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@ksaustin.bsky.social
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Writer, editor and news junkie. Fluent in AP Style, redhead and mama bear. Don’t panic—“Make good trouble.” ☮️💙🌎 #Angret

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 18/02/2026
John Lewis knew that progress doesn’t come from comfort. It comes from people willing to stand up, speak out, and make good trouble. He did it when it was dangerous. He did it when it mattered. Congressman. Civil rights icon and voting rights champion who changed history. Black History. Always. 🖤
Black-and-white historical photograph of civil rights marchers walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis appears near the front wearing a trench coat and tie, surrounded by fellow activists. Overlaid text at the bottom reads: “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” — John Lewis.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026
They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Christian Nationalists are treating the Epstein files like they treat their Bibles and our Constitution: They are *ignoring* them.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
CBS again bent the knee to Trump and blocked Stephen Colbert from hosting Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.
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class war puppet - block judge @anothersockpuppet.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's wild to see the display of how limited NYT's resources are that they couldn't find a single Black woman. Really struggling.
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2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
So no black women? Yes we had to have the perspective from the Whole Foods/Hot Yoga voting bloc.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Counterpoint: Any Democratic focus group that does not include at least one Black woman is fatally flawed from the very start.
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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 17/02/2026
Early voting has started in the March 3rd Texas Democratic primaries! If you vote early in Dallas County, you can vote at ANY available voting location across the county! Take advantage of this great opportunity and get out there and #VOTE 🗳️
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is crazy. The government — or fear of the government — is editing a CBS comedy show. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social "Yesterday, Stephen Colbert taped a 'Late Show' interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas, but then CBS lawyers intervened."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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stephforreal.bsky.social @stephforreal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Once upon a time NBC (CBS & ABC) fought back. Nixon filed retaliatory lawsuits and tried to revoke FCC licensing, his aides secretly threatened and intimidated network personnel while VP Agnew publicly accused networks of elitism. It almost worked to silence and censor. Then Watergate. #nocensorship
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gainesm.bsky.social @gainesm.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Donate what you can, even a couple bucks helps. No one anywhere should go hungry, and no one in America should ever be too scared to obtain groceries.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
ICE says they’re leaving Minneapolis. Our community knows better. The harassment continues. Families still need food. #FeedMinneapolis is not going anywhere. Please donate to support us below — chip in $25, $36, $50, $100, or give up the cost of a bag of groceries or a dinner out.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/02/2026
President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said Sunday that a “small” security force will remain in Minnesota to support immigration operations, even as the surge of federal agents there is set to end soon.
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Border czar Homan says small security force to remain in Minnesota
Tom Homan did not provide details on the size of the force to remain, days after declaring an end to the immigration enforcement surge in the Twin Cities area.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
'Then they came for the journalists, no one really knows what happened after that'
After The White House claimed for more than a year that Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were making up "fake news" and creating fictional sources, here they are watching President Richard Nixon resign on television.

God bless great journalism and great journalists.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/02/2026
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Moskowitz: By the president’s own metrics, what accomplishments does Noem have? • She’s holding up 200 miles of border wall. • She’s deported fewer people than Obama. • She’s not helping any of these red-state governors with their disasters. Why hasn’t he fired her?
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If we have enough money to buy another country then we have enough money to ensure nobody is homeless or goes hungry.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., on Thursday ordered the trump administration to "facilitate the return from third countries" of Alien Enemies Act deportees who "desire" to come back to the United States as habeas cases proceed. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.
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Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Tuesday was the ICE oversight hearing. Today was Pam Bondi’s. I watched them both for you. The bottom line: There are (mostly Democratic) members of Congress who understand how important the moment is & they are standing up and showing courage. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Two Days On The Hill: ICE & Pam Bondi
Writing this newsletter isn’t always easy.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Judge Boasberg has ordered the administration to either return to the US or afford the opportunity to proceed in court from abroad, whichever they prefer, men removed from the country without due process. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Forward Blue @forwardblue.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
After Trump's pardon, Rep. Cuellar (D) paid back the favor by siding with MAGA extremism today to pass the SAVE America Act to disenfranchise millions of voters. It's now up to the Senate to STOP this dangerous bill, and we need you to tell your Senator to VOTE NO!
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Dr. Jennifer Krauel @freetailed.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The economic need on the ground in MN continues as DHS asks for more money to fund the destruction of families and lives. Do not let Senate Dems cave
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨The SAVE Act has passed the House, 218-213🚨 Time to call your senators
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Leo Conles @leoconles.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pssst... Pam Bondi is not acting like this out of loyalty towards Trump. She was Florida's AG from 2011 to 2019, while Epstein was still alive and active. This is desperation. She is also involved in the #Trump-EpsteinFiles
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great idea!
Screenshot of an X post by meisha (@meishato) stating: “If the Halftime show wasn’t ‘white enough’ for you, go read the epstein files, it’s all in english and full of white people.” The post quotes Laura Loomer, who wrote: “Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl….”
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow. Time to send this thing back to its grave.
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Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available
Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NOT a penny more to ICE @schumer.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @gluesenkampperez.house.gov @gallego.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @durbin.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov
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Senseidai2547❌👑 @senseidai.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
ICE is at my friend's grandkids' GRADE school in the Catskill Mountains. They're not letting the kids on the bus - parents have to pick them up and show their birth certificates. This is WRONG! Convicted Felon Donald Trump & Botox Barbie Noem lied about only arresting criminals. #FuckICE
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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
@meidastouch.com is right on target. Bondi has to go. She's as corrupt as her personal clients in this regime. It is her sworn oath to represent the people of the U.S.A. She has ONE client - #47. #ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks
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🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 📎 @bandroll.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The fascist regime is out to end our free and fair elections through the SAVE Act. We MUST STOP them! Please ☎️ CALL your representatives every day and demand they vote NO. I have my husband’s married name and I want my vote to count. #StongerTogether #Resist go.bsky.app/4rq166X
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F A S (Frankie) Miller @reallyfasmiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Let's make ALL our voices loud so ALL our votes count! Capitol Switchboard - (202) 224-3121
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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The SAVE Act is a full blown show your papers scheme. Republicans want passports or birth certificates just to register, knowing millions of citizens do not have easy access to them. Eligible Americans get blocked on purpose. That is voter suppression. Call your MOC 202-224-3121 #HandsOffHerVote
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi admitted on live television that she hides and protects the names and numbers of child rapists while publishing the names and numbers of the child rape survivors. I hope the entire world is watching Republican filth protecting King Pedo and his pals.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The SAVE Act Threatens Voting Rights www.hrw.org/news/2026/02... Vote could be soon in House of Representatives Call Your Congressional Representatives 202 224-3121 NO VOTE ON THE SAVE ACT This bill would CREATE BARRIERS for MILLIONS of ELIGIBLE VOTERS in our Country BAD BILL
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The SAVE Act Threatens Voting Rights
This week, the US House of Representatives will vote on legislation that, if enacted, would create new barriers for millions of eligible voters in the United States.
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KS Austin @ksaustin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
#impeach Bondi
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.
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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
underground groups are delivering groceries, taking ppl to appts, doing laundry for ppl too afraid to leave their homes and go to a laundromat. it’s bad here and hasn’t gotten better despite what the regime says.
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𝐚𝐤𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨 @akdanno.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We're at that point. Never again is NOW. trump is no longer hiding his intent.
A nazi flag now flies over the White House, the north portico displays banners with an image of trump on the left and the GOP logo updated for present times on the right–the stars have been replaced with swastikas to reflect the party's true alliances.
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Ole Badger 🦡🧀 @nekron999.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today's GOP 100% would've turned over Anne Frank
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right? LUTNICK: I don't know K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level? L: I don't know K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
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