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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/05/2026
"In a maximum-gerrymandering scenario, more than 400 seats in the House could be safe and essentially uncontestable, delivering to voters year after year an unresponsive and unimpeachable class of lazy representatives with little incentive to represent them" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The House of Representatives Is Turning Into the Electoral College
Thanks to the Supreme Court, the gerrymandering wars, already awful, are poised to get even worse.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 18/04/2026
Thirteen million tipped workers do not need a tax deduction. They need a raise.
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This Tax Season Proved 'No Tax on Tips' Was Never for Workers
Cutting taxes on some tips for some workers is not a solution. Raising wages—and ending the subminimum wage—is.
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SafeWaterCleanAir 💦☮️🌏🌍🌎 @thisisme7.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Please protect the #possums!💚
I need cartoon type, drawing a facts about opossums fact, they are shy, gentle, and avoid conflict, hissing or showing teeth is fear not aggression. In fact, they’re low body temperature makes rabies extremely rare in opossums. Fact, opossums are nature’s cleanup crew they eat ticks, insects, rodents, and carrying helping keep the ecosystem balanced. fact, opossums are native wildlife urban areas expanded in their habitat not the other way around.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Sanders: The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Jeff Bezos wants to raise $100 billion to automate factories in America and around the world. It means there will no longer be manufacturing jobs in the United States.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17/04/2026
"In today’s ‘First Draft,’ why is an isolated, feckless, pro-Israel Chuck Schumer still in charge of the Senate Dems? Can the new ceasefire in Lebanon hold? And how on Earth did Pete Hegseth confuse Quentin Tarantino with… God?" Read here, by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/chuck-schu...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Kamlager-Dove: Stevie Wonder can even see how much this war is costing us. Prices have gone up, and this dude is wanting to spend $2 billion of your money every single day rather than help you. Fuck him.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation. For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.
More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters.

The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.
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Politico @politico.com · 15/04/2026
Oil company founded by energy secretary paid no US taxes last year
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Oil company founded by energy secretary paid no US taxes last year
Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The United States is in an unprecedented crisis. A convicted criminal has attained the presidency. And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Residential Rooftop Solar Nightmare In Massachusetts cleantechnica.com/2026/04/10/r...
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Residential Rooftop Solar Nightmare In Massachusetts - CleanTechnica
Getting permission to connect a large rooftop solar system to the grid may be more trouble than its worth for many homeowners.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Wow. To see it visually like this.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/04/2026
What else could the U.S. have gotten to support Americans for the estimated $28 billion it spent on the Iran war? An analysis by NBC News found: • funding a year of free day care for 2 million children • rent for 1.2 million people • or health insurance through Medicaid for 3 million people
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The U.S. has spent billions on the Iran war. What else could that money have bought?
The estimated $28 billion the U.S. poured into the Iran war before the ceasefire could have funded a year of day care for 2 million children or rent for 1.2 million people, an NBC News analysis found.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
On Wednesday, just 4 ships, none of them oil tankers, passed through the strait, fewer than the day before the ceasefire, and on Thursday, just 7. “Let’s be clear,” the head of the Abu Dhabi oil company said. “The Strait of Hormuz is not open.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Costs of Trump’s Iran-War Folly
If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Not happening, Melania! Nice try. Get your felon husband to testify under oath, sweetheart Join us LIVE at 9:00 eastern! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHC...
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LIVE: No way, Melania!
YouTube video by Jen Taub
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Skeets Foryou @skeets4u.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NY Times wrote about Zampoli using his Trump friendship to get ICE to deport her (March 20th) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
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Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Consumer prices jumped 0.9% in March as Iran war sent gas prices soaring “The annual rate of inflation hit 3.3%, led by a 21.2% increase for gasoline — the largest one-month increase at the pump since 1967.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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March inflation report to offer first glimpse of Iran war's economic impact
A two-week ceasefire appeared to ease some concerns about more significant economic fallout, but analysts say global disruptions could be felt in the U.S.
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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
people need to stop thinking in terms of Democrats vs Republicans and start thinking in terms of the working class vs the ruling class. once you make that shift everything will start to make sense.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/04/2026
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security snapped up an empty warehouse on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for $145.4 million—paying nearly 50 percent more than the property’s 2025 assessed value. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on ICE's spending spree:
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The $97 Million Utah Warehouse ICE Bought for $145 Million
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/04/2026
You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Ronan has worked intensely on this investigation for the past year and a half, dealing with hostility behind the scenes. There’s shrinking space for this kind of reporting that affects our lives-individuals that can acquire the press they want to control. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/04/2026
The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of Trump’s second administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 Full story: propub.li/4e5vZLL
Text on graphic reads: The Department of Justice has dropped 23,000 criminal cases while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

-Nearly 5,000: federal drug cases, including trafficking and money laundering
-Over 900: cases of federal program or procurement fraud
-More than 1,300: cases involving terrorism and national security
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
so, someone posting in Donny's name commands Iran to "open the fuckin’ Strait," and the press just stands around scratching their collective ass. I attempt to make sense out of this batshittery in today's extremely angry post. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/4m9khBU
Happy Easter to you, too, you psychotic fuck.

folks, this is not a joke. Donny — or someone with access to his account — put a post telling Iran to ‘open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards’ onto his crappy app at 8:03am, while I was in the middle of writing this post.

my money’s on Donny having not written it. there’s no way he’d have put an apostrophe at the end of fuckin. he’s too illiterate. so who did it? Nosferatu McGoebbels? Plastered Pete, blackout drunk and in the middle of a three-day bender?

so what are we supposed to do now? just keep pretending like all this is the most perfectly normal stuff in the world?
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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This lawsuit challenges Trump's unlawful executive order that attempts to interfere with states' ability to administer our own elections. Mail-in ballots are a secure voting option used by many, the President included. I will fight the effort to remove that choice for others.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 04/04/2026
10,000 veterans have lost their homes in the last 10 months. The highest foreclosure rate in a decade. The Trump administration was warned this would happen. They shut the program down anyway, with no replacement and one week's notice.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This sucks
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Terrible. And unfortunately, the kind of losses that should be expected. Our military is exceptional. But not impervious. No military is. The longer this goes on, the more south and sideways things could go. That’s the terrible reality of war. Especially one like this.
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Independent Americans – Daily News with Paul Rieckhoff
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 03/04/2026
As war sends oil prices soaring, fossil fuel giants rake in billions while Americans get stuck with the bill, even though EVs already offer a cheaper way out… hartmannreport.com/p/gas-prices...
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Why Are Americans Still Stuck Paying for Oil Wars When EVs Cost Less to Drive?
As war sends oil prices soaring, fossil fuel giants rake in billions while Americans get stuck with the bill, even though EVs already offer a cheaper way out…
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We can’t afford universal healthcare. There’s just no money available.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The media coverage doesn’t reflect how unpopular Trump is. Biden and Obama had better numbers and the press drumbeat was doom, doom, doom
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
One way or another, this country is going to learn that accommodating white supremacist ideology will destroy this country. It did so once before and is doing so again. Is this country really prepared to allow our military to be DESTROYED by racism & sexism. Are we watching this like a TV show?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. This is no joke. Here's how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/04/2026
Republicans are abandoning ship. Even MAGA Republicans. “Trump is in free fall”- Alex Jones And @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social doesn’t hold back on declaring Trump’s war a fool’s errand.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Last night’s soporific soliloquy was a masterclass in market manipulation, the pattern holds; insiders place ‘bets’ on oil futures, tank markets at end of week (today is last day of trading) fly down to Mar-a-Lago cook up some posts for Monday, rinse, repeat. Trump is a criminal.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Roland S. Martin @rolandsmartin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you want to participate, send an email to roland@blackstarnetwork.com and put Alpha in the subject line. If you are not an Alpha and want to join this initiative, put Black Men in the subject line. We CANNOT wait until the fall. Let’s make a difference NOW!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Democrats flip a Florida legislative district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, pulling off another upset in a state house election but this time one with obvious symbolic power. @davidwchen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/03/2026
Donald Trump's named his son-in-law Jared Kushner "Peace Envoy." Now, in the middle of a war with Iran, our "Peace Envoy" is in the Middle East trying to raise $5 BILLION for his private equity firm.
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Donald Trump's named his son-in-law Jared Kushner "Peace Envoy."
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Adding insult to injury, Trump is now represented by a Democrat in the Florida state House. This and more in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-bottom...
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The Bottom Is Falling Out for Trump
He’s losing his war, his numbers are diving, and now he’s represented by a Democrat.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
On Monday, Trump, who is pressing to restrict the right to mail-in-voting, condemned the practice as "mail-in-cheating." On Tuesday, Florida held a special election in the district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Trump voted by mail. @ericalgj.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
One key thing to help rural hospitals would be to reverse Medicaid reimbursement rate cuts. The Big Beautiful Bill made it worse. Collins brags about a small grant program for rural hospitals but it's totally inadequate. #mepolitics Backgrounder: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say - KFF Health News
Rural hospitals would take an outsize hit from Republicans’ proposed cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs. Researchers say the financial erosion would trigger hospital closures and servi...
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