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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026
The Trump administration filed 32 appeals to the Supreme Court’s emergency docket in 2025 alone, one analysis found. The Obama and George W. Bush administrations filed just eight petitions in 16 years, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Collins is going to run by noting all the nominees she voted against while reminding everyone that she'll chair a major committee. You can try to tag her with "she's a Nazi symp," but she's not the one with the SS tattoo. I say this while noting, again, that she was the last straw for me as a GOPer.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is what I mean about the difference between empirical and normative. I’m not saying it’s a good argument. I’m saying it’s one she will run on and will work with a lot of people.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/07/2026
Today is a good day to be honest about where the country stands. America reached 250 years, but shared public life has collapsed. Ordinary places feel tense. People expect conflict. Donald Trump didn’t originate the divide, but he made it a constant feature of daily experience.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He lies about our founding documents, he actually lies about what The Declaration of Independence says, and the right is upset about Mamdani’s speech? Really?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/06/2026
"The on-camera dozing sessions are just one sign of Trump’s growing ailments, which are certainly not helped by staying up all night binging on a Truth Social algo feeding him a unhealthy buffet of Trump-worshipping AI slop, conspiracies, and Boomer meme garbage." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
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Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all
It's undeniable if you actually watch him.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
They. Just. Lie.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
There are more arrests of abusive federal agents coming. Full story here: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/one-judge-...
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One Judge Just Froze Trump's Slush Fund. Another Is Already Investigating It For Fraud. An ICE Agent Got Arrested. And 24 Attorneys General Boycotted JD Vance's Propaganda Trap.
Great news that’s terrible for Trump
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
That *is* an answer.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Mr “wonderful” still trying to build a 40,000 acre data center, still obsessed with the elevation Utah ladies
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Access is not everything. Trump is not a reliable source when he discusses the Iran war or any deal. Not a reliable source when he discusses the American economy, America’s status in the world, his own physical and mental health, the reality of what happened and happened to him in Butler, PA.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/05/2026
Experts estimate the death toll from babies not receiving vitamin K shots may be greater than reported. More than 700 newborns died from spontaneous bleeding in their brains in 2024, a common result of vitamin K deficiency.
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
1/2 ‼️🚨 "US Central Command said in a statement the strikes were taken in "self-defense", and were designed "to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces." What happened to the "ceasefire?" Wasn't Iran's military completely devastated? 🙄 Trump's F up continues... 🧾 t2m.co/yDwDbdOp
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US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran
The strikes on Iranian missile launch sites and boats were taken in "self-defence", US Central Command says.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Judge Amit Mehta when he sentenced the remorseless Rhodes to 18 years in prison: “I dare say, Mr. Rhodes—and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced—you pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-ongoin...
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The Ongoing Peril of a Seditious Regime
Trump's Justice Department is seeking to remove the seditious conspiracy indictment against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. We should not look away.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/05/2026
He had to be in DC when those shots were fired today. Guys I’m kidding mostly.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
Your daily reminder that this is all John Roberts' fault.
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So Trump won what with this war?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A total U.S. surrender.
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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is approximately 15 times more than the $1.7 billion that Obama released to Iran in 2016 (which was owed to the country) that Trump hasn't shut up about and cited as a prime reason to scuttle the JCPOA.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
omg this is insane
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
If the reports are true, Trump agreeing to allow Iran to keep its enriched uranium would be a total American surrender. What an abject humiliation for the United States in front of the entire world. Trump’s weakness and failure on full display.
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Axios @axios.com · 24/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: What's inside the Iran deal Trump is close to signing
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Exclusive: What's inside the Iran deal Trump is close to signing
The draft calls for reopening the strait, but leaves nuclear concessions for a later stage.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/05/2026
Trump’s endgame in Iran has become clear—as has his desire to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat, Robert Kagan argued earlier this week.
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Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender
He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“The despicable effort by Trump’s ‘Justice’ Dept—to deny Stewart Rhodes’ traitorous criminality and free him from the contempt and condemnation that he deserves—is one more reminder that the attack on our nation on Jan. 6, 2021 is a war that has not ended.” www.americaamerica.news/p/the-ongoin...
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The Ongoing Peril of a Seditious Regime
Trump's Justice Department is seeking to remove the seditious conspiracy indictment against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. We should not look away.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"No progress on Iran, no progress on trade, no progress on tariffs, but a stern lecture on Taiwan. Behold, the towering dealmaker of our time..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Despite the hype, Trump leaves China empty-handed and no better off than he was before
The president’s first trip to China was largely a flop. Nearly a decade later, his second excursion was worse.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Justice is supposed to be blind. Not dumb.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Where does grabbing women by the p***y fit into all this?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Remember how *hysterical* Republicans got when Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan in 2009? Well, here is Trump bowing before the President of China—and not a peep from the MAGA outrage machine.
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Vox @vox.com · 17/05/2026
"The ugliest thing I've ever seen": How New Jersey residents feel about a data center in their backyard. www.vox.com/america-actu...
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Inside the fight over America’s data centers
“The ugliest thing I’ve ever seen”: How New Jersey residents feel about a data center in their backyard.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
By definition, the base are the people who don’t need to be convinced to show up for you
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...
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Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tough guy! "When asked about a 'major cyberattack' from China, Trump shrugged indifferently. 'It is what it is,' he said... "Confronted with evidence that China was assisting Iran in its war with the U.S., Trump called China's actions just 'one of those things'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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As Trump arrives in Beijing, China is glad he’s president for all the wrong reasons
A recent report from a Beijing think tank thanked the president for weakening the U.S., calling Trump an “accelerator of American political decay.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy. What happens when that bubble bursts?
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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026
Developers are aiming to build the biggest data center complex in Virginia. It would be 22 million square feet, which works out to four Disneylands, or 61 Pentagons, or—because this is America—382 football fields. And developers are trying to buy up people’s houses and property to do it.
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Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
Our AI future lives inside miles and miles of windowless data centers spreading across the US. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
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Laura Kay @sallyatticum.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Talarico did very well with the Latino voters in the primaries.... I think the tide is turning for them..
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/05/2026
Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
agree entirely: centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...
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Redistricting Makes the House Map a Bit Redder, but Not By Enough to Protect Republicans from a Wave - Sabato's Crystal Ball
he House map has taken on a larger GOP bias as a result of redistricting, although when it’s all said and done, the bias by one measure may essentially be the same as it was in 2018, when Democrats easily won the House.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The same Democrats who spend their time policing and criticizing their own voters who oppose Israel's genocide and speak out against billionaires buying elections won't spend half the time or muster a sliver of the outrage against Republicans suppressing Black voters and reinstating Jim Crow 2.0.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/05/2026
“Cotton-picking hands” aimed at a Black man in 2026, and Republicans still have the nerve to ask why Black voters want nothing to do with the party of bigots. 📌 A host referred to Hakeem Jeffries as having “cotton-picking hands,” and Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans responded: “Yes to that.”
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This is a daily recitation from President Sundown these days, so one more time: His 2024 win was not remotely a landslide and not remotely a "clobbering." His margins in the popular vote margin and electoral college are both down in the bottom quartile all time. And no, his people do hurt us.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Blue states & blue cities are keeping the country afloat. Red states can’t make it in their own, they have to rely on tax dollars from cities like Chicago to pay the bills.
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
hmmmmm.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/04/2026
Kash Patel reportedly needs tactical teams to get him out of bed. While the FBI tackles global threats, he’s allegedly sleeping off hangovers and using taxpayer jets for private golf trips. If he can’t manage his alarm clock, he has no business managing our national security.
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
PS/ Imagine spending weeks being told by Trump and corporate media that Iran has no boats, only to learn that 67% of its boats are IRGC gunboats capable of closing the Strait of Hormuz with ease. DoD got media to ignore this inconvenient fact until it couldn't be ignored anymore.
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