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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It feels weird to celebrate our independence as a nation, when it’s pretty clear we are losing it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
President Donald Trump said the Pentagon wants congressional Republicans to include anti-voting restrictions from the SAVE America Act in a multibillion-dollar defense bill. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump claims military is gunning for extreme anti-voting SAVE America Act
He claimed the Pentagon wants Congress to include anti-voting restrictions in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/04/2026
Sweet Jesus. The taxpayers just gifted $1.25M to this asshole. KBJ was right when she said the Oval Office would become the seat of criminality in America if Roberts granted Trump immunity.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
All of this is worrisome. And now Palantir is so integrated into gov it'll be hard to get them out. "The way in which Palantir grew caused unease within its own ranks. A year ago, some former Palantir employees wrote an open letter about the violation of the company’s prior ethical guardrails."
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
He's a madman. The world faces no greater threat than Donald Trump. www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-ju...
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How Trump Just Proved He Is the Worst of the Worst
The clock is ticking on whether Trump goes through with his threat to commit war crimes. He’s already shown the depths of his depravity.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The US military is well on its way to becoming a partisan political rogue federal agency just like all the others, largely because retired Republican veterans in Congress and elsewhere betray their oaths to the Constitution by remaining silent.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: During a rambling rehash of false assertions of voter fraud, President Donald Trump claimed that Republicans will never lose an election “for 50 years” if his allies in Congress pass the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump says Republicans will ‘never lose a race’ if Congress restricts voting
“We'll never lose a race. For 50 years, we won't lose a race.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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Adele M. Stan @addiestan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Impossible without high levels of corruption within a corrupt system
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Donald Trump is: - Openly racist - Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children - Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state - Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders - Polling at 38% amongst the American people
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Epstein ran an enormous pedophile racket for 3 decades for the very rich & powerful. 1,000 victims are recorded. This involved rape & more. No single American has been charged. The US would benefit from having some rule of law also for its pedophile elite.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
President Trump has made $4 billion by illegally trading access to the White House to get rich. He controls the Dept of Justice and the Congress so he won't be held accountable - until he doesn't control the Dept of Justice and Congress.
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Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners. Decide. Who are you?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Republican lawmakers are doing what they've done for the last decade: whispering to each other that the head of their party is unhinged and frightening, then acting in public as if everything is just fine. They are cowards who have sold out their country.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
DOJ is trying to block an independent monitor for the Epstein files, arguing courts can’t enforce the Epstein Transparency Act and lawmakers lack standing. Their position amounts to no court can force the DOJ to release the records.
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DOJ Moves to Block Independent Monitor in Maxwell Case, Says Courts Cannot Force Epstein File Disclosures
DOJ Tells Court It Cannot Be Forced to Release Epstein Files
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Note this: ICE agents are already used to acting with little oversight as their targets are powerless. Now with Trump, Noem, Vance saying Renee Good's killing was okay they'll think they have full impunity. On the pod, @timdickinson.bsky.social explains this so well: newrepublic.com/article/2052...
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Trump Shooting Horror Takes Darker Turn as Damning Info on ICE Emerges
As Trump spins the Minneapolis shooting while new reporting indicts ICE’s recklessness, a reporter who attended protests explains how Trumpworld is using the shooting to deliberately antagonize blue A...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
One agent literally moves to stand in front of the vehicle (she has no other way to move) and two more agents, including the one who shot her, approach the vehicle. Those are not the actions of people who have a reasonable belief that they are in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After the indefensible shooting of Renee Nicole Good, ICE agents refused to let a physician treat her at the scene. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Noem on Mayor Frey: "He doesn't know what he's talking out. It's very clear that this individual was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations. This officer followed his training, did exactly what he's been taught to do in that situation."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2049...
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Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/01/2026
Tim Walz dropping out of the race for a third term is the direct result of Republican threats to kill his entire family after they had already murdered one of his state’s representative and her husband. — Anyone still believe both parties are the same?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The media need to stop beating their chests about how powerful our military is. It's a point of pride when your country has a strong military that keeps the peace. It's a source of shame when politicians turn your strong military into an international armed robbery gang.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear: If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison. And he should be.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
How sick must a man be that on the day a family loses a 35-year-old mother, daughter and sister from cancer he aggressively attacks the family with relish?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“EVERY ADMINISTRATION LEAVES ITS MARK on the US military…But this past year will be remembered for something different: an erosion of the professional, legal, and ethical guardrails that have guided, protected, and enhanced America’s armed forces for generations.” www.thebulwark.com/p/american-m...
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It Was a Bad Year for the American Military
No one should be surprised.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Forget Trump's nonsense. Voting by mail is safe and secure. Period. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
ICE is buying millions of dollars’ worth of new surveillance tools at the same time Trump has scaled back protections for use of civilian data — a combination that could lead to a vast expansion of domestic surveillance that goes far beyond immigrants. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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ICE taps new surveillance tech as Trump cuts down privacy protections
ICE ramps up its tech contracting in a year when Trump has rolled back several government oversight measures.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
So, you ask, if they can’t just do a simple thing like release the files as the law requires, how can we trust them to do hard things like run the economy and keep us safe? The answer, of course, is that we can’t. We can never trust they can and will do the right thing.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...
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Why the Epstein Coverup Matters
In free societies, government coverups are difficult. In authoritarian ones, they’re routine.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 21/12/2025
Authoritarianism isn’t subtle. It’s a president joking about paying himself $1 billion from the public treasury and expecting subordinates to make it happen. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
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Trump Brags About Suing the Government and Declares, ‘I Hereby Give Myself $1 Billion’
Speaking at a rally on Friday night, President Donald Trump bragged about his demand that the U.S. government give him a huge payout, and said he would be the ultimate arbiter of whether he will recei...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
We will never be able to put our country back together until we prosecute those who are breaking the law multiple times a day. It’s what should have happened four years ago and it is a huge part of the reason we are in this mess today.
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Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 19/12/2025
The Trump family has amassed a $4 billion fortune since his re-election. During my time as Ambassador, I was accused of "focusing too intensely on the issue of corruption." There's no such thing. We need leaders who serve the people — not themselves. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The US voted with Russia, China and N. Korea against most of the civilized world. This is where we are at.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*
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