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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 1m
Well, I wanted to catch up on the diverse Star Trek shows but it’s not gonna happen. Fuck it and fuck the Ellisons.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17m
Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later. The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.
The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17m
Cannot emphasize enough that the morass we find ourselves in everywhere is a result of this commitment to white supremacy. The eugenic health policy, the belief and desire for US autarky, meddling & murder in Latin America, the half-cocked belief that the US could bully Iran- it really is.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 53m
A much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 54m
“Jason Senkbeil, a tenured professor in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa’s Department of Geography and the Environment, said he was told faculty have to follow the law.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h
At a press conference in Hollywood on Tuesday, @passantino.bsky.social directly confronted David Ellison about his coziness with Donald Trump. "Do you think the company has been politicized?" Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Ellison’s Day-One Dance
On the first day atop his new Skydance media empire, David Ellison faced pointed questions from Anderson Cooper and Status about CNN, his coziness with Donald Trump, and his commitment to editorial in...
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 14h
Wait, road salt is imported? Huh.
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👻Hayleyween👻 @haymaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As you know, Sky's been unemployed since April, & I couldn't afford to put her on my insurance & also pay our rent. Also for some of y'all, I've dropped some vague comments about stuff being complicated beyond that. This is about that second part. Please help my favorite girl if you can. xoxo
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 15h
Liars lie again.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 15h
At some point, settler needs to be replaced by terrorist. Much more accurate.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 15h
I was told in no uncertain terms the federal government *could not* interfere with state-run elections and blah blah blah. It’s like some people who consider themselves experts have no fucking clue whatsoever about how authoritarian governments operate. “Don’t be a whiner, they can’t interfere” ⬇️
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Fuck Middle Finger
Alt: Guardians of the Galaxy middle finger
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 15h
Republicans love the troops. Republicans bring back honor to the white house. I’m starting to think republicans are not entirely truthful with us.
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Om jameel:In an urgent plea,om jamel who suffered uterine wall hemorrhaging caused by the shelling of her tent appeals to you with a sorrowful voice&streaming tears.She asks for $200 to cover the cost of tissue&cell testing;please show compassion for the sake of her kids😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...
Om Jameel wearing a hospital gown in a hospital bed. A person's hand is caressing her cheek. Her face is blurred.Om Jameel resting in a hospital bed after her preliminary surgery.Om Jameel sitting on a mattress, hugged by her five children.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 15h
It’s Daisy’s pizza now.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 17h
Canvass and knock doors for Angie this weekend! We’ve got 28 days to convince folks that change is worth voting for in Florida. Floridians deserve an elected official that works for them, and not for the wealthy few. Get involved this weekend at Angie4Us.com/Knock  #AngieForFlorida
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 17h
Anyway, have me on your shows to talk the use of military force under Trump 2.0
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 20h
www.wuwm.com/wisconsin-ai...
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What to know about the Wisconsin airline that has a billion-dollar contract with ICE
There are a lot of different airlines that fly in and out of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport every day. But only one of them has a billion-dollar contract with ICE. What to know about Air Wis...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18h
🧊🛩️ SEATTLE: A young woman, shackled at the ankles, waist & wrists, boards a charter jet (GlobalX N278GX) at Boeing Field on Tuesday afternoon, bound for another ICE prison in Arizona 👀
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 21h
A $4 million grant was awarded to a group that purports to educate medical professionals about fertility awareness-based methods of family planning. The cofounder of FACTS About Fertility has links to far-right groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21h
Did Blanche submit the handwritten FBI notes re. a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Trump when she was 13? Per Blanche’s latest filing, he complied, but I explain why he didn’t really & why it’s just to delay those handwritten notes from going public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWZ...
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AG Blanche FAILS TO COMPLY With JUDGE’S ORDERS In MY Epstein Lawsuit!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h
Trump diverted $176.9mn from a congressionally appropriated human rights fund to instead fund fascist political parties across Europe, Canada and South Africa... in most cases, funding the exact same entities that the Kremlin supports. Another example of Trump-Putin collaboration on the global stage
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Trump administration diverts human rights funds to push far-right agenda abroad
Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22h
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 22h
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 20h
Keep an eye on anyone wearing a red hat, those are the ones that tend to vote twice.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21h
I am downright sick of this President attacking the millions of patriotic Americans who live in "blue" states and cities. We are ALL Americans and this type of rhetoric is divisive and sickening. What a disgrace.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21h
@sanders.senate.gov, @aoc.bsky.social, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using ALPRs like Flock. Now, 404 Media needs your help. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/lawmakers-in...
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 22h
Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 21h
Promise?
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 21h
Whaaat? Completely unheard of behavior, Mike. Here, have a mirror, whydoncha.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 21h
We are the ones who can let you go without notice, how dare you. 🧐
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 22h
We just found out a friend of my wife, a really successful musician, just moved to England suddenly. It was because his wife, an American citizen but partly of Asian extraction, was swept up in an ICE raid on an Asian grocery. They let her go, but...
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Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 23h
It’s officially book day! Dear Blind Lady is OUT! 291 pages of as many questions as I could answer. I’m grateful to all my contributors, but most especially Alice Wong who wrote the section on how to work with PCA’s. Buy the book, come to an event, fight ableism.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 21h
The solution to AI is to imprison these fuckers.
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 22h
And he’s already announcing layoffs. Good job, AGs that dropped your lawsuit. You may have lost anyway, but now we’ll never know.
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 23h
Following the final approval of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, CEO David Ellison promises "difficult decisions that affect our workforce." tinyurl.com/5n7jnxe4 That's all, folks—Skydance immediately hints at massive layoffs
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 22h
Early voting has started and Franklin County is showing up! Head to iwillvote.com/OH to find out how to vote today.
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 22h
My latest story, published with @unclosetedmedia.bsky.social — I went to Georgia to talk with two trans candidates making history right now. Their paths to the statehouse couldn't be more different, but they want the same things for voters: better healthcare, lower costs, and no data centers.
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In Georgia, 2 Trans Candidates Believe Voters Are Ready for Them
For Bentley Hudgins, winning could mean a historic first in the Georgia House. For Bella Bautista, it starts with giving voters a choice they haven’t had in 16 years.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2
Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Museum of Political Corruption @corruptmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
WHEREVER YOU ARE: LIVESTREAM THIS!! October 21st | 7 PM EDT The #Epstein dominoes keep falling because of Julie K. Brown. LIVE, in conversation with Marty Baron and Brendan Lyons! Presented by the Museum of Political Corruption nellie_bly_award_2026.eventbrite.com @profciara.bsky.social
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rickoughta.bsky.social @rickoughta.bsky.social · 23h
Anywho, whatever Dem candidate calls trump supporters garbage has my vote.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
hi folks - boosting my friend’s campaign for aliso viejo city council again steven has been a close friend of mine for more than two decades, he’s a stand up dude who is trying to change things on a local level but he needs help getting his name out there your money goes a long way in local races
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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 9,000 D.C. residents lost their SNAP benefits from July 2025, when changes to the program’s eligibility requirements went into effect, to June 2026, according to the Food Research and Action Center.
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As Food Insecurity Grows, D.C. Groups Are Helping Residents Keep Benefits
Food pantries have seen an uptick in demand in the last year amid limited access to federal programs.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CDC offices "in Angola and South Sudan closed Thursday, with the office in Zimbabwe set to shut its doors at the end of the year. Current and former CDC officials told POLITICO they expect more than a dozen other foreign offices will follow in the next few years."
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Trump is conditioning foreign aid on deals
The State Department’s new approach to foreign aid is changing the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention works abroad.
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