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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Really appreciated the wisdom of the @socialismconference.org this weekend. I dropped in Saturday to hear from @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, and a host of others.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m trying to see something: Like or comment on this post if you were previously aware of the storm that hit Northeast Kansas City, Kansas on August 19, 2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 16/07/2026
US House Republicans take ‘first step’ toward dismantling Department of Education | #ksleg #ksed via Shauneen Miranda kansasreflector.com/2026/07/16/r...
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US House Republicans take ‘first step’ toward dismantling Department of Education • Kansas Reflector
A major legislative package that would put into law President Donald Trump’s push to greatly reduce the responsibilities of the U.S. Department of Education advanced out of a U.S. House panel on Wedne...
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Loud Light @loudlightks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Vote no August 4th in #kansas to: -protect repr0 rights -keep billionaire control and money out of Kansas state Supreme Court - protect education funding - make the KS Legislature FULLY fund special education - prevent Kobach from ending checks and balances (😭) - and so much more
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/07/2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will deliver a “major address” on Friday to mark America’s 250th birthday, his office tells NBC News.
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Zohran Mamdani to deliver a speech marking America’s 250th birthday
The New York City mayor will speak from George Washington’s desk hours before President Trump delivers a speech from Mount Rushmore.
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Democracy is on death’s doorstep.
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Politico @politico.com · 30/06/2026
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship
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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship
The justices ruled that the Constitution guarantees U.S. citizenship to virtually everyone born on American soil.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/06/2026
New in PN: Will Dems become the party of faith? "It's just possible that Trump — whose appeals to a certain cohort of the religiously observant have morphed into an almost gleeful celebration of amorality — may have, entirely unintentionally, opened a door to a new kind of faith-inspired politics."
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Will Democrats become the party of faith?
The GOP's debasement presents an opportunity.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/06/2026
NEW: The FBI reportedly raided the offices of an Ohio pro-democracy organization that helps register voters and organizes political activities for progressive causes in the state. The raids represent a major escalation in the DOJ's attempts to crack down on pro-voting groups before the midterms.
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FBI raids Ohio voter registration nonprofit in latest attack on progressive orgs
The raids represent a major escalation in the Justice Department's crackdown on pro-voting and progressive groups.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This is an attack on Black political power. To take away our representation.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ICYMI — @repmcgovern.bsky.social : “Trump is in an imaginary world. He needs an intervention… SNAP provides ~$2 per meal, we’re told more cuts are coming. We have 46 million hungry, they don’t seem to give a shit. We ought to be able to end hunger. They spent $60 billion on the war in Iran.”
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/04/2026
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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/03/2026
“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.” — Tupac said it years ago… and here we are. The Pentagon is now asking for an additional $200 BILLION for this war. We always find the money for war. But when it comes to housing, healthcare, or feeding people? Suddenly it’s crickets.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/12/2025
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is extremely important
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Exactly. In the EU, Mamdani would be considered a centrist. If you've never done so, you really should visit a place like Denmark and see how things actually work, versus the doom and gloom peddled by the GOP. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The nation is about to learn who Patrick Penn is.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2025
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Don't Obey in Advance" means don't do this:
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James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
After enacting the largest SNAP cuts in history, Trump is now scrapping the federal government's annual report on hunger in America. The utter cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."
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How Universal Child Care Could Change the Economy
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The salient question, according to Randy Callstrom, the CEO of Wyandot Behavioral Health Network in Kansas City, Kansas, is where will people go? In Kansas, he said, there is no place for people to turn. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/08/20/t...
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Trump order on homelessness will undo decades of progress, Kansas service providers warn • Kansas Reflector
Service providers say President Donald Trump’s executive order could jeopardize their efforts to help those who are experiencing homelessness.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/07/2025
FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.
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FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2025
NEW: On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away. These are their stories.
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The cover up deepens
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 22/07/2025
Republicans in Congress stripped health care from millions, blowing a $3.4 trillion hole in our deficit to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. The American Dream is now further out of reach for working American families.
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
And when the owner of Fox News settles for tens of millions of dollars with the sitting President of the United States, we'll ask, "Was that a bribe?"
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Soft.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were a response to masked violent men who terrorized Black communities, violating their civil rights.The deployment of violent masked ICE ofcrs are tapping into this unique form of terror. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Corruption is the soft underbelly of authoritarianism.
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
And there it is: www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...
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Cuomo will stay on NYC mayor’s ballot after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, sources tell CNN | CNN Politics
Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN. That leaves in place contingency plans he ...
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Matt Kleinmann @matt-kleinmann.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Part of me wants to celebrate. Part of me remembers India Walton getting screwed and knows it’s not over until it’s over.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/06/2025
“The world’s climate is behaving exactly as we said it would all along, for many years. It is warming due to human influence. It gets faster if we don’t act on it.” trib.al/nef2X6T
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The Simple Truth About These Miserable Heat Waves
Much of the country is facing brutal, potentially deadly heat. The reasons for such extreme events are not complicated.
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