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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine Sen. Eric Schmitt R-MO thinking he had a 'gotcha' moment at a hearing with Jack Smith - "I think you've already perjured yourself" - and it turns out his staff doesn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes - unbelievable.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New: The time Hugh Hefner reported that Jeffrey Epstein had raped one of his Playboy centerfolds -- and the FBI did nothing. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-time-h...
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
HAYNES KING WINS IT AT THE BUZZER
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
We must drag every state official who manipulated their maps to silence Black voters before Congress, and we've got to investigate if any illegal racial discrimination took place. We deserve answers.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nipple-Gate: How it was more important to protect Trump at all costs than it was to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes against women and children. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/nipple-gat...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/06/2026
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Over 300 detainees at Delaney Hall signed an S.O.S. letter about the horrid conditions they are facing: rotten food, lack of medical attention, and so much more. Yesterday we went to inspect Delaney and that letter is correct. The solution is closing Delaney and abolishing ICE.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.
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zneeley25.bsky.social @zneeley25.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
don’t talk to me about the “nanny state” if you had an actual nanny
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Are Sam Altman and OpenAI liable for one of the worst gun massacres in Canadian history? Allegations in a new lawsuit point to key unanswered questions about the shooter’s troubling use of ChatGPT. My latest, on a case that will test consequential legal terrain www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus... 🧵
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Victims allege OpenAI and Sam Altman are responsible for a mass shooting
A new lawsuit underscores key questions about the Tumbler Ridge killer’s use of ChatGPT.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 23/04/2026
I will be on the floor of the Senate all night voting NO on yet another funding increase for ICE. ICE already has more funding than the Marines. This money should be spent on things Americans need like health care, not Trump’s paramilitary force.
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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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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Federal prosecutor in Florida in 2007 told bosses Epstein was a “danger to children” and begged them to urgently seek his arrest. “She proposed a 60-count indictment that charged Epstein and some of his assistants with sex trafficking and other crimes.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Sex-Crimes Prosecutor's Repeated Pleas for Epstein's Arrest Were Denied
A federal prosecutor was ready to charge Jeffrey Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking and other crimes in 2007. Her bosses’ reaction: What’s the rush?
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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11/02/2026
It's not only that they're not going after "the worst of the worst" in any way, but their whole approach of going after whoever is easiest, to get their numbers up, means they are punishing the best of the best, the people who are putting in the most effort to follow the rules and do what's right
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 24/01/2026
As with the murder of Renee Good, this video immediately established that DHS was lying about the shooting. The video shows that this was murder. And once again, DHS is obstructing local authorities from investigating a homicide in their community perpetrated by DHS agents.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
in playoff overtime, multiple refs should have to turn their keys to throw a flag, like with the nukes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
He really is doing all of it.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
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claudia irizarry aponte @clauirizarry.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Did anyone really think the sexual predator President who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 07/11/2025
Courts have ruled MULTIPLE times that the Trump admin must fully fund SNAP, yet they’re still trying to fight it in court. They’re using your tax dollars to try and starve hungry children.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/11/2025
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 31/10/2025
Republicans in DC have settled on a new political strategy: Pit people who rely on SNAP against people who rely on the ACA. Just when I thought DC gutter politics couldn’t get any worse, they’ve hit a new low.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 21/10/2025
We have reached the point where the President is extorting payments from his own Justice Department. He is demanding his own political appointees hand over YOUR taxpayer dollars to enrich himself.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
St Mary’s Hospital in NE Georgia is closing its labor and delivery service, citing Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Women going into labor will now have to drive an hour plus to deliver safely. Way to go, GOP.
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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that all these guys truly respect and care about women’s sports and female athletes, and totally aren’t just using them as a prop to stir up anger at trans people
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Donald Trump has immunity for all of the crimes he committed while president. Barack Obama does not. by Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Everyone needs to start paying closer attention to the Epstein matter. I break it down in detail here for you: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
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Jeez, I wonder why Trump won't release the Epstein files
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the scandal and perceived cover-up.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I have never felt more correct about anything
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Democrats: we must do anything polls say is popular, even if it kills some members of our base Republicans: 6% of voters favor blowing up national parks, then Donald Trump posts "we gotta blow up our national parks! we gotta blow em up today!", then 63% of Republicans favor blowing up national parks
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 22/06/2025
Earlier today we taped tomorrow’s show, and we discussed the potential for the U.S. to bomb Iran. Since taping, the U.S. has carried out several bombings. We’ll have more to say in the future, but for now our piece on Trump and the Iran Deal can help explain what got us here. youtu.be/5xnZ_CeTqyM
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Iran Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Wrote this one for LA. www.sfgate.com/la/article/i...
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If you're not standing with LA right now, you're the problem
"This is gaslighting of the most easily identifiable sort."
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reacts to the Wall Street Journal reporting that Stephen Miller ordered ICE agents to target Home Depots and 7-Elevens.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 10/06/2025
This admin is firing all of our nation's top vaccine advisors in order to replace them with their cronies. At the same time, they plan to rip health insurance away from millions. A recipe for disaster.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 15/04/2025
If the President can ignore court orders and send anyone he wants to a prison overseas, we are all at risk. An insult to the Constitution and to our values as Americans. Abrego Garcia must be returned now.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 01/03/2025
President Zelenskyy is an ally of our country who protects Americans’ freedom by holding the line against an authoritarian regime. He doesn’t bow to dictators—neither should our leaders.
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