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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump's 2018 "zero tolerance" policy was denounced on both sides of the political aisle as inhumane, and a federal court ruled it illegal. Now the Trump administration is separating families again, only this time more quietly, and away from the border.
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” "We’re talking about kids who have a mom, a dad, and siblings who want them to be living with them."
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Trump’s name went up on the Kennedy Center in broad daylight. Removing it? Full scaffolding plus a giant curtain to hide the humiliation from the public. Nothing screams “strong leader” like draping theater curtains over your own petty rejection. Fragile ego on full display. 😂
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
MS Now-News "When they set up a group of people as inhuman, as worthy of inhuman treatment, it is not long before it's someone else."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 02/06/2026
If you don’t like what you’re seeing at Delaney Hall, pay attention to what’s happening in Congress this week.   We must stop giving ICE and for-profit companies like GEO Group a blank check to create chaos.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We murdered three more people in a boat today
U.S. Southern Command: On May 30, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: I don’t want it to be lost how courageous Kilmar has been and how he’s made some very hard decisions in the course of this litigation. He didn’t have to go down this path of fighting and exposing the administration for what they’re doing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼
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Forbes @forbes.com · 29/05/2026
Bondi’s closed-door testimony will not be under oath or recorded.
forbes.com
Pam Bondi Interviewed By Congress About Epstein Files Today (Live Updates)
Bondi’s closed-door testimony will not be under oath or recorded.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This White House has lied so consistently that it has lost all credibility. Everything its officials claim must be verified, full stop.
Screenshot of a tweet from @GovMikieSherrill (Governor Mikie Sherrill) on X, posted 11 hours ago, reading: "If conditions are really as good as you're claiming, then let my health inspectors do their jobs. Taxpayers are footing a billion-dollar bill for this facility. They deserve transparency." It quote-tweets @RapidResponse47 citing DHS Secretary Mullin defending the NJ ICE facility, calling Democratic criticism "political theater." An embedded Fox News live clip shows Mullin being interviewed, with the chyron "DEMS SLAM NJ I.C.E. FACILITY DESPITE DEBUNKED REPORTS OF POOR CONDITIONS."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...
newrepublic.com
Anti-ICE Protesters Found Guilty in Case That Guts Free Speech Rights
Three protesters were convicted of federal conspiracy charges.
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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The thing that’s weird about multiple gunshot situations around the president is how they haven’t released the 3 million pages of Epstein files yet.
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Data centres 🤮🔪
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Colombia just did what the U.S. couldn’t a court has ordered full disclosure of Epstein and Maxwell’s visits to the country. The paper trail keeps getting longer. #USDemocracy #Pinks Colombia court orders full disclosure about Epstein, Maxwell visits www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
ctvnews.ca
Colombia court orders full disclosure about Epstein, Maxwell visits
A Colombian court has ordered immigration authorities to release information about trips to the South American country by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine M...
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Oversight Democrats go LIVE in Palm Beach tomorrow at 10AM EST (YouTube) #Epstein
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I was raped. That's a lot to share & it's something I only 1st spoke of a few years ago, but it's why reproductive freedom is important to me. I want a representative brave enough to talk about her experiences as a woman & that's why I support @e-stherforcongress.bsky.social
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Cori @pnwcori.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It cost me $177 to renew my driver license today. Requiring certain ID to vote without making that ID easy, accessible, and free is 100% a poll tax.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m curious, have any journalists ever directly asked Putin to withdraw? I’m sick of hearing this question posed to Zelensky. It’s obscene.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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Stefan 🥼 @stefank1117.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A demonstration at the Dilley Concentration Camp in Texas. Children and families have been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Texas for months, and all they’ve experienced is abuse, neglect, mistreatment, undrinkable water and moldy food. #SHUTDOWNDILLEY Credit: @mommmaliz.bsky.social
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.
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MiSometimes @misometimes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Asking them to defend their positions as SURVIVORS is like TELLING THEM THEY DESERVE TO BE MOLESTED AGAIN. WE HAVE THE FILES RELEASE THEM 🤬😬😬
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𝐌𝐨𝐱𝐲𒀭 @mari-moxy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
👏👏👏 Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps in to save NPR’s future with $80M gift
NPR also received an anonymous $33 million donation in April
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/today-in-b...
blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com
Today in Baltimore, We Proved This Fight Is Working
DHS went to court to defend their ICE warehouse plan and walked away with a judge openly laughing at their argument.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Buttigieg: I’ll give the Turning Point folks a lot of strategic credit for going to a lot of different places. Going to these college campuses is kind of the equivalent, in their minds, of the way I feel when I go on Fox News. The difference is, when I go on Fox News, I’m telling the truth
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
posted without comment* *many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Iran hits back on social media.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The press continues to sane-wash an obviously INSANE American president. 😳👇
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
EPSTEIN FILES NOW
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
President INEPSTEIN 🚫👑
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Classy. 🤡 @politico.com
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
President Inepstein is also a fraud, lying crook and a Felon.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And, now, we KNOW that it needs to be investigated ASAP.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The Republican Party is telling us, with brimming confidence and zero shame, that it intends to make it harder for its opponents to vote and easier to control the outcome of elections. They are prepared to use every tool available to them — legal or not — to stay in power. bsky.app/profile/marc...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/03/2026
JUST IN: Scott MacFarlane responds to the White House’s comments about him joining MeidasTouch. Watch: youtu.be/U8yx8w2BeRE?...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2026
"A major story that probably doesn’t get talked about enough is the reality that the president of the United States is, well, out of his mind."
publicnotice.co
Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story
"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."
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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349
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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I cannot believe this.👀 You really must read. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
‘Counsel apologizes to the court’: In biggest mistake yet, DOJ blows filing deadline in voter roll case, begs court’s forgiveness
“We would expect the U.S. Department of Justice to know how to properly file a lawsuit in federal court,” Hobbs’ office said.
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