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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This should be where the democrats are instead of “we’re as tough on immigrants as republicans we just put the racism in the closet”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17/02/2026
The president’s redefining of domestic terrorism threatens Americans’ free speech rights, from joining a protest march to posting on social media. It also aims to impose draconian punishments for actions that are far removed from actual terrorism. bit.ly/4qwExhh
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Trump’s Version of “Domestic Terrorism” vs. the First Amendment
The administration has given itself permission to prosecute people and organizations for their political views.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.
propublica.org
Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment
After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So now the Commission of Fine Arts is being run by someone who doesn't have an art degree or knowledge of the arts. Sounds like perfectly fine if you want to get rid of the arts.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Well, look at this: The wealth gap is so wide even the Billionaires' Journal has to recognize it. Gift link: Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy www.wsj.com/finance/bill...
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Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy
Tax avoidance by the superwealthy is an economic issue as well as a political one.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
chef: who wants dirt soup everyone: what? no thank you, just regular soup chef: bad news we had to get rid of the soup to provide the dirt everyone: but we hate dirt chef: (mouthful of dirt) who wants dirt
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Elizabeth Rogers @ahumorlessfem.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A regular reminder that Trump does what leftists always accused the Clintons of doing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
When most people say something stupid they try to make you forget it. When Trump says something stupid, he digs in and improvs alts off of it for a week.
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Stick it to the Fascists @stickittofascists.com · 09/04/2025
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Stick it to the Fascists
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
He’s talking about fellow Americans who disagree politically.
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MG Close @mgclose.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Seriously, I can’t even tell what’s satire any more 😭
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Hope @4thepeace.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Wasn’t it enough the financial sector sunk the country in 2008 that lead to the need to create the CFPB…now a young man with conflicts helps deconstruct it. Let’s shine the light to all congress on this travesty.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Before we get busy with the "ha-ha a tariff on movies won't really work whatta-dummy"--with its implicit self-reassurance, as if this fucker isn't actually doing incredible damage--consider how this *has* been working: He signals to corporations the compliance he wants. Most deliver.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025
Trump admits that tariffs are inflationary: "China is not doing any business with us, essentially, because it's a very high number. So when you add that to the price of a product, a lot of those products aren't going to sell."
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 23/04/2025
I *was* literally a public address professor. Not necessarily a very successful one. but like... yeah, this is bad rhetoric! it is not good rhetoric! all that this guy has is pathos and he's coasting on whatever you call ethos in a cult
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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Tons of people voted for it to be 2019 again and we're getting 2020 over and over
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Ever seen anyone follow up with this obvious question in the dozens of times they've pulled variations of this stunt?
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 23/04/2025
trudeau announced he would step down in january, and hasn't been prime minister for more than a month, this entire conversation never happened and trump has no idea who the prime minister of canada actually is
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Trump on collapsing visitor numbers to the US: “Not a big deal. We treat our tourists great.” Here’s what the rest of world thinks:
A collage of news headlines showing 10 different countries issuing travel advisories to their citizens, warning them against US travel. Another headline says it could cost the industry in the US $120 billion
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 23/04/2025
the DHS secretary managed to lose a bag containing her passport, DHS ID, checkbook and three thousand dollars in cash while being surrounded by a security detail
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Glendos Fen @glennmuir.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I mentioned King John earlier in another one of your skeets, but to bring him up again, the guy was incredibly unpopular throughout the last few years of his reign? And this was in a period of near total Monarchical power. Why'd the Magna Carta happen? Barons were pissed at his tyrannical rule.
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MG Close @mgclose.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Stopping milk and other food safety testing but fretting about dyes? So MAGA 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
god this shit is blood boiling
independent.co.uk
Wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves to safe house after DHS posts address online
Homeland Security shared copy of protective order from 2021 revealing family’s address on social media
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Shit. The UK -Rwanda trafficking arrangement has come to America.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Why did Nazis commit genocide? They’re evil.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is a plan for dictatorship
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
With a heavily armed populace that's been told to shoot first and ask questions later, it's only a matter of time before one of these plainclothes Gestapo raids turns into a shootout.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely. How Kids Are Harmed by Trump’s Budget Cuts
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 23/04/2025
"You should carry your papers with you at all times."
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Nothing says “Golden Age” like kids dying of bad milk! — US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts - www.reuters.com/business/hea... Trending Content
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is what not giving up looks like.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Can't stop thinking about how Marco "99-0" Rubio signed a document submitted to the court that claimed he can deport anyone for their "past, current or EXPECTED beliefs"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Important.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/04/2025
A 14-year-old American boy and his two friends were gunned down by Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Their largely American village in the West Bank is wondering why Trump and the U.S. government have said so little about the killing of one of its citizens.
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American teen was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. The U.S. has said little about it.
“We have a U.S. citizen, a child, who was murdered in cold blood,” one official told NBC News. “Why should we not be treated equally as any other American?”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the book "Administrative Burdens" and it's just objectively untrue that no one will face "unnecessary burdens" b/c *non-citizens almost never vote! *About 20M citizens don't have access to citizenship documents SAVE solves a non-problem by burdening American citizens.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
chaos & corruption (Plausible that Musk has given himself contracts that are worth more money than he has "saved" by firing everyone who studies childhood cancer and makes sure planes don't crash).
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Say it with us: “constitutional crisis”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025
weird, what could explain this
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias says the US has revoked his visa after he criticized President Trump as behaving like "a Roman emperor." www.reuters.com/world/americas/cost…
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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I guess I don't think these are "bribes" in the narrow technical legal sense, but they are obviously bribes in our lay understanding of the word. We'll give you $100 million in free services if you don't come after our firm. It's pure extortion - complete with a price tag!
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