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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I spelled out "superpower suicide" in this essay from May 2026. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
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On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I thought this was a very clear explanation of what happened with the Supreme Court a couple weeks ago… Thank you @thedadbriefs
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any Democrat running for President who wants to win the nomination and then the general election absolutely must commit to prosecuting Trump, Hegseth, Patel, and all corrupt members of Administration. They must be held accountable.
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@schumer.senate.gov give @angieforfl.bsky.social $$$$
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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 In just a few days his ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ grocery drive has brought together thousands of Texans. James Talarico is proud to announce that his campaign has collected over 20,000 pounds of groceries for working Texas. 🔹Talarico organizes MASSIVE grocery drive for Texans. @jamestalarico.bsky.social
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James Talarico organizes MASSIVE grocery drive for Texans
YouTube video by James Talarico
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#AIcompanies : "regulate us daddy"
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It is with sadness that I hope #TheTonys don't hire #pink to host again. I liked her then, but I don't like her now.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
August was the warmest month on record for the planet. I discussed the implications with #BBCNews:
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Candidates for president in 2028 would do well to study in great detail the campaign of FDR in 1932. If FDR had not won in 32, our country almost certainly would have fallen into fascism. He ran a populist campaign promising to return power to the “forgotten people” with his New Deal. It worked.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/09/2026
NEW: Whether Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting will be allowed to move forward despite ongoing legal challenges now rests with the Supreme Court after the parties involved submitted their briefs. At stake is a voting method relied on by millions of Americans.
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Supreme Court to decide on Trump mail voting order after parties make their case
Whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting will be allowed to move forward despite ongoing legal challenges now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court after the parties involved submi...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026
only fraudulent economists are allowed now?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/215181/... 🚨 PSA🚨 TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW DO NOT USE OR SIGN UP WITH ELON MUSK'S VoteSafe
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Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data
Musk’s midterm spending has a sinister ulterior motive.
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#AntiAbortionLawsKill
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump & Vance's abuse of the Smithsonian is right out of the authoritarian playbook.
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#HowtoLieWithMaps
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨BREAKING 🦠 On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors. Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low." 1/
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Robert's Right ✅️, Again.......
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/09/2026
With Trump’s attacks on mail voting creating chaos and confusion among voters, many believe the simplest solution is to vote in person instead. Marc Elias breaks down why it’s not that easy. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’ve been a member of five labor unions in my life. I’ve seen firsthand what working people can accomplish when we stand together. The rights and protections workers have today weren’t handed to us. Generations of workers and organizers fought for them, stood their ground, & refused to back down.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/09/2026
Thou shalt not trust A SINGLE WORD from corporate media talking heads who LOOK AWAY while the president is CERTIFIABLY INSANE.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I am a Jew dedicated to fact-based, human-rights based arguments. We must be clear-eyed about what is happening in our name and with our tax dollars, and who is supporting both genocide and ethnic cleansing. This piece by @mairavz.bsky.social is a critical read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...
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Opinion | It’s Not Just the West Bank Settlers. It’s Israel. (Gift Article)
Settler violence is reaching new heights.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump’s administration is quietly working on a deal that could hand part of Yosemite National Park over to a private developer. The proposal would give up a roughly quarter-mile strip inside Yosemite so a developer can build a private access road to an 83-acre property outside the park.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
seriously why isn’t “every republican president destroys the economy” the most ubiquitous phrase in american politics?!?!
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#rfkjr is the #charlesmanson of the #USgovernment . I don't understand why #rfkjrisaserialkiller isn't trending
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/08/2026
Thou shalt refer to Howard Lutnick as "Howard Nutlick" from now on. The Lord has spoken.
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reneebay.bsky.social @reneebay.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Let me know what #mapping apps will NOT be changing the name #LakeOntario to Lake America please since I'm sure #Google @google will p$$y out and comply!
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly forever www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Brutal ad from the Ossoff campaign exposing Mike Collins' corruption. Can't believe they nominated this guy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good morning. Trans people and immigrants aren’t why your grocery bills are high, your gas is expensive, and you don’t have universal health care. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out the real reason, and vote for those who actually want to fix it. 🇺🇸
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Flock cameras are a domestic violence issue. Of the four police officers noted in this article, at least two were stalking partners. The other two were disciplined for “concerning behavior”. In my years safety planning with victims of domestic violence… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/21/b...
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Flock license plate cameras under fire as Mass. police misconduct cases mount - The Boston Globe
At least four police officers in the state are under investigation for misusing the technology, and a wave of towns continue to opt out.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICYMI, the Trump administration just made tens of millions of acres of our forests vulnerable to logging, drilling, and mining. Read our statement: ampr.gs/3SqmjmC
A graphic by the Center for American Progress featuring a 2x2 grid of natural landscapes with a central white text box overlay. The text reads: "This week, the Trump administration announced a proposed rule that would strip protections from tens of millions of acres of national forests. This would be the largest erasure of protections for public lands (or any lands) in U.S. history."
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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump felates Kim Jung Un and the cult cheers. Stupid motherfucker followed by stupid motherfuckers enabled by spineless motherfuckers.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026
US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.
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