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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Nancy Paddock @nanpad.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/bp48tcZP
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
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Nancy Paddock @nanpad.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/09/2025
📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe): - Take action to stop attacks on journalists and transparency - CBS’s real bias monitor is Trump - Will 9/11 records be declassified? - Judge isn’t buying excuses for attacks on LA reporters - Plus, what we're reading...
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Help us stop attacks on journalists and transparency
Plus: CBS’s real bias monitor is Donald Trump
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance. Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna. See how this works?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2025
The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show highlights exactly what @inaeoh.bsky.social warned us about in the wake of The Late Show's cancellation: "The end of Colbert signals a dark new chapter in Trump’s authoritarian slide. If this can happen to...a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone."
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump said that federal regulators should revoke the broadcast licenses of late-night hosts who speak negatively about him.
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Trump floats pulling TV licenses after Kimmel suspension
Trump said networks critical of him could lose licenses, echoing threats before Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Your Labor Day reminder that Trump doesn't actually care about working people. Take it from me, a former Secretary of Labor: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARL5VvYJUe8
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How Trump’s Agenda Could Kill You
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Nancy Paddock @nanpad.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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This Is a Contest Right Now for What America Is Going to Be
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Wiry @wiryarky.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Arkansas Congress Critters are no-shows at NWA town hall. #arpx
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This is massively important and @arkdems.org need to be all over it. This poor state is subsidizing resegregation at the cost of almost four hundred million dollars to taxpayers, including the minority and rural families whose schools are about to be ripped out from underneath them. #arpx #arkansas
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Nancy Paddock @nanpad.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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We Are America — Are You With Me?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 19/08/2025
A number of protests against President Donald Trump are set to take place across the country on Labor Day.
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Nationwide anti-Trump protests planned for Labor Day: what to know
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Look what Trump and Hegseth have already made our military look like. How long can we endure this shame?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
As Trump unleashes his authoritarianism across the country, it’s important to know your rights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=metN4EiDtmQ
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What is Due Process?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/08/2025
In @nytopinion.bsky.social “The military I love is under threat — from its own commander in chief,” writes our columnist David French. Using the U.S. military against domestic foes “risks fracturing its bond with the American public and diminishing its ability to recruit.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Domestic Deployments Are Dangerous. For the Military.
The nation’s most trusted institution must not be reduced to a political tool.
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🌊 Matt Gaetz’ Burner Account 🌊 @krisbouncedx.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Marco Rubio pulled the plug on a US medical program that fly severely injured children from Gaza to receive medical attention they so desperately need. Once treatment is provided, the child & accompanying adult are sent back to their country. Nothing quite says evil bastard than a face like this. ⬇️
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
MAGA’s really out in full force today, guess we struck a nerve. Lots of comments like “liberals don’t know anything about respect” and “Trump was just showing respect to Putin.” Uh huh… respect for who exactly? Putin? Russia? Yeah, no! We’re good.
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Nancy Paddock @nanpad.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, says consulting firm paid $16.7M to oversee Gov. Sanders' Franklin Co. mega-prison project is stonewalling legislators opposed to the project: "It's very hard when Vanir will not answer questions. They won't even return phone calls." #Arkansas buff.ly/oc5wFvH
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Stubblefield: Some Arkansas lawmakers ‘extorted’ over votes to fund new 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
ROGERS -- One state senator who has been critical of the governor's plan to build a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County this week spoke of pressure some lawmakers received over votes to fund the…
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NPR @npr.org · 16/08/2025
When President Trump announced his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. attorney said she wanted to focus on juveniles. But experts say harsher punishments don't deter criminals.
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Teenagers in Washington D.C. say the federal police takeover makes them feel unsafe
When President Trump announced his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. Attorney said she wanted to focus on juveniles. But experts say harsher punishments don't deter criminals.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
DC will not stand idle as this administration tries to take our people and our home.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/08/2025
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.
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A family's fishing trip ends with the dad at 'Alligator Alcatraz.' Here's their story
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/08/2025
Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work. The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Saturday morning, officers with vests that said only police tased what appeared to be a deliveryman. The confrontation took place on 14th Street…The officers refused to identify themselves. The incident was caught on video by a person who sent it to The Bulwark.” www.thebulwark.com/p/watch-trum...
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WATCH: Trump’s Masked Officers Tase Delivery Man in D.C.
The confrontation was caught on camera by a bystander and shared with The Bulwark
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Would have never happened if I were President.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Imagine spending all that time and energy to become an FBI agent and then President Mumbles McFacepaint orders you to march around the yuppiest neighborhoods of Washington DC in tactical gear so drunk college kids can jeer at you.
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Gavin Newsom: “Wake up America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. These guys are not screwing around. The most corrupt president in history. He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He is a lawless president. Wake up America.”
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.
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Sylvan S. @sylvansongs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
As Texas Republicans try to gerrymander to gain seats in Congress, residents in Austin could find themselves sharing a district with rural Texans more than 300 miles away.
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GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away
It would "suppress the votes of Black and brown Austinites," one Democrat said.
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Breadman @breadmanbrian.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Grant Peeples in the news...
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Folk artist uses ‘revolutionary’ storytelling to address political divide - The Independent Florida Alligator
Grant Peeples is often accused of writing protest songs, but the feedback doesn’t discourage him. He doesn’t hesitate to tell people exactly what he’s passionate about.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
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Arkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 08/08/2025
Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts Director Marty Sullivan began serving on a national board of judicial administrators July 30, according to a Thursday AOC news release. ✍️: @tessmvrbin.bsky.social
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Arkansas courts director elected to national board of judicial administrators | Arkansas Advocate
Sullivan has worked for the state courts since 2003 and was appointed director in 2017 by Supreme Court then-Chief Justice John Dan Kemp.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/08/2025
This week, a new word made its public debut. With an increase in attacks on health care facilities and personnel, the goal of this coinage is to spark outrage and outcry. But the reaction is mixed.
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A word is born -- and critiqued: 'healthocide'
This week a new word made its public debut. With an increase in attacks on health care facilities and personnel, the goal of this coinage is to spark outrage and outcry. But the reaction is mixed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
WELKER: Why would Josh Hawley introduce a bill to roll back cuts in Medicaid if there are not cuts in Medicaid? He says the people in his state are going to suffer MIKE JOHNSON: I will tell you that the one big beautiful bill safeguards the program
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Gov. Sanders says she'll spend whatever it takes to provide school voucher subsidies to every Arkansas student who qualifies, $18.5M more than $277M already spent for next year. Senate Republican leader Bart Hester is "fully supportive" of tossing more money down this rabbit hole.
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Sanders is “committed to funding every student who applies and is eligible” for an Educational Freedom Account | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is "committed to funding every student who applies and is eligible" for an Educational Freedom Account, an office spokesman said as more than 43,100 students have…
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 27/07/2025
Supposedly after pretending it was about money they're just openly talking in meetings about how they'll trash contracts and fire comedians for the absolutely unprescedented act of... making fun of the president on a late night talk show. Dictator shit.
While the studio audience – and many viewers - clearly agreed with the eloquent sentiment, the show’s bosses did not. Now it looks like Colbert may not even make it to the end of the series next year, as, according to journalist Rob Shuter, there have been words had with Colbert, and they have come “very close” to pulling him off-air. After reportedly calling a emergency meeting the morning after Cobert’s show aired, two senior executives reportedly said:

“He's daring us to fire him. And honestly? We’re close to doing it. He’s been warned. What he said was unacceptable. There are real consequences this time.”
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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025
South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump. By @edeggans.bsky.social
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This was the week that comedy pushed back
South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 26/07/2025
More hypocrisy and grift.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.
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Where there are helpers, there is hope. @waystohelp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Someone made this list of the reps that are publicly on the fence. Call these ones, even if they are not in your district!
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Flippable Reps Fax Numbers
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/07/2025
185 years of operating Guantánamo Bay 568 times the cost to pay all US students' public school lunch debt 12 times the 2023 Federal Bureau of Prisons budget 8 times what the US spent to develop and purchase Covid vaccines in just 2020
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What $100 billion in new ICE funding looks like
The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.
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The Shumater @theshumater.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Little Rock School District pauses programs, reviews staff positions after Trump administration freezes grants for after-school & summer programs, support for students who aren't native English speakers & teacher training. @milostrain.bsky.social reports. #Arkansas #arpx buff.ly/UofhTxg
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LRSD pauses programs as Trump administration withholds education funding  - Arkansas Times
The Little Rock School District is cancelling programs and reviewing staff positions as it awaits federal funding the Trump administration is currently withholding from schools nationwide.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/07/2025
The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE. We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.
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ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
Republicans just voted to RAISE Americans’ health care costs. @ossoff.senate.gov led Democrats in fighting to stop premiums from spiking and bring down costs for working families. But Republicans said NO — they just want to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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Arkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Singer-songwriter Willi Carlisle understands music’s ability to tap into a deeper, truer part of our brains and “Winged Victory” further cements him as an important figure in today’s traditional music landscape, earning his place on factory floors, in dementia wards and everywhere in between.
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Willi Carlisle mines the importance of storytelling on 'Winged Victory' - Arkansas Times
Music outlasts the limits of our minds and memories; it is something more elemental, more hardwired. Willi Carlisle understands music’s ability to tap into a deeper, truer part of our brains and “Wing...
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