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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 16/10/2026
Nick Fuentes Says the Trump Admin Is a Crime Scene
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/10/2026
The White House is hiding a report about your taxes until after you vote. Each year the IRS publishes data on what people at every income level deducted and owed. This version is the first look at the GOP tax law from 2025. It was expected in July. It’s October. Full story at link in comments ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2026
A win for our state. NSF’s recognition of Northwestern’s Center for Genome Intelligence Engineering is a validation of the innovation we’re doing here to understand how cells function to prevent decline. We’re fostering the research and science needed to lead in Illinois.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Death threats and a newborn baby. @sofiakinzinger.bsky.social on her and Adam’s journey. Join me on Substack. @adamkinzinger.substack.com
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026
WHOA, IOWA‼️ Josh Turek just landed the biggest endorsement in Democratic politics: Barack Obama. Reminder: Obama was the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Iowa.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
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Ken Morales @kbmorales.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/06/2026
Lin-Manuel Miranda took a roadtrip with his son to visit a 17,400-pound ball of twine in Darwin, Minn. The sculpture once held a Guinness world record and was referenced in a "Weird Al" Yankovic song.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has a Minnesota adventure
The ‘Hamilton’ superstar and other celebs were recently spotted in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...
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Mail-in voting is under attack. Here's what you can do
The USPS is proposing a rule that would require states to share information about voters who request mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Here's the list of things Trump wants taxpayers to pay for because he started an illegal war and lost badly. punchbowl.news/2026-06-24-l...
THE SUPPLEMENTAL IS OUT

highlights:

$67B for DOD
$11B for farmers
$40M for FBI for "Operation Epic Fury" and other classified programs.
$672M for NNSA
$95.5M for DOE for Epic Fury
$36M for Treasury
$600M for GSA
$2B for Coast Guard re Epic Fury
$13M for DHS classified request
$500M for Park Service
$1B for DOL for pensions
$1.5B for State for diplomatic programs
$300M for embassy security and construction for restoring facilities in Bahrain, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore, Riyadh etc
$1.4B for Ebola
$1B for "modernized Penn Station"

Punchbowl News text subscribers got it first.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/06/2026
Khanna did not ‘say’ that Musk unleashed mass death. Serious research has documented it. —> www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/06/2026
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)
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How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
A flu outbreak at a basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is growing to at least 222 cases and four hospitalizations.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
Bravo, sir
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/06/2026
"Nobody involved—not the president, not the rioters, not the senators who oppose the fund—seems convinced that the idea of cash transfers to insurrectionists is *really* dead." Schrödinger’s slush fund from hell?
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Trump’s Permanency Project
Who cares about popularity when you can make elections irrelevant?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?
Headline from March, 'The March is Going Better Than You Think.'
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: May 30 edition" — Bobby Brainworms gets bit, Preznit Fuckwit gets hit, and so much more... thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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this week in stupid: May 30 edition
Bobby Brainworms gets bit, Preznit Fuckwit gets hit, and so much more...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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CDC’s Full-Time Cruise Ship Inspectors Were Laid Off One Year Ago amid Record Outbreaks: Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) experienced significant layoffs almost exactly one year ago despite record outbreaks at the time. A CDC spokesperson te...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In 2021, Trump Media (Truth Social) told investors that by 2026 they could have 81 million users and $3.6 billion in revenue. Instead: 2023: lost $58m 2024: lost $400m 2025: lost $712m Who knows maybe this will be the year they turn it around! lololol www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Former congressman Devin Nunes departs as CEO of Trump media company
The onetime lawmaker is leaving Trump Media & Technology, which operates the social media platform Truth Social.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/04/2026
This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: John Eastman, the attorney who helped with Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election, has just been disbarred!
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The sheer stupidity of this has left me speechless. 🙄
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Trump had a bad week. Read @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social & @cathyyoung63.bsky.social in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-resist...
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The Resistance Gains Momentum
Trump had a bad week.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Way-hey! After concerted local pushback, New Jersey company decides not to contract with ICE: "The contract with ICE will not move forward, a Holman spokesperson told Patch. "I have been informed that we declined that particular body of work," the spokesperson said... patch.com/new-jersey/c...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/02/2026
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
More norm busting, or really dynamiting. Any search of reporter’s phone has been exceedingly rare, requiring special signoffs within DOJ. But search of reporter’s home basically unheard of. And this looks to be petty and political, not eg national security. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/01/2026
The courts are ruling against Donald Trump yet again tonight. A federal judge just blocked his unlawful funding freeze for child care and other critical programs in Illinois with a temporary restraining order. His abuse of power against the families of this state won’t stand.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Pirates of the Caribbean 2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
If Indiana legislators hold firm on their conscience today, it will among other things be a much-needed rejection of the idea that you can get your way on policy through bullying, intimidation, and threats.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11/12/2025
This is Bandit. He fell asleep while getting out of bed. We've all been there. 12/10 sweet dreams buddy (u/yarntist)
a silver pit bull puppy lays half in and half outside of his gray and black dog bed, which is propped up on its side. a lamb toy lays nearby as the little puppy snoozes soundly, totally unaware of the strange position he's ended up in.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him. Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?
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Chicago Public Square @chicagopublicsquare.com · 19/11/2025
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Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
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