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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 14h
Republicans.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 12h
The iCE crackdown was the most amazing political self-own since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 showed northerners just how disgusting hunting of humans as animals could be. Literally before their own eyes before television was invented. Chained and whipped. Splattering. Public opinion moved.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21h
1. On Tuesday morning, Trump unveiled America dot gov, which he described as “the ultimate product.” Right now, it is basically a chatbot that draws data from official government websites. As a result it is brutally efficient at debunking Trump’s lies.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Frontier models continue to exploit and invent more sparsity tricks. For the human brain, sparsity is the inference calculation.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/09/2026
Sen. Jon Husted: “The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices” Sen. Jon Husted when he could've voted to do just that:
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI death panels. www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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Trump administration drops 760,000 Americans from ACA coverage, citing fraud
Citing widespread fraud, JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz announced 760,000 Americans had been kicked off health insurance purchased in the federal ACA marketplace. The move raises lots of questions.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Clever! So any emails signed shalom anywhere in the thread could be withheld. Without foreign-language services who knows what words are foreign, so anything can be withheld in an abundance of caution (or corruption).
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Potash is a commodity. Nobody ships it this far unless they are laundering something. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump's planned potash deal with Belarus to thwart Canada not so easy: analysts
As U.S. President Donald Trump works on a deal to buy potash from Belarus to lessen dependence on Canadian fertilizer, industry analysts say the proposal would likely be difficult and costly.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump is vengeful for his indictments and felony convictions.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In response to this, the DeSantis administration releases a statement saying that they'd make this outrageous cage "even smaller if we could." The Department of Homeland Security's own Inspector General said it violated every detention standard and posed a significant danger to health and safety.
"At least ten million illegal aliens entered our country under the Biden administration. Florida decided to do something about it," Lanfranconi said. "The left-wing media wants to focus on a confinement area for violent criminal aliens who have proven they cannot remain peaceful while awaiting deportation. While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we'd make it even smaller if we could."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Strange how this keeps happening.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Kind of gets lost in the drive-by here, but deeply annoying to me (a pedant) that Rs pretend Talarico wants "a welcome mat on the border." He said the border should be like your home: Welcome mat on porch, lock on door. They just cut out the second part to fabricate his position
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I thought it was a coup by Maduro's second-in-command Delcy Rodriguez. It succeeded because it was an inside job. The opposition leader tried to bribe Trump with her Nobel. All of them are suckers. Partnering with Trump is suicide.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How embarrassing that the US would send two unpaid real estate developers to do our Russian negotiations without the State Department. Do they discuss laundering money through more NYC real estate?
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Got my Covid booster at CVS. No cost and no prescription. 3 minutes on the website, 7 minutes in line, 3 minutes in the room. Done! Ask for the updated XFG protein booster that was approved last week (Aug 27th). Go.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Now is a good time to get a covid vaccine booster, and new spikevax XFG protein shots were approved on Aug 27th 2026. Go!
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not sending them to the parking lot like in Texas? Probably are.
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.
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USPS rush to implement Trump order could cause ‘catastrophic failure’ of mail voting, whistleblower claims
A whistleblower claims in a new report that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has embarked on a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s mail voting order ahead of the midterms,…
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
All the money in the world can’t make up for the crippling loss of leadership caused by Hegseth’s purges. Trump and Hegseth may be buying more hardware, but they are endangering the apolitical professionalism—the operating system--that made the U.S. military the envy of the world. wapo.st/4gFl3Ey
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Opinion | Hegseth’s purges are endangering national security
The Iran quagmire wouldn’t have happened under Trump’s first-term military leaders.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DeSantis laments the leak of Grand jury materials in his felony almost-indictment which begs the question of whether anyone was blackmailing him over such a leak, and that Trump had a long history of such. newrepublic.com/post/214856/...
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This and the Canadian tariffs are for distraction from his US Post Office rules that allow him to give a list of voters whose mail-in votes are not delivered. No joke.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Of course it was Biden's fault. Don't forget to blame Hillary and the three presidents who reduced the deficit in my lifetime. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Amid deadly Pennsylvania outbreak, Kennedy blames Biden for decline in measles vax rates
Kennedy answered questions about the Pennsylvania outbreak after attending a roundtable discussion at a Tampa elementary school.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nonsense. Just ask Gore who ultimately won the presidency after a final recount in Florida. www.theguardian.com/world/2001/j... Tromp's USPS isn't just discarding ballots of some states, USPS is discarding ballots of people not on Trump's list of people.
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Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confi...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Trump’s approval number is below his number of convicted felonies” -Stephanie Miller
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
per the article, NSF is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project grant (and grand) theft in broad daylight
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century
U.S. debt is on track to reach historic levels
Debt held by the public as a percentage of the gross domestic product, 1792-2055
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Source: Authors' calculations using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve, the Yale Budget Lab, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. A full list of sources is available here.
Chart: Center for American Progress
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026
🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...
A photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk with national flags on it, seemingly at a meeting in an office. His omnipresent aide, Natalie Harp, is sitting behind him, staring at him with an unnatural smile, her eyes shrouded with pupils not visible.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Looking back, it's really something that the New York Times thought the single most important story the day after the US and Iran signed the MOU was "Trump Lashes Out at Critics." Not the deal itself, nor the fact that critics made accurate points. They act like he's the protagonist of the world.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Correct answer is to point out that Trump's OBBBA cut at least a trillion dollars from American health care for a tax break for billionaires, and that we need to reverse that direction.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
While struggling with the Reflecting Pool, Trump now takes his talents to aircraft carrier engineering.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The only time Republicans get upset about kids getting shot is when it’s with vaccines.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Medicare for All is economic nonsense, because medicare does not currently pay enough to cover the costs of procedures, not even close. Providers are forced to subsidize medicare by overcharging others. That won't scale. I want the ACA.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've seen Trump's strategy on this before. He will simply break the law. Often he will lie about the law, and lie about his actions. He fires any prosecutor who isn't corrupt. He bans access of any reporter who talks honestly about these crimes.
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LCpl Pinky Herman, USMC @jimbrowski12.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
She was probably hoping the dinners would keep him from breaking their daughters other clavicle.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In the end this is a political matter, not a legal one. They are choosing the path of appeasement thinking they’ll avoid the wrath of this administration. Scholars of authoritarianism disagree. 9/ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...
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Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe
Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
... and anti-corruption ... and anti-war ... and available healthcare ... and anti- fascist thugs killing citizens in the streets.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Manitowoc built submarines during WW2 that sank Japanese ships. After testing on Lake Michigan the subs' conning towers were temporarily removed, and they were raised on "floating drydock" barges to passage Chicago to the Mississippi to the salt water. www.wisconsinmaritime.org/collections/...
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USS Cobia & Manitowoc Subs | Wisconsin Maritime Museum
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Actions speak louder than words, Nazi scum.
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Rick Dean @mrrickdean.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Threaten me with more good times pretty please.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I propose a new law: Every politician, PAC, SuperPAC, whatever, and all of their staff/employees, must receive on their personal phone, with a push notification, every single fundraising text they send out. The texts must also be sent to the personal phones of their family and friends.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If actually interested in denuclearizing Iran, one of the worst possible moves is nuclearizing Saudi Arabia.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
President Trump just gave a speech about voter fraud. Someone has been committing voter fraud — and his name is Ken Paxton. He was just caught voting from the wrong address 6 elections in a row. If the President wants to investigate voter fraud, he should start with Ken Paxton.
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