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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."
publicnotice.co
Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
The racism is not subtle.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2026
NEW: Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation under a new payout plan. With @inquirer.com
propublica.org
“A Punch in the Gut”: After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement
Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.
gtfoice.org
GTFO ICE — Get The Facilities Out
ICE is rapidly expanding its network of detention centers. We have a playbook to fight back. Sign up to get alerts if a facility is planned near you.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 23/04/2026
Ghislane Maxwell lured countless children into Jeffrey Epstein’s global pedophile ring. Now, some Republicans are openly floating giving her a pardon. It’s outrageous. We need to end the special treatment for the Epstein class.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/04/2026
Exactly. Blanche is the one who cut a deal with Maxwell to waive her sex offender status. He got her “out custody” and moved her to club fed. He’s the Michael Cohen of the Epstein era.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/04/2026
The Epstein crisis is escalating. Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas. This isn't going away.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
IVEY: Is there anything the Trump administration is doing to help refund the tariffs? LUTNICK: I'm not involved in that process. I wouldn't know one way or the other IVEY: Oh, come on, Mr Secretary. You don't know if there's a process in place?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/04/2026
Tillis said that “the principle here is that anybody who didn’t back the blue on January 6th is disqualified from consideration for me in the Judiciary Committee.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/04/2026
The remaining women are Gabbard, McMahon, Rollins, Wiles, and Loeffler.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
At news conference now, Pete Hegseth uses the term “gift to the world” to describe War in Iran
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I guess if Americans don’t want to buy Spirit Airlines with their tax dollars it’s tough shit because Trump will spend our money on whatever he pleases since we don’t have a Congress anymore.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 24/04/2026
The call's coming from inside the house. Betting on an operation you're on? That's the type of insider trading that prediction markets allow — and exactly the danger we're trying to prevent in Illinois.
cnn.com
US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400,000 on Maduro raid | CNN Politics
A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits.
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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I subscribe to @gelliottmorris.com because he provides the best polling analysis out there Want to know what polls are really telling us about where the public is at? Check him out Meanwhile... I think we all know that it's very very bad for the GOP When Fox News is admitting this on air ⤵️
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/04/2026
The new Fox poll has some of the worst numbers for Trump that I've ever seen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2026
"In the US, especially among the elites that ought to be leaders, people are hiding because of what Trump can do to them. They're complying in advance, not standing up because they’re afraid. But once there are too many of you for the govt to do bad stuff to each of you, it’s almost like immunity."
publicnotice.co
What America can learn from Viktor Orbán’s defeat
"The key was linking Orbán’s corruption to Hungarians’ daily lives."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I used to think that threatening to wipe an entire civilization off the face of the Earth would be a disqualifying action for an American president and that responsible people would pack up his things and check him into a rest home.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2026
had to double check that this wasn't a parody account
BREAKING: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2026
Trump: " ... the horrible & ridiculous Supreme Court decision on Tariffs ... All they had to do was one little half sentence, 'that the US does not have to pay back monies already paid' — & our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer ... Couldn’t they have done that for our Nation?"
Trump: "People & Companies that have taken advantage of our Country for decades, because of the horrible and ridiculous Supreme Court decision on Tariffs, are now supposed to be given back 159 Billion Dollars. All they had to do was one little half sentence, 'that the US does not have to pay back monies that were already paid' — and our Country would be 159 Billion Dollars richer ... Just one half sentence, & we would have saved 159 Billion Dollars. Couldn’t they have done that for our Nation?"
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 24/04/2026
The emperor has no clothes, the courtiers have no calculators, and somehow they’re all in charge.
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Pathetic
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"...who still plans to attend the Mar-a-Lago event" is the funniest part of this whole thing: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 24/04/2026
A Chicago woman who was the victim of a botched police raid is now poised to join the city’s police oversight board:
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Anjanette Young, Victim Of Botched Police Raid, Nominated To Chicago Police Oversight Board
Young has advocated for police raid reforms. Her appointment to the Community Commission on Public Safety and Accountability needs City Council approval.
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Aside from being incompetent and lacking charm, Patel is a brown man… the clocks been ticking for a while.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/04/2026
"I stand by every single word of this report...I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information." Sarah Fitzpatrick on Kash Patel: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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The Kash Patel Fallout
An interview with the Atlantic staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick about her reporting
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I would really like to know the origins of Kelly's unabashed hatred for Hegseth.
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Exactly: don’t trust him, MAKE him not use nuclear weapons
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The GOP’s priorities are insanely off. Sen. Kim is right: Spread the word. Then let's kick these feckless cowards out of office.
Screenshot of a tweet by Sen. Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ) posted at 4am reporting that Republicans passed a vote allocating $70 billion to fund ICE without reforms or accountability, while rejecting Democratic proposals to lower healthcare costs, housing prices, and gas prices. The embedded image shows a wide overhead shot of the Senate floor with members milling about.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is insanity on full display.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/04/2026
"The Republican apologist class will go on producing the long, articulate, disqualifying-in-what-sense replies that history will read with the same grim clarity it reads the German conservative intellectuals of 1933" this is very good:
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Kevin O’Leary is a douchebag
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I’m sure the people whom Kash fired couldn’t have helped.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
To be clear, the eight Iranian women who were allegedly political prisoners set for execution and saved by Trump are nonexistent and generated by AI. The 170 Iranian schoolgirls who were blown to smithereens by Trump's orders were all very real, and all are very dead.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Lawrence Freedman: The US leads no longer. But is the full extent of the current crisis appreciated? Not just the coming economic hit but also the impact of Trump’s self-destructive behaviour. All allies are adjusting to US incompetence. This makes increased defence spending more urgent.
open.substack.com
The US no longer leads
The changing context for UK defence policy
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“To settle this, it would be great if the White House would release the case files and any FBI recordings of Homan’s meetings with undercover agents posing as businessmen...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
Senate Democrats push back against DOJ resistance in Tom Homan probe
A trio of senators made the case that the Homan controversy is “a matter of widespread and exceptional media interest.” The Justice Department disagreed.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Epstein survivors are here in DC today to press for a full release of files by Trump Admin They’ll be on national mall… as Trump and some of the media have a black-tie dinner together
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yes he does!!!!!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/04/2026
President Trump announced a plan to resurface the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool with “American Flag Blue,” sparking controversy among preservationists. The project, which bypasses traditional review processes, aims to be completed by July 4.
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s changes to Reflecting Pool worry preservationists, locals
Some warned that the president’s blue-tinted resurfacing would distort the experience for visitors and make the national symbol resemble a “large lap pool.”
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Meet our DC spring interns—Abhi, Sumaia, Andrew, Jaden, and Dana!   From tackling legislation to supporting our constituents, our interns are at the heart of our work—and we are so grateful for everything do! ❤️ If you’d like to intern in our office, apply here: stansbury.house.gov/services/int...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
When I talk about a two-tiered economy with different set of rules and standards for the super-rich, this is what I mean. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/technolo…
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🇺🇦🇬🇧 Ukraine is of great importance for the protection of democracy around the world, — Prince Harry 💬Not so long ago, many believed that liberal democracies had finally won and the main conflicts were already behind them, gone into history. But history has once again reminded us that this is not so,
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/04/2026
Good afternoon! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2 billion, to $6.3 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!
media.tenor.com
a man in a white shirt and blue apron is waving from a drive thru window .
Alt: a man in a white shirt and blue apron is waving from a drive thru window .
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The story of the Iran war is that Trump lost it in the first days. Everything since has been trying to deny that cardinal fact. You can see this by the fact that everything happening since has been trying to break free Iran’s hold on the strait, something it didn’t have before the war.
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literatureaddict.bsky.social @literatureaddict.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Paper? We got a “new paper”? So he’s forgotten the word deal now?
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
huffpost.com
Donald Trump Lost In 2020. An Alarming Number Of His Nominees Won’t Say So.
Dozens of the president’s court picks have refused to say Joe Biden fairly won in 2020. Now his executive nominees are avoiding the question, too.
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robust soldier crab ball gate @crabbyaf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
what concrete step could democrats take that would - again, concretely - set the Trump admin up for successful diplomacy? we had a solution put in place by a previous admin, and Trump ripped it up because it was the black president who did it. it's not democrats with the blinding hatred problem
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