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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Listen: The Reflecting Pool debacle should be a dumb summer story, but it really demonstrates everything wrong with this era. Trump does something demonstrably wrong that we can see with our own damn eyes. People point that out. He threatens them with all forms of punishment at his disposal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/05/2026

Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Note the framing here: It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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With Congress gone, much of DHS is set to run out of' money after midnight Democrats nave refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal imm gration agents, including requiring them to wear body cameras and tighter rules on warrants.
Today at 14:24 MT

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Q: Did he brandish a gun? KRISTI NOEM: This individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We have Justin Amash and Bill Kristol saying ABOLISH ICE before most Democrats. What does that say about the Democratic establishment? Primary season is on right now, folks. We all deserve better.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I consume a good amount of normie, center-left political content (New Yorker, NYTimes, Atlantic, Bulwark, Hayes, Maddow, etc.) produced mostly by people who've been in the US politics biz for over 2 decades...and in the past month there's been a noticeable shift in tone and urgency.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/09/2025

The parking lot at the Broadview ICE facility is packed this morning—most vehicles we've seen here so far. Two masked men exit the door inside, appear to be checking out the fleet of vehicles. Small gaggle of press outside. No reports yet of any detainees arriving or leaving.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Target cities should hold military takeover referendums. Get the population on record on whether this is what they want. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...

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Thinking Outside the Box; Getting Creative

Two ideas I heard from TPM Readers today: The first is from...

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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

At Trump’s request, multiple red state governors are sending hundreds of armed National Guard forces into DC. This military occupation of the district is unprecedented and unjustified. If it’s allowed to stand, this country will be well on its way to becoming a police state. 1/22

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

WILD situation in Texas right now: The House Speaker has required Dems, who just returned from their out-of-state quorum break, to have police escorts once they leave the chamber. One Dem is refusing to leave the House floor with escort, and GOP leaders have blocked press access to the chamber.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“We all know what’s coming. Trump is experimenting with using military force to occupy cities. He has said—explicitly—that he intends to expand this program from Washington to other cities. He will attempt to use these tactics to manipulate the 2026 elections.” www.thebulwark.com/p/a-modest-p...

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A Modest Proposal: Send Blue State National Guardsmen to D.C.

Make Trump take the mask off.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Declaring a fake emergency as an excuse to deploy the military to police civilians is one of the most canonical examples of authoritarian takeovers. Overseas, people see clearly what Trump is doing. Here in America most people — especially those with power or influence — are in denial.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.

We turn next to the putative shutdown decision. The
plaintiffs point to no regulation, order, document, email, or
other statement, written or oral, purporting to shut down the
CFPB. Instead, they infer such an overarching decision from
various discrete “actions” taken by agency leadership to
downsize the Bureau, “including by issuing stop-work
instructions, cancelling contracts, declining and returning
funding, firing employees, and terminating the lease for its
headquarters.” J.A. 46–47. The district court found a “decision
to shut down the agency completely” and equated it to a
“wholesale cessation” of CFPB activities. NTEU, 774 F. Supp.
3d at 46.

Tweet from AG Pam Bondi in which she says "Another victory for President Trump! In a 2-1 ruling, the DC Circuit sided with my @TheJusticeDepartment attorneys in our effort to dismantle the CFPB and rein in crippling Obama-era regulations."

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Kyle @ktumd10.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This testimony is particularly stunning. The Border Patrol Chief for the LA operations questioning the loyalty and patriotism of a military general due to the general’s objection to the military’s participation in what amounted to a DHS publicity stunt seemingly intended to terrorize the community.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt. Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Here is the video of the incident in question

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

He drove from Las Vegas to New York with an AR-15, which cannot be purchased in New York. This isn’t about New York. This is about Republicans persistently blocking common sense gun safety reform, including an assault weapons ban, that a super majority of Americans support.

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Madison Swart @madisonswart.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

She walked out of her immigration hearing smiling — papers in hand, standing tall. She had no idea the man waiting in the hallway was ICE. No idea she was about to be detained. This is happening inside NYC’s immigration courts. Every day. #ICE

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/07/2025

Previous presidents didn't talk like this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is the slippery slope New reporting on use of federalized National Guard in what appears like DEA-led drug bust, no protesters in sight, far outside of LA @lizagoitein.bsky.social has very sharp analysis on why this appears illegal on all counts (including Trump’s own presidential memorandum)

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Trump’s Use of Federal Troops in Drug Raid Outside of Los Angeles: An Alarming Escalation

"An alarming escalation of the president's efforts to use the military as a domestic police force. Based on currently available information, it appears to be illegal, as well"

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Stop me if you heard this before: DOJ filed this totally collusive suit against Texas (which settled in six hours) in Wichita Falls—where it had a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Reed O’Connor. Once again, it’s the Trump administration that’s judge-shopping, not its challengers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

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Texas agrees with feds to end in-state tuition for undocumented students

Almost 20,000 undocumented college students in Texas will likely lose in-state tuition after this sudden policy reversal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/06/2025

Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

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Kyle @ktumd10.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@contrariannews.org @democracydocket.com @mcuban.bsky.social @asharangappa.bsky.social In case anyone needs more evidence about the pulse of the nation, this was the line to get into Rep. Gluesenkamp-Perez’s town hall today in Vancouver, WA. This video was taken 30 minutes(!) before the start time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2025

Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."

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