01/bone...
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Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - In an interview with Fox "News" in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald J. Trump a.k.a. "Old Bonespurs" and "Five-time-Deferment," smeared the European NATO soldiers ...
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Marc Heberden 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🌊 @mheb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I'm at a loss for words. I'm glad someone else has them.
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🌬CasuallyLucid🌀 @casuallylucid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson..." and more. Trump treated them to a special screening of MELANIA. 🤮 They do not care about human life. The appearance of care is always for the stock price. They will always celebrate our losses as their wins. #Pinks
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Billionaire CEOs Party With Trump and Melania After His Goons Kill Nurse
Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to the White House on the same day a Border Patrol agent shot a Veterans Affairs nurse dead in Minneapolis.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Kristi Noem just said Alex Pretti showed up looking to commit murder. Yet again she's viciously smearing an innocent person and lying to pretend he's a terrorist after he was viciously gunned down by Gestapo thugs. These people are irredeemable criminals and they need to be locked up.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
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LivingTheDream @adosis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Unbelievable decades of work snuffed out in less than a year. Between this and its withdrawal from the WHO, changes to vaccine mandates and the belief in science proven protocols. One has to ask what the goal is? This is purposeful, so what’s the end game?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
!!!! "Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN
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