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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At core, they do not believe democracy *should be allowed* if their side isn’t guaranteed to win. And that becomes the inescapable problem.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, who's running for Senate, says the Iran war "needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end." A messaging pivot: Hinson voted NO six times on House resolutions directing Trump to end the Iran war — including as recently as last week.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.
NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Jay Lionel @jaylionel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ll just leave this here…
The thing about Trump's weird new hair color is that he raped and trafficked children with Jeffrey Epstein, and the entire GOP is covering it up.
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Steve @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
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Auburn Blake @blakeau19.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thank you for telling us it's 'very clean' unsolicited. Not suspect at all.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 03/09/2026
The law says he has to be dead now. I don’t make the (federal) rules, but sometimes I agree with them. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/09/2026
The Department of Health and Human Services cited articles that were entirely made up. trib.al/myhNnO4
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Judge Tells RFK Jr. to Stop Using Fake AI Studies on Teen Pregnancy
The Department of Health and Human Services cited articles that were entirely made up.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & @splcenter.org just sued FL to STOP H.B. 991, its 'SAVE' Act Miss one mailed notice & the state can purge you. The state is manufacturing a crisis & then billing voters for it Proud to represent @blackvotersmatterfund.org & @lulacorg.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2026
Angel S. Rampersad Michael Swinton Tyler J. Feehan Isabella Gonzales Gabriel Edwards John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Benjamin Pennington Jeffrey O’Brien Robert Marzan Nicole Amor Declan Coady Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Stop lying.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"I did not vote for this" -- yes, you did. Yes, you absolutely did.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The plan here is to block *millions* of legal mail-in ballots via a series of schemes and policies that were hidden from voters, hidden from the press, and hidden from the courts. We only know of them via a whistleblower. And all of this was done *explicitly* under a Trump order.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.
washingtonpost.com
Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says
An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/09/2026
what's wild is that i'm pretty sure if you're a CA elected, you could just decide on your own to get behind some worker-oriented film industry shit or even (wild idea!) propose your own without licking every-ass inch of this specific boot, and yet here we are
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1. Keith Sonderling, Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, traveled to China in 2015 to pitch investments in a Florida real estate project. During these events, Chinese nationals were promised green cards and access to “America’s Comprehensive Welfare”
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
B-roll of the Haitians of Springfield being rounded up because Vance decided his one big move as a vp candidate was to elevate a neo-Nazi lie about his own constituents.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop @rgh1205.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Sure it leaked to harm Jeffries. It could not have leaked, though, if Jeffries had just told Kushner to wait for the subpoena. Kushner embodies everything many decent people hate. Corrupt, self-dealing, arrogant, not doing anything for the country. And he is not exactly helping with Gaza.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I just donated to help SPIDER-MAN, who took on nazi scumbags trying to invade Minneapolis again. Arrested by our local cops (boooo) who were diligently defending their racist turd pals. Let’s help good ol’ Webhead with his defense! (PS I can vouch for the GoFundMe creator) gofund.me/6f36a1ac1
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Donate to Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense, organized by Ash Chudgar
Awesome update: I'm in touch with Spider-Man's family, and we're setting things up so t… Ash Chudgar needs your support for Support Spider-Man’s Legal Defense
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Glad my posts slamming Hakeem Jeffries for meeting with Jared Kushner were included in the article. Jeffries must explain why met with Kushner and were any deals made to protect Trump and Kushner when Dems take control of House?! www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Hakeem Jeffries Meeting With Jared Kushner Roils the Left
Prominent Trump critics are furious over news of a reported secret meeting between Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner — with some calling for Jeffries's job.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 23/08/2026
MAGA recalls the start of the COVID pandemic as a time when the President forced them to be indoors 24/7 and Biden was President, neither of which actually happened.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now that's a fucking headline. www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconn...
newsweek.com
Mitch McConnell is getting more paid time off than women who give birth
Senator Mitch McConnell has continued to receive his full salary while being absent from the Senate for medical reasons.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...
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Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker
Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire
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observablereality.bsky.social @observablereality.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Playing through Disco Elysium again, it's been a while. Have been literally laughing non stop for the past 3 minutes on the "Contact Mike" bit. That might be the funniest shit, I've ever read, in my whole life.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Republicans hyperventilating about Natalia Harp: “How dare you suggest that Donald Trump, a man who cheated on ALL of his wives, is liable for rape, bragged about sexual assault, ogled naked underage pageant girls, & paid off a porn star would have an inappropriate relationship with an employee?”
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Rick Keller @rickkeller.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Two separate jurisprudence systems in the US. One for the wealthy and well-connected, and the other for everyone else.
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Felina510 @felina510.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
lmao "america is worth fighting for" with a south african nazi in the back is super hilarious.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I left Twitter in 2023, when I realized that Elon's changes had made the site useless for me. I had a half million followers, but his new algorithm drove my engagement numbers down to nothing. I wasn't actually reaching anyone. I was just providing cover for Nazis. So I left. You can too. Honest!
I haven’t been blind to the steady enshittification of Elon’s Twitter, but I’ve been telling myself that I still had a big platform — just under a half million followers — and the growing strength of misinformation on the platform meant I had a duty to stay and push back against it.
Except, as I slowly realized, I don’t have a big platform anymore. Engagement on all my posts is down dramatically under the new system, and a post that would’ve racked up a thousand RTs immediately is now lingering for days with a dozen or so.
I think my fellow (former) big accounts there need to realize that we’re experiencing a bit of a phantom limb syndrome. We still have a big number of followers, but they’re not actually seeing what we post and we’re not remotely having the impact that we once did (or at least thought we did).
Again, all we’re doing is giving our personal seal of approval and a sense of legitimacy to a place that’s rapidly becoming an alt-right hangout of grifters and grievance artists.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Goddamn this guy sucks fucking shit.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A letter? Wow. You sent him a letter? Wow, that’s bad ass. That’s really meeting this moment. I’m sure a letter will scare the hell out of him.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What can you do to help defend your community from ICE? -Join your local rapid response group -Serve as a lookout for a food pantry, church, or school -Deliver groceries to impacted families -Pack and prepare grocery deliveries -Mutual aid such as backpack drives And there’s even more to do.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is in the Epstein Files. Pass it on.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.
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Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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