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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Did you see this? This week, we rolled out 40 new members of Unrig Washington. For the full list of candidates, visit UnrigWashington.org.
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Unrig Washington — End Citizens United
Fixing our democracy by getting big money out of politics and protecting the right to vote.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/10/2025
An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum. n.pr/3WGaS8X
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A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.
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lookforthepattern.bsky.social @lookforthepattern.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2025
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It’s unnerving but I’m starting to like it
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Please let this be true 🙏🏼
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Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell Claims An 'Epstein Bomb Is About To Drop' On Trump—And Republicans Are Jumping Ship
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A professor who taught classes on antifascism tried to flee to Europe, but his reservation was canceled.
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‘Dr. Antifa’ Professor Blocked From Flying After Trump Roundtable
A professor who taught classes on antifascism tried to flee to Europe, but his reservation was canceled.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 06/10/2025
Stand up to Trump’s growing abuses of power. Text NO KINGS to 63033 to find a No Kings Day event near you on October 18! ❌👑
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lookforthepattern.bsky.social @lookforthepattern.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Troops to Portland? Illegal and absurd. But the absurdity is the point. Trump policy is to ignore real threats to US security coming from abroad and use the armed forces to pursue imaginary threats from within, thereby creating an atmosphere suitable for personal rule. (1/2)
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lookforthepattern.bsky.social @lookforthepattern.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Michael Moore @mmflint.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
What if, when that escalator at the United Nations ground to a halt as soon as Trump stepped on it, THAT was the pivotal, split-second moment which marked the beginning of the end of the Trump Reign of Terror? A Terror that began — and ended — on an escalator… www.michaelmoore.com/p/my-first-p...
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My First Post-Trump Substack
When the escalator at the United Nations came to a sudden stop this past Tuesday as soon as Trump stepped on it, I would like to believe that future historians will record that as the pivotal, split-s...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/09/2025
Don’t Be Intimidated by Trump's Threats: How the First Amendment Protects YOU! youtu.be/dk0JDewI4MY
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Don’t Be Intimidated by Trump's Threats: How the First Amendment Protects YOU!
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.
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Axios @axios.com · 17/09/2025
Mace calls for Omar to be "deported" in social media clash
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Mace calls for Omar to be "deported" in social media clash
House Republicans are seeking to kick Omar off her committees and censure her.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
No FBI director has ever behaved like this.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...
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An Emergency non-Emergency Post
Holy tariff mess, Batman
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/07/2025
"If the birthday note were the worst thing for Trump in the Epstein files, why wouldn’t he now take the popular position that all the files should be made public? That would change the dynamic of the scandal. He’d be able to move on."
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How Many Obama Arrest Threats Does It Take to Change a Storyline?
We don’t know yet, but Trump seems keen to find out.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files. apnews.com/article/epst...
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House subcommittee votes to subpoena Justice Department for Epstein files
A House subcommittee has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 08/07/2025
NEW: Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines, urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/07/2025
Four reasons why $200 billion for ICE is a bad, bad idea by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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lookforthepattern.bsky.social @lookforthepattern.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.project2025.observer
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/06/2025
President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion.
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Trump can revoke national monument designations, Justice Department says | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Pretty remarkable! www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...
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Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The lawsuit asks for restitution despite four of their members being found guilty of engaging in a seditious 2021 conspiracy to keep Trump in power.
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Proud Boys Sue DOJ For $100 Million Over Jan. 6 Arrests
The five extremist leaders were sentenced to a decade or more in prison but pardoned by Donald Trump.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/06/2025
“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”
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A Permanent Stain on Our History
The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/05/2025
Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/05/2025
President Trump has repeatedly attacked due process, a right guaranteed by our Constitution. We all rely on this fundamental freedom every time we engage with the justice system.
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What Is Due Process? | ACLU
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Karoline Leavitt is clearly making this stuff up as she goes.
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Karoline Leavitt Dragged After Bonkers Gripe About Harvard 'LGBTQ Graduate Majors' Amid Legal Battle
She's just making this stuff up as she goes.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 29/05/2025
Harvard graduation ceremony cheers diversity amid Trump threats
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Harvard graduation ceremony cheers diversity amid Trump threats
Thousands of Harvard students in crimson-fringed gowns celebrated their graduation Thursday in a ceremony that saw speakers addressing the importance of diversity and standing up for truth as the Ivy League school battles threats by the Trump administration on free speech and enrolling international students.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/05/2025
The framers of the Constitution wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement.
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The Emoluments Clauses, Explained
The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ensure effective enforcement.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
EXCLUSIVE | Trump’s rambling speeches could be symptoms of his “cognitive decline,” according to one of America’s top rhetoric experts.
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Trump Shows Signs of ‘Cognitive Decline’ Says Speech Expert
As pressure mounts for an inquiry into Joe Biden’s mental decline, the president faces scrutiny over his health.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2025
"The theory ginned up by the GOP justices to bless their expansive vision of presidential power has some real shortcomings. Taken for all its worth, it could allow POTUS to blow up the economy by firing the Fed chair. So they had to announce an absurd exception to it." — @leahlitman.bsky.social
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Law for lawlessness
The Supreme Court's Trump v. Wilcox ruling reveals its own outlawry while enabling the administration's.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/05/2025
The MAGA cult isn’t confused… they’re committed to the lie.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“In Trump’s moral universe, the right thing to do is always the thing that makes him richer.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...
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Opinion | Dance$ With Emolument$
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23/05/2025
Trump is abandoning Americans after a string of deadly tornadoes in the Midwest. He slashed FEMA — and now the government can’t help the people who need it most. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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St. Louis mayor complains FEMA isn't on the ground after major tornado
St. Louis mayor asks for donations, says FEMA isn't helping after tornado struck city, causing historic damage
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/05/2025
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly. trib.al/f6NvJbi
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Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers
Trump is the head of a criminal syndicate, and he should be treated accordingly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/05/2025
Leavitt: "It's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency. This president was extremely successful before giving it all to serve our country publicly."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/05/2025
Q: POTUS played a video he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that were murdered. We know that's not true. Why did he show it? LEAVITT: It showed images of crosses about white farmers who have been killed & persecuted bc of the color of their skin...that's ridiculous
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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
www.anativeson.org/p/the-devils...
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The Devil’s Work
As you can imagine I have been trying to wrap my mind around the chaos, dare I say absurdity, of our current moment.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
They will NEVER silence us on the House Floor. Or anyplace else.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/05/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkRX...
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Bruce Springsteen Speaks for America. Donald Trump Doesn’t.
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 22/05/2025
Judge stops the dismantling of the Department of Education and orders rehiring of fired workers
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Judge blocks Trump’s dismantling of Education Department
Trump signed an executive order to ‘eliminate’ the department without congressional approval
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In the People’s House www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
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Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation
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lookforthepattern.bsky.social @lookforthepattern.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Elie Wiesel - The Perils of Indifference
YouTube video by AmericanRhetoric.com
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The birthright citizenship case is a Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...
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Opinion | The ‘Modest’ Ruling That Could Kneecap Our Legal System
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
One of Trump's favorite means of corruption is his collectible meme coin. He's not just exploiting the presidency to pad his pockets, he's giving the winners of his grift coin auction the chance to influence him over dinner. Does it get more corrupt than that?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/05/2025
Make no mistake-- they're coming for your free speech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtMy...
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Is This America?
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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