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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026
really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/04/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/01/2026
Breaking: Video shows another shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis
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Breaking: Video shows another shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis
Agents shot the man several times after wrestling him to the ground.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/01/2026
“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement; instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by the federal government."
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A federal agent shot another person in Minneapolis. Then Trump threatened the Insurrection Act.
Gov. Tim Walz said the federal government is waging “a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota.”
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 23/11/2025
The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
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“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...
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What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism.
Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal. Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators. Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
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Larry Krasner @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Fantastic day at the #NoKings protests here in Philly! FAFO!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2025
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe the Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
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The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it was terminating its labor contract with the union representing over 30,000 prison employees, marking the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to tighten control over the federal workforce.
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Federal Bureau of Prisons moves to end union protections for its workers
The federal Bureau of Prisons it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protection...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We used to help countries defend themselves against stuff like this. Under this administration, that help has been stopped. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/e...
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Moldova warns Russia unleashing huge interference campaign to sway crucial election | CNN
As Moldova prepares for a crucial parliamentary election on Sunday, Russia is ramping up its efforts to interfere in the vote, officials say, in what they describe as a brazen attempt to halt the west...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/09/2025
President Trump is hellbent on targeting real or perceived political opponents based on their constitutionally-protected beliefs and speech, but he has no legal authority to designate U.S. groups or individuals as "terrorists." This latest threat jeopardizes all of our First Amendment rights.
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Trump Gives Antifa Confusing New Designation
Donald Trump’s latest attack makes no sense.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · 09/09/2025
Some in Congress can’t muster maturity when they have a transgender colleague. But members of the U.S. Armed Forces can—and have. My NDAA amendments repeal Trump’s cruel trans military ban & restore retirement benefits to trans veterans forced out of service.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is a perfect statement. Thank you, Congresswoman.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/09/2025
BREAKING: A White House official tells Al Jazeera that Washington “was informed of the operation targeting Hamas officials in Qatar”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ayb6pi
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Absolutely fucking horrifying. A greenlight for racial profiling and terrorizing communities. John Roberts and the MAGA majority shredding the constitution to carry Trump's water.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/08/2025
While South Asia’s seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change is making it deadly.
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Two million impacted as Pakistan’s Punjab faces worst floods in its history
While South Asia’s seasonal monsoon brings rainfall that farmers depend on, climate change is making it deadly.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/08/2025
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
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Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
It's not justified, conservationists say. "It’s just incredibly cruel.”
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
And a friend sends me this, from a prominent crypto bro 2/
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
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In the Matter of Lisa Cook
Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My latest.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/08/2025
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, has been sanctioned by the Trump administration for documenting and demanding accountability for Israeli crimes. "I'm not going to step back and I'm not going to stop my work," she says of the U.S. pressure campaign.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A new executive order turns the National Guard into his personal police force. @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/janessag...
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Issued Today: Trump’s New End Run Around the Insurrection Act
A new executive order exploits a legal loophole to turn National Guard in the President's personal police force and deploy them into states that refuse his agenda.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Prof. Pfaff always has the data.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/08/2025
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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Israel starving Gaza: 263 dead from starvation, including 112 children
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Immigration thugs drew their guns on a disabled kid & dragged him from a car outside a school. Then they somehow left a bunch of bullets on school grounds. When agents were contacted to pick up the ammunition, they told the school to use it for target practice. www.huffpost.com/entry/la-boy...
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Immigration Agents Detain Boy With Disabilities Outside LA School
After the school principal intervened, the agents left live bullets behind in a case of what the district superintendent called "mistaken identity."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/08/2025
Gaza health authorities say nearly 200 people, including 96 children, have died of hunger, as the WHO warns that 12,000 children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition due to Israel's blockade aje.io/lev0jv
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Famine kills nearly 200 in Gaza amid ‘apocalyptic’ battle for survival
Two children died of starvation on Thursday, as WHO warns 12,000 children aged under five suffering acute malnutrition.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2025
“It would be an earthquake in politics and make our legislative bodies whiter.”
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The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them
And justices don’t want you to notice.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
SLIDESHOW: The iconic White House Rose Garden is now more of a rose display area after President Donald Trump paved over the grass expanse. talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/pres...
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President Trump Actually Paved Over The Rose Garden
The iconic White House Rose Garden is now more of a rose...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2025
As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
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As Gaza suffers, US companies are reaping horrific payoffs | Katrina vanden Heuvel
A report this month details US corporate involvement in IDF actions. Grassroots organizing offers opportunity for change
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out. "The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The capitulation and abandonment of civil rights continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
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Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2025
Long before he became secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was laying the groundwork for his war on vaccines. We have the receipts📑
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A non-exhaustive timeline of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s war on vaccines
He's transformed conspiracy theories into action and reshaped American policy in just a few months.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/07/2025
Forget Fed Reserve renovation cost overruns, Trump’s hiding the price tag for his revamped Air Force One. Nearly $1 billion meant for nukes was quietly rerouted to refurbish his "flying palace." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Is Trying to Hide the Cost of Renovating His New Air Force One
The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/07/2025
Donald Trump is coming for the “holy grail” of climate regulations: the Obama-era “endangerment finding” at the center of the EPA's ability to address climate change. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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"Another Big Lie": Trump's EPA plans to stop regulating greenhouse gases
And put the whole planet on the chopping block.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/07/2025
“Mothers throughout time have always put in that extra labor because they care about the health of their families.” Now "Science Moms" are taking on the greatest threat to humanity. Of course. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Science Moms' bipartisan mission: Educate other mothers about climate change
It's "like watching them grow up: We blink and we miss it.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”
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FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/07/2025
We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness.
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OPB @opb.org · 25/07/2025
Kaiser Permanente will no longer provide surgical treatments for gender dysphoria at its hospitals and surgical centers for patients under the age of 19. It cited the federal government’s campaign against gender-affirming care for minors.
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Kaiser to halt gender-affirming surgery for patients 19 and under across the US, including Oregon and Washington
Kaiser is the latest health system to announce it is ending some services for transgender children and young adults, as the Trump administration increases legal and regulatory pressure on providers.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/07/2025
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
SCOTUS is allowing Trump to fire (at least for now) the three Democrat-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC regulates safety of everyday consumer products. Guess who recently sued the agency and claimed that it's unconstitutional? Amazon.
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