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Blue Sword, Resist @blueswordresist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Let's not do this.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The legacy media is reconsidering the White House Correspondence dinner because Trump insulted them. What they don't get is that they insulted their viewers and readers by attending in the first place. Support independent media that doesn't suck up to Trump whether he is nice to them or not.
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Julius Kim @juliuskim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If Mitch McConnell is alive, I tell ya, it’s fucking weird how he’s not trying to do more to show everyone that he is. I mean, why wouldn’t you?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is eager to seize the Smithsonian, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. He profiles the institution’s leader, Lonnie Bunch, and explores how he’s managed to survive the chaos—for now.
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Inside Trump’s Plan to Seize the Smithsonian
How long can the museum system’s leader, Lonnie Bunch, survive?
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Politics Girl: It's all connected.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
One former FDA official said if the agency lifted restrictions on peptides, “it would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.” (Published April)
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RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work.
The agency’s 2023 decision to place 19 peptides on the “unsafe” list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 03/03/2026
We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings. Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion. We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Inside Donald Trump's corporate-funded war on America history www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's war on history
As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/02/2026
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes.
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The Murder of The Washington Post
Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/11/2025
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
“It’s when you step back and take in the full list, with all of the extortionate details, that it becomes clear that Trump is moving toward something like China’s command economy.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Donald Trump Is a Commie
Bernie’s democratic socialism is still compatible with liberal democracy. Trump’s national socialism is not. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown. Two Americas.
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Spreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'" In today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo, I counted and debunked at least *17 obvious, brazen lies* that the president told CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and that she just let slide:
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🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'
Mehdi debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/10/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared
YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2025
Trump’s strategic weaponization of Charlie Kirk’s murder is just an apparatus to crack down on thought and speech in unthinkable ways. This moment is as close to Orwellian as we’ve come, and the fictitious “Thought Police” is becoming our new reality.
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Trump’s Plan To Use the State To Crush Dissent
Read more here.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 02/09/2025
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/08/2025
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 12/08/2025
Why is not Trump’s letter a federal crime- lying to Congress -given its false claims re DC crime?And why shd he be immune from suit for this when anyone else wd be prosecuted. Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Just utterly out of words to describe what we’re seeing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/08/2025
Good morning. Trump is protecting Epstein files. The confederacy lost and they were traitors, mRNA vaccines are the future, cops shouldn’t wear masks, Trump cut taxes for the rich and ripped benefits from the poor. Have a weekend
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. - Carl Sagan
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has called off nearly $500 million in grants and contracts aimed at advancing mRNA vaccine development. This technology, first deployed during the Covid19 pandemic, allows vaccines to be produced rapidly and adapted as viruses evolve. His brain worms are getting worse!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump’s former criminal defense attorney meets with convicted sex trafficker to make deal after firing career prosecutor who put her in prison.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/07/2025
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2025
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/07/2025
The FAA is considering a plan to hire foreigners to fill vacant air-traffic-controller jobs amid a national shortage, documents obtained by Isaac Stanley-Becker reveal. One official tells him the FAA’s security experts are “losing their minds” over the idea.
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Trump to Foreign Air Traffic Controllers: You’re Hired
The FAA is considering “international talent” for highly sensitive jobs keeping planes in the air.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A Trump-appointed judge overturned a Biden-era rule that removed medical debt from credit reports. The ruling came days after Republicans voted to kick millions of Americans off healthcare – which will likely cause medical debt to skyrocket. A perfect storm of cruelty.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😡 It's not a "trade agreement", bc POTUS can't make "trade agreements" on his own, & every media outlet should stop being lazy by using "deal" or "agreement" & instead do journalism & explain to readers that all of this is wildly illegal & not how it works.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/07/2025
“Despite our flawed instinct to take the path of least resistance,” writes Arthur C. Brooks of Cicero's great life lesson, “we will always be better served by choosing to do the right thing”:
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What Cicero Knew About Your Best Life
To feel good, do good.
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meadowlark23.bsky.social @meadowlark23.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
WATCH: “It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says Chris Hayes on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.
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‘Obscene and depraved’: New reporting on Palestinians killed while waiting for food
YouTube video by MSNBC
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
America is - and has always been - the best and worst of humanity, both turned up to 11. Happy 4th. Pls read & subscribe johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/america-th...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We need to Declare our Independence from Donald Trump . . . www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.
It's uncanny.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wonder why ICE workers are so horrible? Whistleblowers who speak out about illegal actions and inhumane conditions are being fired, then replaced with Trump loyalists who won’t ask questions. ICE leadership has seen over a dozen top-level resignations and firings since Trump took office,
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him
A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.
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