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Lesley Dillon

@ldillon.bsky.social
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“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face." ~Franz Kafka

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A Democratic senator in Kansas? 😮 Sure, it could happen, maybe as soon as this cycle. @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social could do it! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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A Democratic senator in Kansas?
Two new polls suggest it’s possible. But it would take an extraordinary effort.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 18/08/2026
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
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DeSantis Ally In Florida Arrested On Child Sex-Abuse Charges
Michael Allen Caruso is accused of kidnapping and molesting a child younger than 5.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
It would be nice to have a Secretary of State
Kushner: If Iran is willing to finish the deal that they've been discussing with us to give up their ability to create nuclear weapons then obviously he is willing to make a deal but right now they are not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/08/2026
"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."
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Transgender athletes are a red herring
It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Phang: Each and every day after December 19th, 2025 has been a violation of the Epstein files transparency act. Now, to compound the problem for Blanche and the DOJ, you have violations of court orders.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Phang: So for this federal judge to be at his wit's end, but to still be giving the grace to these people to do the right thing, shows that he's really laying the foundation for them to be held in contempt.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/08/2026
You’ve got to be shitting me. We’re spending $20 MILLION of our tax dollars on stun gloves. And we’re supposed to pretend this will cut down on lethal force AND that ICE has good judgment? This is going to lead to more abuse, not less.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How can anyone be ok with this?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
MacFarlane: The park service records that I obtained show where the priorities are. $323 million allotted for the White House grounds alone, beautification and vanity projects…
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.salon.com/2026/08/12/e...
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"Even the nuns are mad": Catholic sisters are standing for Haitians outside ICE offices - Salon.com
In Ohio, they're playing a visible role among religious leaders who have been organizing demonstrations
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln shared messages with MeidasTouch detailing months without milk, meat arriving rotten, and a deployment with no end in sight.
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Rotten Meat, No Milk: Troops Detail Life Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
Text messages shared with MeidasTouch by a family member of a service member currently deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln paint a bleak picture of daily
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov on Navy sailors trying to jump ship due to horrific conditions: “We have to step back & recognize this entire war is based on lies... Iran still has uranium. Hormuz remains closed. A catastrophic failure by the commander in chief + his team.” (Follow: @acyn.bsky.social )
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
WOW: Katie Phang makes a SCORCHING filing in federal court unloading on Todd Blanche over his latest attempts to delay her Epstein files lawsuit, saying his arguments have "no basis in reality." Plus, Katie breaks the filing down herself in a must-watch video.
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Katie Phang Rips Todd Blanche’s Epstein Case Delay Bid as Having 'No Basis in Reality'
Her recent filing notes there is “no question he is in default.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

Kalshi Politics

@KalshiPolitics
TODAY: WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR NOMINEE ODDS:

🟦 Francesca Hong: 95%
🟦 David Crowley: 5%
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.
Children’s immunization schedule
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Trump Intentionally Risked the Lives of Members of his Own Staff and the White House Press Pool" is the headline.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is how you know we need a wealth tax
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Worry Lines @worry--lines.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🌼. #comicsky #webcomic #grief
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This has been a period of tragedy and deep disappointment as the hateful reality of so many Americans and the cowardice of so many elected officials has been exposed. But it also clarifies the collective work we must pursue to build an inclusive democracy based on equality and justice. LFG.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
August 10, 2026
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August 10, 2026
Remember when Mondays in August were lazy, quiet summer days?
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/08/2026
Muslims are NOT the United States’ biggest threat. Christian nationalists like Nancy Mace are.
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Thou Shalt Not Demonize Muslims
Bigots are the real demons.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/08/2026
NEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.
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Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank
Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Today, Trump offers a remarkable confession.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wouldn't it be easier & far less time consuming to just report when he actually tells the truth?
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Special treatment and Lack of Information Continues….
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Surrounded by women, lawmakers, and advocate champions, Gov. Maura Healey signed landmark legislation ensuring full abortion access in MA. Women have the fundamental right to choose for their own bodies. Healthcare is a human right, period!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Neil Stone
Dr Neil Stone

This is smallpox 

You've never had it or even seen it 

Because of vaccines
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
McGowan: The president's personal defense attorney should not be the attorney general. The man who ignored the Epstein victims and then moved Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison to where she is now, should not be the attorney general. I think Cassidy is a spineless coward.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When the EPSTEIN scandals are all fully adjudicated, as they eventually will be, there will be more convictions & people imprisoned than there were in the Watergate matter. Accountability IS coming: November 3rd 2026 Midterms Make sure you're registered & VOTE! Go to: Iwillvote.com #tickticktick ⌛
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Forbes @forbes.com · 08/08/2026
The Strait of Hormuz’s closure has skyrocketed global energy prices and high prices are threatening to unseat Republicans this November.
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Iran Says U.S. Must Meet Demands Before Strait Of Hormuz Reopens
The Strait of Hormuz’s closure has skyrocketed global energy prices and high prices are threatening to unseat Republicans this November.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.
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stricxl.bsky.social @stricxl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr Anthony Fauci is an American hero. What is happening to him at the hands of the GOP is political persecution and dangerous to us all open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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GOP's criminal referral of Dr. Fauci to DOJ endangers us all.
August 7, 2026
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WidowsPique 🇨🇦 @widowspique.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I 💝 Hillary.
Local man suggests jailing his own boss.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Phang: The breaking news is… an order was just entered within the last hour by Judge Sullivan in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche. The reason why this is so momentous is that Judge Sullivan has pretty much said in this order, “Todd Blanche, you have now defied my orders.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
MSNow: President Trump is also pushing so that his family is immune from audits. It looks like it may go forward. Trump Voter: No. Fuck that. No! How does he get to do that and we don’t?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Andy Ogles lost tonight’s Republican primary in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. Despite being an incumbent and having Trump’s full-throated endorsement, Ogles was defeated by Charlie Hatcher. This was a significant political upset and a major loss for Trump.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
UPDATE: @justinjpearson.bsky.social wins the Democratic nomination in TN-9
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