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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026
Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."
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🦋🧈 monarchbuttery @monarchbuttery.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Chaska MN residents have been protesting every weekend for over a year now.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/04/2026
Q: "What have they rejected here?" Vance: "I won't go into all the details because I don't want to negotiate in public…The simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon…We haven't seen that yet."
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
There’s a new generation of chickenhawks that love the Iran war. They must be challenged. From @realtimers.bsky.social with Bill Maher last night. The fiery full episode is available on demand on HBO Max now. And replaying on CNN tonight at 8ET.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2026
The order comes as the Trump administration challenges a lower court ruling that the estimated $300-million project requires congressional approval. n.pr/420KZmS
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White House ballroom construction can continue for now, appeals court says
The order comes as the Trump administration challenges a lower court ruling that the estimated $300-million project requires congressional approval.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 12/04/2026
The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2026
The United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement after a day of highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks, Washington's lead negotiator Vice President J.D. Vance announced on Sunday. n.pr/4c60uzX
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No Deal: U.S.-Iran peace talks in Islamabad fall through
The United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement after a day of highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks, Washington's lead negotiator Vice President J.D. Vance announced on Sunday.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/04/2026
As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. Eric Klinenberg considers infrastructure that doesn’t just displace water but soaks it in. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/hZ4AS0
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Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods?
As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
California’s billionaires are wealthier than they’ve ever been. Meanwhile, millions of poor and working-class Californians are struggling to make ends' meet. It's time to tax the rich. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUcgiqsU6NQ
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/04/2026
The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. The state of Trump's union. [@itep.org]
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pentagon violated court order to restore press access, judge rules
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman also admonished the Trump administration, saying suppressing political speech is the “mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.”
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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/04/2026
We still have rights. Time to use them.
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Hell no, it's not over
We still have rights. Time to use them.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Just a reminder that for all their big talk, DOJ is 0-4 in lawsuits to obtain state voter files. My law firm is 4-0.😎 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ now 0 for 4 on voter roll cases as court rejects Massachusetts lawsuit
“Here, the Attorney General offered no basis—none—and the demand was therefore facially inadequate.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
"Each day of the trial, the courtroom filled with community members. Current and former students and colleagues, members of the California Faculty Association from various universities and students who had heard about the case all came to show support..." www.huffpost.com/entry/jonath...
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Trump Admin Dealt Another Blow In Court After Protester Found Not Guilty
California philosophy professor Jonathan Caravello, who was accused of tossing tear gas in the direction of federal agents, faced up to 20 years in prison.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/04/2026
NEWS: Two U.S. Navy destroyers were forced to turn back while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened them and launched a drone toward the ships, per Bloomberg citing a regional intelligence official. 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone. Don't fall for it.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 11/04/2026
The first American leader of the Catholic Church has fiercely criticized the war in Iran, deepening tensions between the United States and the Vatican.
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‘Enough Of War,’ Pope Leo XIV Says In Latest Condemnation Of U.S.-Iran Conflict
The first American leader of the Catholic Church has fiercely criticized the war in Iran, deepening tensions between the United States and the Vatican.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/04/2026
ICYMI: A Department of Justice lawsuit demanding Massachusetts’ unredacted voter registration has been dismissed. President Trump’s DOJ has sued 30 states plus D.C. for their voter rolls as part of the administration’s obsessive focus on immigration enforcement. They are currently 0 for 4.
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Trump DOJ now 0 for 4 on voter roll cases as court rejects Massachusetts lawsuit
“Here, the Attorney General offered no basis--none--and the demand was therefore facially inadequate.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/04/2026
"I am a three-time loser—I voted for him three times." "I was hoping we would get that same president in 2016...and it's not the same guy." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @cookpolitical.com's Amy Walter look at 2020/24 Trump voter focus group respondents as their views of the president sour.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/04/2026
All initial evidence suggested that Pope Leo “was something entirely different from both Francis and Donald Trump: a quiet American, as I called him last summer. That description is now obsolete,” Francis X. Rocca argues: theatln.tc/ARoFjFUY 📸: Manon Cruz / Reuters
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Spot on.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Trump’s regulators haven’t lifted a finger to crack down on these suspicious trades. Meanwhile, Don Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market. Of course they stand to gain from this shadiness going unchecked.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The richest 1% will get $117 billion in tax cuts this year, thanks to Trump. That’s more than the combined budgets of eight federal agencies, including the Department of Education and the EPA. Meanwhile, the bottom 95% will see their taxes increase. It’s clear who he governs for.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Now is the time to confront what Trump is saying, not sanitize it. To take him literally and seriously. To stand tall and not back away. I built Democracy Docket to expose attacks on free and fair elections not sugarcoat them. Support its work. Subscribe now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
An American Pope publicly rebuking an American President over Iran marks a historic rupture—faith leadership warning against war while political power escalates it. When morality and militarism diverge this sharply, global trust in U.S. leadership fractures further.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This flew under the radar: Trump's new acting AG Todd Blanche shut down major DOJ investigations into crypto companies, dealers, and exchanges as Pam Bondi's second-in-command — all while holding at least $159,000 in crypto assets himself. The fox is guarding the hen house.
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NBC Bay Area @nbcbayarea.com · 10/04/2026
Congressman Ro Khanna, who has been central in the fight to get the Epstein files released, announced more than $100,000 in funding for a South Bay facility that helps sexual assault survivors. nbcbay.com/D80Tpwg
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Fmr. U.S. Amb. to Russia: NATO allies appear 'fed up' and 'exhausted' with Trump youtu.be/euj7ESxou6I?...
Amb. Michael McFaul
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Forbes @forbes.com · 10/04/2026
Wall Street awaited insight into how the Middle East conflict affected the economy.
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Iran War’s Inflation Impact: Consumer Prices Skyrocketed Last Month As Fuel Costs Surged
Wall Street awaited insight into how the Middle East conflict affected the economy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So why exactly did Melania hold a news conference denying any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein??? Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/why-did-…
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Why did Melania hold a news conference, denying any relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?
Some theories
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Just a reminder—as we’re all reacting to the First Lady’s statement on the Epstein files yesterday. This guy is still serving in the administration.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Promising pardons to criminals is something only a criminal would do. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 10/04/2026
Netanyahu’s lawyer claimed Friday the leader can’t testify due to “classified security ​and diplomatic reasons” connected to the Iran War.
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Netanyahu Criminal Trial Will Resume After Iran Ceasefire—But He Wants To Delay Testimony
Netanyahu’s lawyer claimed Friday the leader can’t testify due to “classified security ​and diplomatic reasons” connected to the Iran War.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Presidential podium is designated for the POTUS to address the nation or hold press conferences. The fact this narcissistic twat used it to spew lies, regarding a salacious relationship with a pedophilic sex trafficker, will piss me the fuck off for quite some time.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/04/2026
Pope Leo “may not be Trump’s greatest opponent, as some of the president’s critics had hoped,” Francis X. Rocca argues. “But neither is he the quiet bystander that the president’s supporters might have wished him to be.”
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The Iran War Showed a New Side of Pope Leo
Don’t call him the quiet pope anymore.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
That’s an abomination.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis
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Politico @politico.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: Kamala Harris just gave the clearest signal yet she’ll run for president again in 2028. “Listen, I might, I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention.
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Harris gives her clearest signal she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid
She has toyed with the idea before, but her comments Friday took on a new meaning in front of an audience full of Black power brokers.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/04/2026
Trump’s numbers on immigration have taken a dive not just because of a massive national shift in sentiment as people have seen what his mass-deportation regime looks like in practice but also because of steady pockets of resistance. Like this:
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Scoring Small, Crucial Wins Against Trump’s Deportation Regime
As the president’s approval ratings on immigration continue to fall, opposition to his policies is spreading.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/04/2026
Our city’s EMS members save lives day and night, showing up for New Yorkers when they need it most. I can’t overstate their extraordinary service & dedication. We owe them real support for their safety, not just gratitude. We are committed to ensuring the protection needed for their lifesaving work.
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Several EMS workers rushed to the hospital after being attacked in the Bronx
Several EMS workers were rushed to the hospital after being attacked in the Bronx on Thursday.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .
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