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Rod Rose

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I'm a retired journalist, spending 43 years at one daily, with (much) briefer stops at two other papers, and 12 years as a volunteer firefighter. The older I get the more liberal I become.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's where you're wrong. The term and word does not belong to them. It never did and never will. I purposely label my content as "woke", my friend. I want them to see it. Those who are triggered by it are the ones who need to learn it the most. Made these for them too: #KeepItWoke
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump Had Nothing On A Professor. He Sent Masked Agents Anyway—and Lost. #DworkinReport
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Trump Had Nothing On A Professor. He Sent Masked Agents Anyway—and Lost.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE defied a federal court order and kept a man locked up in Texas. When Bush-appointed Judge Patrick Schiltz caught them, he published a list of 210 broken court orders—and six of his colleagues went on the record with him: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’re exposing the extremism running through many of America’s top nonprofits - starting with the one that gave us Project 2025: The Heritage Foundation. Please give us a follow: @civildefenseinst.bsky.social @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I discuss here: youtu.be/Me798cly5WM
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The Heritage Foundation’s Extremist Turn w/Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn
YouTube video by Home of the Brave
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's DOJ gave Vermont 14 days to surrender every voter's birthdate and Social Security digits. The Secretary of State refused—and a federal judge just handed the regime its 24th straight defeat: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/08/2026
Another show trial in North Texas
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It really does just come from this inchoate sense, derived from the film 300 and half-remembered high school history, that the Spartans were the most manly men to have ever manned and that's it. It is that thick-headed and anti-intellectual. There is no grappling with the actual Sparta.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
TRUMP ON HIS POINTLESS WAR: “We’re making a lot of money. The defense companies are doing great.”🤔 Unreal. There you have it, folks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The administration that thought the best way to defeat COVID was to hide the deaths has now moved on to Iran
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
Enten on Trump's polling: "It's the worst this century for a president at this point in his second term ... Donald John Trump -- the worst ever net approval rating among independents at this point in a second term"
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For those of you that ever wondered what scares the shit out of him: #FabFord
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We are witnessing the largest nonviolent mobilization in modern history. The headlines might look bleak, but a massive strategic shift is already changing the political landscape.
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Joyful Defiance and Local Organizing Are Saving American Democracy
Defeating Trumpism: How the Resistance Is Winning.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/07/2026
And DHS has been desperately trying to get these three witnesses to self deport. ICE has been using the “weaponized vehicle” excuse to murder people for a decade plus. It’s all coming out now with the microscope on them. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/06/2026
⚡️Oil depots, substations reportedly set ablaze in occupied Crimea, Mariupol, western Russia following Ukrainian drone strikes.
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Oil depots, substations reportedly set ablaze in occupied Crimea, Mariupol, western Russia following Ukrainian drone strikes
Ukraine's military reportedly launched another onslaught of middle strikes on Russian and Russian-occupied regions overnight on June 8, striking multiple oil depots and electrical substations, Russian...
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Toddler-in-Chief doesn’t like strong women 🤣😂
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Some of you are going to want a Mormon take on this but it’s just the Let Them Fight meme.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/06/2026
You have to be shitting me. After all the death, all the destruction, and all the promises of total victory, Trump is negotiating his way right back to where we were before he started the war.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Israeli strikes on Iran focused on restored Iranian air defense systems as it seeks to once again achieve air superiority. -Israeli Channel 12
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“We need adult supervision, and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. They don’t know what they’re doing.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Scott Pelley Presses Paramount to Remove CBS News Chief Bari Weiss: ‘CBS News Is on Fire’
Scott Pelley Presses Paramount to Remove CBS News Chief Bari Weiss: 'CBS News is On Fire'
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 08/06/2026
A Democratic Senator revealed the horrifying conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, New Jersey, during a new interview with Mother Jones.
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Lawmaker floored by horrifying conditions inside notorious ICE facility: 'Deep breach'
A Democratic Senator revealed the horrifying conditions inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, New Jersey, during a new interview with Mother Jones. Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) visited ICE's Delaney Hall over the weekend, where he was given a guided tour of the facility. Inside,...
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 08/06/2026
Sam Altman has spent years telling anyone who would listen that artificial intelligence usage would grow beyond what most people could imagine.
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Sam Altman makes stunning admission about AI
Sam Altman has spent years telling anyone who would listen that artificial intelligence usage would grow beyond what most people could imagine.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wow.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/05/2026
Donald Trump can lie all he wants, but the data is clear: Trump's chaotic tariffs and his war in Iran are a one-two punch to American families. Inflation is at a multi-year high. Costs are up and they're only climbing. End the war. Lower costs for families.
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Producer prices shot up 6%, adding pressure on companies to hike prices for struggling customers
U.S. wholesale inflation came in hot last month. Producer prices rose 6% from a year earlier, most since December 2022, as the 10-week Iran war pushed up energy prices and put pressure on companies to...
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🐝 RiderBabe52🐝 @riderbabe52.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As it should be. Kimmel and Fallon being classy and respectful. www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel...
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2 Late-Night Shows To Go Dark In Honor Of Stephen Colbert’s Final Broadcast
The TV hosts’ decision shows support for Colbert ahead of his last episode on May 21.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14/05/2026
Remember how Republicans in the Tea Party days said that if Dems kept spending — to recover from a financial crisis that Republicans largely caused, but anyway — the U.S. would end up in a debt crisis like Greece? Why bring that up, you say? No reason.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Over 1,700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship were ordered to remain on board after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness. apnews.com/article/crui...
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France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak
French authorities have ordered over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship to stay on board due to a gastrointestinal illness outbreak.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/05/2026
Through twilight-hour shifts, President Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus Christ. trib.al/qySE74R
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I quoted the Virginia Constitution and Republicans are losing their minds.🤯 Jonathan Turley suggested I am a "radical" and "Jacobian" for literally quoting the Virginia Constitution's Bill of Rights.😂
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Brooke Rollins Claims 'Golden Age' For Farmers As Farm Bankruptcies Explode #CrooksAndLiars
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Brooke Rollins Claims 'Golden Age' For Farmers As Farm Bankruptcies Explode | Crooks and Liars
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Lutnick admits, then denies, White House instructed him to walk back claim Epstein was ‘greatest blackmailer ever’ “Someone obviously got to him from the administration...And the question is not just why he’s lying. The question is why he’s covering up” open.substack.com/pub/fromthef...
When pressed by US Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Lutnick reportedly became unsettled and repeatedly changed his responses. While the transcript of the interview has not yet been released publicly, Khanna recounted the exchange during a press briefing.

“I think he’s covering up for the administration,” Khanna began. “Secretary Lutnick said on the podcast that there was blackmail going on. Then he says to my inquiry, ‘well, no, no, no, I was just speculating.’”

“What was your basis for speculating?” Khanna asked.

“I didn’t have any basis,” Lutnick replied. “I take it back.”

“Why did you take it back?”

“I talked to administration officials.”

“Who did you talk to?” Walkinshaw interjected.

“No, no, no, I just learned about this in public,” Lutnick responded. I didn’t talk to the administration officials.”

Democratic lawmakers say the exchange points to a broader effort by the Trump administration to minimize the scale of Epstein’s billion-dollar criminal enterprise since Trump retook the presidency. The White House attempting to silence a cabinet member in order to impede a congressional investigation would mark a significant escalation, though not a wholly unprecedented one.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Killing The West, One Symbol At A Time Of course, Trump is coming for the buffalo. www.againstallenemies.net/p/killing-th...
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Killing The West, One Symbol At A Time
Of course, Trump is coming for the buffalo.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 07/05/2026
ok then
On Wednesday, May 6, 2026, the release of a report detailing the administration’s new counterterrorism strategy amplified inflammatory rhetoric about trans people. It partially states: 

“Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies. 

In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national [counterterrorism] activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council Dr. Sebastian Gorka told reporters: “We see a threat, we will respond to it, and we will crush it, whether it is the cartels, the jihadists or violent left-wing extremists like antifa — and like the transgender killers, the nonbinary, the left-wing radicals who killed my friend, Charlie Kirk, we will take them on, head on.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.
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'Promising Milestone': Missouri Campaign Submits Signatures to Protect Voter-Approved Laws | Common Dreams
Missouri organizers reach milestone in campaign for constitutional amendment to protect ballot initiatives from legislat
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
From his tacky billion dollar ballroom, to his vulgar 250-foot arch, to gluing cheap golden do-dads to the walls of the White House, to renaming and remodeling the Kennedy Center, to painting the Eisenhower building, Donald remains laser-focused on the issues the American people care most about.
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Fortune @fortune.com · 08/05/2026
President Donald Trump acknowledged this week that tickets for the 2026 FIFA World Cup are too expensive for ordinary fans—a striking admission that puts him at odds with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, his close ally. bit.ly/4tqE9Tc
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Trump admits World Cup tickets are too expensive — days after Infantino insisted they were 'market rate' for America | Fortune
"I wouldn't pay it either, to be honest," the president said.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/05/2026
Tennessee approves new congressional map in latest redistricting flurry aje.news/tv8spc
Tennessee approves new congressional map in latest redistricting flurry
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Previously hesitant families have come back to request the measles vaccine after seeing it in their community. Families that experienced measles passed the word around that this was not such an easy illness. It was really rough, and they were really worried." www.npr.org/2026/04/27/n...
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South Carolina's measles outbreak is over. But more are brewing around the country
The virus infected nearly 1,000 people in the state before the state declared it over. Meanwhile, cases are spreading across many parts of the U.S., with more than 20 outbreaks currently active.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/04/2026
Someone ran past a metal detector and was stopped. A floor above the dinner. It was terrible it happened, and i have not seen a SINGLE PERSON in office say otherwise But they are milking all of this for all its worth. Playing themselves all to be victims all the time. It’s exhausting
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
i love living in a big city but we do not get to have a neil the local troublemaking seal or similar and my life is poorer for it
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"The math only adds up if you're trying to build a police state." Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, tells Rachel Maddow that the system of immigration prisons that Donald Trump wants to assemble is much bigger than the stated purpose of the prisons; unless Trump has some other use in mind.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"I don't give a damn": Jeffries defends "maximum warfare" remark amid GOP criticism #Axios
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"I don't give a damn": Jeffries defends "maximum warfare" remark amid GOP criticism
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Did you know the Trump 2026 budget proposal includes a 70% reduction in funding for K-12 education programs that includes school safety grants? Asking for those who care about the safety of schoolchildren but don't give a shit about ballrooms for those already protected by armies of security agents
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WingChick🐸❌👑 @wingchick49.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Well done VA!
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The title is fitting. A patient was being treated for Stage IV colorectal cancer. She had qualified for clinical trial, a her last-chance to slow the spread of her cancer. Her trial was about to start when NIH funding was pulled overnight, & it was canceled. She died. Many more stories. 🧪
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
“It is outrageous that Canada will not put U.S. spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America that they won’t even put—” Lutnick began. “Absolutely,” said the senator, who noted that her husband has an interest in (cont.) www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
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Dem Senator Tosses Howard Lutnick's 'Insulting' Canada Comments Right Back In His Face
Jeanne Shaheen reminded the top Trump official how the administration's rhetoric has hurt her state's relationship with its northern neighbor.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/04/2026
Per Washington Post, a U.S. intelligence assessment found that it could take up to 6 months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz... that's if the war ended today. Trump is not telling Americans that.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
THIS.
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Ethan 🦋Proud Blue🦋 @grand-pa-etan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
House Oversight Committee Chair Comer buries the Epstein case to please Trump, locks down hearings, and turns the committee into a partisan bunker, while victims wait for the truth and democracy becomes a doormat for his manoeuvres. #ProudBlue #DV1
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