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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Fact-check: true

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/12/2025

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Meet two heroes of our times.

A PBS News tweet explains how two laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with canceled programs, keeping nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. Below the text is an image of two people—Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum—appearing in a split-screen video interview, each seated in their respective rooms.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Then as now ...

A cartoon from May 21, 1960. Boy coming home from school saying "our current events teacher keeps bursting into tears." Artist: Chon Day

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Senile Satan, Con Junior and Fredo announced their phone in June, promising delivery in August to commemorate a decade since Satan came down the escalator. Not one phone has been delivered and good luck getting a refund. They took 590,000 deposits totaling $59 million.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/10/2025

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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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: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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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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God @thegodshow.com · 08/10/2025

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2025

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Resignation letter from ousted longtime federal prosecutor in Eastern District of Virginia It issues a scathing rebuke of Justice Dept leadership: "The leadership is more concerned with punishing the President's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security" ====>

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

There are four exceptions where you can incur obligations during a shutdown despite having no funding. One is if the action is necessary to discharge the President’s constitutional duties and powers. OMB is asserting that conducting mass firings falls under that. Be fucking for real right now

Asked about the legal concerns, White House Office of Management and Budget communications director Rachel McCauley said in a written statement that "issuing RIFs is an excepted activity to fulfill the President's constitutional authority to supervise and control the Executive Branch, similar to conducting foreign policy."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

See the difference? 👀

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"'Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life ... Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life.'" www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo...

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Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Durbin Debate

The number of bishops who have condemned Cardinal Cupich’s decision to honor Durbin with a 'lifetime achievement award' has risen to 10, including two bishops emeritus.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@repmaxinewaters.bsky.social warns CFPB Acting Director Vought: "Using a government shutdown as a pretext to furlough staff would not only violate the CFPB’s statutory mandate but would cause direct harm to American consumers." news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

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Waters Warns Vought About Using Shutdown to Furlough CFPB Staff

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shouldn’t attempt to use the looming government shutdown as an excuse to furlough employees, a top Democratic lawmaker warned.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2025

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

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