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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/04/2026
The New York Times reporting on how Trump and his inner circle came to the decision to attack Iran is so infuriating lmao. "Ultimately, his inner circle trusted his gut because he'd already gotten away with so much he shouldn't have." BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE. YOU! AHHHH!
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24
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Forbes @forbes.com · 17/02/2026
The Late Show host’s interview of Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was published on his YouTube channel, but didn’t air on CBS due to the FCC’s ‘equal time’ mandate.
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Colbert Says CBS Refused To Air His Interview With Democrat Candidate Fearing FCC Blowback
The Late Show host’s interview of Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was published on his YouTube channel, but didn’t air on CBS due to the FCC’s ‘equal time’ mandate.
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John Pettus @johngpettus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
More protest art please. This stuff is powerful, and it records and fights injustice. It helps others see that pushing back is possible and right.
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Kelly H @kellyh99.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Trump FCC stopped this Talarico interview from airing on CBS, which means we all need to watch it on YouTube. Please give it a watch, it’s a fun interview.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/12/2025
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New reporting that the Trump White House intervened through Trump lackey, Paul Ingrassia, on behalf of accused international sex traffickers, the Tate Brothers. My latest with the details including a deep dive into Ingrassia’s own scandal-ridden history. youtu.be/FK7fPBKcDnc?...
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Trump CAUGHT RED-HANDED as TATE Brothers SCANDAL BLOWS OPEN
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“Keep your voice down.” “That’s enough of you.” “Be nice; don’t be threatening.” “There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” “Quiet, piggy.” This is a sampling of what the president of the United States has said to and about female journalists.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/10/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/10/2025
George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's greatest fears are coming true. to.pbs.org/46O1vdj
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Documentary argues George Orwell's greatest fears are materializing
George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's g...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13/10/2025
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage.   It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Michigan Avenue right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/10/2025
BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row
Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · 06/10/2025
1/ Donald Trump is attempting to deploy the National Guard to Portland and Chicago—using members of our military as political pawns—under the false pretense that these cities are war zones. This. Is. A. Lie.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
More messaging like this please
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Fascinated by how the people who lost their minds over student loan forgiveness are currently running ads on my TV every 10 min promising that they'll forgive your student loans if you join ICE
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2025
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.
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Mark J. Westpfahl @markjwestpfahl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
(1/2) If you're not familiar with The Night of the Long Knives in 1930s Germany, I recommend you do some reading/research. We are continuing to see striking similarities. www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...
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The Night of the Long Knives
Learn about the Nazis’ massacre of more than 200 SA leaders in 1934.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The total right wing takeover of social media is complete. Good luck to us all.
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Claudia Grisales @cgrisales.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“If the news about our military must first be approved by the government, then the public is no longer getting independent reporting. It is getting only what officials want them to see. That should alarm every American.” More from ⬇️ @pressclubdc.bsky.social
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Imagine learning that Concentration Camps in Germany were ordered to remove signs and other exhibits documenting the suffering and hardships of Jewish prisoners. That's what we are talking about when it comes to the tory of slavery at Harpers Ferry. #NationalParks www.wlbt.com/video/2025/0...
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Harpers Ferry historic site may remove slavery exhibits after Trump admin order
The Trump administration has ordered the removal or cover up of exhibits about slavery at Harpers Ferry, a national historic site in West Virginia.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hiding the truth.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why?????
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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