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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/08/2026
RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents obtained by The AP and The Guardian refute that.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
The Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/08/2026
NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/
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Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission - Public Citizen
Introduction  On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new…
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kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
6/ We asked Nick Adams (and his mother) for comment. He did not respond to a detailed list of questions. If you want to see the full story, please click here: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist
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Peter @peteribarra.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Whoever pledges to prosecute each and every one of these people has my vote. Killing parents in front of babies is what my country has become.
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Peter @peteribarra.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
alito 100% thinks that the “blue shift” in vote counting represents a dynamic change in the outcome. to borrow from @kalimurray.bsky.social this is not a smart man
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Two DHS agents on a doorbell camera.“You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”
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nonrev @nonrev321.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For the 1% there is literally nothing you can't buy your way out of
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/06/2026
Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report. Read more here: wapo.st/4o85ZCx
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Let’s call them the Trump/Rubio/Vance/Musk cuts. Because all 4 of them worked to make this happen
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Ballroom and New Fund Face Test in Congress
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture
A picture of a man inside the Capitol rotunda on January 6 2021. He is wearing full camo tactical gear, masked, carrying zip ties and climbing over a bannister in the gallery
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Senator Bill Cassidy compromised all his values to confirm RFK Jr and he still lost his senate seat in a primary.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.
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Peter @peteribarra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Sir? @dicknixon.bsky.social
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Justice Alito & co killed the Voting Rights Act by combining two dubious moves: 1) they mischaracterized the Rucho justiciability holding as validating political gerrymandering; 2) they treated racially polarized voting as unrelated to the racist appeals and policies of the modern Republican Party.👇
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Anatomy of the Murder of the Voting Rights Act
During the oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais , Justice Alito repeatedly described the Court's decision in Rucho v. Common Cause as hold...
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...
Take Back the Court REP. JOHN LEWIS: In 1965, Jurist Roberts was only 10-years-old. He may be a brilliant lawyer, but I wonder whether he can really understand the depth of what it took to get the Voting Rights Act passed. The right to vote is precious, almost
sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society. As many of you know, I gave a little blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but some
of my friends and colleagues gave all they had, their very lives for the right to vote. I feel that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be the Chief Justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people's cries for justice. I feel that the leadership of the Court will promote politics over the protection of individual rights and liberties. If the Federal Courts had abandoned us in the civil rights movement in the name of judicial restraint, we might still be struggling with the
burden of legal segregation in America today. Jurist Roberts's memos reveal him to be hostile towards civil rights, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. He has even said that Voting Rights Act
violations, and I quote, "should not be made too easy to prove.'
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 01/05/2026
I mean you just gotta call him Jim Crow Roberts to his face in public the rest of his life.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/04/2026
Justice Kagan put it best: “Under the Court’s new view … a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power.” This ruling amounts to a, “demolition of the Voting Rights Act.”   A shameful day.
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Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act
In a 6-3 ruling, the justices narrowed how a key provision of the Voting Rights Act can be enforced.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A real banger from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...
This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago. He rarely meets people where they are. Trump holds the occasional rally, but he does not move through the world the way most presidents have. More so than most who have held the office, he lives inside a bubble.

Some of this is vanity. Some of it is laziness. But some of it, I think, is fear. Trump is afraid of the world. Which in a way might mean he is afraid of the world he has helped build.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Oh damn
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 14/04/2026
Yet another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case:
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Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case
David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack didn’t apply to child exploitation.
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Peter @peteribarra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Shameful
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
textbook sanewashing
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:
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Russell Vought - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026
the reason hegseth lobbied trump to pardon war criminals in his first term and why he has done everything possible to make war crimes more likely is that hegseth believes war crimes to be Objectively Good. war to him, in fact, consists of committing indiscriminate war crimes.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
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