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Persistent Broad

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embracer of rampant adhd. tiny blue dot in west texas. begrudging employee of 1 very old cat & 1 extra large cat.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/10/2026
ah, the return of merit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
James Talarico: Ken Paxton has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him. It's time that he mans up, steps on the debate stage, and answers the public's questions. The people of Texas deserve that.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Portland Frog Brigader @sheilabane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
“It’s very easy to judge things from the outside....They’re getting global sympathy by getting us to hit things."
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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Axios @axios.com · 20/09/2026
President Trump said today his proposed "triumphal arch" in Washington, D.C., will become a dual-use facility housing snipers, drones and ammunition storage.
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Trump's proposed Washington arch to become sniper, drone facility
The president is now framing construction of the arch as a national security issue.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
it's amusing that JD Vance went all the way to Iowa to campaign for Republicans, only to have the most prominent Republican on the ticket in the state stiff him because he's so toxic
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you're worried and confused about the AI crisis but don't understand all the lingo and concepts, I'll put the essence of all this in simpler terms. Forget the actual tech reasons for a second. You should really be worried about the lack of transparency combined with incompetence. (thread)
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that exposure to rabies appears to be on the rise across the country. cnn.it/4iq2d6J
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Annelle telling m’lynn that she doesn’t think it can get any worse and m’lynn saying “of course it can!”
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Seung Min Kim @seungminkim1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Under Trump, protected wild horses are going to slaughter. A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/08/2026
The timing… Congress blocked enforcement of a food-safety rule designed to help the FDA quickly trace contaminated food back to its source. Until July 2028.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
These questions have now been asked of Blanche repeatedly & he gives the same bullshit answer each time. Here’s an idea: How about we ask Blanche direct and pointed questions about his noncompliance with court orders from Judge Sullivan compelling him to provide unredacted Epstein Files?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...
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Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
To be fair, maybe they actually *meant* "Untied States"? www.wired.com/story/the-ju...
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The US Supreme Court ruled today that Black votes are worth less than other votes.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/04/2026
I'm not saying that another Warren Court will fix everything, because it won't. We'd need Landback and reparations for that. But I *am* saying that the Warren Court's mantra, "we should apply the Constitution to give the most people the most rights possible," was good and we should do that again.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/03/2026
My father came to the U.S. with $30 and a belief that your worth isn’t defined by where you’re born, but by what you build. That promise is under attack. On April 1, SCOTUS will hear a case challenging birthright citizenship—putting countless families at risk. Here’s what’s at stake.
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If Birthright Citizenship Falls–The American Experiment Fails
On April 1 the ACLU is going to the Supreme Court to defend the Constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship–here is what you need to know
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/03/2026
If you lost your job because of DOGE, this will enrage you. They built a whole-ass crusade around “DEI,” then sent a staffer into a deposition who couldn’t even define it. Justin Fox’s and his assignment was to help flag grants for elimination based on a term he struggled to explain under oath. 🥴
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi had a choice today. She could hold pedophiles accountable or she could protect pedophiles. She chose to protect pedophiles. She chose to protect people who raped children.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
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