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@rayondelune.bsky.social
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Anti-Oligarchy, Anti-Kakistocracy, Anti-Kleptocracy, Anti-Idiocracy. I’m appalled by the blatant corruption & abject incompetence of the current administration. Democracy may not be perfect, but it’s our best hope.

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Isaac Nicholson @isaac-nicholson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just cut to the chase already. “Planet earth shall hereafter be known as TRUMP!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter”
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J_Lynn @spinster-auntie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I want a reporter to grow a set and ask him, 'When are you going to grow up and stop responding like a toddler who doesn't get his way?'
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AngryOldMarxist @angryoldmarxist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
These days it’s even more corrupt if it carries a cross.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/08/2026
It's still corrupt patronage if it carries the cross.
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Trump’s New Foreign Aid Plan Is a Handout to the Religious Right
It’s MAGA patronage for right-wing evangelicals masquerading as foreign policy.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A headline for lovers of journalism history. Via @wsj.com
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Opinion | Trump to Ford Motor: Drop Dead
A 50% tariff on autos and parts from Canada would punish U.S. companies.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Shapiro: When he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office, making $2.2 billion off his corruption for him and his kids, it costs you money. When he sits behind that desk, he’s not thinking about how to put money in your pocket. He’s thinking about how to put money in his own pocket.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump is such a prolific liar, he can’t keep track of all his lies, he’s counting on his ‘not so sharp’ supporters, just taking him at his word, with zero accountability…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TODAY'S HOLLER: Trump Traps The Navy At Sea 🚢 Marsha Meets Memphis 👀 Jerri Green on The Holler 👋 & more Check out today's links & videos: mailchi.mp/5a5195986078... CHIP IN a few bucks and grab a Holler hat: tnholler.com/new-holler-h...
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A decade ago, Elon Musk called burning fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in history." Now he owns a gas turbine company and has quickly turned into a fossil fuel tycoon.
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Elon Musk, the World’s Most Famous EV Pioneer, Is Now Leaning Into Fossil Fuels
SpaceX is planning a Texas natural gas plant to power a new chip facility, while gas turbines are already being used for campuses in Tennessee and Mississippi.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is pretty much what you would expect someone who views sailors and soldiers as suckers and losers to say.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The blasphemy of billionaires and the decadence of pundits who defend their obscenity www.editorialboard.com/the-blasphem...
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The blasphemy of billionaires and the decadence of pundits who defend their obscenity
The true source of the threat of "civilizational suicide."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Trump can’t remember the name of the woman he endorsed for New York AG
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's truly scary how much the Trump administration is surveilling unions, NGOs, and any groups it thinks it can accuse of being part of some kind of antifa conspiracy. By @hurwitz.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Documents reveal the federal government’s vast Minnesota surveillance dragnet
After Alex Pretti was murdered, Trump's DHS didn't investigate his killer—but spent months spying on Minnesota unions, churches, and bike shops instead.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/08/2026
There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Police politicize themselves and then wonder why they aren't trusted to apply the law apolitically.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Attorney General doing a campaign rally in NY during the middle of the work day. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Elon Musk is prone to saying that civilization is tempting suicide by allowing immigrants to take over. He's right about suicide, but wrong about immigrants. The threat is men like him whose implicit goal isn't just to play God but *be* God, and there's no price they won't pay."
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If we can't protect all this... What hope is there for nature? For wildlife? And ultimately, what hope is there for us? #StopTrump #ProtectNationalParks #ProtectBigBend #SaveBearsEars #SaveGrandStaircase–Escalante
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trump is at least 50 points underwater with independents in multiple states he won in 2024, including states he won by double digits. I've got all the details in this piece:
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Even if you think you know all the damage that Elon Musk and DOGE did, when you read it in one place, it'll melt your brain. By @michaelmechanic.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
What a fucking waste. DHS spent nearly half a BILLION dollars on planes they said were urgently needed for deportations. One small problem: they didn’t have the crews to fly them. So the planes have been sitting parked in Louisiana.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Nevada to provide access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-22. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...
democracydocket.com
🚨 United States of America v. Aguilar
Learn more.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Phang: The fish rots from the head down. Todd Blanche, conspicuously absent from court today, and he continues to send in other lawyers from the DOJ to be in the firing line when judge Sullivan wants to have accountability on the fact that his orders are being ignored.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We're reliving the worst eras of American history--Reconstruction, Red Scare, Vietnam crackdowns -- but all at once. U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Well, it's not like Ohio voters will be mad about this -- I'm sure they love Big Pharma billionaires and hate people who suffer from Alzheimer's.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/08/2026
Ossoff: "They see the rebuke that is coming and fear the accountability that will follow it. They recognize the president is deeply unpopular. He's reviled. The public is awake to his corruption and self-dealing…The truth will come out. Mark my words. The truth will come out.”
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Roadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m old enough to remember Trump saying during Covid stop testing and you will have less Covid cases Now he is trying to do the same thing with Troop casualties of war If you don’t report them as casualties of war you will have less casualties Trump is a sick twisted soul
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/07/2026
It's what Lindsey deserved, and if how he lived his life is any clue, it's what he would have wanted.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/07/2026
A senator is refusing to confirm the president’s personal attorney as attorney general unless the nominee rescinds a slush fund for pardoned insurrectionists in writing. That’s an INSANE SENTENCE. Oh, and I guess the tax immunity provision is totes cool.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
It takes me 2.5 minutes to explain why it’s a lie that we gave all the weapons to Ukraine that we needed for Iran. But the lie can be said in one sentence. We’re at a disadvantage when reality is nuanced. But the truth is essential
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/07/2026
AI has begun to decimate human customer service operations, a shift that will cause almost half of the industry to vanish by 2030
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AI Is Replacing Customer Service Jobs at CBA, Microsoft, Uber
AI’s decimation of call center jobs has begun.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s striking that Douthat has been at the NYT all these years. The right has built a closed media ecosystem on the (false) belief that legacy media is a closed ecosystem. Meanwhile, a rightwing intellectual mediocrity like Douthat kept chugging along at the Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
nytimes.com
Ross Douthat Joins ‘60 Minutes’ as a Correspondent
Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/07/2026
"Those corrupt officials who are treating our government like a personal cash machine need to know that the repo man is on the way." And, ultimately, the repo man is the American people.
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Undoing Trump’s Golden Age of Corruption
He’s made the presidency into a profitable grift. Here’s how some of his ill-gotten gains might be clawed back.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 29/07/2026
Trump and companies like Kalshi are more interested in lining their pockets than protecting public trust and keeping people safe. Regardless of their grift, I’m taking action to reinforce the strong ethical standards we have in Minnesota. www.fox9.com/news/walz-si...
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Walz signs order barring Minnesota workers from trading on insider information
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is taking new steps to keep state employees from using confidential information for personal gain on prediction markets.
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flyflicker.bsky.social @flyflicker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
26 years ago, measles were declared Eliminated in the US. Today, measles are on the verge of being classified as Endemic (regularly active) in the US. I wonder why.
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This whole ordeal with the luxury Qatari-gifted jet Trump is using as his presidential plane would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. This is corruption, a waste of millions of taxpayer dollars, and poses a massive national security risk.    Here’s why:
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trump’s not going to get what he wants for Christmas.
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Taxpayers have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars retrofitting a luxury jet, with hundreds of millions more spent to support its rushed rollout—all so President Trump could fly around on it during his presidency and then keep it when he leaves office.   What a disgrace.
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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One (Gift Article)
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/07/2026
Former President Barack Obama surprised the WNBA All-Stars on Friday at his Presidential Center in Chicago. This was the first professional sport to use the basketball court at the center, which opened in June. #WNBA #Basketball
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/07/2026
The Drug Enforcement Administration finds that Trump’s strikes on alleged “drug boats” haven’t done much but push smugglers to find new tactics. Instead of stopping shipments, traffickers have just changed their strategies, taking larger vessels or even planes to circumvent international waters.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/07/2026
In January, President Trump told the media that his deadly extrajudicial strikes on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean had maritime drug flow “down 97 percent.” New reporting from The Washington Post shows that was a lie. trib.al/8RVhPNX
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Just Jenny 867-5309 @jenny867-5309.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Trump administration mocking Obama’s middle name while Trump gives Saudis ability to build nukes. Have we found all those missing nuclear scientists yet?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“.. Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired general, estimates that it would take a year and 600,000 American troops to subdue Iran, taking casualties along the way. “.. ‘Then what?’ McCaffrey asked. ‘Stay?’” @nickkristof.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy 6th anniversary, this week. 🎂
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Crow T. Robot @crooowtrobot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Saw a clip of CO governor Polis on Hannity flat out describing the administration's taking stakes in corporations as socialist and Hannity didn't even bother engaging. He just went on to the next thing. They're dodging bullets over there a lot lately.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
They need to start messaging that the current administration is actually anti-capitalism and anti-"the American dream." Gaming the system so that you funnel all of the wealth to a limited group of your already super-rich cronies is not capitalism.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A gentle reminder. We are all birthright citizens for the law recognizes that our parents are irrelevant to the question of our status.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
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