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Chris Jones @theswinerepublic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In effect what corporate agribusiness has been asking of Iowa citizens for the past ~40 years
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Iran your gas prices up
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If Dems go on offense against MAGA, you can capture the media news cycle and attention economy. Or, you can spend your time attacking the left.
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@adamkinzinger.substack.com Your opinion on Iran? Did Iran pose an existential threat to US? Was this exaggeration? Iran's actual capabilities... haven't attacked beyond the middle east. No cyber attacks on US infrastructure. Seems like they were a convenient boogieman.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“We’ve got a party that is fighting for fraud and a party that is fighting against fraud." — JD Vance
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Larry Ellison gave $45M to support Trump's reelection in 2024. In return, Trump has given Ellison free rein to build more AI data centers and helped him gobble up companies like Paramount, WBD, and TikTok for his business empire. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“[I]f Democrats never draw a hard-line against the bad faith of their opposition, they will resign themselves to governing under the current rules, fully rigged for the GOP.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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Time For The DNC To Sue CBS News For $20 Billion
A free idea for Ken Martin.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
Exclusive: Jonathan Powell thought Tehran’s ‘surprising’ offer on its nuclear programme could prevent rush to war, sources say
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/03/2026
DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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We Stopped Feeding the World to Buy Lobster
The administration gutted global aid in the name of fighting government waste. At the same time, the Pentagon spent millions on steak, crab, furniture, and even a $98,000 piano.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I'm just amused that Davos is the new UN, and that world leaders give back-to-back speeches like it's General Assembly week. Almost like capital rules the world order or something
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
For any other public official, this would be criminal www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
One of the more frustrating things about 2025 is that our society allocated $205B in wealth—nearly the combined salaries of all 2.9M civilian federal employees—to the guy who spent a few months wreaking havoc on said workforce while federal spending rose $300B anyway.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index table showing the top 5 richest people: Elon Musk ($638B, +$205B YTD), Larry Page ($270B), Jeff Bezos ($255B), Larry Ellison ($252B), and Sergey Brin ($251B).
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social Can you enlighten me please. Is/has Hamas engaged Israeli forces in building to building combat? Are their numbers degraded? We don't hear much from the combat zone aside from bombing, shelling and bulldozing of buildings. Are they hiding and waiting it out?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2025
Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What the Democrats need least right now? A new think tank funded by billionaires. Some thoughts... robertreich.substack.com/p/what-the…
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2025
1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist. No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men. The silence is deafening. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter
The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt…
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Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?
Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
@kenwhite.bsky.social Nice work Ken! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US justice official leading prosecutions of minor crimes pleaded guilty to DUI
Aakash Singh’s elevation to high-ranking post given criminal charges four years ago is unusual, experts say
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How many orders of magnitude worse is Trump’s corruption than various Hunter Biden claims the right said justified his father’s impeachment: An investigation www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2
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A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn’t said a word.
Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who shot at the CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 01/09/2025
Hiring practices at major meatpackers reshaped the demographics of middle America — and, in turn, gave rise to the nativism that produced the Trump era. @thefern.org
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On the kill floor: How migrants are exploited for profit  - High Country News
In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered massive changes to the meatpacking workplace that continue reshaping the center of the country.
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism?
Republicans once believed governments should get out of the way. Trump is making his influence felt in every corner of the American economy
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KFF @kff.org · 20/08/2025
CBO estimates that the reconciliation law will increase the number of uninsured by 10M in 2034. This number would rise to over 14M if enhanced premium tax credits for ACA Marketplace enrollees expire later this year: on.kff.org/3JiDnGB
Map shows the state-by-state percentage point increase in the uninsured population due to the budget reconciliation package based on CBO estimates. An additional 10 million people nationwide could be uninsured in 2034 due to the budget reconciliation package.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Despite South Sudan's denial, three sources w knowledge of the matter say that the issue of resetting Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan was raised during meetings between Israeli officials and Sudan’s FM on his visit to Israel. No agreement, but talks ongoing www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say
South Sudan and Israel are discussing a deal to resettle Palestinians from war-torn Gaza in the troubled African nation, three sources told Reuters - a plan quickly dismissed as unacceptable by Palestinian leaders.
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
@johnsides.bsky.social This editorial breaks my heart. Have you any thoughts about why working class voters in Texas continue to support Republican candidates when Republicans have been in charge of the state since 1995? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Opinion | How Liberalism Went to Die on the Texas-Arkansas Border
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Prominent US anti-vaxxer says he caught measles and traveled back home
Brian Hooker seems to not have alerted authorities of his illness after leaving west Texas
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Litman: The irony of this just spillth over—because the Biden administration was subject to nationwide injunction after nationwide injunction in cases that didn’t warrant it. And they asked the Supreme Court, “Guys, can you do something about this?” The Republican justices declined to do so.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/06/2025
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So video of this 2012 interview is popping up on other sites. Feels super relevant at the moment. Wait for the moment Rubio gets pinned to the wall about his grandfather’s deportation order… (h/t @reuben_reyñoso)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
But why defund schools? To curate failure — to say that public schools are broken and public school teachers are inept all in a push to privatize public schools. To dumb down the populace. To demonize a system that educates over 90% of kids in this state… open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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They Want Missouri Education Policies to go Nationwide
Curated failure
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Margaret Manto @margaretmanto.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist. W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social: www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u... I put my confidence in Jesus and he’s going to take care of us,” This is where we're at in the "conservative heartland". Republicans say federal govt can't be trusted. Take care of it yourselves while you pay taxes and they make sure the rich don't!
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A Tornado Came for Cave City. Would Trump’s FEMA?
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sassafrasgirl @sassafrasgirl.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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maxzilla.bsky.social @maxzilla.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake
Leonardo Garcia Venegas was filming arrests of his co-workers in Alabama when officers arrested him
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
seems kinda bad that the House GOP is ordering half a trillion in cuts to Medicare now? Not Medicaid but Medicare. Is that bad?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/05/2025
Did you know that $100M in food aid is rotting in warehouses that could feed the entire population of Gaza for a month and half, but a 28-year-old at DOGE is holding it hostage? www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...
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Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
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