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A simple mom fighting for her kid's futures

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The David Pakman Show @thedavidpakmanshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Twenty-six articles of impeachment. And that’s only the beginning.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The empathetic folks at Mar-a-Lago react to hearing you lost your healthcare, your child has measles, and you can't afford to gas up your truck:
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I’m holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her, and to all survivors: you’re not alone. We stand with you.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eagles roasted by Case Keenum. Wow.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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A $40 Billion ETF Shuffle Helps Foreign Investors Dodge US Taxes
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
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Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We've all heard how corrupt Ken Paxton is. But he is also incredibly stupid if he thinks this "well, he served 60 whole days" excuse for releasing Adam Hoffman, who sexually abused a boy over a three-year period starting when he was 8.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JD Vance was campaigning at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro, NC, for Michael Whatley, who is running for North Carolina’s open US Senate seat. The venue holds 3,000 people. Vance had an audience of 300, most of whom were playing with their phones. thedailybeast.com/vance-humili...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
"'We have confirmation due to communication between Kate and Wilber that he’s in Pearsall for interrogation and still has the bullet lodged in his body. He’s received no pain medication and had to sleep on the floor.'"
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/09/2026
The man who was shot by an immigration officer in Austin said that he was discharged from a local hospital with a bullet still lodged near his spine and taken into custody by ICE officers within hours of the incident.
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Man shot by ICE says he was put in detention with bullet lodged near spine
Wilber Garcés Pérez said he was rushed out of a hospital and forced to sleep on the floor of an ICE detention center within hours of being shot in Texas.
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la-crystal.bsky.social @la-crystal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't think Gavin Newsome was actually worried about Hollywood jobs. I sincerely hope his part of this Paramount WB merger KILLS his dream of ever being POTUS. He's clearly not up to the job.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Now they’re suing him, and the case landed before a judge Trump himself appointed. But Trump is still furious about which judge they got, for one very specific reason.
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Trump Attacks His Own Judge After Banning Outlets From White House
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued after the Trump regime stripped their White House access, while New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani answered the ban by pledging access to every outlet.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/09/2026
A hunter is facing a manslaughter charge in Delaware in the fatal shooting of a woman whom he mistook for a deer while she crossed an open field with three other people, the authorities said.
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Hunter Mistook Woman for Deer in Fatal Delaware Shooting, Police Say
Walter W. Moorhead, 74, was charged with manslaughter in the death of Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, last week in Ellendale, Del., the authorities said.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
"What we need more than anything are institutions that trust that public, and a public that trusts them back. A museum in thrall to any orthodoxy, whether from the right or the left, forfeits that possibility." Something you might not be thinking about:
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How to Save the Smithsonian
The institution was born of debate and chance. Surviving today’s culture wars requires grounding its mission in open inquiry, shared inheritance, and the objects in its collection.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Missouri to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City, even though the state has already distributed ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri again ordered to use gerrymandered map for midterms — Supreme Court likely to decide
The circuit court ruling injects even more confusion into a year-long battle over which map the state will use for the general election.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This administration has all the competency seen in VEEP, but with none of the cleverness.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration is pressuring the National Park Service to give a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer. This isn't Trump's first attack on our beautiful national parks. Here's what you need to know.
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Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks
Americans love their national parks.There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.”So why are Tr
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To anyone writing about or thinking about the so-called "deal" with Venezuela for its oil reserves: It's theft, an "agreement" at the barrel of a gun. Please don't sanitize it. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Can America Ever Regain Its Honor?
A Saturday Prompt
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
These SociALiStS must be stopped! 🙃 ⚽️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
An all time touch grass heat check and people addicted to dumbass social algorithms will prob learn nothing
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The Odyssey will open to $258M
worldwide, according to the latest projections.
The third biggest opening of the year and the biggest opening ever for Christopher
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/07/2026
TODAY IN MAINE Protesters demanding justice for Joan Sebastián Guerrero. His family deserves answers. I haven’t even been allowed to access his body, and his parents are still trying to get visas so they can bring their son’s body home to Colombia.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“The mounting level of US government debt, on track for $40 trillion courtesy of this summer’s “big beautiful bill,” risks a tectonic crash for the US economy” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Social Security Will Start Running Out Earlier Than Expected
The date when the Social Security trust fund will be unable to pay 100% of benefits just got moved up.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
El-Sayed: Shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you rather than to drop bombs on somebody else and their kids
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
He is so shameless with his insider trading and market manipulations.
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CNN @cnn.com · 19/07/2026
For generations, the formula to get ahead seemed straightforward: Go to college, save your money, buy a home and climb the economic ladder. Today, that formula increasingly depends on something many Americans can't control: whether their family has the financial means to help. cnn.it/4pt2jMc
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/07/2026
Tetanus is rare, but cases continue to occur in people who are unvaccinated or have gone more than 10 years between Td booster doses.
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It was a small scratch. But tetanus left her fighting for her life.
Tetanus is rare, but cases continue to occur in people who are unvaccinated or have gone more than 10 years between Td booster doses.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/07/2026
Tennessee authorities are investigating the second fatal shooting in four days by a member of the federal task force dedicated to confronting crime in Memphis.
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Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is no longer about pond scum. It's about a police state acting like a police state. Outlets like WaPo that "both sides" this and give the WH "theory" credence with ZERO proof are no better than the journalists at Pravada during the Soviet era. It's no longer funny or pathetic. It's scary.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
omg this is insane
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency says “the strait will continue to be under Iran’s management” and “the nuclear file has not been discussed at all”
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/05/2026
After she made a Facebook post grieving her stillbirth, a Nevada mom was charged with manslaughter. Experts say she's not alone: cnn.it/4tQosVy
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A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern | CNN
Patience Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are criminalized – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws never intended to...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]
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Madelyne 🌴 @madelynerants.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
#SOUTHCAROLINA! Early voting begins on Tuesday at 8:30! You MUST MUST MUST get to the polls first thing and vote. Our democracy is on the line. The more people that vote before the Senate goes back into session at 11:00, the harder it will be for them to gerrymander us. VOTE EARLY !
Vote early graphic with Uncle Sam
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Maryland state government employees are banned from using inside information from their jobs to make money on prediction markets.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
WSJ reports that Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, for not alerting authorities after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of the person who later did the mass shooting there. Read my recent investigation—and I have more coming soon. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x
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The chilling role of ChatGPT in mass shootings and other violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We murdered two more people in a boat today.
U.S. Southern Command: On April 24, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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John Holland @johnholland.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.
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