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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 2h
Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Island of Misfit Toys @birbbboy.bsky.social · 15h
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every woman who comes forward and lays her trauma bare for the world to see does so hoping it will lead to a better world for women. It never does. And yet, we keep trying.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I sure would like to hear more of this.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“No one from the postal service will be supervising these armed guards. It will be completely a private contractor who controls these armed guards, so you basically have private contractors in and around ballots without any federal control. To me, that’s crazy."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most people use AmEX for the points. In the Amb. Kimberly Guilfoyle texts, it's so the money "won't show" I was an ambassador myself & I've never seen anything like this She denies it, but you can smell this one from Athens! More on @CNN.com 👇
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SCOOP @wired.com: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We can't eat road salt." What more needs to be said? Thank you @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
ms.now
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The status quo is not enough.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/super-el-nin...
worldpoliticsreview.com
The ‘Super El Niño’ Is Testing the Limits of the Global Food System
On the whole, agricultural systems have so far proven resilient to changing weather patterns. But the severe El Niño is arriving at a sensitive time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Maine Beacon @mainebeacon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mainers walking nearly 80 miles from Biddeford to Augusta for the "Cost of Collins" march stopped outside Sen. Susan Collins’ Portland office Tuesday, where they shared stories of the personal toll of ICE enforcement, rising health care costs and cuts to food assistance.
mainebeacon.com
Mainers march to confront Collins votes on health care cuts, ICE funding - Maine Beacon
“Today is not about wanting another statement,” Alessia Gaspar-Da Silva, of Bridgton, told reporters today in Portland. “It is about demanding to not just be seen, but heard.” Gaspar-Da Silva’s husban...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.
Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mike Rogers led the charge to flood opioids into our communities. Here's what happened.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At the same that Trump has started a brutal, unnecessary, and rapidly expanding war in the Middle East, Ka$h Patel has cut 50% of the agents working on counterintelligence. They've all been fired or moved to anti-immigration efforts. Those in the know are worried. www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-t...
rawstory.com
Patel's FBI makes 'terrifying' cuts as agency shifts to Trump midterm vows: report
FBI counterintelligence squads have dropped to as little as half strength in many field offices as Director Kash Patel steers the bureau toward the crime and immigration promises President Donald Trum...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/10/2026
i have to think this absolutely cannot be legal, though i would like to know what specific laws it breaks
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the CDC have stopped recommending seven vaccines for children, including vaccines that protect against hepatitis B, RSV, and meningitis. These vaccines have kept millions of children out of the hospital and saved countless lives. I'm suing.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
next time someone suggests ‘climate realism’ or ‘climate pragmatism’: sure thing, how about being ‘realistic’? Wouldn’t that be nice, your ‘pragmatism’?
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Digger will very likely be the last chance at a global commercial movie sounding the alarm and connecting people with the reality of global climate collapse... until the climate becomes so chaotic we can't make films anymore.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's something pitch black, darkly funny about a certain herd of online snits celebrating Digger's low box office while we enter stretches above 2C "Mass death" warming in 2027. They for sure don't know what that means otherwise, like or don't like the movie, they wouldn't be celebrating.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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melinb.bsky.social @melinb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But Kash is going to meet with Putin, so I think we should let him go and encourage him to mingle
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mitchell Berman, an ER nurse, could flip Paul Ryan's old seat. How sweet would it be for Paul Ryan’s district to become the place where Dems win a majority in the House?"
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Antifa Princess™🗿💖🌻⛵️✨ @tleighb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump and his corrupt regime are counting on the arrogance and complacency of the American people. At Trump's pep rally last night, he said "I think we're going to have a big surprise, because THEY don't know what's happening" Except that the Election Truth Alliance does know what's happening.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So he did exactly what we thought he did -- instructing his aides to use taxpayer dollars to fund his propaganda ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Oatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This “$5,000” thing is fooling no one. But it has made one thing clear: Republican desperation at the 1-month-out mark.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I cannot stress enough how fucking illegal this is. “Donald Trump is a criminal who keeps committing crimes, and now he wants to bribe voters to keep Republicans in office so he can—you guessed it—commit more crimes.” If you can’t message around that, no one can help you.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.
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In a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation
"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This keeps happening.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the fifth report of an oil tanker being struck in the Strait of Hormuz this week.
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