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Nicole

@nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social
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I'm terrible at this. All of it. Awkward & analytical. Neurodivergent perspectives are my own. "Nobody's free until everyone's free" - Fannie Lou Hamer 🇮🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 😷🖖🏻 Ⓥ No DMs/I'm not interested.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 9h
Jesus Christ dude
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13h
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 14h
"Why didn't she tell anyone?" "Why didn't she report it to the police?" "Why did she wait so long to come forward?" "Why did she recant?" "Why can't she just get over it?" The systems meant to protect women, don't. Stop asking survivors stupid questions; start asking rapists why they did it.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The question that isn't being asked about the seven Cornell "alleged" rapists, is how many other women have been raped by this fraternity? The bros were comfortable sending the invitation to r*pe to "Chi Phi Actives" via Snapchat and confident of the group's complicity. This is not the only victim.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The season 14 trailer for American Horror Story just dropped.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If this is what SCOTUS says OMB can do, then not only do we need to completely reform SCOTUS (👇), but we also need to abolish OMB & close every single aircraft carrier-sized loophole in every law allowing the president to invoke magic words like "national security" & act like a dictator.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, we learn the necessity of expanding the Court is non-negotiable.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why is any country cowering or conceding to this bloviating, demented old man with two feet in the grave? He's an insecure and petulent bully; IMO he's also dumb as shit. A show of strength is the only thing he respects. This will only make it worse. Iran figured it out. Why can't Denmark?
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of the end of this incident as agents drove off near Dodge and Howard, posted on Facebook:
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is on par with a health policy written by manosphere chodes. It smacks of legal liability given health risks w/ TRT (per Mayo, Harvard Health) and the regime's poor attention to detail. SecDef Chud will be explaining this policy to Congress when soldiers develop ED, moobs, become sterile, etc.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/09/2026
Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act.
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Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species
Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I lost the shreds of respect I had for Don Lemon when he defended Tyler Perry against SA allegations and criticized the survivors with the same tired tropes used against women who report their rapist. Lemon's take on Chris Brown also didn't fail to disappoint. Franchesca Ramsey nails it in her🧵
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This attempt to further frame, and confirm, Hasan Piker as a villain backfired spectacularly. Despite the framing, all this interview did was make Piker more popular. Symone Sanders-Townsend comes off as an establishment dem, corporate media shill. If "I'm only here for the comments" was a podcast.
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SEE IT: Hasan Piker PRESSED by MS NOW in FIERY interview
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Come on this is ridiculous.
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Given Mike Johnson, and dem leaders continuing to adhere to the failing strategy of appealing to imaginary centrist republicans and repubs registered as democrats while ignoring elections they don't think dems can win, Conrad Cable needs more hype. Please donate and promote if you can.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 16/09/2026
reminders for the people: (1) getting rid of the shell company transparency law / rules was in Project 2025 (pg. 707) (2) these are the businesses *that we know of* - he is likely tied to dozens more (3) this is why PUBLIC incorporation registries tying entities to real human owners matters!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One morning, soon, instead of reading so many posts and articles reporting on the U.S. president intentionally destroying the country through his cronyism, looting, corruption, & other alleged financial & intetnational crimes, I want to hear the roar of global celebrations because he finally died.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Among other things, this means that, even if #SCOTUS *grants* a stay of Judge Talwani’s earlier injunction against the USPS rule (which seems increasingly unlikely), the rule would *still* not go into effect; the Court would have to freeze *this* injunction, too.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh the difference here is they're never actually going to send the midterm bribes.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A pastor for Michael Whatley, the North Carolina GOP Senate nominee, opened with a prayer asking God to bestow "integrity and honesty." It was delivered by Pastor Daimon King, a registered sex offender twice imprisoned for convictions involving children. apnews.com/article/what...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A Rudy Giuliani aide (lifelong Republican) dispels the clip of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @aoc.bsky.social at a 9/11 ceremony currently blowing up in right wing fever swamps online👇🏽
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do racists supporting the violent abduction & trafficking of immigrants, or Black/Brown people generally, know the U.S. is paying millions in tax 💰 to countries w/ little, no human rights oversight to imprison them? What happens when this regime collapses & those contracts end? We need more outrage.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Melania's taste may be questionable, but her timing is impeccable. She wants it known she had nothing to do with the White House disaster. 😆
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026
This is who was on that Gitmo flight I tracked 12 days ago — a guy who did everything right to overcome the circumstances of his birth.
Gillian Brockell • @gillianbrockell.com
Looks like we're using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE's flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights. 1/2
An FR24 map showing an Air Wisconsin plane landing at Gitmo 
9:14 AM • Aug 28, 2026
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for allegedly violating the court’s injunction blocking Trump-backed congressional maps. 1/
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And here's why Hasan Piker is a problem for Democrats
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Nicole @nicoleburnsmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I don't know if kristen welker is an idiot or she just plays one on tv. If dems want the media to be better, they have to demand better. Stop granting interviews to disingenuous corporate schills. "Liberal" media is now maga friendly. That happened because repubs refused their requests for years.
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