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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dear Lord save us from the lukewarm pastors who have replaced the Bible with Project 2025 because they seek access to political power.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, federal agents have detained at least 70 American children. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Motherfuckbuckets, this is giving me feels. I absolutely love this one. The combination of the time theme and the decades of everything feeling like it's getting more difficult, just super powerful. His rough around the edges delivery is so perfect for this.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Anthropic discloses more “unintended model actions” including ones affecting US government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. “Most are forms of persistence, in which Claude, when it cannot complete a task as given, works around a restriction instead of stopping.”
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Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Some may say "I don't do politics" but politics does them. #Vote #VoteBlue #IdontDoPolitics
Harris/Trump vote counts 

Did Not Vote count
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Do you think these people that have always hated trump but do not vote for Democrats have learned the importance of their vote? Elections hsve consequences.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A new live tracker has been set up called "Trump's Take" and it currently shows the criminal President has used the presidency to rake in almost $3 billion. See the details here: www.americanprogress.org/feature/tr… #TrumpCrimeFamily
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 08/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have *already* lost healthcare coverage since Trump returned to power: acasignups.net/26/10/08/rep...
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Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have already lost healthcare coverage under Trump 2.0
Last month I ran a detailed analysis of the most comprehensive, up-to-date effectuated enrollment data for Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange healthcare coverage changes since January 2025 (when ...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...
Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 09/10/2026
Here in Illinois, we're reducing food insecurity while strengthening local economies. By equipping producers with development and expansion funds, we're helping farmers, food processors, and small businesses provide local food across the state.
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New grant funding will help Illinois farmers and food processors expand infrastructure
Illinois officials announced $1.8 million in grant funding for the Local Food Infrastructure Grants program to help eligible organizations expand local food supply chains.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They’re saying it wasn’t a cyberattack, it was a “digital disruption” and took from noon to early evening to fix. That’s an incredibly long time for a hospital, especially if you had to cancel a days worth of procedures that probably took a year to book.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ties to the KKK bc of course. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-candid...
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Trump Pick’s Campaign Hit With Explosive Staff Revelations
Affiliates of Georgia candidate Mike Collins have ties to a group he has denounced as a “hate organization.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We’re going to need a new Pulitzer category this year for Best Leaked Audio of a GOP Senate Candidate
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic National Committee sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
Absolutely horrific
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026
Skydance anchor thinks the outgoing Congress seats the new Congress
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn, the gasp from the crowd here when the guy in the flannel shirt talks about driving home from a hospital after he and his wife realized it was falsely advertised as in-network
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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HoldSher @holdsher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I appreciate your sharing. Not trying to talk you out of it, but … 1. the next thing in my feed was this: www.ft.com/content/cf0b...
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We should call time on the ‘end times’
Narratives of looming apocalypse are a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with our politics
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Judge appears very skeptical about Team Trump’s probe of ABC TV stations youtu.be/tTjE8YcFxhg?...
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Trump LASHES OUT as Press Ban FALLS APART in Court!
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 06/10/2026
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins supports a dictator and brags about getting him to fling a few crumbs toward the peons.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These used to be very sought-after positions
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗳️ ROEVEMBER IS COMING @meidastouch.com 2022 Devastating results of overturning Roe v Wade #VoteBLUE
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sounds like as plan. #FightTheRight
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/10/2026
This is re: Brazil. Post below is “Hard to do anything when Facebook, X, and Instagram host all political discourse.” Yes. Media ownership matters. If we are going to fix US democracy we have to take on the challenge of prying media and platforms out of the claws of billionaires.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
"There is no way to be 'one of the good ones.' There is no way to come to America 'the right way' that will satisfy these gutter racists." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
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Editor's Notes: "The Indian Question" Shows That No One Is Safe From White Nationalism
That is the entire point.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026
Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I mean, this message could easily be given to Democrats.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Older Cuban men who had lived in the U.S. for decades have been deported to Mexico, where they have struggled to get by. Some Cubans have been deported to Africa.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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How Trump’s Deportation Policies Have Rocked a South Florida House Race (Gift Article)
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welp. Rosie and I are at the Animal Medical Center. Last weekend she was panting strangely. A lot. Then she seemed fine. Yesterday afternoon, tried to regurgitate. For awhile. Stopped moving for a bit. Today, weird droppings. Strike three. We’re at the vet. Wish us luck.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exactly.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because my Chicago White Sox are playing the Cleveland Guardians in the playoffs, I was subjected to a dishonest anti-trans TV ad that Republicans are running in Ohio to distract from their vandalism of the economy. There are no limits to what Republicans will do for money and power.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.
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In a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation
"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A young woman bravely reported that she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven men at their fraternity. But instead of protecting her, Cornell University protected her abusers, letting them off with a slap on the wrist.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FLASHBACK: “Any thoughts on that Wilson County ICE detention center? Core Civic’s 4 prisons loophole? Core Civic having a high death rate and failing audits?” @GovBillLee’s execution-botching TDOC Commish Frank Strada wasn’t thrilled to talk to us 🤷🏼 (He had issues in Arizona too)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission. (Published July)
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This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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