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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Know what’s worse than illegal migrants…? Raping children and covering up for ‘em.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/12/2025
The Trump administration has made good on its promise to ban abortion care for veterans. The new directive, obtained by Mother Jones, states that it won’t prohibit care to “pregnant women in life-threatening circumstances, including treatment for ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages."
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Trump administration bans abortion care for veterans
The policy will even apply in states that protect abortion rights.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/12/2025
Senator Bernie Sanders will administer the oath of office to New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani during his public swearing-in ceremony at City Hall on January 1. trib.al/ylTzosO
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
NASHVILLE - TN HS Dems Tennessee High School Dems deliver a petition to Senator @MarshaBlackburn to stop the just-announced government partnership forcing TP USA chapters into every school in Tennessee. (“to stop far right extremism”)
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Immunity for Ghislaine, Tariffs by Vibes, and Golf with a Side of Grift
While Trump hands a get-out-of-jail-free card to a convicted sex trafficker, rewrites trade deals on cocktail napkins, and charges taxpayers for a Scottish golf tour, the rest of the world moves on.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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Preznit Fuckwit gets the Scottish welcome he deserves
he’s such an international embarrassment
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 25/06/2025
A Wake County court found a requirement that the North Carolina governor fill vacancies on the state’s higher courts with member of the same party as their predecessor unconstitutional in a ruling Tuesday. ncnewsline.com/briefs/wake-... @kingdollar.bsky.social #ncpol #ncgov
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Wake Superior Court strikes down restriction on governor’s power to appoint judges • NC Newsline
A Wake County court found a limit on the North Carolina governor’s judicial appointment power unconstitutional in a ruling Tuesday.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/06/2025
"As a person of color living in New York City under the age of 30—with all my dreams of being able to afford to live here—his winning makes me feel like that’s actually possible." @serenaalin.bsky.social reports from inside Zohran Mamdani's jubilant watch party in Queens.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Supporters Celebrate an Astonishing Victory
"New York can lead the way in showing how a new future is possible."
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/06/2025
SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches in Texas have polluted an area across the border with debris, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said
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SpaceX Polluted Border Area, Mexican President Sheinbaum Says
SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches in Texas have polluted an area across the border with debris, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/06/2025
Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration's bid to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting and international aid programs.
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Senators question Trump plan to kill federal funds for PBS, NPR and some foreign aid
Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration's bid to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting and international aid programs.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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'They'll get over it,' McConnell reportedly assures GOP colleagues about Medicaid cuts • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky Hospital Association urges U.S. senators to reject cuts to Medicaid payments to hospitals supported by provider taxes.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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The F-Bomb Presidency: Trump’s NATO Clown Show and Iran Strike Collapse
As the whistleblowers come forward, the lies unravel, and the tantrums escalate, Trump’s foreign policy strategy boils down to one word: profanity.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/rage-baby-...
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fuckwit preznit ignored by Iran and Israel, sidelined by NATO
rage-baby’s in a big mad because he doesn’t matter any more
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/06/2025
“Trump has now pardoned several people accused of corruption, bribery, and financial crimes. A recent review by House Judiciary Democrats found that Trump’s pardons had forfeited $1.3 billion in restitution and payments to victims,” @jesspish.bsky.social writes.
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Pardoning Corrupt Sheriff, Trump Undermines Democracy Again
Read more here.
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/06/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in federal custody, at least for a few more days, amid questions over what would happen if the Salvadoran migrant facing human smuggling charges is released and subsequently detained by ICE.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains in custody for now amid questions over what happens if he’s released | CNN Politics
Kilmar Abrego Garcia will remain in federal custody, at least for a few more days, amid questions over what would happen if the Salvadoran migrant facing human smuggling charges is released and subseq...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/06/2025
Democrats may still be looking for lessons on electoral success after last fall. “Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary, might provide some of the answers—to a point,” Jonathan Lemire writes:
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The Democratic Party Looks to New York for Answers
Zohran Mamdani’s primary success might give Democrats a few ideas about how to move forward—to a point.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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A remarkable message
You need to read this.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 15/06/2025
Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The bird dance for the ages
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m enjoying this as much as anyone, but seems very likely they do some big show of squashing the beef within, like, a week.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 05/06/2025
Watching Trump and Elon fall out is like watching two thieves argue over who got caught on camera. Newsflash: it was both of y’all.
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Good morning !
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Mal @mal-c.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
He admitted the election was rigged for him AGAIN!! Think this is 4 or 5 times now. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBGw2pB/
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TikTok video by Barbara Ann Penn-Pro
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Massive May Day pro-democracy protesters in Atlanta, Georgia (the US state) marched against the illegal Trump regime that's taken the US hostage. #3E #EndImpunity #MayDay
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In a hearing, Rep. Garamendi SLAPPED back: "Have we lost our minds? $150 billion out of the mouths of children who are not going to get a school lunch." Where is this money really going? This isn't defense — it's corruption in camouflage. The media needs to follow the money.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2025
remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...
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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...
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A mad, hairy beast and his service dog @sarjenkat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Oh, so let me get this straight: deciding not to buy a car now qualifies as “treason”, but beating cops with flagpoles, smearing shit on the walls of the Capitol, and trying to overthrow an election is just good old-fashioned “peaceful protest”? Give me a fucking break.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/03/2025
I had a surprise young constituent in my Dallas office yesterday — precious Ms. Lilli! Special thanks to her amazing family for their advocacy and for reminding us all on why protecting our access to quality education MATTERS!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Vance running off to hide in a resort in a town called Sugarbush after “confronting” zelensky could not be funnier
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2025
Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi just received a huge standing ovation in a Trump +5 Congressional District at Hofstra University after talking about how despicable Trump‘s behavior was in the Oval Office with Zelensky. Americans are furious.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Holy shit! Check out how angry the crowd is at Republican Rep. Keith Self’s town hall in Wylie, Texas today. That’s another huge angry crowd in a deep red district!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/03/2025
De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
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De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’
NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/03/2025
Trump admin lies to courts about DOGE & who's in charge. Plus: his expanded Jan 6 pardons, the phony “Epstein Files” distraction and cover-up, SCOTUS & the USAID crisis, and more. Watch Legal AF live at 8p ET/5p PT!
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LIVE: Trump GETS CORNERED in Major LEGAL CASES | Legal AF
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
everyone is entitled to my own opinion www.jefftiedrich.com?utm_source=n...
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everyone is entitled to my own opinion | Jeff Tiedrich | Substack
I read the news today, oh boy. Click to read everyone is entitled to my own opinion, by Jeff Tiedrich, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 14/02/2025
CFPB — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, aka the federal agency that's increasingly scrutinized fintech, data brokers and digital payments — just fired about 20 of its technologists, per @laurenfeiner.bsky.social www.theverge.com/policy/61293...
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The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
DOGE has gained an unusual level of access to agency data.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You can’t make this shit up.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/02/2025
Trump & Musk are trying to fire 100,000+ civil servants right now - including over 1,000 VA employees. Purges are happening at SBA, Energy, Education & more. Firing this many critical employees at once could make it impossible for our government to provide BASIC services.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans: www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
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Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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retiredinwi.bsky.social @retiredinwi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Say what this is: a coup. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Say what this is: a coup.
Friends,
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2025
From this morning:
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
January 29, 2025
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January 29, 2025
In a conversation with Greg Sargent of the New Republic published today, writer Amanda Marcotte called out an important moment in White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s first press conference ...
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hold the fuck on a second… Are you telling me that the same damn ammosexual assholes who were shooting up “woke” beer cans, burning Barbie dolls and boycotting Targets over rainbow fucking flags, are now referring to Donald Trump as their daddy?
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