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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/02/2026
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term. ➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): propub.li/4tDklgE
Headline: Immigrants who say their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 cases. It's a historic high. Graph: A line chart going from Jan 2009 to Jan 2026 showing very few habeas cases until Trump’s second term, where the line takes off nearly vertically, showing more than 6,600 cases in Jan 2026 alone.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech in front of a microphone .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech in front of a microphone .
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The SCOTUS 6 are insane individuals www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to prohibit gender election on passports
The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts.
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
More people need to call out the many cowards sitting in seats of power and allowing the dismantling of our country and it's institutions.
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Worth consideration but it could doom democracy in the short term considering all the gerrymandering seats MAGA has rigged but in another lifetime recover our democracy.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 06/11/2025
Let debate rage for days, then vote, as the founders intended; end the antique veto and force both parties to own their visions before the people… hartmannreport.com/p/a-republic...
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A Republic, If You Can Count to 51: Why the Filibuster’s Demise Could Save Democracy
Let debate rage for days, then vote, as the founders intended; end the antique veto and force both parties to own their visions before the people…
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 04/11/2025
Trump moves fast when it benefits his billionaire friends, but he's dragging his feet to help Americans put food on the table and afford health care.    I'm fighting back to lower costs, reopen government, and stop people from suffering for Trump's political games.
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billb3.bsky.social @billb3.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The total lack of accountability for starting a war under false pretenses of finding WMD is a big part of why we’re in the current situation.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Cheney most notably served as vice president to former President George W. Bush for eight years, in which the two presided over the war, the collapse of the American economy, and numerous scandals like the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Dick Cheney, co-architect of Iraq War that killed thousands, is dead
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the major architects of the Iraq War that killed thousands of people in Iraq and America based on his lies about weapons of mass destruction, died Tuesday ...
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SpryWit @sprywit.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue · 23/10/2025
The White House isn’t the only thing Trump’s trying to destroy.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 18/10/2025
Wisdom from Schoolhouse Rock.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
4 Star Admiral. Alvin Holsey, w 37 years of service to the US. is leaving his job as head of the U.S. Southern Command, overseeing operations in Central & South America, Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and attacks on the alleged drug boats. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities? If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
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Impeach Krasnov - @judi999.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
America is living in a bad reality TV show right now as our government refuses to govern and everyday it's a theatrical performance. TV hosts playing Cabinet members. Members are chosen by "camera-ready looks" not qualifications. Checks and Balances are destroyed. Ownership of SCOTUS. #FuckTrump
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Via @mainebeacon.bsky.social: The U.S. Senate this past Thursday confirmed Jennifer Mascott, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — with support from Maine Sen. Susan Collins mainebeacon.com/collins-back...
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Collins backs anti-choice judge Jennifer Mascott for federal appeals court - Maine Beacon
The U.S. Senate this past Thursday confirmed Jennifer Mascott, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — with ...
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 15/10/2025
🚨Update: Trump is focused on DOUBLING his bailout for Argentina to $40 billion. While costs are on the rise, Republicans shut down the government, and Americans face a health care crisis, Trump is putting America last to help Argentina.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Open phones for the next hour on SiriusXM #127- you don't need to subscribe to join the conversation. 866.997.GRIT
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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2025
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...
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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who claimed, "the Republican health care plan is this: Don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly"
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Chance @chancedennis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
So, what Tik-Tok is confirming is that what happened here is gory, gruesome, disturbing, and extremely violent.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
ISIS on our streets going by the nickname "ICE"
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/10/2025
Today, I'm announcing a new tenant to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park. Pasqal will accelerate the size, scope, and pace of our ambition — including plans to scale their systems of computing power. Inspiring confidence in the potential of our state and quantum.
Governor Pritzker speaks behind the podium as he announces Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, will establish their U.S. headquarters as a future tenant of the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) on Chicago’s South Side.
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pcta1129.bsky.social @pcta1129.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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Pritzker shows examples of 'military-style' ICE activity in Chicago during press conference
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2025
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 08/10/2025
If it isn’t bad enough that House Republicans shut down the government rather than protect health care, Trump is slashing Social Security.   ❌Plotting to strip disability benefits ❌Distracting the Social Security head with a second important job ❌Making Social Security insolvent sooner
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gacyclist.bsky.social @gacyclist.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
And update on this. Noem.lied about this incident. This is statement from the city. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/k...
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Kristi Noem denied entry to Broadview building in new video; city says that's not the full story
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted video Friday showing her being denied entry to the Village of Broadview Municipal Building as she arrived in the Chicago suburb to visit an ICE p...
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Makes more sense to spread the message the 4th estate was bought & paid for by Republicans & start complaining more about the Republicans who hold the majority in every federal branch of government & is allowing Trump to dismantle the US government
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sen Angus King in a Press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “That power is vested in [Article One] – in the Congress. And if this stands, then Congress may as well adjourn, because the implications of this is the executive can pick and choose which...” www.bangordailynews.com/2025/01/28/p...
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Watch: Angus King calls Trump's federal loan freeze 'unconstitutional'
"What happened last night is the most direct assault on the authority of Congress, I believe, in the history of the United States," King said Tuesday.
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Trump's New Transportation Secretary Voted Against FAA Funding in 2019 During his last term in Congress, Sean Duffy voted to defund the agency that provides air safety
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Trump's New Transportation Secretary Voted Against FAA Funding in 2019
During his last term in Congress, Sean Duffy voted to defund the agency that provides air safety
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
when we tell you they are fascists, believe us.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NEW from NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard: “This week, USAID officials removed the artwork [of the agency’s various global missions] from the walls of USAID offices because…[officials] would be evaluating what appeared on the walls to ensure it aligned with the new administration’s ‘America First’ mission.”
A white wall with empty frames due to photos having been removed.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK." "I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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New York doctor indicted for prescribing abortion pill in Louisiana
A New York doctor has been indicted by a Lousiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the c...
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Foreign media headlines are more accurate than my own country’s major newspapers of record www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democratic governors criticize Chuck Schumer for weak resistance to Trump
Exchange between six governors and Senate minority leader exposes divisions in party over opposition approach
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/01/2025
Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy voted against FAA funding in 2019 during his time in Congress. His vote to defund the air safety agency raises questions about his current role overseeing transportation safety.
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Trump's New Transportation Secretary Voted Against FAA Funding in 2019
During his last term in Congress, Sean Duffy voted to defund the agency that provides air safety
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riredlibrarian.bsky.social @riredlibrarian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“ Tragically, last night, a mistake was made.” Pete Hegseth said during a White House briefing about the crash. The tragic mistake was the reelection of Trump on Nov 5, 2024 that’s resulting in our Nation decline & daily chaos
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/01/2025
It looks like a bribe and a signal to every company that corruption is the name of the game. After Meta pays to play, what does Mark Zuckerberg expect as a return on this investment?
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 30/01/2025
On January 22, Aviation Security Advisory Committee members were told Trump was cutting members of all advisory committees in a “commitment to eliminating the misuse of resources and ensuring that DHS activities prioritize our national security.” (4/7) newrepublic.com/post/190934/...
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Trump Gutted Key Aviation Safety Committee Before D.C. Plane Crash
It’s hard to understand why he thought this was a good idea.
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