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@mickyhelen.bsky.social
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Here for BTS (Army for life) and when I need to be au courant in interesting times. I deeply appreciate the effort you all put in to keep us right and make me laugh.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
That *Rep. Jim Clyburn* is announcing his support for SCOTUS expansion is huge.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
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🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It
Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 02/05/2026
I am guessing that “FOUR” did not sound as ominous as “MULTIPLE.” Four from across New Jersey.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/04/2026
This, combined with Lindsey Graham posting about a great call he had with POTUS about Iran five hours ago makes me really nervous.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Donald John Trump, the man who once bragged about his inauguration crowd to the point where his own press secretary had a nervous breakdown on day fucking one, has finally drawn the biggest crowd in American history.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/03/2026
The Republican National Committee and the Trump administration want to overturn mail ballot deadlines in 29 states.
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Trump wants to end mail voting. The Supreme Court’s conservative justices appear eager to assist.
The Republican National Committee and the Trump administration want to overturn mail ballot deadlines in 29 states.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Secretary of Defense keeps going out there and saying the United States is waging a Christian holy war and it is somehow not registering as a career- and administration-ending scandal
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We have to be clear on this. He’s playing fast and loose - and without care - with American lives.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It must be so so so so bad for the Rupert Murdoch owned WSJ to run this
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This should be a front-page scandal.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
When I heard this, I drafted a skeet about it, then thought "naaah, there's no way his speechwriters would allow him to contradict himself within one sentence." But they really and truly did.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Democrats were afraid to boycott the SOTU because they feared Republicans would then do the same to a Democratic President. But if they don't ring the alarm and Trump becomes the dictator he clearly wants to be, they won't ever have to worry about that. Time to say this is no longer normal.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The FBI has executed a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Office in Union City, Georgia. (MSNOW) More retribution by the most corrupt human being in America.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The anthem we need
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Uprising in the Trump concentration camp in Dilley, TX
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/01/2026
1) Doesn’t say he was wielding it, just that he had it. 2) Doesn’t match the video anyway. 3) DHS has lied in exactly this way after shooting someone before. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Good. Shut it all down. Full stop.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I mean, for the Fed Chairman to make a formal statement/accusation like this isn't just shocking, it's a real crisis in government.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/01/2026
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Kinda like what we did to the Iraqi National Library when we liberated the country, except this time it's our own National Libraries.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/12/2025
Half way through the Jack Smith transcript and it’s become abundantly clear why Jim Jordan didn’t want public testimony. Jordan spends a lot of time whining about the toll subpoenas, and Jack Smith shuts him down every time.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/12/2025
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/12/2025
The Justice Department has waged an unprecedented campaign to intimidate states into handing over voters’ private information. The goal, as @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social report, could result in the unprecedented harassment of individual citizens like you and me.
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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mickyhelen.bsky.social @mickyhelen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
John Berman - Master Class. Teach brother.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/12/2025
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The White House just launched a “Hall of Shame” webpage to name and shame reporters whose coverage Trump doesn’t like. What an anti–First Amendment stunt. Honestly? Everyone should try to get on it and wear it like a badge of honor.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire? Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
And I have continued my annual tradition - trying to drop garbage off at the local dump on Thanksgiving - but it was closed again - who ever heard of a dump closed on Thanksgiving?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
Homeland Security tweet says “there us no room at the table for invaders.”
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