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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h
The people of Portland, Oregon, were probably very confused about why they were being flooded with information about the Maine Senate race. trib.al/s3ruUva
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13h
Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 9h
Air Force Major Who Called for Trump’s Impeachment is in Solitary Confinement 24 Hours a Day: Attorney www.military.com/air-force-ma...
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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
“This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced."
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Homeland Security raids Ilhan Omar's residence
Trump's fixation on the Minnesota lawmaker has exploded into full-on lawfare weeks before the elections.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h
Pennsylvania measles death toll rises to six after Franklin County fatality reut.rs/4evRMvx
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Pennsylvania measles death toll rises to six after Franklin County fatality
Pennsylvania's Franklin County reported a measles-associated death on Monday, bringing the state's death toll ​from the infectious disease to six.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 6h
This morning we gathered on the shores of Bde Maka Ska to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and urban Native communities that continue to enrich Minnesota’s cultural landscape.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h
Ilhan Omar: 'Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced'
"I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.

I will not be silenced."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
Trump just fell for a FAKE Denzel Washington endorsement, sharing a fabricated quote claiming the Oscar-winning actor called him the smartest and bravest person he’d ever met. Even more embarrassing? The exact same fake endorsement has been attributed to Matthew McConaughey and Mick Jagger.
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Trump Falls for Fake Denzel Washington Endorsement
The president shared a debunked quote praising him as “smarter” than anyone the actor had ever met.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 11h
I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
🔥 damn — MARGE TO TRUMP: “you are the deep state, the Epstein class, and America last, and my mistake was ever supporting you in the first place”
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 11h
Family caregiving responsibilities tend to fall disproportionately on daughters, studies show. The uneven split can lead to guilt and resentment.
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Care comes with a cost. Eldest daughters know it all too well
Family caregiving responsibilities tend to fall disproportionately on daughters, studies show. The uneven split can lead to guilt and resentment.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Women defending rapists. What a trend
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/10/2026
Photo Almanac: On Oct. 11, 1991, law professor Anita Hill testified before Congress that she was sexually harassed by then-Judge Clarence Thomas, as the Senate Judiciary Committee weighed whether to support Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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35 years ago today, Anita Hill testified before Congress
Hill’s testimony was a watershed in the conversation about workplace sexual harassment. The Almanac uses photo archives to understand where we are by examining where we’ve been.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The word for this is racism
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/10/2026
Up until 2025, the FBI was circling around Susan Collins. Then, Donald Trump got elected and made the investigation go away. Now Collins is voting with Trump 96% of the time. Funny how that works.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
another day, more #TravelWithNatalie (Roberto Schmidt/Getty)
Ms Harp, a big smile on her face, and Walt Nauta board Air Force One today
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ukraine President Zelenskyy says the consequences of President Trump and the US "allowing Russia to sell oil products were most clearly felt in Kyiv today, when, following numerous attacks with jet-powered Shahed drones against energy facilities, a ballistic missile attack began as well."
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Що означає дозвіл Росії продавати нафтопродукти, зараз найкраще було чутно в Києві, коли після численних застосувань реактивних «шахедів» проти енергетичних обʼєктів почалася ще й атака балістикою. Частину ракет вдалося збити. Це ще раз чітко демонструє, які справжні наміри у Росії. Вони розраховують на продовження війни, терор проти звичайних людей і знищення інфраструктури. Кожен додатковий мільярд доларів, які вони зможуть заробити на експорті, вони витратять саме на це – на пошук і завезення критичних компонентів, обладнання для виробництва зброї, на посилення «шахедів» і виробництво ракет та ще на додаткових найманців на фронт. Російський вибір – це війна. І вони будуть готові її припинити тільки тоді, коли відчують, що потенціал затягування війни скорочується. Вчора, на жаль, були зовсім інші сигнали для Росії – сигнали, що атакувати надалі начебто можна. І це потрібно виправляти. Потрібні сильні сигнали від Сполучених Штатів, від Європи, від інших партнерів. На підтримку України та на ОБМЕЖЕННЯ російської…
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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Louise @bombaycrone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/10/2026
A future Democratic president will have to do more than rehire a competent civil service, they’ll have to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench. trib.al/QCRf5Cn
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Trump’s DOJ Is Hiring Only the Best MAGA Wing Nuts
A future Democratic president will have to do more than rehire a competent civil service, they’ll have to cleanse the federal bureaucracy of its Trumpist stench.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/10/2026
RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The @pbsnews.org Hour interviewed the Republican donor who Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly asked him to pay $100,000 credit card bill. This is worth a watch. youtu.be/kX2ReJ6Icuw?...
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‘It was a definite quid pro quo.’ GOP donor who accused Guilfoyle of corruption speaks out
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
Trump on Letitia James: "That disgusting Letitia dog. She's a dog."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Arrests and detentions of Canadians in the U.S. rose 60% in 2025-26: 577 cases, up from 361, per Global Affairs Canada's consular report. Canadian visits fell 25% over the same period. 🔗 Source: tinyurl.com/yz3p9zjf
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Trump: "This guy, I call him Mohammed El-Fayad. Some people call him Abdul. I call him Mohammed. Somebody said, 'why?' I said, I don't know. I feel like it."
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congrats to Navi Pillay, veteran human rights lawyer and leader of efforts to create accountability for human rights abuses from South Africa to Rwanda to Gaza, on winning the Nobel Peace Prize. She's an emblem of the human rights legal system now under attack. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Human Rights Lawyer, Wins
Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palest...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sen. Ossoff: Mike Collins is under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars—illegally funneling public money to his violent staffer's girlfriend. And he refused to testify.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Hegseth: "What a big surprise that young men were not interested in joining the Defense Department when the advertisements were about My Two Mommies."
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 08/10/2026
Today is Latina Equal Pay Day, the day that Latina pay *finally* catches up to what White, non-Hispanic men made last year alone. It’s economic injustice. America’s unions are fighting to end the wage gap for good and level the playing field with union contracts ✊
Latina Equal Pay Day | AFL-CIO
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