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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Exhibit 1 for his trial for violations of our First Amendment rights.
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Good Trouble Veteran @goodtroubleveteran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama
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The Economist @economist.com · 30/04/2026
Israel is extending its grip on the territory. Some of its leaders seem to hope that conditions in the strip will become so intolerable that its inhabitants leave
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The lack of progress in Gaza suits those in power
But it leaves Gazans in misery
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/04/2026
"This decision will jeopardize maps for congressional seats, state legislatures, city councils, school boards – every level at which communities of color have fought for true representation," writes @slakin.bsky.social.
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Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it | Sophia Lin Lakin
I was a lead attorney in the Callais case. The court’s decision will silence the voices of communities of color
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
More recognition is needed.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/04/2026
Donald Trump paid almost a billion dollars to kill wind energy projects that would have powered millions of homes. You do the math on how that helps your family.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/04/2026
Here’s something I’d like to ask Pete Hegseth. Why is Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner parading around in the Middle East, trying to raise billions for his private equity firm while we are in the middle of a war? We deserve answers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨BREAKING: The White House confirmed Friday that President Donald Trump is pressing Congress to add new provisions targeting transgender people to the SAVE America Act — a sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump is adding anti-trans provisions to SAVE America Act
Trump appears to be using culture-war issues, which are popular among Republican voters, to increase the pressure on Republican lawmakers to back the bill.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/10/2025
Not sure having your brand associated with destroying the White House is the best look
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“Trump apparently doesn’t intend to allow for the defeat of the incumbent administration, and a peaceful transfer of power, in Nov. 2028. But we’ll be allowed to watch Trump celebrating his triumph over the old republic in his palatial new ballroom.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Our House Was a Very, Very, Very Fine House
Trump views the physical history of the White House much as he views the nation’s laws: something to be swept aside at will.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The man should be in prison. But sure, let's pay him a quarter of a billion for being a criminal.
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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump’s ICE agents are no different than the Nazi Gestapo. I hope they will pay for their crimes against humanity. #DisarmHate
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/10/2025
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people and leaving parts of the country without power as temperatures drop. More than 400 drones and 28 missiles were launched.
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After Trump-Putin summit suspended, Russia pounds Ukraine, killing six
The apparent collapse of the latest summit and renewed Russian attacks show that Trump’s hopes for a negotiated solution to the war remain distant.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 21/10/2025
🚨BREAKING: Kristi Noem is officially under Congressional investigation. Rep. Garcia and Sen. Blumenthal are demanding records on her illegal detention of 170 U.S. citizens — no warrants, no charges, no lawyers. The walls are closing in. Accountability starts NOW.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Then there’s nothing for you to fear, now… RELEASE THE GOD DAMN EPSTEIN FILES - all of them.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 21/10/2025
Secretary Noem is relaxing hiring requirements for ICE to quickly hire thousands of people to help meet Stephen Miller’s arbitrary arrest quota. Lower standards make misconduct issues worse. She needs to reverse these decisions.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 21/10/2025
Chicago is less safe under President Trump’s unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful abuse of power.
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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Christopher Moynihan, a January 6th insurrectionist pardoned by Trump, has been arrested & charged with threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. “I cannot allow this terrorist to live,” Moynihan allegedly wrote in text messages. www.bbc.com/news/article... #EndPoliticalViolence
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Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is fantastic!
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 21/10/2025
"Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, l'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them!" — US Attorney Lindsey Halligan texting journalist Anna Bower *on the record* about an *active* case
"Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, l'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them!"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“The United Nations didn’t mince words. Tether’s stablecoin, USDT, is the “preferred choice“ for money launderers and cyber fraudsters. Yet this $180 billion stablecoin sits at the center of US crypto policy and is managed by officials with financial stakes in it.” open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” Soviet era prosecutor. The indictment of former National Security adviser John Bolton requires us to hold several thoughts in our heads at the same time. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Trump's Retribution Comes for John Bolton
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” Soviet era prosecutor.
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newyorker8910.bsky.social @newyorker8910.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS! · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** 📍 Where: Father Duffy Square, 47th st. and Broadway 📅 When: 11:00 AM ET, October 18, 2025 NOTE: this will be a march, not a rally! Enter from the...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 17/10/2025
Today, I met with Adnaan and Tor Stumo, my constituents, who risked their lives to deliver aid to the people of Gaza. The US should have done more to keep them safe. But now, we have another chance to heed their calls: surge aid into Gaza and provide desperately needed relief.
Senator Markey stands with Adnaan and Tor Stumo in his office.
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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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newyorker8910.bsky.social @newyorker8910.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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ANCHOR EVENT: NYC SAYS NO KINGS! · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** 📍 Where: Father Duffy Square, 47th st. and Broadway 📅 When: 11:00 AM ET, October 18, 2025 NOTE: this will be a march, not a rally! Enter from the...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
it’s all just a grift
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2025
C-SPAN CALLER: What is your plan to fix Obamacare? MIKE JOHNSON: Great question. There's a lot of improvement that's needed. Obamacare did not do what was promised. We gotta fix that. In the big beautiful bill we reformed Medicaid.
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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Any Pain you're feeling is because of these two idiots.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"It turns out that free government and good government also depends on guardrails within the executive... The second-term Trump administration understands the importance of these internal guardrails, and has moved aggressively to neuter or dismantle them." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-good-f...
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The Good Fences Trump’s Destroying
Plus: Can a president bombing boats in the Caribbean—boats a fellow world leader says had random citizens aboard—really win the Nobel Peace Prize?
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The Economist @economist.com · 09/10/2025
For Gazans, the deal is a mercy. For Israelis it will bring catharsis. After months of failed negotiations it is a diplomatic triumph for Donald Trump. But, as the president acknowledged, it is only a first step econ.st/4h6Xjca Photo: EPA
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2025
At Harvard, many students skip class and fail to do the reading, according to a report, but rampant grade inflation allows them to coast through anyway. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
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Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students
Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
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Jiminy Cricket @realbigbluecricket.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This motherfucker actually believes that, when he throws out another ridiculous Executive Order, he is creating a new law. And everybody has to do what he says. He really believes that. Oddly, seems the legacy media agree since they don’t bother to report the lawlessness.
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Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 06/10/2025
Out: Banning books 😒 In: Reading banned books 😇
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The Economist @economist.com · 06/10/2025
Not long after a raid on South Shore in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security published a video of young Hispanic men being led away in cuffs. The Hollywood-style visuals seem to have been part of the goal
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What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
The worst excesses seem designed to produce content
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” wrote U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee.
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Federal judge halts Trump administration’s call-up of National Guard in Portland
“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law,” wrote U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..." apnews.com/article/chic...
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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2025
An intruder broke into Washington State’s Capitol building on Sunday night, toppling statues of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr., and setting a fire in a reception room known for hosting heads of state and for its Tiffany glass-bead chandeliers, the authorities said.
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Man Breaks Into Washington State Capitol, Toppling Statues and Setting Fire
The vandalism did not appear to have been politically motivated, according to the Washington State Patrol, which said that a suspect was in custody.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I was away last week, so I'm late, but this is and will forever be a Hyacinth Bucket stan account bbc.com/news/article...
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Patricia Routledge: Keeping Up Appearances star dies at 96
She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.
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John B Des Moines @john-b-des-moines.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
ICE claims without evidence to have been surrounded and rammed by a caravan of 10 vehicles. Chicago police found a single woman who was shot by ICE and left to die. Cowards with guns, in over their heads. www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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After Border Patrol shooting of woman on Southwest Side, agents battle protesters for hours
The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, an account that has yet to be verified...
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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The federal government's dangerous escalation tactics must end.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pritzker says the Trump admin is about to deploy the National Guard in Chicago.
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Memewrangler @memewrangler.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
So Kristi "Puppy Murderer" Noem couldn't get in to drop a deuce at an Illinois police station? Well Kristi, maybe they're sick and tired of your sh#t. #JustSayin
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The Economist @economist.com · 04/10/2025
The Democratic candidate for New Jersey’s governor wants the race to be a referendum on Donald Trump. But she is burdened by her own party’s baggage
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How a MAGA-aligned Republican has put a Democratic state in play
A bellwether race for governor of New Jersey looks closer than many expected
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
AG Pam Bondi vows to appeal 'woefully insufficient' 8+ year sentence judge imposed today on California resident Sophie Roske, who pled guilty to attempt to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022. DOJ had asked for 30 years. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
politico.com
Would-be Kavanaugh assassin sentenced to over 8 years in prison
Prosecutors had sought a 30-year sentence.
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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 03/10/2025
Chad Magendanz has made it clear: he’s against Medicaid expansion, against affordable health care, and against us. Washingtonians rejected him before because we knew we deserved better. This November, we’ll do the same.
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