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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 06/05/2025

So the border with Canada is an “artificial line” that was “drawn with a ruler” and should be erased. But the border with Mexico needs military patrolling and a wall. Got it.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“I write because people are being crushed beneath the weight of a system rigged against them…waiting for justice that never comes. I write because the world is a cracked highway at dawn, slick with oil and desperation, with a storm rolling in fast and nowhere to run.” @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social

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The Weight of Silence

Dispatches from a Nation at War with Its Own People

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There are numerous calls to investigate whether Trump and his cronies engaged in insider trading, pump and dumps, etc. But it won't be DOJ. It won't be the SEC. It won't be Congress. You know who CAN investigate this? NY AG Letitia James - who has jurisdiction over Wall St.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🚨 From a fellow BlueSky traveler: Homeland Security stormed LA schools without a warrant, targeting kids. Principals shut them down. Schools are not battlegrounds. We will not let our communities be terrorized. Stand up and fight back. #ProtectOurKids #DefendOurSchools

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/04/2025

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“They’ve been relentlessly dismantling every single civil rights agency in the federal government, and this could be the last one standing.” Garza added that she is “prepared to challenge any attempt to illegally remove me as chairwoman.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Trump is trying to quietly wrest control of a top federal civil rights board

He wants to demote the Democratic chair and replace her with a hand-picked Republican.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker has just crossed the 19 hour line. Five hours and 13 minutes more and he will break Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor

A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 01/04/2025

Today is Election Day, Wisconsin! Make sure to go vote for Judge Crawford for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and let Elon Musk know: Wisconsin is not for sale!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 15/03/2025

tw: cancer I'm going to share the post of a family friend who has late stage cancer and will be directly affected by cuts to NIH. She is speaking out during the time she has. She wants people to know the human cost. Her name is Caroline. This is her post:

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Barbara Jordan was the 1st African American woman from the south elected to Congress in 1972. Prior to that she had been elected as President of the Texas Senate. In the US Congress she served 3 terms on the Judiciary Committee. She gave the opening remarks in Nixon’s impeachment. A hero to many!

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Barbara Jordan Biography

As a lawyer, a congresswoman, and a scholar, Barbara Jordan used her public speaking skills to fight for civil and human rights. Discover more at womenshistory.org.

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Expressing horror at the *ATTACK ON* Zelenskyy. Not an argument. Not a spat. Words matter.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Crockett: When you're at war, you’re not worried about your outfit. If he was walking around in the fanciest suits, I'm sure that they would accuse him of taking our dollars and spending it on his wardrobe

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Horrifying. What an embarrassment to every one of U.S.🤯 Zelensky was berated, belittled, and gaslighted. He stood firm. That is what true strength looks like.💔

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’d say this is unbelievable, but with this admin it’s totally believable. Abhorrent and insanely irresponsible, but absolutely believable.🤯

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Predictive Stupidity @onemoney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Under DC law, police should have arrested Mills. An allegation of intimate partner violence plus visible bruising should have equaled mandatory arrest. Great reporting revealing what almost certainly is a cover-up. code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...

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§ 16–1031. Arrests. | D.C. Law Library

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Not only has an arrest warrant for domestic violence been issued (and ignored) for FL Rep. Cory Mills (R-07), but he also does NOT live in FL. His election registration was allegedly falsified.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/02/2025

This hits hard… “Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.” You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Real people suffer real harm when ignorance, arrogance, and mediocrity reign unchecked in seats of power.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Women’s healthcare should “address the needs of MEN”????🤯😡🤬 *link in thread below*

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/02/2025

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It’s heartbreaking that people actually voted for this cruelty. They knew. They KNEW.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In the mid-2000s South Africa was governed by President Thabo Mbeki. Amid an explosive AIDS epidemic in the late 1990s, Mr. Mbeki stumbled onto the fringe view that H.I.V. doesn’t cause AIDS and that the antiretroviral drugs used to keep it in check were poison.

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L.R.Knost @lrknost.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

As a person fighting a rare cancer, this directly affects me. As a person fighting a fascist government, things don’t have to directly affect me to matter to me. For both reasons…never give up…never surrender!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

They removed the T and then they removed the Q and what letter are they coming for next?

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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

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