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Kevin Litke

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As everywhere else in my life, I’m just lurking here.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death
After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
eric schmitt screen grab
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mike Rogers was a leading advocate for boosting opioid prescriptions. He took over $1M from Big Pharma. He has always prioritized personal profit over the health and safety of Michiganders. That's not public safety. Watch our new ad, "Safe."
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Semi driver stops filling up his tank when it hits $1,000 "Almost thirty years of driving trucks and that's a first"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As Health Director for Wayne County, we put vending machines with free Narcan and fentanyl test strips in 100 locations. We hoped to make even a small dent in offsetting the opioid epidemic that Mike Rogers made even worse by voting with the pharmaceutical industry his entire career in Congress.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Jack White is already paying tribute to Dolly Parton with a cover of Jolene in London
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Laura Veach @phoenixg75.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Far too many Texans have been left behind by Greg Abbott. Data centers taking over rural communities, neighborhood schools closing, & working parents can't afford healthcare. It doesn't have to be this way. For anyone looking to break rank, I hope you'll join our fight. Vote Gina Hinojosa 2026💙
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Tornado
Alt: Texas state flag rippling in a strong wind
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 26/08/2026
Maine deserves better than 6 more years of Susan Collins! Nearly 30 years in DC. Too many votes for the GOP agenda while Mainers were told she was “concerned.” Troy Jackson is a logger, former Maine Senate President & fighter for working people. Choose TROY JACKSON on Nov3rd #TroyJackson #SheShed
Maine deserves better than 6 more years of Susan Collins!

Nearly 30 years in DC. Too many votes for the GOP agenda while Mainers were told she was “concerned.”

Troy Jackson is a logger, former Maine Senate President & fighter for working people.

Choose TROY JACKSON on Nov 3rd
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Climate change recognized in 1912
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Y’all…. Let’s find this guy, Nashville… nobody messes with Dolly… @tizzyent.bsky.social @five_spot
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No to any election deniers. No to attempting to hand in FAKE ELECTORAL SLATES. That's a double-edged sword....hurts us all. Hurts the states and the country as a whole. WIN ON MERIT/the people's votes, not cheating. Thankful Mike Pence is loyal to democracy and denied corruption.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Federal officials say a hacking campaign targeting water systems in at least seven states likely originated in Iran. The so-called president’s response: “I think Minnesota is behind it. I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
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🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP CANUCK! 🇨🇦 @comeoncomet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Another buy a pardon deal... disgusting!
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
HOLY SHIT. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the USA game, sitting with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce AND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Disgusting.
pic of the two mentioned smiling at the USA game
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ossoff: While the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself. While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold. Where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick…
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 08/06/2026
A recent report from the ADL exposes the role of big-tech company Cloudflare in supporting websites that have been linked to violent extremism. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The Big-Tech Company Supporting Hate
A recent report from the ADL exposes the role of big-tech company Cloudflare in supporting websites that have been linked to violent extremism.
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Trinnitie Mimi Hyovalti @tmh76.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ken Paxton’s ”corruption is also making Texans less safe. Just this week, Ken Paxton released Adam Hoffman — a self-admitted child sex abuser — from jail after one of Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.” jamestalarico.substack.com/p/meet-our-o...
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Meet our opponent: Ken Paxton
He is the most corrupt politician in America, and it isn’t even close.
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Kevin C. O’Neil @kevinconeil.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ohio gave Meta, Google, and Amazon a sales tax break for data centers. It was supposed to cost $136 million in 2025. It cost $1.6 billion. Gov. DeWine vetoed the legislature's attempt to end it, insisting the tax exemption is needed to lure data center developers. signalohio.org/ohio-data-ce...
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Ohio data center tax break cost $1 billion more than expected in 2025 - Signal Ohio
Ohio’s biggest tax break for data centers is more expensive than once thought. A lot more expensive.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/05/2026
Dear Americans: GIven that now the “opp research” on Graham Platner includes what he talked about on deployment, you may want to dig deeper on how troops talk in war. Don’t. You’d never understand unless you served. And I would not want it to be ANY different.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Overall abortion rates have increased since Dobbs, but abortions for medical reasons have become more difficult to access. Horror stories of women dying, nearly dying, or birthing dying children have been reported on a regular basis in states with abortion bans. archive.is/XRRNo
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Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.
Abortion bans are failing.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Jim Jordan is commenting on Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct allegations. Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State while team doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 athletes. Multiple wrestlers testified under oath they told Jordan. He did nothing. He was never charged.
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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power. There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12/04/2026
The Iran war’s disruption of Middle East oil and gas supplies is driving countries toward renewable energy, boosting demand for Chinese technology.
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An Iran War Winner: China’s Green Industrial Complex
Beijing’s push to sell its solar and wind power to the world has gained momentum from troubles in the Middle East.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 08/04/2026
President Trump’s bombing campaign against Iran is yielding a windfall for some of America’s top oil CEOs. Energy executives sold stock worth $1.4 billion in the first quarter on the back of a historic shock to the world’s crude supplies. on.wsj.com/4tvoUbW
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Oil CEOs Raked in Money From Trump’s Iran War
Energy executives sold stock worth $1.4 billion in the first quarter on the back of a historic shock to the world’s crude supplies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/04/2026
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/03/2026
The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts and food shortages. It is also upending the island’s universal health care system, which is struggling to provide even basic medical care. nyti.ms/4bTFJ9p
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Congresswoman Susie Lee @susielee.house.gov · 23/03/2026
Make no mistake. TSA workers could get paid tomorrow, but Trump said no.   We have a bipartisan solution to pay TSA workers, members of the Coast Guard, and every other DHS employee except ICE. Trump rejected the offer. Let that sink in.
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Trump rejects off-ramp to fund DHS as airport delays worsen
Under a proposal pitched to Trump, Republicans would offer to reopen all of DHS except ICE and fund the controversial enforcement agency under a separate party-line budget bill.
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Harrassin Ford @youwerewarned.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the President of the United States. Happy 250 years of independence. 🤦‍♂️
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists & will persist.”
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The Military-Industrial Complex Speech (1961)
National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for The Military-Industrial Complex Speech (1961)
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/03/2026
In her second day of hearings before Congress, Kristi Noem refused during a House Judiciary Committee hearing to acknowledge that federal agents have and continue to violently detain US citizens in Minnesota and across the country. Forget about that, Noem suggested—blame Democrats.
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Kristi Noem doubles down on the violence
Speaking before Congress, the DHS secretary blamed Democrats for federal agents' misconduct.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/03/2026
Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie has said the war 'won't make the Epstein files go away'.
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Analyst says interest in Epstein files plummeted after war on Iran launched
Republican US Congressman Thomas Massie has said the war 'won't make the Epstein files go away'.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/03/2026
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it not with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones. n.pr/4lcJ9bF
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WATCH: How traffic dried up in the Strait of Hormuz since the Iran war began
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it not with a naval blockade, but with cheap drones.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/03/2026
When former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by Trump, there was a detainer in place that could’ve landed him in ICE custody like countless other immigrants. But the Federal Bureau of Prisons scrambled to get his detainer removed so he could walk free.
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Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/03/2026
The U.S. campaign in Iran has already expended thousands of high-cost air defense missiles and other sophisticated munitions, just days into the conflict.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. burns through precision munitions, air defense interceptors in Iran
The U.S. campaign in Iran has already expended hundreds of high-cost air defense missiles and thousands of other munitions just days into the conflict.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/03/2026
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found. After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis. (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/03/2026
How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation ft.trib.al/gemBmLZ
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How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation
Modified images of strikes circulate as fighting intensifies across the Middle East
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department
“Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/03/2026
GOP, you good with this?
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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
an important one by @justsamironly.bsky.social www.stlmag.com/news/city-ju...
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Two-day jail stay on misdemeanor charge was harrowing for transgender detainee
Conditions in the City Justice Center were reportedly dire for Archer Mallon, a non-binary transgender person held there for more than two days on misdemeanor charges stemming from a dispute with a la...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
NEW: The federal prison staffing shortage, exacerbated by corrections officers fleeing to ICE jobs, has contributed to more lockdowns, more violence and less access to recidivism-reducing programs, the lawmakers noted in their letter to the BOP director. By @keribla.bsky.social
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Democrats Demand Answers for Federal Prison Staffing Shortage After Corrections Officers Flee for ICE Jobs
Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditi...
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