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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
At least the grass won't get ruined.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It’s great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.
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How have I never heard this song before, and why is it the most based thing I've ever listened to?
Been playing it on loop this morning and now Natalie is getting annoyed, so I turned up the volume.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
MAHA got played www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...
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Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Roundup Weedkiller Caused Cancer
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
PERSIAN GULF STRAIT AUTHORITY: “.. Any passage through routes outside the framework designated by PGSA will not be covered by safe passage guarantees ..”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Hours after Markwayne the Plumber attacked Lauren Underwood for asking about the increase of detainee deaths, DHS IG announces an investigation into the increase Markwayne was trying to deny. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
As of this week there have been 20 deaths in ICE detention in 2026, according to ICE. Last year there were 33 deaths in the entire year, according to the agency. In 2024, the agency announced 11 deaths, according to the agency’s website.

Earlier Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was asked about the “historically high death rate” in ICE detention by Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-IL, at a House Appropriations Committee hearing.

Mullin rejected the notion of a high death rate, saying of Underwood’s line of questioning, “Those are dangerous accusations that she’s making, because in the state of Illinois, they’re twice as high to die in a state penitentiary in Illinois, than they are in ICE detention.”

The DHS Inspector General wrote in the announcement of the new reviews that the reason for the one focused on detainee deaths is because there has been an increase in ICE detainee deaths each fiscal year since 2022.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Third (but *not*) last ruling from #SCOTUS is in Al Otro Lado. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito sides with Trump administration; holds that non-citizens stopped at the border have not "arrived in" the United States for purposes of asylum eligibility: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The hits just keep on coming. $MSFT
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Wolford v. Lopez. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito (who has the next two rulings after this) strikes down Hawaii’s law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying unauthorized handguns on private property open to the public:
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
25 years ago, a Michigan district court embraced a bizarre theory about the limits on Congress's power under the Spending Clause—one that was quickly repudiated. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court's six Republican appointees quietly revived it while making it harder to enforce an array of federal rights:
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Bonus 234: The Ascension of Westside Mothers
The Court's 6-3 ruling in Landor is likely the "sleeper" case of the term—a technical decision with massive, long-term, and ominous constitutional implications.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
First (but *not* last) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Monsanto. For a 7-2 Court (with Gorsuch and Jackson dissenting), Justice Kavanaugh holds that federal law *preempts* state-law failure-to-warn claim that would've required Monsanto to add a cancer warning to Roundup’s label:
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
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Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Weak. Pathetic.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nobody believed Trump and Vance that Iran was going to spend this money on US farm products. That was a line to assuage the cultists who were told by their hero for a decade that providing billions to Iran was weak and evil.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Giving off Cane Mutiny vibes.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Trump has decimated the government’s ability to detect and counter foreign influence actions aimed at the US from Russia and elsewhere. But he has provided around-the-clock security for the Reflecting Pool to protect it from nonexistent vandals. That’s a good summary of his presidency.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Gestapo in action.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
As soon as the oligarchs suck every last dime out of our gov't treasury and our personal bank accounts.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/06/2026
Breaking News: France confirmed its first case of Ebola after a humanitarian worker returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the site of a deadly outbreak.
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France Identifies First Case of Ebola
The patient had traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said. Workers are racing to trace those who may have had contact.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“.. Wasting taxpayer money turning the reflecting pool into a giant duck death trap just in time for America’s 250th birthday party is as Trump as it gets.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/refl...
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Revolution Underground @americanprodigy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
they told us we had to give all of our money to rich people so theyd create jobs but theyre just using that money to try and bankrupt their critics through frivolous lawsuits
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...
A table comparing claims made in a letter to Stephen Miller to the claims made in the document predicating FBI's investigation into SPLC.

It shows that much of the FBI memo was quoted directly from the Miller letter.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Mass shooting: 5 wounded in shooting at house party in Dallas, Texas.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A year later, DC residents are still waking up to troops in the streets.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
And all these years, Trump blamed windmills for avian holocausts.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Michael McKee @mckonomy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
*IRAN SAYS TRUMP'S THREAT HALTED US TALKS IN SWITZERLAND: FARS Poor JD. Long trip for nothing.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/06/2026
⭕️ In a phone interview w/ Fox News, Pres. Trump said the US could take control of the Strait of Hormuz & collect tolls if Iran attempts to close the waterway. (Iran says the strait is currently closed) 🔸 Trump said the US would become the “guardian angel” of the Strait & the Middle East, adding...
🔸 Trump said the U.S. would become the “guardian angel” of the Strait and the Middle East, adding that Washington could take 20% of the oil passing through Hormuz.

🔸 Trump said he warned Iranian officials overnight: “You close it, and you won’t have a country,” adding they “won’t even make it back to their f*ing country.”

🔸 Responding to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who said Iran would not give up uranium enrichment, Trump said he “better watch his mouth” and “better shape up.”

🔸 Trump described the current memorandum of understanding as a ceasefire extension rather than a final deal, saying he still has a “60-day option” and can “do whatever I want” afterward if Iran fails to meet U.S. demands.

🔸 He also claimed 19 million barrels of oil left the Persian Gulf yesterday under the agreement.

🔸 On Lebanon, Trump criticized Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah, saying it “can’t do anything without knocking buildings down.” He said he is considering empowering Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to fight Hezbollah in southern Lebanon instead, arguing Syrian forces would be more precise.

🔸 On Gaza, Trump said Hamas is “not causing a lot of problems” and that the focus should remain on reaching a final agreement with Iran.
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"We'll take over the rest of your country ... I'll blow the shit out of them" -- here is Trey Yingst's entire segment about the bonkers phone call he says he had with Trump this morning that apparently included threats to assassinate Iran's leadership, impose draconian US tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, and occupy Iran with the US military
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21/06/2026
⭕️ New: Iranian Foreign Min. spokesperson: The plan is for the talks to last 1 day 🔹Iran said today’s talks in Switzerland will focus on the US failure to implement the 1st clause of the Iran-US memo of understanding, which requires an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon. 🔹Iranian FM...
⭕️ New: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson: The plan is for the talks to last one day

🔹Iran said today’s talks in Switzerland will focus on the U.S. failure to implement the first clause of the Iran-U.S. memorandum of understanding, which requires an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

🔹Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the Iranian delegation will hold bilateral meetings Sunday morning with Pakistani and Qatari mediators before a four-party meeting with U.S., Qatari, and Pakistani delegations later in the day.

🔹Baghaei said Article 13 makes negotiations on a final agreement conditional on implementing five provisions, including Article 1, which calls for ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

🔹He said the United States has “either been unable or unwilling” to enforce that provision and Israel has continued to violate the agreement, adding that the issue will be the central focus of Sunday’s talks.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump pardoned people who literally smeared shit on the capitol walls
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
2 wounded in drive by shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
2 wounded in shooting at Friendly Tavern & Liquors in Waldorf, Maryland.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
2 wounded in shooting in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
2 wounded in shooting in Gresham, Oregon.
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
2 wounded in shooting at Brooklyn Monarch in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“The @nyknicks did NOT say yes to a White House visit. The owner did without asking them… It’s plantation-level bullshit by a short white man who got all his💰from his daddy.” Best-selling author @jeffpearlman.bsky.social on Dolan *accepting* the visit. @jalenbrunson1 @karltowns.bsky.social
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Friend shared photos from the top of the Washington Monument this morning. Looks like the administration tried to paint over the "8647" numbers that were burned into the grass last week (they're now clearer) & has left utter devastation on the South Lawn & the Ellipse following the UFC fight.
Photo taken by a friend from the top of the Washington Monument on Friday June 19 looking west. Foreground shows the end of the mall, with the numbers "8647" clearly burned into the grass (they are brownish grey), but with a dark uniform block of what could be green paint over them. The Reflecting Pool is in the background, featuring green water that is darker on the outside and brighter, lighter green near the middle. The Lincoln Memorial is in the distance to the west (at the top half of the photo).Photo taken by friend looking north from the Washington Monument on Friday June 19. In the foreground is the Ellipse, almost completely yellow and stripped of grass. There are a few, small, sad patches of remaining grass and what look like a couple of vehicles. The area of the South Lawn that was under the UFC stage is beige.
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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 19/06/2026
WATCH: Few people know the ugly details of Trump's ICE flights like journalist @gillianbrockell.com. We talk here about what's she learned tracking up to 90 flights day. Give it a listen: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
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WATCH: Trump's ICE flights are even worse than you think
Journalist Gillian Brockell tracks ICE flights foreign and domestic. What she's learned will shock you.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Not the first law Trump's broken.
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Phil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Many of the names you'd expect to attend a technofascist conference, others are shocking and disappointing.
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Real PAIDtriot @realpaidtriot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World
It’s just not made up of the people MAGA thinks.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Trump: I am the all-powerful president leading us to the golden age on Day 1. Also Trump: I can't control everything – It's Obama and Biden's fault.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/06/2026
Judith and Wylie Sheldon, patrons of San Francisco’s arts world, were found in their car near a highway, the police said. nyti.ms/4fVdQl1
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San Francisco Film Patrons Are Found Dead on Side of Highway
Judith Sheldon, 84, daughter of an Oscar-winning director, and her husband, Wylie, 86, were traveling to Oregon on a hot day. Their deaths are under investigation.
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