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Senator Chris Coons @coons.senate.gov · 15/07/2026
RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...
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What to know about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness hitting the U.S.
A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and fatigue has been detected in 34 states. Here's how what to do if you suspect you have it and how to avoid infection.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A vote to send $3.3 billion of taxpayer money to fund additional weapons of war to Benjamin Netanyahu is unconscionable. Enough.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that fateful day has not been publicly reported until now....In the meantime, Lynch remained at DOJ and, under the second Trump administration, received a big promotion: He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing political violence."
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk has been referred for possible criminal prosecution after Wisconsin election officials found probable cause that his $1 million voter giveaways violated the state’s election bribery law.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Time and time again, Tom Tiffany has put big money donors above Wisconsin’s working families. That’s why we’re proud to support @theothermandela.bsky.social, who refuses to take a dime from corporate PACs.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15/07/2026
What Todd Blanche has done to our Justice Department under Trump should disqualify him from becoming Attorney General. I break it down: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXti...
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Todd Blanche Shouldn't Be our Attorney General: Here's Why
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’m voting yes on Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment to zero out all aid to Israel, including aid for offensive and defensive weapons like the Iron Dome. I cannot vote for aid to a country that committed genocide and has used tax dollars to detain Americans like me.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The memorandum of understanding that Trump brokered with Tehran last month to halt the fighting turns out to have been a memorandum of misunderstanding, and now the president seems to have neither a clear military nor diplomatic strategy. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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At War With Iran Again, Trump Finds an Opponent He Cannot Easily Dominate
The president is accustomed to forcing other countries to bend to his will. But he is struggling to come up with a strategy to extract Iranian concessions as the cease-fire he brokered collapses.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@jamellebouie.net is smarter & more serious & more talented than ~everyone else in the National Conversation™️. But also, one reason he's been so successful is that he speaks/writes hard truths simply & clearly instead of pretending 🇺🇸 & our politicians are something other than what they actually are:
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What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 12/07/2026
Walk through history with me in Philadelphia.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 12/07/2026
Jul 9-10 poll of 6,260 U.S. adults (±1.7 points) % who think it is [very or somewhat important | not very or not at all important] that youth sports are affordable for families U.S. adults 80% | 8% Democrats 81% | 8% Independents 76% | 8% Republicans 85% | 8% yougov.com/en-us/daily-...
YouGov survey results by political party for the question, How important do you think it is that youth sports are affordable for families?
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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I can’t unsee this now 😁
A picture of the part of the White House (still standing) that is labeled with gold script letters “The Rose Garden”
It now has pictures of the presidents on it with little plaques where MAGAs wrote derogatory things about Dem presidents and positive remarks about Republican presidents. It now also has a bunch of extremely tasteless and gaudy gold things glued to the wall. They very much look like temples.

The poster wrote “So the White House is a Thai restaurant now?”
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Every Witness to ICE Killing in Houston Says the Same Thing: ICE Lied The three men in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle were interviewed separately. They all said ICE’s version of events isn’t true. newrepublic.com/post/212940/...
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Every Witness to ICE Killing in Houston Says the Same Thing: ICE Lied
The three men in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s vehicle were interviewed separately. They all said ICE’s version of events isn’t true.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
NewsNation: Why are some people mourning the end of the Graham Platner campaign? Me: People believed in the campaign’s message and vision, but Platner lied to them — and they feel taken advantage of. I’m just glad to see my party kick a guy like this to the curb because Republicans won’t do that.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.
The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman StoneIt's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
IVF.
I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Forgive me, but: Jesus H. Christ. You know, "false" would fit the headline space that is ridiculously wasted on "inaccurate."
Headline:
Trump Justifies Money Made as President With Inaccurate Claims

Subhead:
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/07/2026
The White House was never supposed to be a palace. George Washington and architect James Hoban deliberately rejected the lavish style of European monarchies. Instead, they designed a President’s House that reflected the ideals of a republic: dignified, restrained, and accountable to the people.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A big thank you to Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who says his office “will not rest” until there is a thorough and independent investigation into the fatal shooting of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado by ICE.
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Whitmire joins push for independent probe of Salgado shooting by ICE
Whitmire's announcement comes two days after he said there would be no city-directed probe of the deadly shooting.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why does the president keep going to the hospital?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nearly 100 Epstein victims had their names exposed on Todd Blanche’s watch — & he withheld files the law required him to release Why? The bar complaint from 100+ judges suggests he was protecting Trump & himself My latest publisher’s note has the full story👇 -TN
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Over 100 Judges Can’t be Wrong: Why Todd Blanche is Unfit to be Attorney General
Publisher's Roundup 75
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/07/2026
"Think about what the United States without birthright citizenship would look like. What is the bedrock upon which our citizenship would rest? Race, religion, ethnic background, family history, wealth?" ICYMI Mona Charen: lnk.thebulwark.com/3SSJQwz
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Birthright Citizenship Is Not Just for Immigrants
It undergirds American equality.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump justifies money made as president with false claims, wrongly attributing his $2 billion windfall to a hot stock market and inaccurately claiming that he was the only president to donate his salary. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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Trump Justifies $2 Billion Made as President With Inaccurate Claims
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Graham Platner must drop out of the race to become Maine's next U.S. Senator. The Democratic Party should continue to stand with all survivors of sexual assault.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The fact that Trump has taken to calling members of the Democratic party “communists” and wants Congress to pass a law making it harder to vote is remarkable and seems like more than merely “deriding his foes.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
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For America’s 250th, Trump Hosts a Celebration and Derides His Foes
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"We designed the videos to emphasize the agency of Americans—mostly everyday Americans—to change the country." Week Six in 250 to 250 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Week Six in 250 to 250
This was the sixth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and it’s been quite a week.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...
Baude: I agree that we are in unprecedented times, maybe even a constitutional crisis, but if we survive it, the court deserves no small share of the credit.
Vladeck: Exactly the same credit we might give to the arsonist who shows up with a fire extinguisher.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.
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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Republicans in Florida and Ohio plead with Trump not to deport Haitians and Venezuelans: l.smartnews.com/p-839Dc5So/g...
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Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’ (The Guardian)
Protesters gather during a candlelight vigil at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood international airport as airport workers and faith leaders rally calling on the fed...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/07/2026
"The Supreme Court and those who have provided fodder for this interpretation are unconcerned with the history. Rather, history is being used as a tool to wage war on the promises of Reconstruction and the Declaration itself." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-r...
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The War on Reconstruction
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is just one battle in the right's larger war on the Second Founding.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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NTPumpkin_Nate 🎃 @ntpnate.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Run ads pointing out that 4 Justices of the United States Supreme Court would have disallowed this goal.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Trumpian behavior.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Funny how that works. www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-ke...
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Tom Kean, Opponent Of Paid Leave, Got More Than 3 Months Off
Kean said his doctors urged him to spend time in the hospital despite his family and professional obligations.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four conservative justices on the Supreme Court believe Folarin Balogun shouldn't be a U.S. citizen. Something to consider as he carries the U.S. team on his back in the World Cup.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2026
THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED FOR UNDER FASCISM — BRAVERY Before the attacks & the hot takes start, a few facts: Major Jason Watson is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, a career logistics officer, a NATO officer, and a decorated veteran who volunteered for a 365-day tour in Afghanistan… 🧵
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John Gilda @verbalprimate.com · 02/07/2026
@overaclover.com Anna - just love your explainer graphic. Also like that it gives people who want to support Major Jason Watson’s legal battle financially an easy way to do so. TYVM 🍀💪✊
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Blood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America Together
If you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult.
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Kemu808 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @kemu808.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#maddow
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Kemu808 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @kemu808.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#maddow
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026
I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/06/2026
We should be celebrating a bipartisan housing law. Instead, we have a call to action. Mr. President: sign the damn bill.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Feels more like a funeral for Trump’s approval ratings 😕
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GribWrites @gribwrites.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is one of America’s greatest ideas, told by one of our greatest actors. Again: 250 to 250 is tremendous.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Another forthcoming nonfiction title that given historian Kim Phillips-Fein's crucial past work could have once counted on widespread reviews. But there aren't widespread forums left. So my little bump to the promo campaign: I'm reading it now and it's revelatory. @wwnorton.com
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Remember this the next time you hear triangulators telling you how Dems need to stick to middle of the road kitchen-table issues like Message Discipline Donald
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court just gave Trump the biggest executive power grab in 90 years. But they still protected the things the Republican justices care about the most: their own money. My latest in @thenation.com
thenation.com
The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Terrifying New Power
In a pair of twin rulings, the court undermined the independence of the key independent agencies—except one.
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La Pionera ✊🏽 @punchcolor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Hear that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - still want to justify AIPAC blood money?
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