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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And will, short of urgent action.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Live from the Freight Elevator | Cake | Billionaire in Space *New Song*
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3dlanyard.bsky.social @3dlanyard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/08/2026
Happy Independence Day Ukraine! Suck it Russia
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.
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Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Note the date
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"All lives have to matter! Isn't that what the [MAGA] crowd said? We need to care when people are being murdered in the street—and not just when white people are murdered,"- U.S. veteran/influencer @jollygoodginger.bsky.social tells us at the site ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Jeff Timmer: Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Oh, so it was that simple all along?
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ironically enough, they were going to name it Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Trump just submitted a $87.6 billion supplemental to cover the $67 billion cost of his Iran War plus his latest bailout for farmers to add to his proposed $1.5 trillion military budget and we’re only $39 trillion in debt so what the hell just put it on our tab.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It really is this simple
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Do u do this while telling the girl why she can’t stay here?
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The president’s mental health is a global crisis.
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Patricia @pjs501.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A cartoon showing multiple FBI agents with cameras and notepads circled around a group of sea shells. Yellow crime scene tape circles the group. While outside the circle being ignored by the FBI are the bloody bodies of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/03/2026
The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It’s really cold out there folks. A mask is a great way to avoid frostbite and/or accumulation of ice on your face.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/01/2026
These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2026
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I was wrong. Ann Wagner hasn’t tripled her net worth while in Congress. The reality is far worse. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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I was wrong.
Ann Wagner didn’t triple her net worth while in Congress. The reality is far worse.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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taber @kvetch.gay · 07/01/2026
Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft
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Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
@murray.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
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Wellman For MO @wellmanformo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Proud to earn the endorsement of @jasonkander.bsky.social A combat veteran. Former Missouri Secretary of State. A leader who knows the difference between service and self-promotion. I’m running to put duty over politics and people over power. Let’s get to work. #mo02
Fred Wellman and Jason Kander smiling for a picture together on a field of blue. Graphic reads: Jason Kander Endorses Fred Wellman for Missouri 02. Wellman for Missouri.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/12/2025
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/11/2025
Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/11/2025
@chrislhayes.bsky.social explains to @timmiller.bsky.social why he has long been a proponent of eliminating the filibuster.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Caving on the shutdown won’t make you “moderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a “promise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromise—it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/
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Pro-Democracy Indiana Resister 🇺🇸 🔄 🆘 🟦 @woodenstares.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/11/2025
Sen. Slotkin: “I believe that Trump is ready to bring the full weight of the federal government against Americans he perceives as enemies. Why? Because he has one goal, making sure that he and his ilk never have to give up power.”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...
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No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.
Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If Jesus Christ is king, why then are Trump and Vance posting videos of themselves with crowns on?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
As terrorists who hate America do.
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melodicsighs.bsky.social @melodicsighs.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/10/2025
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
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nmerhar.bsky.social @nmerhar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Mike Johnson is falsely generalizing the “No Kings” protestors as extremists to justify crackdowns. The truth is, they’re patriots. These protestors don’t “hate America.” They oppose an authoritarian president who tramples on the freedoms and principles America was founded on.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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