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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h

A much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop

He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 09/09/2026

A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry we can expect between now and the midterms.

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Dueling Missouri Court Decisions Give Us a Preview of the Kind of Midterm We’re In For

Chaos and the Courts A set of dueling federal court decisions sets...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are a lot of evil shits in this administration, but this gormless ghoul is right up there at the top. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have a Project 2025-sized playbook of investigations and inquiries into what he's been up to, because I bet we only know a fraction of his fuckery

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Love this kind of campaigning/framing - laying out the big structural issues from @jamestalarico.bsky.social

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/08/2026

Republicans have the majority in the Senate and House and they're telling you they cannot rein Trump in, so stop giving them power. They're telling you they refuse to use it.

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Among other things, I write this morning about the interesting fact that Republicans are tying to sow election conspiracy theories about a Democratic primary — with the seeming goal of stoking doubt about a crucial state ahead of November, regardless of who was on the ballot this week.

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GOP Immediately Turns the Islamophobia Dial All the Way Up; El-Sayed Hits Back

Introducing America to ‘Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed’ It’s not at all surprising, but...

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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We’ve update our Medicaid enrollment tracker and the news for children isn’t good. Since January 2025 there has been a shocking drop of 2.3 million kids enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP. This means the child uninsured rate is likely going up.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

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Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion

Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

And there it is … bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

BECAUSE OF COURSE

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 27/07/2026

If you haven't already, sign up here to unpack the funny, surreal, and strange in U.S. politics and culture with the TPM team every weekend! talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletters

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

BREAKING: SAG-AFTRA, the actors union comes out in opposition to the Paramount-Warners merger. Plenty of actors & SAG members have been a part of our #BlockTheMerger coalition from day 1 but still, this is big. My hometown of Hollywood does not want this misbegotten mashup & neither does democracy

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Paramount Skydance - Warner Bros. Transaction Update

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/07/2026

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of Cocaine Is Butchering Patient Care bsky.app/profile/more...

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

See, one of the greatest things about the Smithsonian is that it's pretty much the US's national standard for accuracy.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/07/2026

I’m particularly interested in where, exactly, the Trump admin will direct people for “accurate information regarding America’s history.” The administration partnered with Hillsdale College, an evangelical school, for U.S. history stuff for the 250th anniversary efforts.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 24/07/2026

Commentary by Tim Storey and Sue Urahn: "Americans must recognize that our political differences are not inevitably divisive, because our futures are fundamentally connected. Politics are difficult, yes, but they do not need to be ugly." ow.ly/UnXB50Zs1tJ

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Things will get worse as more students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the ability to do causal reasoning.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Under heavy pressure from a federal judge, prosecutors agreed on Thursday to unilaterally withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters. The move followed sharp grilling about prosecutors’ actions ... The government called the subpoenas to reporters’ family members a 'mistake.'" 1/

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BREAKING: Feds withdraw NYT subpoenas into reporting on Qatar-gifted jet

The government called the subpoenas to reporters' family members an “error.”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23/07/2026

There is great utility in having loyal and compliant U.S. attorneys in blue states as Trump targets Democratic elected officials and other political foes for retribution.

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What’s Really Behind Trump’s Corrupt U.S. Attorney Scheme

Only Loyalists Need Apply A new and ironic development in the first-of-its-kind...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026

Ossoff: "Aren't we all tired of living under an administration where we know we have to ask about every single thing whether the first family is getting paid and lining their own pockets?"

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Note that this is *on top of* previous CMS deferrals of federal #Medicaid $ targeting these two states. Medicaid is the largest source of federal funding for states (63% in CA and 54% in MN) according to NASBO state budget data.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump wants to cast doubts on 2020 so that he can sabotage the midterms — because he is DESPERATE and LOSING. But no matter how hard Trump and the GOP try, we’re still going to show up to vote and win by margins too big to rig!!

TRUMP IS FLAILING AND WEAK.
TOGETHER
WE'RE STRONG AND WE'RE GOING TO WIN.
JOIN US.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16/07/2026

Just now on the Senate floor, I called for an END to the AI program that is delaying and denying seniors the health care they deserve. We're voting right now: my colleagues should join me and END AI prior authorization in Medicare.

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This AI Program is Delaying and Denying Seniors Their Health Care. It Needs to End.

YouTube video by Senator Patty Murray

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14/07/2026

“The wonderful thing is now we have all the evidence,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a press conference in Minneapolis yesterday announcing the breakthrough.

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The Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels

‘Now We Have All the Evidence’ The first hints that the Trump...

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Donald Trump attacked mail-in voting, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and now fired every remaining member of the bipartisan agency that helps states run secure elections. Call it exactly what it is: an attempt to control the outcome of an election Trump is afraid of losing.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/07/2026

The Trump administration's chilling attacks on lawyers, judges, and the pillars of our free society are dangerous for all of our rights. To mark our country's 250th anniversary, judges from across the country are calling out those who seek to undermine the rule of law.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is absolutely devastating and infuriating. ICE officers in an unmarked car shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on his way to work. Then the smear machine immediately kicked in. Read the words of his son, and demand accountability: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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He saw a video of a Mexican man shot by ICE. It was his father.

The eldest child of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said his father was “a family man” who was likely frightened by the unmarked vehicles following him.

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