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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

While Sen. Katie Britt was publicly defending Trump's tariffs, she was privately seeking exemptions for 4 companies operating in Alabama that could be hurt by tariffs, according to emails between her staff & Trump's US Trade Representative, obtained via FOIA by @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/opinion/kati...

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🎃Satan’s Little Ravioli 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoealicempls.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

…. unless we can put on ONE BIG SHOW

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The wonderfully talented Marsh Family has a new parody of Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic." This will piss off Crybaby Caligula yugely. Isn't he moronic? Don't you think?😅

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Bessent’s bond-market battle “is starting to look like his boss’s war in Iran .. a tangled set of objectives, an underestimated opponent and an implausible path to victory. And like the conflict in the Middle East, we are all going to suffer ..” @katie0martin.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b9e7...

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 22/07/2026

Wanted to share this Washington Post visualization of ICE holding-cell overcrowding because it’s so powerful. If you don’t think this administration needs to be frog-marched to prison after reading this … wapo.st/3R6bdmr (gift link)

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ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding. See how they kept packing people in.

Dozens were held for days in small rooms last year with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff, records analyzed by The Post show.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch

Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is a murder

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Jesus Christ, this is such a national embarrassment.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The entire Uruguay World Cup team got pulled up on the side of the road and investigated by immigration. Sniffer dogs, luggage ripped open. Trump America is a global embarrassment.

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Imagine how world history could be different if Trump had the capacity to love anyone but himself

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

nytimes.com

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

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mentavlos.bsky.social @mentavlos.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Back at my parents’ house down south and was just outside talking to the lawn guy, who was wearing his red MAGA hat and my shirt started whispering uncomfortably loudly to me, “FUCK ICE ….FUUUCK ICE.” I’m really not sure if his hat could hear my shirt, but it was awkward.

Khaki T-shirt with Minnesota Rebel Alliance Loon on it

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

LFG! ❌👑 #NoKings

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/02/2026

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

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Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Inc. PAC Before Trump Blasted New Span

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I’ve never been that comfortable with the idea of patriotism but I’m pretty comfortable with being Minnesota patriotic. This really is who we are. Come out and have a sloppy! We got the auger.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The reason the “paid protestor” accusation is so popular is that these are people who cannot imagine doing something because it’s right, to stand up for a principle, talking to other people like that.

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The Wrong Way Kid @the-wrong-way-kid.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Sure donald trump sent a goon squad who just murdered a peaceful protester and has unlawfully impounded health and human services funds, farm aid, and snap benefits, because he thinks it will hurt your governor politically, but does immiserating millions of minnesotans really call for coarse words?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

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mentavlos.bsky.social @mentavlos.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

To Whom It May Concern: When Doves Cry is the first song on the first side of the LP and Purple Rain is the last song on the other side.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Many interesting statements have been falsely attributed to Winston Churchill, and I used one of them as an epigraph of my book, “The Incomplete Book of Running:” “When you’re going through hell… keep going.” Keep going, everyone. And Happy New Year!

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mentavlos.bsky.social @mentavlos.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I knew the Kennedy Center, and Sir, you are no Kennedy Center.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 10/12/2025

I hate how good this is: Radiohead sings Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (There I Ruined It). [youtube.com]

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Radiohead sings “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Full album “A Very Ruined Christmas” now on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ThereIRuinedIt

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block

Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Don’t sleep on Rep Casten as a communicator. Bitcoin explainers via Beverly Hills Cop is what we Gen Xers were born to do.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Despicable

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Nothing in ICE’s tweet contradicts anything in my thread. The guy had traffic violations from “years ago”. That does not make him a criminal. ICE does not even try to rebut the other facts bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I mean I would hesitate to characterize Dresden or Nagasaki as negotiations.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

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