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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Odd thing to say after DSA Stuff led to an almost 4x increase in under 35 turnout. Imagine if the establishment line was, “yes our party really needed new energy and ideas and change, we don’t always agree but this is good, welcome” rather than this idiotic and actively damaging nonsense.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent and a longtime Trump ally, was in a custody battle over his son. An ICE official agreed to help. Full Story: nyti.ms/4bDpop4
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/02/2026
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/12/2025
JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 27/10/2025
Tomorrow we are joined by the co-author of Virginia Giuffre's book and her family. In a powerful interview we hear the voices who helped share her tragic story at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell. Catch it on YouTube tomorrow: www.youtube.com/@TheLincolnProject
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/10/2025
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down." @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social report for MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...


MSNBC

Sept. 20, 2025, 3:45 PM EDT

By Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian

In an undercover pperation last year, the
FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White
House border czar, accepting $50,000 in
cash after indicating he could help the
agents - who were posing as business
executives - win government contracts in a
second Trump administration, according to
multiple people familiar with the probe and
internal documents reviewed by MSNBC.

The FBI and the Justice Department
planned to wait to see whether Homan
would deliver on his alleged promise once
he became the nation's top immigration
official. But the case indefinitely stalled
soon after Donald Trump became president
again in,January, according to six sources
familiar with the matter. In recent weeks,
Trump appointees officially closed the
investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel
requested a status update on the case, two
of the people said.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2025
Light the fuse, then cry about the explosion. Classic MAGA.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
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Baumer @mattbirnbaum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It’s basically the OPPOSITE of intellectual curiosity. And they’re clueless enough to be proud of that.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.
Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.
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KellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨Republicans say they’re targeting just criminals and gang members. Bullsh*t. 📌They’re targeting anyone who “looks illegal,” and it’s only going to get worse. 📌They need to make their 3,000 a day quota no matter what. NO ONE IS SAFE IN AMERICA—we have to protect one another. #MAGAKidnappers
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
DESPICABLE: Trump erased Medgar Evers — a war veteran, a civil rights icon — from Arlington’s website honoring Black soldiers. And now the Pentagon might scrub his name from a Navy ship. This isn’t “preparedness”—this is historical whitewashing. The coward’s way to erase Black resistance.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This passage of the Hegseth hearing is essential viewing. What a dim bulb this man is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...
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Mikie Sherrill Asks Pete Hegseth About 3 Areas Of His 'Incompetence' As Secretary Of Defense
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I don’t think it’s a particularly American tradition to give the benefit of the doubt to military leaders articulating the rules of engagement for their deployment on civilian streets in peacetime.
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Ᏼꮮꮻꮻ'ꮪ Ꮪꮶꭹ @whoiskf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Whoa, how did I miss this thing of beauty that is #AlGore 's speech on the glaring screaming obviousness of the atrocity of fascism in every single way that #Trump admin is.
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Bryan Graham @bryanagraham.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
With the BET Awards happening in downtown LA, I was wondering who was going to say something first. Doechii really is that girl.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Adjusted for era, these are surely the most powerful morons in world history
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me
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🦋SJI2783🦋 @sji2783.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
MAHA
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Yosi Sergant @a35mmlife.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Damn.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Corrupt judges let a criminal get away with treason and run for president. Propagandists masquerading as journalists lied to enough people that the criminal won. Then the criminal sold a half share in the presidency to the world's richest man, whom no one voted for. That's what happened, folks.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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PapaTJ 🤗 🌈 @papatj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“They are mean and stupid”
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Baumer @mattbirnbaum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
😂😂😂 Remember when SOS Hillary Clinton committed the horrific crime of using a private server to send NON-CONFIDENTIAL emails? Right now a private billionaire is apparently collecting and soon controlling ALL of the data in the United States treasury.
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Baumer @mattbirnbaum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I just deactivated and deleted Threads. I admit I’m intolerant of fascism appeasement.
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