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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 7h
Kacey Musgraves with the lethal clap back to Kristi Noem. 😂😂
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 17h
The raid on Rep. Omar is a FIVE ALARM FIRE. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to go after an opposition leader and escalate his viciously racist campaign against Somali Americans. We stand with Ilhan.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h
America if the news covered it like those countries Over There
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 11h
The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...
a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These border livestreamers were pivotal to producing propaganda during the Biden admin, working with local law enforcement, and are closely tied to Tom Homan. They were operated as copaganda.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yuuuge tracts of… land.
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NPR @npr.org · 09/10/2026
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona. n.pr/4e4P0gD
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Drugs in jars, bags of cash: Tennessee ignored warnings from Arizona's botched executions
Christa Pike's botched execution in Tennessee was not the first to go wrong on Frank Strada's watch. Before he took charge of Tennessee's prisons, Strada oversaw three botched executions in Arizona.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's been almost a decade since I wrote this piece about Arkansas but I often think about that execution spree because of what it showed me up close about the death penalty, prisons, and torture in this country.
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Arkansas Justice: Racism, Torture, and a Botched Execution
Despite its long history of torture, racism, wrongful convictions, and botched executions, Arkansas is still intent on carrying out the death penalty.
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CNN @cnn.com · 09/10/2026
Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. cnn.it/4rRrZU0
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans will get innocent people killed.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
Megyn Kelly has been criticizing the Cornell Jane Doe for how she responded after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by multiple men in one night. But Kelly seems to have forgotten what it feels like to be blamed after coming forward with allegations:
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the proposed, deeply unethical trial, half of babies would be given the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose, but this life-saving intervention would be WITHHELD from the other half It is already established from reserch that the birth dose reduces the risk of liver cancer & other liver diseases
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
May we see you in Valheim wielding a sword?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche is doing an even with Darline Graham right now
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This story makes me think that people who go missing in the system, who can't be located in any ICE facility, are trapped in remote, unnamed warehouses.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”
In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“Among the most contentious issues on which Mr. Milstein has intervened is the accelerating expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Animaniacs would drive David Ellison to sell WB back for pennies on the dollar in 20 minutes
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The KKK got re-activated during the Obama administration, they got mobilized under Trump and they want to be mainstream
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Al Gore made a fundraising call from inside the White House and Republicans threw a fit for months and months. The media genuinely believed they were sincerely offended by this breach of protocol.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 05/10/2026
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So fucking illegal ⤵️
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tillis writes in his book that he regrets voting for Hegseth and Kennedy. And he says there are about 30 of his GOP colleagues that feel the same as he does. So basically, he’s admitting they don’t have any spine. 🔄 apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 05/10/2026
ICE has purchased GEO Group's Adelanto, CA complex, which will impede state and local oversight and regulation efforts at one of the country's deadliest detention camps.
Screenshot of a GEO Group, Inc. press release page. The company's logo sits above an aerial rendering of a large facility complex, labeled "Release Details." The headline reads: "The GEO Group Sells the Adelanto, California ICE Processing Center Complex Comprised of Three Facilities Totaling 2,644 Beds for $950 Million and Increases Share Repurchase Authorization to $1.25 Billion."
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is to avoid California state oversight. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love the knots the commentators are twisting themselves into in this clip 🥨
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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 05/10/2026
I feel like it reflects extremely poorly on Brazil, France, the UK, etc. that they can all clearly see what a disaster Trump is and be like "Oh, we should totally do that too!"
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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rick Scott is a thief. A giant, unrepentant thief. He is the perpetrator of the biggest fraud in Medicare and Medicaid history.
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a whole word…
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump is simultaneously giving people $500 AND demanding supporters donate to his campaign. It feels like he’s essentially trying to use government funds for his campaign… twice over.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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PhoenixDogLover @phoenixdoglover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People tend to move down. From a seat. To another seat. Now, two seats are occupied. If they move again, it's three seats. Pretty soon, the arena is 500, 600, even 700 percent full.
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What better way to spent valuable time on a Sunday show a month before enormously consequential midterms than national political media demonstrating yet again how out of touch they are by continuing their relentless promotion of Emanuel’s presidential aspirations.
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The hypocrisy is intentional… it helps condition his followers to become numb to the lies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "They've impeached me, they arrested me, and they even tried to kill me, I guess"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is everything that David and Larry Ellison now own
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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raebalop.bsky.social @raebalop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wait, Stephen R. Lawhead?! I haven’t read any of his books since childhood. I definitely came across his books because they were acceptable fantasy given that they were sold at “Christian” bookstores…
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