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Ram Ramgopal

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Former Executive Editor, CNN | @RamInNews in the other place. [Once a legacy blue ☑️ @ramcnn]

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This post from Trump will be a great example of "unintended consequences" because no one with a brain actually thought this through, and they're just going to cause more headaches, litigation, and delays. And that's before we get to the fact that Judge Chutkan is not going to be thrilled with this.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Folks, please get vaxxed or check your measles titers, if you aren't sure you got 2 doses or were born b/t 1963-1967 (when a less effective, killed vax was used for a bit). An unvaxxed passenger "rode across the country" on trains & Amtrak buses & is now hospitalized. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...
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California health department notifies of measles exposure from unvaccinated Amtrak passenger
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging residents to get their measles vaccination after notifying the public of an exposure from an Amtrak passenger who traveled on the rail syste...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for Vermont voters, a Biden-appointed federal judge dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit seeking access to the state's unredacted voter registration list. The department is now 0-24 in its sweeping legal hunt for states' private voter data.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/09/2026
On November 3, when voters across the US go to the polls, almost 200 election deniers will be on the ballot. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
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Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November
197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states. Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 16/09/2026
Attorneys for Rep. Beatty want an emergency hearing about the Kennedy Center’s closure in “apparent violation of the Court’s order” — and they want a “high-level decisionmaker” at the Center to be required to attend. Doc: buff.ly/Ju8TZSm Background buff.ly/cwQv8g2
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heaven help us all
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/09/2026
One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"What are they hiding?" is always a stupid line, but it's rich coming from the guy who got caught taking a $50,000 bribe in a Cava bag.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So sad, but 💯 true….
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
8 years after reneging on JCPOA and launching a campaign of "maximum pressure" of sanctions on Iran 6 months after launching a war on Iran to accomplish what sanctions didn't And 2 weeks after declaring "Economic D-Day" to accomplish what war didn't We got a new idea: Sanction Iran's banks. Soon.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
WaPo actually does some reporting(!), calls the oil deal “a potentially costly and legally precarious proposal” and notes that the key Venezuelan partner is under investigation for money, laundering, and embezzlement. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry
The plan involves the United States taking more direct control over Venezuelan reserves as crime and steep logistical challenges discourage private investors.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"It’s no secret that these claims about Ms. Cook’s mortgage are a pretext, dug up by MAGA chihuahua Bill Pulte" thus sayeth the editorial board of the wsj
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICC’s Japanese president says she ‘won’t give up’ despite US sanctions www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I am recording an emergency podcast right now to explain what just happened in the Supreme Court and what to expect next. It will be posted soon. My advice is to subscribe to Democracy Docket’s YouTube Channel. www.youtube.com/democracydoc...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
just discovered that Elon Musk removed the balloons that Twitter use to put on your profile for your birthday lmao
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Breaking 🚨 www.miamiherald.com/living/artic...
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Scarlett Johansson changed her magnesium supplement routine after a spray left her feet feeling dry
“It helps me sleep. I feel like it’s good for recovery. It’s good for your entire central nervous system.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
WaPo Exclusive: Trump has claimed that the White House needs a massive new ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.
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Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say
The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (extraordinary reporting) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Breaking: Anthony Fauci invokes 5th Amendment right not to testify at Covid hearing, calls Sen. Rand Paul ‘unhinged’, NBC News
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Uplifting @mukulkesavan.bsky.social on the Mamdani effect in India. “Cockroaches” won. (& the phone camera has changed the world.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s why India’s cockroach protests were such a success – and why the Mamdani effect means more to come | Mukul Kesavan
The young leaders are eloquent and organised – and now they know what victory looks like. That could be a huge headache for Narendra Modi, says Dehli-based essayist and author Mukul Kesavan
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
starting to realize it is trumps immediate circle who might be just as terrified of the prospect of democratic majority investigations as trump is
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The job of the AG is to enforce the law Todd Blanche fired a career pardon attorney for refusing to rubber stamp Trump's agenda & then sent US Marshals to her door If the Senate confirms Blanche, it won’t be confirming an AG, it will be confirming Trump’s personal attorney -TN
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Fired Pardon Attorney Asks Court to Reject DOJ's Bid to End Lawsuit | Democracy Defenders Fund
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former U.S. pardon attorney who sued the Department of Justice last year for unlawfully withholding records related to her abrupt dismissal, today asked a federal court to rejec...
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ahead of the Argentina-Spain final, a look back at the distant past: The remarkable story of Lionel Messi’s meeting with a baby Lamine Yamal www.nytimes.com/athletic/561...
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The remarkable story of Lionel Messi’s meeting with a baby Lamine Yamal (Gift Article)
The man who took the viral photos of Messi meeting a baby Yamal explains how two Barcelona stars from different generations met in 2007
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/07/2026
"Iran’s closure of the strait is a violation of international law. Iran’s claims are not on the level. But Iran’s claims are being made within the framework of international law." That is more than be said about the president of the United States.
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The Emperor’s Tollbooth
America is now a pariah state.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/07/2026
Horrible day. ICE is preparing a deportation flight to Laos so some of my former, current, and were-to-be clients are being brought to the Whipple Building and shipped off to Louisiana for final removal. Lots of calls from them, their families, and friends. So much pain visited on our community
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026
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21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 09/07/2026
Another 12+ million watched it on Telemundo.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 08/07/2026
Don Jr. frantically placing bets on the US responding majorly to the Islamic Republic of Japan.
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Edgelord Grok mode activated
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Apparently hell has frozen over. I’m reposting Glenn Beck now.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Department of Justice appealed three more voter roll losses Monday, ensuring that every defeat in President Donald Trump’s nationwide campaign to obtain unredacted state voter data is now in or headed to the federal appeals courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ appeals latest wave of losses in languishing voter roll crusade
Every court to rule on the issue has agreed that DOJ’s campaign is meritless. The department is now asking appeals courts across the country to give it what no district court has so far: a win.
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/07/2026
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported an estimated 13,000 people experienced firework-related injuries and 15 people died last year — a 36% increase in fatalities from 2024. cnn.it/4bjTXAH
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Ram Ramgopal @raminnews.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Scientists found average wet bulb temps this week in NE US and E Canada had “roughly 0.5 percent chance of occurring in any given year. But it would have been so rare as to be effectively impossible” in cooler world of pre-Industrial Revolution www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/c...
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Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Went down to the Great American State Fair. My personal highlight might have been this Madison cosplayer arguing before literally ones of people that we’re a republic and not a democracy.
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