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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A note on this story. We asked the Marine Corps for comment last Wednesday. We asked the White House on Friday. White House spokesman asked for more time at 12 PM today, suggesting answers would come soon. Never heard back. Then another outlet publishes exclusive at 1030 PM tonight.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult.

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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 17/05/2026

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

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The Fight for Voting Rights Returns to Selma

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And curiously he's not talking about the pedophile ring at the peak of American power today, led by people like Trump, Lutnick and a dozen other senior figures in the Trump Team, that he selected and helped advance to power.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Any statewide race in Alabama will be hard for Dems; but this issue makes this Supreme Court election worth watching.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Jon Ossoff: "RFKjr is attempting to demolish Americans' public health. We, in Georgia, have always been proud to host the CDC. It's never been a partisan thing. What we've seen is an intentional effort to destroy this once preeminent agency. This puts our country and the world at risk."

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pete Hegseth’s focused on the cost of the bomb. I’m more interested in the size of the economic crater.⁣ ⁣ And that crater may be 10 to 100 times larger.⁣ ⁣ For many families, that translates into thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of dollars.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/05/2026

Who sent us to war with Iran and illegally raised tariffs? Donald Trump.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I see folks like Todd Blanche, Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham on Sunday shows. There's plenty of evidence that they use such platforms to lie constantly. Giving them a megaphone to spread their lies is the opposite of journalism which is about seeking the truth. It's irresponsible & damaging.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Trump threatened to deploy troops to polling places. NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just signed a law making that a felony. See how she is protecting voters and telling the regime to back off: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-cant-...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 17/05/2026

JD Vance keeps lying about California's aggressive fight against fraud. We've walked the walk with nation-leading fraud prevention and have protected billions. Meanwhile, JD's boss is pardoning convicted fraudsters and literally stuffing his pockets with YOUR tax dollars.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Cassidy played this in the worst possible way. He took a stand on impeachment thinking Trump was finished. Then Trump comes back and he sells out on everything thinking he could appease him somehow. He sold his soul & lost anyway. He loses with his integrity gone. What a legacy.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

From Monday 12p to Tuesday 12p, there will be a 24-hour public reading of the (released) Epstein files In New York epsteinfilibuster.com#stream

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Cover to Cover-Up: 24-Hour Live Reading of the Epstein Files

May 18–19, 2026 · A 24-hour filibuster from inside the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/05/2026

“Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” said Charles Mauldin, who was tear-gassed by police in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m just starting to realize how traumatizing it is for me.”

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At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.

At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Must-read of the morning by @jamellebouie.net. I'm writing about the creation of the VRA right now, and this is absolutely correct. The Roberts Six often pretend to use history to get what they want, but it's always a funhouse mirror version with no root in reality.

The V.R.A. was not, contra John Roberts and the rest, an expression of colorblindness, indifferent to the social realities of the United States. It did not pretend to treat supposed neutrality as truly neutral, nor did it place racial inequality outside the remit of the Constitution. And it was not, as this court would have it, the bland expression of a bloodless commitment to anti-discrimination. In fact, it was the most significant attempt in this country’s history to realize the promise of political equality.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Moscow&Moscow region will remain under Ukrainian strikes until Putin signs a capitulation Today the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow region since the beginning of the war took place.Russian military infrastructure and oil facilities that generate money for Russia’s war machine were under attack⤵️

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

These are lawless violent vigilantes, not “patriots” or “martyrs.” Trump has already pardoned them. They most certainly should not now get paid from Trump’s proposed $1.7B fund.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show "I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“.. Every failed deal, every summit that yields nothing, every boast that goes unfulfilled, confirms what adversaries already suspect. A lame-duck superpower exhausts itself in full view of the world, and the world moves on.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pretext for the next war, same as pretexts for the last wars. Some old story, same old song and dance.

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 17/05/2026

By forcing Lebanon’s leaders to negotiate on Israel’s terms, it is already discrediting them—and pushing the country toward a political crisis, writes Sam Heller.

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Trump’s Lebanon Negotiations Are Breaking the Country

Rather than acting as a good-faith mediator, Trump is humiliating the Lebanese government.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good morning! ☕ Today is the Trump administration's all-day prayer festival on the National Mall -- paid for in part by you, and supposedly open to people of all faiths -- featuring religious speakers with known records of smearing Catholics and Muslims. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Trump’s National Prayer Event Features Speakers Who Smeared Catholicism, Islam

The taxpayer-funded event is hosting religious speakers who trashed Pope Leo’s words as “pious blather” and claimed Muslims are taught to “murder and rape.”

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

In order to stay ahead of the curve here, I'd like to note that the U.S. has no grounds to invade Cuba, arrest or change its leaders, take control or directly influence its actions or, for that matter, to be blockading it right now forcing its people to suffer. Nor is any of that in our interest.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Seems at least worth pointing out that personal financial transactions (while president) could not possibly count as an "official act" immune from criminal prosecution.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

And requiring 5 times the power and water supplied to surrounding counties.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2026

"So you agree RFK Jr should resign?. You're a pharmacist, Buddy. You know better than this." -- damn -- Auchincloss is not playing around with Rep. Carter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2026

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

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Josh Marshall on how US democracy can be saved

"You simply can’t do it with the filibuster and this Supreme Court in place."

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It's a huge problem to live on $174,000.00 a year and get free food, medical and a housing allowance. It must be difficult. You obviously have a house in your district. And you get a housing allowance. Insider trading is illegal. Stop making excuses. #USDemocracy

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Bill Cassidy, conceding defeat, throws shade at Donald Trump: “When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to. But you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen.” His crowd immediately gets the reference.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/05/2026

While everyone's watching Hormuz, the Epstein files are being buried. The law says release them. Trump is fighting it. Massie may lose his seat Tuesday for pushing it. And now a $1.7B slush fund for Jan 6 defendants? Don't go quiet. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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A Saturday Reminder: Don't Let Them Bury the Epstein Files

A torrent of news cannot bury the truth. We can't let it.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/05/2026

Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 16/05/2026

Today, in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Callais, I'm fighting for voting rights. As my late colleague Elijah Cummings used to say, we are better than this.

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