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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24m
Trump: "They viciously attacked the reflecting pool. Cutting it with probably box knives. Knives or box knives. Uh, boxcutters and uh, it's almost fixed now and finished."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball as he takes questions about the latest ICE shooting
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14h
I’ve been studying violence and politics for a loooong time. My last book — “The Field of Blood” —was about the use of physical violence in Congress. So you can bet I’ll have a lot to say…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 15h
Just to be clear: we are fine in Minnesota. We are not being taken over, though there are more rabbits in our yard than some years. Also we still need to address creeping bellflower. But otherwise all good. Don’t need rescuing or another murderous occupation.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 18h
I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)
The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19h
Next up: caravans of immigrants. Never fails.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h
imagine if Joe Biden had posted this
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026
If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank heaven someone finally asked the question: "How do you define socialism?" Because this REALLY ISN'T IT. Sheesh. "Socialism" to Vance is -- random things I hate.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yikes… local Georgia outlets in the tank fudging the graphs for @ossoff.bsky.social opponent Mike Collins🤔 (and Scoob-Doo😬)
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Social Security is a sleeper 2026 campaign issue. Senate candidates like Talarico (D-Texas), Turek (D-Iowa), El-Sayed (D-Mich.), Osborn (I-Neb.) are calling to lift the payroll tax cap to avoid a 22% benefit cut. The shortfall hits in 2032, or six years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Senate candidates run on raising Social Security taxes for higher incomes to prevent benefit cuts
Social Security is projected to dip into insolvency and force a 22% benefit cut in 2032, or less than six years, meaning the class of senators elected this year will have to address the issue.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Matthew Shepard was twenty-one years old. He was gentle and kind. On this night in 1998, he lay tied to a wooden fence for eighteen hours under the bright Wyoming stars. Not for any crime he committed. He lay there, alone and cold, simply for existing as a gay man.
The fence where Matthew Shepard was found and a small picture of Matthew
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How about democracy. How about we save that thing that came from Greece
Fox News headline: Rubio to deliver urgent plea to save Western civilization during speech in its birthplace
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, well…
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In our intv Tillis claimed he didn’t stop Hegseth because of committee norms and criticized our focus on the “atomic level.” Hegseth’s ascendancy has been felt on a very personal level by the family of members of those soldiers that died in the Iran War.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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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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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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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Yorker cartoon by Bob Mankoff: man in suit talking on the phone. “No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?”
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump will be in San Antonio tomorrow. I invite him to visit the Dilley Trailer Prison, and see for himself the trauma he is inflicting on children and babies, some as young as two months old.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White House officials are going to regret taking this ridiculous sh*tshow on the road. He's going to do more to hurt the Rs than help them as he stumbles into key battlegrounds in the coming weeks.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a Catholic, like Alito, I think it's so important for you to know how little—how absolutely not at all—your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) impacts my religious liberty. In fact, refusing to acknowledge your marriage (or your LGBTQ identity) is a grave affront to your innate human dignity.
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "We've used the military a little bit in my second term. All for peace."
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The president should never joke about American cities getting bombed. Don’t normalize his constant pathetic, insane, and completely unhinged behavior.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If your newscast says Hastert was 'tied to' a child sex abuse scandal, you're failing your listeners.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today is the first day of early voting in Ohio! We just voted at Franklin County Board of Elections. What a warm welcome from everyone working there. True public servants. If you are voting today, please share your photo in this thread. Photo by Jacey Schank.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is beyond embarrassing.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Blanche wants @katiephang.bsky.social Epstein suit tossed as a "generalized grievance" Too many Americans want the files, so nobody gets them? Katie's job is to share things with the public, that's the opposite of a generalized grievance Release the files!
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MeidasClips (@MeidasClips) on X
Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the e
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wasn’t there something else that he did which was really, really evil?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Political Cartoon of the Day by Jeff Danziger.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do they know that?
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Susan Collins cannot be trusted with voting on our next Supreme Court Justice. She voted for the three justices that overturned Roe v. Wade. And she's going to do the same damn thing if Alito retires unless we win this election.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Every day I have a new reason to hate AI, but today’s is that they faked the work of one of my longtime collaborators.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The people who can't even keep lettuce and eggs safe are 'actively monitoring' the plague outbreak in Russia.
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