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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 23h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith looked straight at the Senate and said what Trump’s enablers have spent years trying to bury: There was proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump committed crimes against this country. Smith said he’d prosecute him again today. Because the evidence doesn’t give a damn about your red hat
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MASON, TN — Detainees reportedly getting arms broken, threatened with the hole, going on hunger strikes…👇🏽😕 “He told Telemundo a detainee of Mexican origin refused to sign deportation papers, jail staff broke his arm sent him to the hole. He never saw him again.” 😳👉🏽 www.facebook.com/share/v/14jQ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/09/2026
Trump Jr - who recently received a $620M defense contract - had his wedding bankrolled by a Putin associate. Guests of the wedding recently met with Zelensky to pressure him to give parts of Ukraine to Russia. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/08/2026
I’m so sick of this shit! Trump has no clue. You can’t fix something you don’t even realize is broken. And Republicans are still carrying Trump’s water. #BlueWaveIn90Days
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Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is it really too much to ask our political parties to stop electing men accused of assault/abuse? I
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/08/2026
Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. to.pbs.org/4f39DL0
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Your Social Security benefits could be cut by a quarter in 2032. Here’s what to know
Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months ...
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Melissa @melc76.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/07/2026
Trump officials say they found 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states. Those states don't know where the numbers came from, and some worry what the claims may portend for the midterms. n.pr/4xa5sTT
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Trump's noncitizen voter data remains a mystery. But the claims raise midterm fears
Trump officials say they found 250,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states. Those states don't know where the numbers came from, and some worry what the claims may portend for the midterms.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2026
U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Iran was likely behind a coordinated cyberattack on more than 30 municipal water systems in Minnesota this week, according to several U.S. officials.
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U.S. spy agencies suspect Iran launched cyberattack on Minnesota water facilities
Intelligence agencies have assessed that Iran was likely behind a coordinated attack on more than 30 municipal water systems in the state.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Debs @nikandnora.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Just watched a moving #svu episode. At the end, Olivia Benson says, "A good leader welcomes questions, a bad leader demands loyalty."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It’s impossible to move the debate forward when one side is committed to upholding a disinformation-fueled, dehumanizing false reality that leads to the state-sanctioned street killings of innocent people. There are not two sides to this particular story. Full stop.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Detainees held at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas report spoiled food, missed meals, denial of medical care, routine beatings, and near constant abuse. When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it.
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US: Deaths, Neglect in Fort Bliss Immigration Detention
People held in the immigration detention camp at the US Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas have experienced serious abu
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ALL FASCISTS SINCE HITLER ALWAYS FALSELY CLAIM THIS! It matters not that literally ZERO Democrats, Liberals, nor even Social Democrats/Democratic Socialists like Sanders or Mamdani, Obama have ANY Communist platform or beliefs - so long as the Fascists can fear-monger enough Americans to believe it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/07/2026
President Trump’s holding company took a $2 million payment last year from a top investor in a South Korean aluminum firm as the company was fighting a trade case before Trump’s Commerce Department, raising new conflict-of-interest questions.
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South Korean company paid Trump $2 million amid trade investigation
A South Korean investor paid Trump's company $2 million while its aluminum firm fought a Commerce Department trade case, raising new conflict-of-interest questions.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump is reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by 90% to open up the land for mining. He’s building a border wall through Big Bend park in Texas. And he’s gutted the NPS budget, throwing all our national parks into disrepair. Is there anything he won’t sell out?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Schiff: The judge, in that decision on Monday, referred Blanche, basically, to the New York Bar Association because of his conduct. How is it possible that after being referred to the bar association for potential discipline on Monday, we’re contemplating this guy for attorney general on Wednesday?
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2026
BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2026
Trump: "I even had a conversation with Theodore Roosevelt. I said, 'What do you think about the Panama Canal? Do you consider that your greatest achievement and how do you feel about the fact that the Democrats gave the Panama Canal away to Panama for $1?'"
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down limits on how much political parties can raise and spend on candidates. Already, political spending is surging to record-shattering levels. With this ruling, the court has eliminated yet one more protection against political corruption.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trump White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of Trump's ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by WaPo.
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Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom
The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements.
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Remember when George W. Bush called for Al Gore to be jailed and when Ronald Reagan called for Jimmy Carter to be tried for treason and when Barack Obama called for John McCain to be put in front of a firing squad yah me neither because actual presidents don’t do that shit
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Americans’ personal savings rate has dropped to one of its lowest levels in 15 years. Household debt is at a record high. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, which aren't keeping up with inflation. Meanwhile, corporate profits are at a record high. The system is rigged.
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Trump could be impeached on the multiple no-bid contracts that he has awarded alone. Then there is the 0.6 BILLION dollar loan that the Trump admin gave to Vulcan which is backed by none other than Don Jr. The LOAN is unprecedented and it's becoming clear that it was awarded by direction of the wh.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/05/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Apparently nobody told Bessent about Obama’s Iran Deal (that Trump pulled out of) 😬🤷🏼
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.
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Definitely Danny @semperwry.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
That's weird; he told reporters he had nothing to do with the fund. Now he's saying he gave up a lot of money "allowing" it.
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Jon Rademacher @jonrademacher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It should be explicitly clear from this presidential administration that we can no longer simply rely on decency from politicians and oligarchs. There MUST be laws that force them to be decent or they simply won't be.
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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“When any government. . . undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party… Full stop.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
There is no settlement. No matter how much and how often Trump and the DoJ say this is a settlement, the judge in the case says otherwise.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026
BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
One of the reasons this isn’t a legal settlement is that a settlement of this nature requires transparency. This slush fund does the opposite by allowing for confidentiality.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/05/2026
This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
WATCH: Hayley Williams performs in front of an image of Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Salt Lake City
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
BREAKING: Todd Blanche just used the $1.7B slush fund theft to END the IRS audit into trump’s tax returns. Outside lawyers WARNED that would be illegal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
Patty Murray to Blanche: "This is corruption that has never been more blatant. What's happening is you write the check, Trump and his cronies cash it, and American taxpayers who are already being whacked with high prices are gonna foot the bill."
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