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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Excerpt HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT in free newsletter, Sarah Kendzior, Covering Crime With Scandal https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/covering-crime-with-scandal
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markedgar.bsky.social @markedgar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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André Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The White House Faith Office isn’t just advocating for faith communities through government power to shape policy; it’s also being wielded to advance Trump’s own political agenda.
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markedgar.bsky.social @markedgar.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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markedgar.bsky.social @markedgar.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
WATCH — @drakefromtx.bsky.social : "Which part of the murder in Minneapolis is worst for you?"
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 13/01/2026
Years before federal immigration agents shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, reporter Lila Hassan began investigating ICE’s history of deadly force. ICE’s January 7 shooting of Good resembles many of the shootings Hassan reviewed.
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What Can ICE’s History of Deadly Force Tell Us About the Renee Good Shooting?
Journalist Lila Hassan spent years investigating how the agency deploys force — and how it treats agents who open fire.
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Hyunsu Yim @hyunsuinseoul.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
SEOUL, Jan 13 (Reuters) - South Korea's special prosecutor on Tuesday requested the death penalty for former president Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026
People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.
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markedgar.bsky.social @markedgar.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out For Good Greeley” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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ICE Out For Good Greeley · Mobilize
This is a peaceful candlelight vigil. Please bring candles and signs. Wednesday, January 7th, an American citizen was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. T...
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 09/01/2026
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Trump has no sense or understanding of good. He is pure self. A smorgasbord of impulses and cravings - for wealth, power, adoration, grandiosity, vengeance. He's a giant id. Not even a fully formed person. He's a parasite. An infection. A contagion. He's a pathological abomination.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
EX-INSURANCE COMPANY EXEC: “We’re looking to make taking campaign💰from insurance companies toxic.” Former Cigna exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social tells Kanew the push for #MedicareForAll will focus on calling out campaign contributions - the way @trackaipac did.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I love how Trump waits for his caddie to toss the new ball on the ground before getting out of his cart so that he can pretend he just located it.
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hegemonic. Enshittification.
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markedgar.bsky.social @markedgar.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. I'm rallying on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption. app.sosha.ai/s/oXg5vAMz
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Now we know who the inspiration for Voldemort was.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”
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How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge
If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.
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RYP @robertyoungpelton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Opinion | ‘No Other Land’ Won an Oscar. Many People Hope You Don’t See It. (Gift Article)
Criticism of the documentary that chronicles West Bank violence is a microcosm of the conflict.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AOC: “A tremendous mistake… turns the federal government into a slush fund for Trump & Musk and cedes congressional authority… almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free…”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/03/2025
Bernie Sanders: "I'm gonna vote no. I think the American people are sick and tired of Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, running around, slashing Social Security, veterans programs. That Republicans are moving for massive tax breaks and cutting Medicaid ... you gotta draw a line."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/03/2025
Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I do not say this lightly or in jest: The Southern Baptist Convention in general, and the CBMW in particular, are tools of Satan. They have done more for Hell than for Christ. They trample underfoot the Son of God, and profane the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Such a curious coincidence, that's exactly what Herbert Hoover said on October 25, 1929, the day after the Dow Jones dropped 9% in a single trading session. millercenter.org/the-presiden... Trump's stock market is down 10% in less than 30 days.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...
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Let’s Create “Town Hall Night in America”
It’s time for Democrats to institutionalize our oldest form of democracy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/
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Come Back Alive Foundation - Charity Organization
One of the top charity organizations who help the Ukraine Army since 2014. Donate via the website - 100% of proceeds go directly to Ukraine Army.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is the way. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social , please encourage others to follow @robertgarcia.bsky.social 's lead. bsky.app/profile/robe... 👇👇👇👇👇
Post by Rep. Robert Garcia: 

"I’m ready to go on the road in California and start hosting town halls - in Republican districts. If GOP House members won’t hold town halls in their districts, we will."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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JOURNO5 @journo5.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
American journalists are in a bind No one could've imagined a month ago! Reporters are being bounced out of the Pentagon the White House, Air Force One and other places. What should be done? Check out what former @wsj.com exec Jim Friedlich recommends #Journo5 www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Amid intensifying assaults on the press, is it time for a 'NATO for news'? | Opinion
To protect the free press in America, we need to agree that "an attack on one is an attack on all."
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 24/02/2025
On the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion, Europe is in Kyiv. We are in Kyiv today, because Ukraine is Europe. In this fight for survival, it is not only the destiny of Ukraine that is at stake. It’s Europe’s destiny.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
While it's true that Democrats in Congress -- and especially the House -- have relatively little power right now, what they can do is use their local offices to find people suffering from Trump's policies, like this caller, and lift up their voices and tell their stories
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.
Delegation of Apportionment Authority

I hereby delegate to the Program Associate Directors the authorities delegated by the President to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for apportioning funds pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1513(b).

This delegation supersedes any previous delegation of such authority and will remain in place until revised or revoked. The Program Associate Directors may re-delegate this authority as necessary in writing. This delegation does not limit the authority of the Director to exercise the delegated authority.

Russell T. Vought,

Director, Office of Management and Budget.Externally, the Director must ensure that OMB has sufficient visibility into the deep caverns of agency decision-making. One indispensable statutory tool to that end is to ensure that policy officials- the Program Associate Directors (PADs) managing the vast Resource Management Offices (RMOs)-personally sign what are known as the apportionments. In 1870, Congress passed the Anti-Deficiency Act® to prevent the common agency practice of spending down all appropriated funding, creating artificial funding shortfalls that Congress would have to fill. The law mandated that all funding be allotted or "apportioned" in installments. This process, whereby agencies come to OMB for allotments of appropriated funding, is essential to the effective financial stewardship of taxpayer dollars. OMB can then direct on behalf of a President the amount, duration, and purpose of any apportioned funding to ensure against waste, fraud, and abuse and ensure consistency with the President's agenda and applicable laws.
The vast majority of these apportionments were signed by career officials- the Deputy Associate Directors (DADs)-until the Trump Administration placed this responsibility in the hands of the PADs and thereby opened wide vistas of oversight that had escaped the attention of policy officials. The Biden Administration subsequently reversed this decision. No Director should be chosen who is unwilling to restore apportionment decision-making to the PADs' personal review, who is not aggressive in wielding the tool on behalf of the President's agenda, or who is unable to defend the power against attacks from Congress.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A small museum says all but one sponsor of a Girls in STEM event backed out, fearing retaliation from the Trump administration over "DEI." Evan Kruegel reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1n...
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Sponsors pull out of 'Girls in Science' event at Colorado children’s museum following DEI cuts
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 20/02/2025
Trump is following the modern-day autocratic playbook to entrench his faction in office and make it difficult for voters to dislodge them. So, what do we do about it? Preserve electoral competition. Read how to understand and stop the Entrenchment Agenda: protdem.org/3DaD1ie
Understanding
the Entrenchment Agenda
The Trump Administration is trying to hold onto power indefinitely.
Here’s how they plan to do it. →Entrenchment is how authoritarians consolidate and leverage government resources to stay in power.

It happens primarily through politicizing government resources, funding, and services; turning them into carrots and sticks to coerce or sideline civil society.

Headline graphic:
US Intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test.Preserving electoral competition is the key to preventing entrenchment. 

But true electoral competition is about more than going through the motions of holding elections.

Authoritarian states regularly conduct ceremonial elections to maintain the appearance that their citizens live in
a democracy. To preserve electoral competition for 2026, 2028,
and beyond, we must:
Preserving civic space and our right to free speech.
Protecting organizations and individuals who challenge the administration.
Maintaining checks and balances that constrain the executive branch from going after the opposition.
Ensuring free and fair elections.

Read about at IfYouCanKeepIt.org
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Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co · 19/02/2025
Dear media: Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment. It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking. Focus on those.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If Hochul is scoring on him, it’s open season. Have at it, Dems.
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Diane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A good portion of Christendom today seems to serve their political beliefs. It seems the political system has become so important to us that we act and speak in ungodly ways to protect what we have labeled godly. Our politics are not our Christ.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here’s another way to think about it. We import roughly $3.25 trillion in goods every year. Income tax receipts total roughly $2.2 trillion. So we’d need a universal tariff rate of, give or take, 65% to be able to do away w the IRS. But… 1/2
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Thread Reader by Skywriter | unroller @unroll.skywriter.blue · 19/02/2025
The thread as a shareable webpage: skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:yjtio5…. Powered by @skywriter.blue
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Page by Abe Newman | @abenewman.bsky.social
1/Trump Media sues Brazilian Judge as court considers coup plot by Bolsonaro. Read: Long arm of US law used not to promote democracy or human rights but far right nationalism. Stunning turn both for U...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Literally suing to help another authoritarian who also tried to overthrow his country's government. City on a hill no more.
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
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Ryan Wiggins @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"I spent past year and a half with The Lincoln Project... There, I learned some of the hard-line messaging tactics R's have used for decades to defeat Dems. R's know how to define opponents early, sharply, and relentlessly—exactly what Dems need to do." Must read: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/evel...
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