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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Not accidentally shot vm.tiktok.com/ZMSDyFjeC/
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NPR @npr.org · 10/06/2025
UPDATE: The lawsuit, which says Trump's deployment order was unconstitutional, comes as the Department of Defense has mobilized 700 Marines for Los Angeles. via @kqednews.kqed.org
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California Sues Trump for Sending National Guard Troops Into LA After ICE Protests | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the federal lawsuit on Monday afternoon, arguing President Trump’s order federalizing 2,000 California National Guard troops — who normally opera...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
On June 14th, we show up. Coalition members will be present at all 1,800 events nationwide, over 90,000 strong, helping monitor local conditions. Many veterans have stepped forward to support protesters, stand in solidarity, and defend our right to be heard. We thank them.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/06/2025
When asked today if California Gov. Gavin Newsom should face legal consequences given the ongoing protests in Los Angeles, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) said he couldn’t comment on that but suggested the governor "ought to be tarred and feathered." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2025
"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."
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ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller
The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."
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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
My latest for NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...
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Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases
U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It's a welcome pivot for families and communities devastated by fentanyl.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
MADDOW: “What is this country going to allow him to do? This is an attempted authoritarian overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution and Government… imposition of a dictatorial regime. The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Great question
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ruurlo.bsky.social @ruurlo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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When the Cuts Hit Home
I am not an alarmist.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is allegedly backing a reality show by a ‘Duck Dynasty’ producer to make immigrants compete for citizenship. More: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 16/05/2025
SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps, help 1.4 million North Carolinians put food on the table ncnewsline.com/briefs/gov-j... #ncpol
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Gov. Josh Stein: Loss of SNAP dollars could have dire consequences • NC Newsline
Gov. Josh Stein issued a statement critical of proposed federal spending cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The governor said it would cost North Carolina $700 million to pr...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/05/2025
The Supreme Court holds that fascism is bad. Thomas and Alito dissent.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Sounds like Gabbard fired them for telling the truth. Not much “intelligence” going on here… www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang
Democratic lawmakers criticized the firings, suggesting they were punishment for providing information that didn’t support the administration’s agenda.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Lord Buffalo Drummer ‘Forcibly Removed’ From Plane and Detained by Border Patrol; Band Cancels European Tour
Yamal Said, Lord Buffalo's drummer and a legal permanent U.S. resident, was removed from a plane by Border Patrol and has been detained for two days.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
And the Qatari royal family has been unsuccessfully trying to sell it for five years.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025
If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.
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DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations
If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.
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ruurlo.bsky.social @ruurlo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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WS (@iamwandasykes) on Threads
Journalism. h/t tanya_73richard
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
With all the talk of product shortages , I think it should be said that products will first find their way to densely populated areas first and everywhere else, last This certainly will hurt all those red counties. How they react to their shelves being everything will define the midterms
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DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today — May 1 — is DC Statehood Day, a day of action for our cause to make DC the 51st state. We, the 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia, deserve voting representation in Congress, the right to set our budget, and the right to govern ourselves. Just like Americans in every single state.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
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RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2025
With nearly 40 years of legal practice, lawyer Abbe Lowell has represented many powerful people. Now he's starting a new law firm to represent those who have drawn the ire of President Trump. By @carriejohnson.bsky.social
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Legal veteran starts new firm to defend targets of Trump actions
With nearly 40 years of legal practice, lawyer Abbe Lowell has represented many powerful people. Now he's starting a new law firm to represent those who have drawn the ire of President Trump.
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upshittscreek1.bsky.social @upshittscreek1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We left England over separation of church & state Now they want no separation & they want everyone to be Christian nationalist. We had a revolution over an unfair tax/tariff on tea Now we have unfair tarriffs on everything & we're supposed be ok with that 🤬
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump didn’t declare martial law. He built it. His April 28 executive order militarizes police, guts oversight, and punishes dissent. The Insurrection Act report is hidden. Democracy is being signed away—one order at a time. #Resist #Authoritarianism Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/16KE...
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GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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BrewedFlames @brewedflames.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Diary of Anne Frank, 1943
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Oredigger @tfiashorty.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 18/04/2025
The GOAT. www.startribune.com/wisconsin-go...
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Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
The Wisconsin governor's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be ''attention grabbing,'' but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court...
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♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pam.sheshed.rocks · 18/04/2025
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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Hdill @hdill.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Reminds me of the Cool Hand Luke quote,”Aww, calling it your job don’t make it right, boss”!
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ilsaruthen.bsky.social @ilsaruthen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I just wonder what they tell their kids when they ask "Daddy, what did you do at work today?" Do they say "I grabbed little girl off the street" or "l dragged a man out of bed, and now they're both being thrown out of our country"? Do these guys sleep at night? Do they feel any guilt? Do they care?
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The Ghost Mother Hawke @rohancoop.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We also decided "I'm just following orders" was not an acceptable excuse to doing something horrendous around 80 years ago give or take
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If anyone you know in ICE tells you they’re “just following orders” remind them of the following: - they can read - they’re aware of the SCOTUS ruling and numerous injunctions around the illegality of what they’re doing - feigning ignorance will not soften their place in history…or in America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/04/2025
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Not the same indeed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
WATCH: “Tennessee may not be a swing state, but we are the tip of the spear when it comes to the culture war in 🇺🇸” Kanew tells @davidnir.com & @atrupar.com what Republicans do in Tennessee is coming your way next, so pay attention to what happens here. Full: www.the-downballot.com/p/justin-kan...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As Trump defies the Supreme Court and refuses to bring innocent father Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador — it’s worth remembering his Czar of Hate Stephen Miller has always been viciously anti-immigrant, even in high school 👇🏽
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/04/2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions
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robussc.bsky.social @robussc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Turns out we were the human traffickers all along!
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Artie @epistemicrisis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I don’t believe it is but *who* is going to enforce the law in this case?
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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Meanwhile… Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation plans
Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/04/2025
NEWS: Consumer sentiment PLUNGED 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the second-lowest reading on records going back to 1952. April’s reading was lower than anything seen during the Great Recession.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
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EU, China start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Handelsblatt reports
The European Union and China have begun negotiations on the abolition of EU tariffs on imports of Chinese electric cars, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.
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