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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Brilliant and powerful piece by my friend @willbunch.bsky.social. A must read:

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

KAT ABUGHAZALEH Illinois congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by armed troops during a peaceful protest outside Broadview ICE facility‼️If anyone threw a woman on the ground like that before 2025 they would be condemned, and arrested‼️

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

DOJ has now scrubbed its website of a study that found domestic terrorism is far more likely to come from the RIGHT than the LEFT. We need Democrats that are ready to counter this bullshit narrative from Sen Eric Schmitt (R-MO). They’re coming for freedom of speech, fight back‼️

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2025

With the very real prospect of Republicans losing the midterms thanks to President Trump’s widely unpopular policies, he and his allies are already working to sway the ballot before a single vote is cast. And they’re only just getting started.

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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Some light evening reading - on the extremists who are in charge on the Right and the escalating siege mentality that has fueled their rise. It’s a long piece - but it comes with an added audio version (read by me, not some AI garbage) to make it more accessible, hopefully.

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Why the Extremists Took Over on the Right

Fear of a pluralizing America is fueling a radicalization out of a sense of weakness and besiegement

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/07/2025

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I read a lot of conservative media and have yet to see a profile of an able-bodied American who's sponging off taxpayers to get free medical care. But we are told that are a lot of them are out there! So they shouldn't be hard to find! Have any of you seen a credible piece along these lines?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...

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Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?

Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Johnny Noviello moved from Canada to Daytona Beach when he was 10 years old. He grew up in Florida and became a lawful permanent resident. On Monday, June 23, he died at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami, after six weeks in immigration detention. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Canadian man awaiting deportation dies at detention facility in downtown Miami

The cause of death for the 49-year-old man is still under official investigation.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Perhaps the most remarkable thing from the last few weeks is that is the official position of the White House and President that this bill does NOT cut Medicaid. And we all pretend somehow this is normal and that Trump remains fit to serve.

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Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Important point: rank all 5 slots to block Cuomo!

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I feel like “Current Republican Speaker of the House threatens political opponent with third degree burns and torture” should get more media attention than it will

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

As I note here, really zero reason to believe Elon is stepping away from anything. This is all a crisis comms campaign. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

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Don’t Fall For Elon Inc.’s Press Campaign

We’re in the midst of a storm of articles — variously encomiums,...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

insurreciton welfare. probably first of many examples

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

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Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams

Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Childre

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The Art of Omission: Trump Erased Human Rights and Ethics Concerns from His Middle East Coverage Trump shared manipulated articles to his Truth Social platform to craft a glowing portrayal of his diplomacy meidasnews.com/news/the-art...

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The Art of Omission: Trump Erased Human Rights and Ethics Concerns from His Middle East Coverage

Trump shared manipulated articles to his Truth Social platform, omitting critiques and geopolitical realities to craft a glowing portrayal of his diplomacy

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Brown Sugar Babe RN MSN @cas7217.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So my disabled nonverbal cousin will need to prove that she’s unable to work to receive Medicaid and the life saving meds that she needs! My 90 grandmother who work all her life and is now physically disabled will require a work requirement to keep her benefits? FU! www.alternet.org/amp/republic...

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'Betrayed': Alarm sounded as GOP 'plotted behind closed doors to hurt even more families'

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2025

I'm working on a book about how the 2004 Howard Dean scream is to blame for all our problems while simultaneously ignoring the criminal fascist currently in the White House. Anyone have Jake Tapper's publisher's number?

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Kristol and Bulwark with their eyes on the prize here.

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Hesitantly Hopeful @leann-notrimes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

She was 9 weeks pregnant. She died. The state of Georgia is making the doctors keep her alive to incubate the baby. She’s been dead for three months. This is REAL. this isn’t about what should or should not be done. This is about having a VOICE. This is about having a CHOICE.

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

NEW: A group of 49 “refugees” were warmly greeted by the Trump regime upon their arrival in America. Warmly welcomed because they’re white — from South Africa — and had been swiftly granted refugee status because Trump and his fellow white supremacists believe these Afrikaners were victims of…

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Coratee (Garfield Era) @thecoratee.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Andrew Cuomo to me is a great sign that the rot in American political culture is deeper than Trump. Trump is symptomatic of a culture and systems of power that elevates the worst (mostly) men to power. The sad part is the people can stop this but we fail to or are tricked into thinking we can't.

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christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

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Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine

Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry. The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006. Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

Chart titled "The Price of Revlimid Has Increased 26 Times Since FDA Approval"
It shows each price increase for the drug since 2006, when it sold for $280/pill, to its most recent price increase to $892/pill.

Below the chart is text from the story that reads:
"The cost to manufacture each Revlimid pill, meanwhile, was 25 cents. I found a deposition marked 'highly confidential' in which a top Celgene executive testified that the cost started at a quarter and never changed."

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Anti-vax imbeciles along with the worm brain running the HHS have successfully brought measles back.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"Ultimately, several service members told military.com they feel Hegseth's idea of what a defense secretary is expected to do doesn't line up with what the job actually requires of him." Hegseth is going to get troops killed. #ProudBlue #FireHegsethNow #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Banksta @banksta.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is unbelievable. WTF is the trump administration doing? 😡

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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

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L.i.am @chyron.substack.com · 05/05/2025

New article just dropped. Democracy sausage Australia just held one of the most boring—and consequential—elections in recent memory, delivering a landslide win for stability, moderation, and the political centre. And the sausages were tasty open.substack.com/pub/chyron/p...

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Democracy sausage

Australia just held one of the most boring—and consequential—elections in recent memory, delivering a landslide win for stability, moderation, and the political centre. And the sausages were tasty

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alwaysanchoredl.bsky.social @alwaysanchoredl.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Braver than basically any member of Congress AND hoping she hires lawyers to sue Lawler and local government law enforcement agencies and governments too!

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