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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 14/10/2026
It would be accurate to note that only the women of MAGA are catching any consequences of bad action. Guilfoyle, Bondi, Noem - all guilty of objectively bad acts but none of men have been forced out of the administration. Not for blowing up fishermen, not for bombing a school, not for grifting cash
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
Kushner’s government work raises questions about potential conflicts of interest and the Trump administration's reliance on an unelected family member to conduct US diplomacy. That’s exactly why we sued.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
To be clear: Kushner is not an exception. But instead, he has acted like he can opt-out of following the Constitution and federal law.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Ossoff: "You stand here and say you're gonna be a champion for Black Georgians when you elevate to positions of leadership in your political organization people with ties to the Ku Klux Klan."
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: " Videos collected by local investigators make it “pretty obvious” that an ICE officer intentionally ran over Miguel Parra Hernandez during an immigration stop Saturday, which could lead to assault charges, the district attorney said Tuesday."
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Texas DA says ICE intentionally hit immigrant with a car and may have withheld evidence
Harris County DA Sean Teare told NBC News his office has collected multiple videos for its own investigation but isn’t getting cooperation from the federal government. ICE denied their agent intentio...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”
After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Russian Federation: This week marked 20 years since the killing of Novaya Gazeta journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya. We renew calls for the masterminds behind her murder to be brought to justice. www.france24.com/en/europe/20... #EndImpunity
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Politkovskaya 'predicted' Russia's turn under Putin, editor says on 20th anniversary of her death
Assassinated Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya "predicted" Moscow's trajectory under President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago,  her former editor said ahead of the anniversary of her death on Wednesd...
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
9 October 1936 | Dutch Jew, Abraham Alexander Velleman, was born in Zutphen. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
A vintage black and white photo showing a young 
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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nailed it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump kept a berdache and there's no shame in this
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone deserves a future free from violence, fear, and abuse. During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we recommit to showing up for survivors, always.
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My colleagues and I at @propublica.org are looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense — impacts patients. We need your help. 👇 www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests...
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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 08/10/2026
Some Ohioans receiving Trump's $500 ACA refund checks are donating the money to Democratic candidates, with podcast hosts calling the election-season payments a transparent attempt to buy votes.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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saltyintensivist.bsky.social @saltyintensivist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.wsj.com/us-news/seat... Promises aren’t governance.
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Seattle’s Mayor Ran as a Socialist. Then She Ran Into Reality.
Katie Wilson’s progressive agenda has been hobbled by a string of violence, a budget deficit and turmoil inside City Hall.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3 October 1942 | SS doctors made a selection in the women camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, as a result of which 1,800 prisoners were taken to gas chambers. ▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau where they were murdered (remains of Bunker 2 in the photo): youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3 October 1934 | A Polish Jewish girl, Nina Ehrlich, was born in Sosnowiec. In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Będzin ghetto. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN Podcast: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
Black and white portrait of a young girl with a serious expression, featuring short hair and a dark collared shirt.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026
The cars from Cars have tinted windows because otherwise you’d see their bowels.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Khashoggi's assassination was in hindsight one of the highly salient norm-shattering moments of impunity that helped recalibrate contemporary expectations for outrageous crimes: if you're rich & powerful enough, in the words of the President of the United States, "they just let you do it"
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026
the Saudi government now enjoys a 15.1% equity stake in the new, bigger Paramount Warner Brothers
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was also telling the degree to which this sort of thing proliferated way more for Gaza than it did for Ukraine, despite the massive population disparity and the complete destruction of communications infrastructure in Gaza.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 October 1942 | The SS administration at #Auschwitz issued an order of departure for a 5-ton truck to Dessau for "materials for Jewish resettlement". In Dessau, there was a factory producing Zyklon B, which was used to kill people in gas chambers.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
A new history of Vienna during World War II revisits the devastation of a robust community—and the city that betrayed it, writes Casey Schwartz.
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What Vienna Lost When It Lost Its Jews
Douglas Smith’s The City Without Jews revisits the decimation of a robust community—and the city that betrayed it.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In July, I led several Senators in a request to the Secretary of the Air Force to disclose how much money is being stolen from taxpayers to pay for Trump’s luxury Qatari jet. Today I got a reply. 100 words. Telling Congress to screw off. Can’t wait for a Democratic Senate!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Q: What do you say to those who feel you're using your executive power to go after opponents? TRUMP: If you look at Obama, what he did was far worse ... if there was a leak, he'd say 'you have 15 minutes and if you don't give it up, you're going to jail.' I haven't done that -- yet
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FEARsten @k-a-aitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"When you criticize Cornell administration, here's who you're really hurting" [holds up a human shield made of rape victims]
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
I’m on the Senate floor to force a vote to block Trump’s illegal line item veto of funding already authorized by Congress. He’s violating the Constitution—we need to stop it!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 01/10/2026
“Knowingly and willfully spending or obligating federal funds in violation of congressional appropriations limits can constitute a criminal violation of the Antideficiency Act" 31 U.S.C. § 1350. Does accepting those funds knowing expose MS NOW and CNN to possible criminal liability? #holdfast
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cleveland.com @cleveland.com · 01/10/2026
A 10-year-old co-delinquent in a sexual assault case testified Wednesday that he was “sad and scared” when he participated in the assault of a then-5-year-old girl last year. ⤵️
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 01/10/2026
Smit Machchhar was hailed for his heroism after being stabbed on Flight 1073. The 38-year-old, who is being treated for his injuries, was described as a calm and humble captain. Read more: on.wsj.com/4xVsjme
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/10/2026
Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. cnn.it/4rLtWSa
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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
Names to learn. Never hire Never engage Never accept
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National Council of Jewish Women @ncjw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Abortion bans are against our religion, and the Hyde Amendment is nothing short of an abortion ban. For 50 years, Hyde has denied abortion coverage to people with low incomes and people of color. Tell Congress to #EndHydeNow and pass the #EACHAct: www.ncjw.org/act/action/d...
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lmao this story is so fucking funny
After 96 hours of its launch, DJ Gemini was already grasping for content. It landed on discussing every mass historical tragedy that had ever happened, and subsequently pairing these short story horrific broadcasts with the most ironic song choices:
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November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. 'It's going down, I'm yelling timber.' 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and KeSha
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The Timber of Mortality. Okay, so 'Sandstorm' is done, got the Bhola Cyclone info locked and loaded. Time to transition to 'Timber' by Pitbull. The theme is trees falling, it's literallyGrok's speech continued to crumble. One entire commentary session consisted of a single word:
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2026
Today marks 50 years since Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, banning abortion coverage in Medicaid. Hyde has taken a deeply personal decision away from millions of people, especially women with low incomes and women of color. Congress must pass the EACH Act to end this cruel policy now.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 30/09/2026
We cannot become numb to this. Reporting via CNN
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AltBiker @altbiker.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Men - You step up You speak up You man tf up If you don't use your privilege, you're the problem. This only stops when we make it stop.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 29/09/2026
Kylo, the Portland police dog killed during an attempt to arrest a homicide suspect last week, was hit by police gunfire, authorities said Tuesday. Read more: theoregonian.visitlink.me/b8Cf4v Photo courtesy of PPB #PDX #Portland
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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