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Robert Franek

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2025
BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode
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Robert Franek @robertfranek.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I hope @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com welcomes you soon to @lastword.msnbc.com!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Overnight, House Republicans passed a budget that would give huge tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Now, it's on to the Senate. Call your senators and demand they do everything in their power to stop this theft: 202-224-3121
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Skimac22 @skimac22.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Isn't it about time? #Families #WomensRights #ChildCare #MaternityPaidLeave
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"What's to stop a foreign government, eager to bribe the American president, from quietly dumping money into Trump’s crypto project, effectively making direct payments to the president without public disclosure? Nothing." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Trump’s controversial meme coin ‘contest’ proves predictably profitable for the president
“This isn’t Trump just being Trump,” a Democratic senator said. “The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a president has ever done.”
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Cuddling a water sausage.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump is destroying US weather forecasting and research because he dislikes the word "climate": "While the phrase 'climate change' refers to manmade influence on climate via planet-warming pollution, 'climate' in NOAA parlance is simply weather observed over time..." www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Trump’s budget plan eviscerates weather and climate research, and it could be enacted immediately | CNN
The cuts could cripple US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including seve...
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Recap: *Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland *Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark *She is fired The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' JD Vance
The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers' ability to lead.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25 the president himself is off to a golf event.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Breaking, per NBC News @garygrumbach.bsky.social -- Judge Paula Xinis in the District of Maryland has ruled that the United States Government must return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by April 7 at 11:59p
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Eugene Robinson is leaving the Washington Post after 45 years following Jeff Bezos' "significant shift" to the paper's opinion section
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Eugene Robinson Leaves the Washington Post After Jeff Bezos' 'Significant Shift' to Opinion Section
"I wish nothing but the very best for the paper and for all of you. I won't be a stranger," the political columnist tells his colleagues after 45 years at WaPo
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Robert Franek @robertfranek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“Donald Trump held a big event in the Rose Garden to slap tariffs on a bunch of Antarctic penguins.” @karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...
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Complete And Total Incompetence As Trump Slaps Tariffs On Penguins
The Trump White House announced tariffs on the Heard and McDonald Islands. The problem is that no people live there.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/04/2025
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
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Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.” -Susan Crawford
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Robert Franek @robertfranek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“This night was nothing short of a disaster for Republicans. Not only did the myth of the Trump mandate go up in flames, but the GOP’s money man tried to literally buy an election and failed.” @karijerge.bsky.social @solnatamd.medsky.social @leahschade.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...
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The American People Can't Be Bought As Elon Musk Humiliated In Wisconsin Election
Elon Musk's attempt to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court election has backfired as Democrats are on their way to big win.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/04/2025
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker just spoke to reporters at the Capitol: "I was very aware of Strom Thurmond's record since I've gotten to the Senate. I always thought it was a strange shadow to hang over this institution. ... It always seemed wrong to me." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 02/04/2025
Congratulations to Wisconsin’s newest Supreme Court Justice, Susan Crawford! The voters spoke loud and clear: Wisconsin is not for sale.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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The Senate will vote to advance President Trump's nomination of Matthew Whitaker to be the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He previously served as Acting Attorney General during the first Trump Administratio...
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Robert Franek @robertfranek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Any time that Strom Thurmond and his kind can be pushed deeper into the dustbin of history, it is a good day for America. The fact that it happened during the presidency of the modern Strom Thurmond, Donald Trump, is a bonus.” @karijerge.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/politicu...
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Cory Booker Erases Racist Strom Thurmond From History While Setting Senate Record
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) set the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, and as a bonus erased Strom Thurmond from the record books.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
🔥 Neguse absolutely dog walks Newt Gingrich during a hearing about "judicial coups" today
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There are lots of new details about Cory Booker's speech in our TPM writeup about his record. He set out to do this about a week ago. He brought on a former staffer who led a team that helped him fill over a dozen binders with 1,164 pages of material. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 02/04/2025
“In this democracy, the power of people is greater than the people in power.” -Senator Cory Booker
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
do you think Cory Booker can make it for 3 years and about 10 months longer?
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 01/04/2025
Okay now Sens. Cory Booker and Chris Coons (a Yale Divinity School grad) are literally just having a lengthy discussion of scripture and the Bible on the Senate floor right now. Religious left: still a thing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
There’s no reason to go to this thing.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is exactly what his campaign tariff policy promised. He was promising to destroy the market & the economy. But most campaign reporters didn’t comprehend that.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 31/03/2025
At least 2 faith groups are represented at the Trans Day of Visibility Rally happening on the National Mall at the moment — Interfaith Alliance Bend and Bend the Arc Jewish Action — and Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, head of the ELCA, issued a video message to mark the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba52...
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Transgender Day of Visibility 2025 | Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton | March 31, 2025
YouTube video by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Rogue Citizen One @roguecitizenone.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Day of Visibility I am in awe of the courage it takes to live authentically when transgender, nongender-conforming, and nonbinary people's rights are being threatened. Join me in fighting for a world where everyone can live with dignity and without fear.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Absolutely chilling interview by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social in the New Yorker. Their strategy is to break the institutions that serve as pillars of our democracy — media, judiciary, lawyers, Dems’ ability to raise money & mobilize volunteers — to ensure we can’t win elections. We must stop them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Pushback works, part gazillion: "Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices." popular.info/p/how-the-so...
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How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"The problem with a delayed response is that the more power leaders with authoritarian tendencies accumulate, the harder it is to mount an effective resistance. The opposition is thus more likely to succeed if it acts early..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
@karaswisher.bsky.social: "Every accusation is a confession with these people... Elon is exactly what they claim to have hated with George Soros. But he's explicit and right in front of you buying elections."
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Just in case you missed this from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker: "Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."
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Princess of Ely @princessofely.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
JFC. 🧐
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