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It takes so little to be above average. I see the glass half full & I’m committed to preserving a sense of peace, hope & charity where & when possible. I’m very happy to be on BlueSky with you!

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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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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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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 23/07/2026
Make them pay us back for this, with interest.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Greenwater Services got a no-bid contract and is partly owned by a twice-convicted felon who is a Trump friend..." www.wsj.com/us-news/linc...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The arch was the ALTERNATIVE to planning an event that would serve all 350M Americans. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
America250 adopted “350 for 250” as its motto around the time Trump retook office, a reference to the congressional mandate to include all 350 million Americans in the semiquincentennial celebration. Trump’s advisers began using a variation of the slogan—“250 for 250”—to promote the construction of a 250-foot-tall memorial arch by Arlington National Cemetery. The planned arch, which is yet to begin construction and is opposed by Democrats, has been included in promotional images for the Great American State Fair.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“.. U.S. margin debt rose 54% to a record $1.4 trillion in May .. “.. Leveraged funds bought $300 billion in derivatives since March ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky @schakowsky.house.gov · 25/06/2026
This Supreme Court decision lets Bayer avoid accountability for products that are known to cause cancer, leaving thousands of people without recourse and removing incentives for manufacturers to make their products safer. We must change the law and get glyphosate out of our products.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 25/06/2026
This President treats the Justice Department like his own personal law firm--flouting the rule of law and enriching himself and his family.  

Now, his personal lawyer Todd Blanche--his pick for Attorney General--has granted him, his family, and his businesses broad immunity.

I’ll continue to stand up with Democrats and Republicans against these gross violations of our Constitution.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For years, CEOs have sold a story that a $15 minimum wage would kill jobs. The Washington establishment bought this trickle-down lie, and workers paid the price. But the evidence debunks that myth. It's long past time to raise the minimum wage.
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The Economic Experiment That Upended Reality
Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
AI data centers are doubling electricity demand. Private equity executives see a cash grab. They're buying up utility companies to cash in on the energy surge and pass costs to consumers while making services worse. I’m fighting back.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Trump cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for giant corporations. Now they're telling cancer patients and people with HIV that they need to work harder to keep their health insurance. Unconscionable.
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People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
via @acyn.bsky.social Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night. ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
37 imaginary imminent deals with Iran, and counting. And last night he thought he got a standing O at the Garden. Donald Trump, who has always been a narcissistic sociopath, is now decompensating mentally and physically faster than ever before our eyes. www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/06/2026
The details about the Tate brothers in this incredible @newyorker.com profile of them are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and are also protected by the "conservative" MAGA movement www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/06/2026
Pete Hegseth—who never ranked higher than Major—is once again ignoring Generals' recommendations and denying merit-based promotions. For all his bluster about bringing meritocracy back to our military, this unqualified SecDef keeps doing the opposite. An insult to our troops.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026
🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Eliminating foreign aid that helps fight disease globally and then sending people with Ebola elsewhere. We are the baddies
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/05/2026
🎥VIDEO: The Purcell principle discourages federal courts from altering voting rules too close to an election. That is, unless it benefits Republicans. Marc Elias calls out SCOTUS' hypocrisy when it comes to this legal doctrine, and explains how its recent decisions impact the 2026 midterms👇
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Supreme Court Only Applies Made-Up Rule When It Helps Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Indictment Duck @indictmentduck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
When did the motto of the United States get changed from "E Pluribus Unum" to "We Don't Give a Fuck About You Unless You're a Billionaire"?
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Illinois EPA @ilepa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Looking for more information about Superfund sites in Illinois? Our updated Federal Sites webpage now features expanded details on CERCLA history, the cleanup process, community assistance, and FAQs. Visit: epa.illinois.gov/topics/clean...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I have work to do today, so I can't post this three million times, but ONE MORE TIME It's not about winning votes from MAGA areas. It's about peeling off gettable voters that would either go to the GOP or stay home. This thumb-sucking about how you're never going win rural Idaho is a dodge.
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Indivisible's event, “Studio City Rising” - sign up now! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Studio City Rising · Indivisible
Rise up Studio City! We need all hands on deck to continue the fight against Trump and his ongoing attack on our democracy. He’s not going to stop and neither are we! We need as many of you out here w...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
3. The Pentagon's own internal estimate, from weeks ago, was $50 billion, according to CBS News. Popular Information added up the costs, with a detailed methodology, and arrived at $72 billion over the first 60 days. Other independent estimates are even higher.
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The real cost of the Iran War: $72 billion for the first 60 days
Popular Information crunches the numbers. The official accounting is at least $47 billion too low.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/05/2026
read about the millions of dollars she wasted and the broadcasters she sabotaged here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2026
Even this is corrupt: President Trump handpicked a firm he said had worked on his swimming pool to paint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool blue www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
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The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Conflict of interest investigation requested www.ms.now/news/iran-ne...
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Iran negotiator or private investor? Raskin launches investigation into Jared Kushner.
House Judiciary Democrats want answers about how Kushner can “both be a diplomat and a financial pawn of the Saudi monarchy.”
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I was going to say "Aw, nah, we'll make it because we're tough and resilient" but then I remembered who has the nuclear codes and yeah, he's got a point.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Huzzah! We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars, killed countless innocent Iranians, caused major international tumult, further entrenched the Iranian regime in power, and the Strait of Hormuz is (allegedly) exactly as open as it was before we did any of that. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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The Strait of Hormuz is open during the cease-fire in Lebanon, U.S. and Iran say.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“The proposed text included some new provisions aiming to protect U.S. citizens’ privacy…. But the language focused on preventing the targeting of U.S. citizens & largely codified existing law. Its inclusion was 1 of the options leadership had been debating but which had disappointed privacy hawks.”
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“Johnson’s proposal earlier in the evening didn’t include any ban on a central bank digital currency, which had been in negotiations.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/04/2026
While carrying out public business for his father-in-law, Jared Kushner "has continued to pursue his private interests and declined to disclose any information about them," Andrea Bernstein writes:
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Jared Kushner’s Mysterious Role in the Trump Administration
Is the president’s son-in-law carrying out the public’s business or pursuing his own private interests?
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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 15/04/2026
The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old
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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV tonight. I signed the petition demanding he apologize. Scroll to the bottom and consider signing, too standwithpopeleo.com/trump
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Demand Trump Apologize to Pope Leo XIV
Tonight, the President of the United States attacked the Holy Father. Sign the petition.
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Wall Street bank net income of $5.6bn, up 19% from a year ago… The performance was powered by Goldman’s equities traders…delivered revenues… up 27% from a year ago as it benefited from wild market swings triggered by a string of geopolitical shocks.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Prime Minister Botha, white courtesy phone. Prime Minister Botha, white courtesy phone, please.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is reporting an uptick in ICE activity across the Chicago area over the last week, incl. reported abductions at Cook County courthouses and immigration check ins. Chicago neighborhoods of reported activity include Rogers Park, Austin and Pilsen.
An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2An ICIRR alert warning people to stay vigilant amid an uptick of ICE activity in Chicagoland communities. Full release: https://www.instagram.com/icirr_il/p/DW7bZOblH_Y/?img_index=2
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2026
Trump’s DOJ claims it’s cracking down on fraud. Meanwhile, Trump has pardoned 70+ allies, donors, and insiders convicted of fraud. So what exactly is this “war on fraud”? Katie Phang breaks down the hypocrisy. Unfiltered. Watch 👉 youtu.be/wvX7-oYs-cs?...
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm attending Indivisible Niles Maine Township's event, “Indivisible Niles Maine Township Meet and Greet Pizza Party” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Indivisible Niles Maine Township Meet and Greet Pizza Party · Mobilize
Join the members of Indivisible Niles Maine Township for an evening of discussion, pizza and fun. Leave the heavy politics home tonight and let's just relax for a mid-week evening and get to know one...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Imagine a foreign adversary, during negotiations, unilaterally attacked and destroyed Harvard, Yale, MIT and 50 other universities and cancer research centers, killing students and even targeting professors in their homes. It would be greatest outrage of the century.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
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reachlynda.bsky.social @reachlynda.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Chicago, Illinois May Day 2026: Workers Over Billionaires” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Chicago, Illinois May Day 2026: Workers Over Billionaires · May Day Strong
Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them. **Our Demands for May 1st** - Tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first. - ICE ...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/03/2026
Equal pay for equal work. On Women's Equal Pay Day, we renew that call. Under my administration, we have raised the minimum wage, ensured fair compensation for workers with disabilities, and increased salary transparency — and we'll keep fighting to close the wage gap.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
During his confirmation hearing, Kash Patel promised that FBI agents who worked on these investigations would not be punished. Isn’t lying to Congress a crime?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/03/2026
President Trump said he will extend a pause on attacks against Iran's energy plants into April and that talks with Iran were going ‘very well,’ but an Iranian official said a US proposal for ending the war as ‘one-sided and unfair’ reut.rs/4sMnwBC
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 19/03/2026
Milestone update: there are now over 35,000 comments (35,525) received by DOJ regarding Pam Bondi's proposal to shield DOJ attorneys from ethics oversight. If you haven't already, please comment and encourage others to do so! www.regulations.gov/commenton/DO...
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