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Salute Gesundheit @meltedplasticman.bsky.social · 12h
I’ll tell you why, there are no worker protections in the United States. You can stay at the protest, but you’re gonna get fired and lose your medical benefits Americans fear their employer, in France, the employer fears the employees Since Reagan unions have been divided and attacked in the USA 
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 13h
I’ve been saying this for a couple of years now. The French get it. Several other countries have done it in the past few years. So why don’t we?🤔
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The Tattooed Theologian @dillon-naber-cruz.bsky.social · 11h
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11h
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/6CMhoIo
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11h
I've been appointed to NACIQI, the federal advisory committee that recommends which accrediting agencies the U.S. Department of Education should recognize. Looking forward to using my expertise to help guide the future of U.S. higher education. www.cehd.udel.edu/a-national-v...
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A National Voice on Institutional Quality and Integrity - College of Education & Human Development
Associate Professor Dominique J. Baker has been named to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13h
Total collapse at Moscow’s airports 🛩 🚫 Ukrainian sources report that Ukraine has initiated its long-promised operation to disrupt russian air traffic. Delayed at the request of our partners, but now finally underway.
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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 15h
Adding to this: it’s not just that the Constitution allows for impeachment; it COMMANDS it upon the commission of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors by federal office holders. The word “shall” is a command, not a plea.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h
Which would be your favorite House District for Dems to flip if it were to happen? I can't decide between: Derrick Van Order (WI-3, Rebecca Cooke) Scott Perry (PA-10, Janelle Stelson) NY-21 (Blake Gendebien (D); Anthony Constantino (R); Elise Stefanik's seat) I'm also probably missing some.
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Congressional Bill Bot @fedbillbot.bsky.social · 14h
S.5604 Improving Species Recovery Act SPONSOR: @schiff.senate.gov @adamschiff.com № CO-SPONSORS: 1 STATUS: Introduced LATEST ACTION: Senate - 2026-09-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on ... #Democrats Details at congress.gov
S.5604
Improving Species Recovery Act

SPONSOR: @schiff.senate.gov @adamschiff.com
№ CO-SPONSORS: 1

STATUS: Introduced

LATEST ACTION: Senate - 2026-09-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on ...

#Democrats

Details at congress.gov
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h
In 2022, Vickie Marquardt (R) refused to certify New Mexico’s primary results. One county official refusing to certify won’t overturn an election on its own. But Marquardt is far from the only county official who has resisted certifying results in recent years ➡️ demdock.com/4ztaCf3
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 14h
LINCOLN — Sixth-generation Nebraska farmer John Hansen leaned into baseball lingo to describe his take on dual diesel directives by President Donald Trump and Gov. Jim Pillen. He compared the impact to a bunt single.The swing was less than full and the outcome far from a home run, he said.
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How big a deal is the red-dyed diesel directive?
LINCOLN — Sixth-generation Nebraska farmer John Hansen leaned into baseball lingo to describe his take on dual diesel directives by President Donald Trump and Gov. Jim Pillen. He compared the impact to a bunt single.The swing was less than full and the outcome far from a home run, he said.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 14h
Nick Fuentes: “Hypothetically, if a woman in your life was doing something like this, I would absolutely beat the fucking shit out of her”
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“WE NEED MORE SLUT SHAMING:” Right-wing media react to the Cornell sexual assault case
Right-wing media are jumping at the chance to scrutinize a woman accusing seven men at Cornell University of rape. The woman, known to the public as Jane Doe, alleges seven men assaulted her in a frat...
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 14h
Right-wing media figures are jumping at the chance to attack the woman at the center of the Cornell rape case. www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 08/10/2026
CFR: Notably, Americans were split about who they believed bore the burden of tariffs: 41% said they’re a tax citizens pay, and 40% said foreigners pay. *It estimated that consumers pay 2/3 of Trump’s tariffs
"How much does trade impact the price you pay for these goods?"
Raises a lot
Don't know
Raises somewhat
Lowers somewhat Lowers a lot
Groceries and food products
Clothing and footwear
Technology and electronics
Pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Childcare and babysitting fees
Education & tuition
Entertainment & subscriptions
46%
38%
41%
42%
32%
30%
31%
37%
44%
39%
37%
40%
41%
40%
16%
17%
18%
Source: CFR-Morning Consult (poll conducted August 2026)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
My man looks like a rendition of Homer Simpson as flesh and blood
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
My man looks like he secretes a special slime to ward off predators
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
My man looks like Neo waking up in the goo pod
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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14h
Holy shit, is this where Trump got the idea?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Meanwhile, the Trump family is disrupting the corruption industry, in ways that make Guilfoyle’s request for cash payments seem pitifully outdated. Let’s take just a sample of recent stories. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
Trump invited another round of bribes in the form of worthless meme coin purchases. The biggest buyers will have the honor of dining with the President. Trump is estimated to have made $1 billion in crypto gains, while his investors have lost $4.7 billion. Other family members also benefit. The President’s 20-year-old son, still attending college, is estimated to have gained $150 million from the family crypto ventures.

Defense companies with ties to Don Jr. and Eric Trump have netted $6 billion in Pentagon contracts. What are the odds that two guys with no defense background would have such an unerring sense of where the Pentagon would want to invest its resources?

Trump’s son-in-law, and golfing buddy, are brokering Middle East peace and an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while also negotiating business deals in the regions. For example, part of a potential peace deal for Ukraine is a multibillion-dollar oil deal that benefits Middle East executives with ties to Kushner and Witkoff.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh boy hey @mayor.lacity.gov you better hope they don't go crazy here in LA while you're trying to get re-elected seeing as everyone blames you for letting Trump and ICE attack LA last year with absolutely no response from you.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At a heated Kenilworth town hall, Katie Ireland confronted the city council over its deal with CoreWeave for a massive 3-part data center. She called out the project's severe climate impact and slammed officials over corporate ties to Israeli tech infrastructure amid ongoing bombings in Gaza.
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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every day this #HispanicHeritageMonth, this page will be honoring Americans with Hispanic heritage whose achievements you may or may not have known about. Today's subject is Sonia Sotomayor. Read the post at: sonsoflibertyofficial.substack.com/…
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It feels like one of the tenets of the MAGA movement is you always have to act like you're the dumbest motherfucker alive. JD Vance has a degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State. He has a law degree from Yale. He absolutely knows what socialism is, but he has to do this act.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
"THE ENEMY"
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The issue only gets more powerful for Dems over time—bc the longer we go without Roe, the more people are impacted by bans. It won’t be long before every single American has been harmed in some way—whether it’s a guy whose wife went septic or a woman forced to drive hours to find a maternity ward
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Abortion bans are arguably the most unpopular laws in America — even in red states — but we keep acting like the country is somehow split jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...
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The Most Unpopular Laws in America
Nobody wants abortion bans—not even deep red states
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump threatens to send 1,000 election monitors to polling places in November. Brennan Center's Sean Morales-Doyle says threats like these are "not about physically or legally interfering in the process, it's about generating fear, worry, concern," so voters don't go to the polls.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: When SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republicans across the South launched a campaign to erase Black voting power. But the region is changing — and Southern organizers and Democrats should see it as a chance to secure fair representation, @fairfightaction.bsky.social writes.
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After GOP gerrymanders and the backlash they sparked, the South is the new battleground for voting rights
The year 2026 presents a major opportunity to elect a Democratic Congress that can restore voting rights protections and ban partisan gerrymandering.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
neck muscles bulging
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
oh bezos is *juicing* juicing
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
and yet right there he actually knew the definition and there was gonna be no journo in the pool willing to open up the OED to quote the correct thing in his face because invertebrate culture
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the sci-fi movies, there was a big fight between the humans and AI, and the reality is more like this.
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Kent Brockman: Welcome Insect Overlords
ALT: Kent Brockman: Welcome Insect Overlords
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Destroying infrastructure in our faces and calling it an investigation
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
Moving jobs overseas or hiring foreign workers is capitalism. Policing children's bodies is fascism. State-run sports programs that prohibit minority participation is fascism.
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Hypatia is still mad about the library. @coachingrugby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He knows exactly what it means but that definition doesn’t suit his current purpose so he’s invoking immigrants and trans people.
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Doug Profitt @doug-profitt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, JD Vance has no clue what ‘socialism’ means, and he’s 100% okay with just making shit up, to continue the Republican scare tactic that “you will be replaced by someone that you find unacceptable.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 WATCH: “The IDF is a military that constantly lies, and gets caught lying. It’s total bullshit.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social shreds Israel’s unsupported claims that hundreds of journalists they’ve killed were actually militants.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hastert ain’t dead
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Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hegseth talks about Jesus as he bombs and kills fisherman in boats at sea.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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Laminariales @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The executive branch has no claim to be the sole owner of official public records
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Beegee 2020 @beegee2020.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A important distinction, possibly critical, is that Beatty is not suing in her capacity as a member of Congress but as a member of the Kennedy Ctr board. So the requirements of Federal civil procedure relative to any plantiff with standing should apply, not idea of Congress intruding on Exec Branch
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
to be clear, they’re arguing that because Trump appointed himself to the Kennedy Center board and then made himself Chairman (a position never before held by a US President), the fact that he is also President renders all of his communications *as Chairman* subject to Presidential privilege.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“astrology for men” was too generous
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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