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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17h
"We are Jane Doe."
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 16h
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h
An ICE officer shot a Dominican man in the middle of an arrest in New York City today. Wounded, not killed, so expect the story to be gone by Friday. The DHS statement doesn’t say why a man being arrested needed a bullet. They NEVER do. Demand the name and the video. Now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“As much as $5 million in SpaceX two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding US commercial space transportation.”
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/10/2026
The top 10% of Americans own 90% of the stock market. That’s why mortgage rates and healthcare will always reveal more about American life than the stock market can.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/10/2026
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what  you can do:

1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.

2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC

3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@jefftiedrich.bsky.social marks the ten-year anniversary of Trump's comments in the Access Hollywood tapes, and reiterates what a vile POS Trump is, with examples. #Blues www.jefftiedrich.com/p/weve-endur...
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We’ve endured ten long years of this shit. Lucky us.
Preznit Fuckwit claims ‘he can do whatever he wants, if he wants.’
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump: I say it all the time, let's see what would happen if Iran ever did anything to Los Angeles or San Diego. I'm talking about through missiles. You want to see problems, let them hit Los Angeles or San Diego
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America
Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Republican Tom Barrett gave $83 BILLION in tax breaks for data center developers. Michigan-07 wants him OUT, and @wewill2026.bsky.social IN.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another Kennedy Center Court Loss for Trump! youtu.be/fr7GrAFt00Y?...
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Another Kennedy Center Court Loss for Trump!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 08/10/2026
Dan Ryan is under a court order not to delete messages from his personal phone, which may contain public records. In court documents, Ryan said he no longer has the phone he's been using, because his spouse traded it in the same day a judge barred him from deleting records. He says nothing was lost.
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Councilor Ryan’s Phone is Traded In On the Same Day a Judge Bars Him from Deleting Messages - Portland Mercury
A Multnomah County judge granted a temporary restraining order October 1, barring District 2 City Councilor Dan Ryan from deleting messages held on his private cell phone and other devices. The restra...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 07/10/2026
Katie Phang on Alito CBS interview: the most gratuitous, ass-kissing thing I have seen.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Josh Turek: The reality is that in just 6 years of being up in DC, Ashley Hinson is up to 15x wealthier, still owns up to $5 million of private stock, even though she said she was going to sell everything. She's taken $50,000 of taxpayer dollars to give herself a luxury DC apartment
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Josh Turek: Here we are again in another forever war with no strategy. We've spent over a billion dollars in Iran, for what? Meanwhile we're being told in Iowa that we don't have money for roads, schools, hospitals, and we lead the nation in farm foreclosures. We have to end this war.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fury as new data shows costs would have deflated 'without Trump's stupid' policy #RawStory
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Fury as new data shows costs would have deflated 'without Trump's stupid' policy
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later. n.pr/4ycsKIN
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A childhood bike crash led to a stranger's gift — and a hidden message
A 7-year-old girl was injured riding her new bike. A stranger came to her rescue and gifted her an origami crane with a hidden message she would only discover years later.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/10/2026
Megyn Kelly has apparently decided that dragging an alleged rape victim for filth is good for her bottom line. Whatever gets the clicks, and whatever keeps the outrage machine running. Megyn Kelly is 🗑️
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
'They hate us': Todd Blanche furious over prosecutors quitting DOJ en masse #RawStory
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'They hate us': Todd Blanche furious over prosecutors quitting DOJ en masse
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 07/10/2026
US Senate candidates in 9 key races quiet about Social Security benefits cliff
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US Senate candidates in 9 key races quiet about Social Security benefits cliff
WASHINGTON — Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032. Very few candidates in competitive races, however, have policy proposals on their campaign websites and many, when contacted by States Newsroom, declined to share details about which changes they’d support if elected.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh yeah, those eyelids are as heavy as bowling balls. He's fighting for his life not to snooze here. Another instance of "imagine the reaction if Joe Biden appeared to nod off during an Oval Office event."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
OB-GYN Mark Mulholland was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct. But once the state medical board filed charges, it waited six weeks to announce it, allowing the doctor to keep seeing patients. One woman alleges he abused her during that period. (Published June w/ @kuow.org)
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Washington Law Says to Alert the Public When Doctors Are Accused of Misconduct. It Can Take Months.
In the case of Mark Mulholland, who was repeatedly accused of sexual misconduct, the board waited six weeks to announce that it had filed charges. He was allowed to keep seeing patients during that ti...
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our first General Election debate is TONIGHT at 7PM. I’m fighting for Iowans. She’s fighting to enrich herself and her billionaire donors. Excited to share my common-sense prairie populist vision on the debate stage tonight. Hope you tune in!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 07/10/2026
Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4yFrqiS
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Attacks on tankers in Hormuz hit highest of any week since start of Iran war, sources say
Attacks on tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz hit their highest last week of any week since the ​Iran war began, according to maritime security sources tracking incidents, amid ‌a bigger export push by Gulf producers.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is about to sell out Ukraine, basically the culmination of the 2016 influence operation, but that history has been memory holed. www.youtube.com/shorts/yDK-8...
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Trump's Team Sells Out the US
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Richard Signorelli 🌱💙🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @richsignorelli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cheap and corrupt bastard. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads (Gift Article)
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Congressional report exposes massive aircraft losses as war drags on under Hegseth #RawStory
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Congressional report exposes massive aircraft losses as war drags on under Hegseth
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Northern Nevada has a reliably red congressional seat, represented by a Republican since it was drawn in the early 1980s. A complicated candidate and a potential blue wave this year could change that. n.pr/4j2YkVI
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Carpetbagger allegation, misplaced valor make Nevada's safe red House seat competitive
Northern Nevada has a reliably red congressional seat, represented by a Republican since it was drawn in the early 1980s. A complicated candidate and a potential blue wave this year could change that.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Jose" is working in Delano CA. "My partner and I are loading the boxes of grapes that the workers have already picked on to the truck. My hands hurt a lot from lifting so many boxes onto the truck all day. We have to load them quickly because so many are coming in." #WeFeedYou
Swampers stocking grapes that were freshly picked onto the truck
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 07/10/2026
Corporations that have capitulated to Trump's corruption should *absolutely* be held accountable. Period.
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‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/10/2026
🤯 A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to illegally importing Russian plutonium and shipping the hazardous radioactive material to dozens of online buyers worldwide. united24media.com/world/us-man...
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US Man Bought Plutonium From Russia and Sold It Online Across America
Jacob D. Miller admitted to illegally importing plutonium from Russia and selling it online to at least 67 customers across the US and abroad.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All of us in elected office have more scheduling requests than we have slots in our schedule. All of us have had to cancel things. And "I have to meet with POTUS" is always a legit excuse to cancel. Not judging Abbott's choice - but it is, undeniably a choice.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't think of a single non-malevolent reason they would do this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Machiavellian is gonna Machiavelli.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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