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• 65,000+ people in "detention" camps, >70%, including children, have zero criminal record, thousands of whose names have been wiped from federal databases. Trump & Vought's fascist state.

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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 2h
$$$ Trump is paying Putin to kill U.S. troops, and sadly, he couldn’t care less. $$$ War Through Weakness snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h
I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14h
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 13h
“Red Diesel Stained in Blood.” Ukrainian editorial cartoonist Andryi Petrenko laments Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has angered America’s European allies and assists Putin’s Ukraine war effort.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They still finding how to Blame Joe Biden.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Border Report: The growing number of arrests by ICE outside schools and other community gathering places in Southern California is causing a "state of terror," says Alor Calderon, executive director of the Employee Rights Center in San Diego. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We will have justice!
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Icahn served in the unpaid, advisory role until resigning in August 2017.” Story almost no one knows.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
💙💛 Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha criticized the US decision to allow the sale of Russian petroleum products. According to him, easing sanctions will not contribute to ending the war, but will only demonstrate weakness to moscow. unn.ua/en/news/puti...
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"Putin sees weakness": Sybiha criticized the US decision to ease sanctions against Russia
УНН Politics ✎ Andrii Sybiha criticized the US authorization to sell Russian petroleum products. The minister called for increased pressure on Moscow.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No punishment will ever be too harsh for ICE agents and the leaders who empowered them
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Since taking up his post in April 2025, David Milstein has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light.
nytimes.com
How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
💙💛 Firefighters perform operations on the burnt shell of a passenger bus following a Russian missile & aerial bomb strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on October 8, 2026. Russians targeted 2 civilian buses, killing 30 people in Kramatorsk, while in nearby Bilenke strike claimed 3 lives.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Lev Parnas @levparnas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Five Children Killed. Trump Talks About Putin’s Birthday.
Russia’s latest barrage killed at least 28 people across Ukraine. As winter approaches, families need more than our outrage—they need our help.
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Master Strategist Stuart Stevens On How Dem Candidates Should Close Out Their 2026 Campaigns www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/master-str...
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Master Strategist Stuart Stevens On How Dem Candidates Should Close Out Their 2026 Campaigns
I asked Stuart to play a Dem strategist and walk us through how he would close out a major Dem Senate campaign. It’s a great discussion. Get to it when you can!
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😠 More Than "500 U.S. Citizens" Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in DICKtator Hitler Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. 😖 projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
💙💛 Russian Attacks Damaged 2,161 Heritage Sites and 2,665 Cultural Institutions in Ukraine A September tally adds new damage to sites already struck, including a landmark within the UNESCO-listed ensemble of Kyiv’s St Sophia Cathedral. mezha.net/eng/news/42d...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
💙💛 Abducted and tortured Crimean Tatar lawyer sentenced to 16 years for ‘treason’ against Russian invaders There are no legal grounds for the FSB to have held Amet Abyltairov incommunicado, without any formal charges, for 6 months khpg.org/en/1608816103
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Abducted and tortured Crimean Tatar lawyer sentenced to 16 years for ‘treason’ against Russian invaders
There are no legal grounds for the FSB to have held Amet Abyltairov incommunicado, without any formal charges, for six months, and it is unfortunately likely that the case is based on testimony extrac...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Basic Political Wisdom (Kharkiv Meditations, 10/10) snyder.substack.com/p/basic-poli...
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Basic Political Wisdom (Kharkiv Meditations, 10/10)
Kharkiv Meditations, 10/10
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Schiff Leaves Republicans Speechless With This 1 Line At Jack Smith Hearing| Trump,Jan 6,Midterms
YouTube video by Project America | News
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our failure to support Ukraine will be a forever stain. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 04/10/2026
💥 Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russia’s Kaluga Radio Tube Plant, which produces components for Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles and Iskander-M ballistic missiles. militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...
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Defense Forces Hit Kaluga Radio Tube Plant Producing Components for Kh-101 and Iskander-M
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit Voskhod-KLRZ, also known as the Kaluga Radio Tube Plant. This electronics manufacturer produces components for Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles, as well as Iskan...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“The pretense of military necessity, never credible, is now gone altogether. Ukrainian schools, hospitals, bridges, markets and apartment blocks are now treated as legitimate targets by Russian war criminals.” chakhoyan.substack.com/p/the-folly-...
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What are russians killing and dying for in Ukraine?
moscow is losing hundreds of thousands of men for slivers of Ukrainian land. Territory alone cannot explain what the marauding army of russian war criminals is killing and dying for.
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin Our Invitee open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
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Putin Our Invitee
On President Trump’s invitation to the Russian dictator to attend the next G20.
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Rachel Maddow in conversation: Surviving Putin's prison
YouTube video by MS NOW
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Strait Talk with Matthew Dowd || Premiere
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💙💛 More than 26,000 bodies and sets of human remains have been returned to Ukraine through repatriation efforts. A significant number of the dead have yet to be identified - Kyrylo Budanov mezha.net/eng/news/3f5...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great video, but all it takes is once. Mine came while I was commuting by mountain bike through open space near Boulder, CO, when a rattlesnake struck my front rim. It was the biggest I'd ever seen, and I grew up with them in the California hills around our house. They're unpredictable buggers.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
💙💛 Rescuers work at a damaged school hit by a Russian jet-drone strike in Kyiv, on October 1, 2026.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 01/10/2026
This morning, Russia used a drone to strike a school in Kyiv while children were inside. This is what the Kremlin considers a ‘legitimate military target’.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The press release also says that he offered to depart voluntarily, but an immigration "judge" told him no. Why? It does not say. By our count at @prospect.org, Curo-Churata is at least the 67th person to die in immigration custody as of January 2025. He should be alive. May he rest in peace.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think it's bad that the president's brain is mush. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
LOSS: A federal court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a Florida policy that pro-voters argue bars nearly 80k eligible voters from registering. The policy requires certain identifying information on a voter’s registration application to exactly match information in government databases.
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you missed 👇 Sen. Cory Booker on Jack Smith hearing: "This hearing is a farce" Jan. 6: "Oh my gosh, that statement should be chilling to every American that the commander in chief currently did everything he could to undermine the legal transfer of power... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGEB...
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Sen. Cory Booker on Jack Smith hearing: "This hearing is a farce"
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People die unnecessarily because of this Corrupt Supreme Court!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A top Mike Johnson aide was planning an official trip for Hill staffers to Europe two weeks before the election, with stops at Ferrari factory in Maranello, luxury brand companies in “Milan or Florence” & Champagne region of France. Scoop from colleague Scott Wong: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Congressional staff planned official trip with luxury stops in Italy and France weeks before election
The weeklong staff trip, including stops at a Ferrari factory and Champagne, was to be led by an aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson and was canceled after NBC News asked about the itinerary.
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🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦Celtic Curmudgeon @paboo8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who funded it is a sideshow. What voters should ask is how a Congress that's gutting living standards and rights at home feels entitled to Ferraris and Champagne abroad, and why it was only canceled once reporters asked.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to end debate in the Senate, 53-47. Every Democratic and independent senator voted against the measure. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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