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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/01/2026
Just checking in: in addition to not settling seven wars, Donald Trump has started a new one, so that's how that's going. @markhertling.bsky.social from the archives: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pCOzNB
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No, Trump Hasn’t ‘Settled Seven Wars’
And he should be called out on that claim every time he makes it.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 08/01/2026
The Fox News host made the confession Wednesday while discussing the new dietary guidelines unveiled at the White House.
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Laura Ingraham Admits Michelle Obama Was Right: 'We Take It All Back'
The Fox News host made the confession Wednesday while discussing the new dietary guidelines unveiled at the White House.
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Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Let’s be clear: if people sworn to enforce the law can tell you to get out of your car and then kill you if you just try to drive away, none of us are safe. None of us.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 02/01/2026
Welcome to 2026 courtesy of Congressional Republicans. The GOP blocked every one of our attempts to extend these tax credits, but we won’t stop working to lower costs.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Civil rights icon Medgar Evers was murdered by a far right Christian Nationalist. Today, a conservative Supreme Court is intent on undoing his life work.
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A Century After Medgar Evers' Birth, the Voting Rights Act Faces a Final Reckoning
The civil rights icon died fighting for the right to vote. But the Supreme Court is on the verge of upending one of the VRA's remaining pillars.
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
This is how you do it folks
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.
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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Hours before set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast. #BoycottCBS #Boycott60Minutes www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...
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BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/12/2025
After Bari Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, abruptly postponed a segment of “60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration, several veteran correspondents questioned how she had handled the segment after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom. trib.al/nS4UDkt
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 22/12/2025
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Accurate
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Pediatric phalloplasty is something that takes place when there is severe genital injury or a congenital condition. I have not been able to find a single report of phalloplasty performed on a transgender minor. This is grotesque fear-mongering.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
So, why does he still have a job after he failed to disclose this in his column?
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.”

When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother.

During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This used to be Tulsi Gabbard.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/12/2025
LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly
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Jennifer Wright @jenashleywright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
FUCK ALL OF YOU WHO ARE OK WITH THIS. I personally know two students there. One survived getting shot at a California high school shooting and the other a PParkland survivor. IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE THIS WAY!!! share.google/OZelqoxsw8Bs...
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Brown University shooting latest: Multiple people shot
Brown, an Ivy League school in Rhode Island, said no suspect was in custody more than an hour after the initial alert went out
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Yesterday, I held a music festival in my district to register voters and speak directly to young people who don’t usually attend political events. 4,500 tickets. Music + advocacy go hand in hand. Madsoul Festival 2025 was a success.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
ChatGPT cannot fathom that we are living in this timeline.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/12/2025
Can we talk about Steve Bannon helping Jeffrey Epstein behind the scenes a fraction as much as we talked about Hunter Biden's corruption?
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Steve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?
The MAGA architect is escaping opprobrium for his chummy relationship with the notorious pedophile.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
if i worked in a White House with an elderly and ailing president who had a hard time staying awake, i would simply recommend against having 3 hour cabinet meetings that are boring af and pointless and best remembered for the fact said president is sleeping on camera
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Members of the military are supposed to obey *legal* orders. The idea that they should obey *all* orders and that "just obeying orders" is a legitimate defense for atrocities was rejected at the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
the proper response to Donny's unhinged posts is 'shut the fuck up, Piggy'
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
How upside down is our world? The White House occupant thinks elected public servants who say the military should not follow illegal orders are "punishable by death." We exactly need public servants to speak out against illegal orders and not be cowed by a man who despises our Constitution.
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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Every one of them should be put on the record about whether they approve of this kind of death threat from the President. Then we'll really see what they think of calls for political violence.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
he's really quite the actor
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 20/11/2025
Why would they be upset about reminding troops they have a duty to refuse illegal orders? It’s spelled out very clearly in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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