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Ms. RG

@ms-rg.bsky.social
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Mom, friend, teacher, theology nerd. My patron saints are Óscar Romero & Rich Mullins. Suspicious of capitalism. she/her

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 17h
One can make all the (misguided) moral arguments about comparative victimhood or whatever one wants, but if pro-Palestinian forces want to *win* I don’t see how you can argue that “stands firmly for Palestinians + firmly against antisemitism” isn’t your best strategic posture
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
was like, wow, that’s by far the best Paxton statewide number in a while, and then I noticed it wasn’t a statewide number
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h
El-Sayed responds to JD Vance clip: Low T JD. It's always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.
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Ms. RG @ms-rg.bsky.social · 17h
Not yet Caturday, but this (from a friend) is too good not to share.
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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...
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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it
In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18h
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21h
When Matthew Soerens of World Relief tells Christians the Trump administration has banned persecuted Christians, many don't believe him. We talked about why. Listen to the whole conversation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social
Quote card. Matthew Soerens, World Relief: “Occasionally, they do not believe this data, because they’ve heard so much rhetoric about Donald Trump being a great champion of persecuted Christians. It just is so dissonant with the rhetoric.” From the conversation President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution, austinkocher.substack.com
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18h
This is gut wrenching and so wrong.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 22h
Corporate profits now represent 14.9% of GDP, the highest share on record going back to 1947 Citadel Rubner
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h
I was canvassing local businesses for a revitalization project not 2 hours ago, and the owners were still livid about ICE and telling me how much revenue they lost donating to mutual aid rent funds for immigrants in hiding. Every single business in Minneapolis has a sign like this, still:
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22h
A former Dallas police officer is granted parole just under seven years after she was convicted of murdering her neighbor in a 2018 shooting.
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Amber Guyger, ex-Dallas police officer, granted parole after Botham Jean murder conviction
Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting Jean, her neighbor, after walking into his apartment in 2018.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant who’s an expert in Latino trends, told The Post of the president’s border policy that he “dramatically overreached and he’s going to pay for it politically.” nypost.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Trump pleads with Hispanic voters to back GOP in midterms, admits border policy can hurt Republicans’ chances
“I just want to ask you to get out and vote,” Trump said. “You’re an unbelievable special group of people. You’ve been with me right from the beginning.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration is offering up one last release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That will bring it down to levels not seen since Ronald Reagan’s first term. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US to Tap More Oil From Emergency Reserve as Fuel Prices Surge
The US ordered another release of oil from emergency reserves — and urged European nations to do likewise — as the Trump administration grapples with fuel prices that are surging less than two months ...
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the poorest counties in the country is the planned site for a $6 billion data center. mississippitoday.org/2026/09/...
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Jefferson Davis County data center planned
Jefferson Davis is one of the poorest counties in the country. Officials says that the jobs, investment and expected tax revenue from the data center “could completely transform this county.”…
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Ms. RG @ms-rg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You love to see it.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 30/09/2026
Trump's own pollsters said canceling the subsidies that made health care affordable for many middle class, often Republican, voters would be politically suicidal. It has been. 1/
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Kornacki: Democrats think ‘recipe is there’ to roll back Republican gains in Iowa
YouTube video by NBC News
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House Accord on AI: • We Do Not Want to Be Regulated • We Will Not Be Regulated • Donald Trump is really, really smart • We promise to pay him in crypto all he wants
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i personally feel that mamdani should stick to the jewish community like glue and flush out these freaks
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026
I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JFC. Another unsigned ruling by rank cowards. How many dead bodies will the fascist Justices be responsible for by the time the next hearing date rolls around in December?. Fascist Supreme Court Justices are an enemy of the people's rights. Pack the court, soonest. Or else lose the Republic entire.
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists have engineered a virus that invades and destroys glioblastoma one of the deadliest brain cancers while turning the immune system into a relentless tumor-killing force. This could be a historic shift in cancer treatment.
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International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) @irap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
TODAY: IRAP VP of U.S. Legal Programs Laurie Ball Cooper will testify before the Minnesota Truth Council about the Trump admin's unlawful targeting of resettled refugees during Operation PARRIS. Watch our testimony around 3:30 ET/2:30 CT: www.youtube.com/@MinnesotaTr...
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Minnesota Truth Council
The Governor’s Council to Record the Truth of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS (“Minnesota Truth Council”) was established by Executive Order 26-05 on March 25, 2026, to create a comprehensi...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Contrary to this op-ed, we don't actually have to give up on papers! New in @chronicle.com How to Assign Research Papers Again Three ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Did you see a Trump campaign ad while watching football this weekend? Well, that campaign ad was funded by your tax dollars. Here’s why that’s a crime: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fw...
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Trump’s Illegal Advertising
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
Wow! Pissed-off Trump voter says America is not great again, and she regrets her vote for Trump.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
​This is 16-year-old Katya. Russia killed her in Sumy on September 27 when three guided bombs hit a residential neighborhood💔🕯 ​She was in her final year of high school. Her school shared: “Katya will forever stay in our hearts as a student, a friend, and an irreplaceable part of our school family”
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A federal judge has declared that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated $7 billion in grant funding for clean energy programs in disadvantaged communities. insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...
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Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration Over Canceled Clean Energy Grants - Inside Climate News
The Solar for All program was intended to provide dozens of grants for clean energy programs in underserved communities. The Trump-appointed judge said the program’s termination was unlawful.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 27/09/2026
Tomorrow at 3 pm ET I am talking with @matthewsoerens.bsky.social about World Relief's finding that FY2026 is likely the first year the U.S. resettled no persecuted religious minorities. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78Sh_79pRrCshIiXz85QxA
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every post Hinson makes only leads me to believe the polls are real
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump was welcoming the Chinese press into the Oval Office—the “friendliest press corp,” Trump said about reporters whose press freedoms rank 178th in the world, just above North Korea—while continuing to deny American news outlets access all morning. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She voted for him. Then she told Congress an ICE agent killed her daughter. Not one Republican showed up. She didn’t leave. Neither should you.
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Trump Thought She Was On His Side. Then She Testified.
Also: North Carolina’s ballot trap under fire, data centers get the grid upgrade bills in California, and 260,000 shorted DoorDash workers win more than $115 million
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He has little-to-no support from his own party, the military, the legal system, or even his own administration to attempt anything this insane. He has no power over how states run their elections - even this SCOTUS said so. There is no red "cancel the election" button for him to press.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/09/2026
This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.
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Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded
The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/09/2026
If you or I "engaged in rogue behavior" U.S. government websites we would be charged with a slew of cybercrimes and prosecuted
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/09/2026
In the latest round of “pocket rescissions,” the president targeted funding for immigrants refugees and housing services. on.wsj.com/4iQJmC3
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Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts
In the latest round of “pocket rescissions,” the president targeted funding for immigrants refugees and housing services.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
one thing that’s interesting to watch is that republicans basically don’t know how to campaign when trump is this unpopular. literally any other president would grant them free reign to run against him if they have to, but he refuses and decides that they need his help
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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