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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I would love Alito to explain to me how he thinks elections worked in the 1790s
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/06/2026
Overnight, two Journey Aviation ICE flights left Mesa, AZ, and landed in southern Poland, likely a chain refoulement of Ukrainian immigrants to a warzone.
An ADSBx map showing N588AT and N588TN going from Mesa to Rzeszów.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
American democracy has just been Slaughter-ed and Cook-ed
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nixon's executive branch goons thought they were untouchable while committing crimes for Nixon. And when Nixon fell from power, 48 of them were criminally convicted & 30 went to prison. Beginning in January 2029, those numbers will pale in comparison to what's coming for Trump's criminal cabal.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We face an open open question as to whether the president, anywhere, anytime he pleases, can execute or round up people he says are terrorists—without due process. That we are even entertaining such a discussion tells you how far Trump has damaged democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
‘Armed Conflict’? Trump declares war on all of us
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Mockler: I will only vote for the Democratic candidate that replaces Trump’s portraits with photos of him and Epstein.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Dems should be clear that post 2026 election any political prosecutions ordered by Trump will be investigated, line prosecutors called to testify, and if warranted, impeachment of AG and any other senior DOJ involved. There have to be consequences.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2025
This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🧵Indivisible Memphis Condemns National Guard Deployment in Memphis Today, Indivisible Memphis unequivocally condemns the deployment of the National Guard to our city. This action is not about safety - it is a targeted attack on Memphis’ majority-minority community.
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🪡Governor Bill Lee, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Rep. David Kustoff, and Sen. Brent Taylor have chosen fear-mongering and authoritarianism over real solutions. They voted to gut healthcare and food security from Memphians. Sending troops will not fix the failures they created.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
HOLY MIKE JOHNSON (CREEPY GOD-OBSESSED WEIRDO!) THINKS WE'RE ALL DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY HIS STUPID STORY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP RATTING OUT HIS DEAD PEDO BESTIE TO THE FBI. COME ON MIKE, WE'RE NOT AS DUMB (OR AS CREEPY) AS YOU ARE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST ABOUT IT: bit.ly/4p9axZH
but wait, Dear Leader was an FBI informant? that’s the story Holy Mike’s going with?

fact check:

“I have rep’d FBI informants, as well as agents. This is real easy to prove because Trump’s name would be in 302 and other reports. There are document policies that apply to informants.”

‘Donny’s an informant’ was such a dumbfuck thing for Holy Mike to blurt out — because one common way to become an FBI informant is to get caught doing a crime, and then agree to rat on your accomplices in return for leniency. so is that what you’re saying, Mike? that Donny was guilty of the same sick shit his dead pedo bestie was getting up to, and he got caught?

also: come on — if Donny were an FBI informant, don’t you think he’d have bragged about it by now? of course he would have. Donny can’t shut the fuck up about anything. he would have spent the last two decades yammering about how he knows more about FBI informing than all the FBI informerators.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Well no, it's a vague, non-binding, unwritten non-statement about companies' future investment plans, not cash for him to personally control. But enjoy your weird demented fantasy, I guess.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 01/08/2025
That Kamala interview was heart breaking because it's one of the few times that I've ever seen a national political figure say the system is broken and that trying to work within it to change things probably wont work.
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station. -Credits: NASA
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/08/2025
I was raised by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is terribly tragic.
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Vic Hurtowy @vichurtowy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
True story bro.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Everyone should say it: The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. It's not brains. It's bile.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Newsom responds to Homan statement on possibly arresting him: He's a tough guy. Why doesn't he do that? He knows where to find me. Lay your hands off four year old girls that are trying to get educated. Come and arrest me. Let’s just get it over with tough guy. I don’t give a damn
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Good for Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders. My point of reference is from following @cnn.com, and if what he’s done there is any way representative of his talents, I would say that my Corgis could do a better job. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Vote Against CEO David Zaslav’s $52 Million Pay Package in a Symbolic Rebuke
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted against the 2024 pay packages of CEO David Zaslav and other top execs in a symbolic rebuke.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.
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DudePool @dudepoolrising.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
No kings, masters, overlords or any of that bullshit. Time to take the country back.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
When do we start winning?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Beyond parody.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Phang: If you have to resort to deceit to get something done, that tells me what you’re doing is wrong. What’s happening is a dup-and-scoop: people are being duped into going to court, their cases get dismissed, and then they’re scooped up by ICE and deported under expedited removal.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/05/2025
this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Newsom: I’ll give you a specific example: just this morning, in anticipation of meeting with Chinese counterparts in Geneva, he decided to negotiate against himself—the great negotiator—from 145% tariffs imposed on China, now he says, “Well, maybe it should be 80%.”
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2025
Why is ICE wearing masks? What are they hiding? The Mayor of Newark was arrested at an ICE facility—when elected officials showed up, masked agents roughed them up, including an 80-year-old congresswoman. Why?!
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🧵A heads up, a warning, and a please share. ICE rounded up nearly 100 people in Nashville through a traffic stop operation and intensifying. This week Nashville, next Atlanta or anywhere else. Please read and share the valuable info I've provided because it is now a nationwide roundup.
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Nashville families, groups respond to immigration traffic sweep: 'Kidnapping our people'
Amid an ongoing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Nashville, impacted family members shared the toll the sweeps are taking.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Judge says Trump can’t dismantle federal government without Congress. This is what our system of checks and balances is all about. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures
An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"...there have also been some really extraordinary things that I didn’t foresee in December – the extent of Elon Musk’s illegal involvement in the US government, for example, and Trump’s cryptocurrency launch."
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Speeding toward the end of democracy
The first 90 days of Trump’s presidency have reshaped the United States and the world as we know it
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 21/04/2025
Pete Hegseth is clearly ill-equipped to handle the role of Secretary of Defense. His repeated failure to follow basic operational security procedures jeopardizes the safety and security of our armed forces. He should resign.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Days since Navarro said this: 10 Trade deals: 0
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2025
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
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RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
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