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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks. trib.al/NaRdnSM
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SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
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socialskillsslp.bsky.social @socialskillsslp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enraged? Me too. Let Cornell know.
Office of the President 
300 Day Hall
Cornell University 
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-5201
president@cornell.edu
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MTG has really been going after her own.
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North Dakota Monitor @northdakotamonitor.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. By @jennifershutt.bsky.social of @statesnewsroom.com buff.ly/DPXkDaZ
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more • North Dakota Monitor
The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FULL REPORT HERE - youtu.be/BaHFecRVEHI?...
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Gavin Newsom MIA as Fire RAGES Over “Salad Bowl of America”
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is insane. Only 48% of Americans have a passport.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This fucking guy should NEVER be president or anything else with power over others ever again, as I have been saying for YEARS, all the way back to when he cleared encampments of unhoused people personally with a fucking smile on his face. NO. NO WAY. NO.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE is invading North Jersey right now to the point that elementary schools are locking down. patch.com/new-jersey/b...
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ICE Activity Sparks Shelter-In-Place At School In Essex County
ICE was back in Essex County this week. Here's where other recent arrests and detentions have been reported.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: Republicans are encouraging voters to request mail ballots, despite filing lawsuits to restrict mail-voting deadlines, overseas voting and permanent absentee laws over the past six years. Experts say the push shows the party's duplicitous faith in mail voting security.
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‘Hypocritical’: RNC pushes mail voting for its supporters while attacking it in court
The RNC has sued across the country to restrict mail voting. But it also paid for emails and a website telling voters to “request your mail-in ballot now,” a Democracy Docket analysis found.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026
“The same people that said, ‘We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming’ … are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us,” Trump said ignoring the millions of people who have died as a direct result of the climate crisis.
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Trump Compares AI Warnings to Past Climate Fears He Wrongly Says Were a “Hoax”
Millions of people have died as a direct result of the climate crisis.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 21/09/2026
fuck. this is a horror.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump & Vought are politicizing critical medical research and make no mistake: in the long run, this will cost lives. Their continued attacks will put future cures and treatments at risk in service of their own political agenda.   Shameful.
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Austin American Statesman editorial board on the latest ICE shooting: "ICE agents are empowered to remove people who are not in the country legally. That is not a license to shoot them." www.statesman.com/opinion/edit...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/09/2026
The report says that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the boat strikes constitute “crimes against humanity of murder” under international law because they targeted civilians, and not those classified as combatants under any formal category of international law or otherwise.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is so much fun to watch. I’m practically giddy. Denying a narcissist his supply is the only way to get him to do what you want. And once you learn it works, well, it becomes a lot less frightening.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's Philly concert is over but big questions remain What was the role of Eagles' owner Jeff Lurie in the cancellation of Macklemore? How can there be censorship in a stadium owned by the city where American freedom was founded? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
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Eagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will Bunch
What’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They have deported 25,000 people - to third countries - without papers - without money - without speaking the language - without knowing anyone - without any help Indefensible.
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“They are weaponizing that narrative [trafficking] because it makes them out to be the good guys, and everything else makes it really clear that they’re not.”
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THIS IS THE WAY. Not only are they showing solidarity and pushing back—they’re depriving him of airtime and press coverage. I have to say it. It’s about time.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026
We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here in NJ, ICE has detained a man who cannot read or write, put him in the hospital for unknown reasons (I have a good guess), is refusing inquiries from the family about his condition or current whereabouts, and hasn’t assigned him an A number in eight days. The cruelty knows no bounds.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2026
Robert Kraft and most of his children are major donors to the United Democracy Project, DMFI, and AIPAC, having donated several million dollars combined to the three PACs across dozens of denominations. Kraft recently barred Macklemore from opening for singer Ed Sheeran at a stadium he owns.
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AIPAC’s Network Has Already Spent $67.2 Million to Shape the Midterm Elections
The giant influx from American Israel Public Affairs Committee PACs is a case study in money distorting politics.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Take care everyone. Live your life in such a way that people are genuinely sad when you pass on.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Post attempted to throw Karen Attiah overboard to prove their loyalty to the Trump regime & the mob that demands absolute conformity Our full @democracydefendersfund.org & @wbng.org statement 👇 -TN
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Karen Attiah Secures Landmark First Amendment Victory in Wrongful Termination Case Against The Washington Post
Independent arbitrator orders full reinstatement at the Post and back pay, vindicating journalistic freedom against corporate retaliation and censorship
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The CLASSISM reeks. Reeks.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Shoutout to the person who was like, "jUst cUriOus, are we only writing aspirational platforms now?" as if a political party platform isn't always exactly that.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I know this isn’t the point of this, but Jon Ossoff is so hot. (also you should watch this because in addition to being hot he is an incredibly gifted communicator. this reads as whipsmart and authentic simultaneously. 2028 is going to be really interesting.)
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A civilization racing off a cliff.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In essence, they are asking the world about their loyalty to DJT. Unhinged. And totally in character. Is there such a thing as narcissistic foreign policy?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
As part of its relentless project of mass deportation, Trump has taken particularly brutal aim at the most vulnerable population of immigrants: children. If the federal government has its way, about 20,000 unaccompanied minors will soon face immigration court hearings without legal representation.
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If Trump Has His Way, 20,000 Kids Could Face Immigration Court Without Lawyers
The federal government is withholding funding for legal representation and diverting it to dubious alternatives.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
BBC is currently interviewing two of Jason Arday’s friends and there is no question that this racist campaign in the UK press and among racist academics is exactly what killed him. Fucking shameful.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Progressives/DSA candidates are wiping the floor in primaries. One fragmentary loss does not a death knell make.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Declaring a national emergency doesn’t make Trump the election czar in this country. The United States Constitution does not give the president power over elections." On the pod, @rickhasen.bsky.social is so illuminating on Trump's new threat to declare emergency: newrepublic.com/article/2142...
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Trump Blurts Out Vile Plot to Steal Midterms as GOPers Grow Unnerved
As Trump’s election-theft schemes grow darker, an election law expert explains why we must take his threats seriously, even if they’ll likely fail—and lays out how we can prepare for the worst.
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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12/08/2026
New from NYT Magazine. Roberto Mosquera came to the U.S. from Cuba at 12 in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. He served his time for an old crime. Now he sits in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini, a country he had never heard of, with no charge and no way out. 🧵
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He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free. (Gift Article)
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/08/2026
It would slim regulation of the 60-year-old anti-poverty program and aim to save money. Advocates worry the changes could undermine the early education program's mission. n.pr/45eyZzZ
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Trump administration moves to deregulate Head Start, opening door for sweeping change
It would slim regulation of the 60-year-old anti-poverty program and aim to save money. Advocates worry the changes could undermine the early education program's mission.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When I unexpectedly lost my best friend to a brain aneurysm at 37, her donated organs saved seven lives plus someone’s eyesight. This is monstrous.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New: Andrew and Tristan Tate are facing sex trafficking and child porn charges. Yet Trump world had a party for them. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Update: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell to “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.” Thank you, Governor Beshear!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026
Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 26/07/2026
The Department of Homeland Security is shortening the duration of visas for foreign journalists working in the U.S. — a move that can have “profound implications for press freedom.”
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Reporters Committee statement on DHS changes to foreign journalist visas
“Changing the terms of foreign journalists' visas might appear subtle, but it can have profound implications for press freedom.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
www.cpr.org/2026/07/25/s...
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The Supreme Court shrunk clean water protections in the West. Colorado and New Mexico are restoring them
The ruling left many wetlands in streams vulnerable in the West, where waters can run dry for portions of the year but are still important for the overall ecosystem.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"But something else has shifted in Tremont. After the [successful] fight against the detention center, 'It doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat, Republican, the town has come together'...” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town
“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/07/2026
FEMA and DHS want to withhold 20% of states’ federal disaster grant funding — at least $148 million — if they do not make changes to their election systems demanded by Trump. Now, 25 states and D.C. are suing. demdock.com/3RzIeaB
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our government refuses to be transparent about whether Mitch McConnell is really alive or how many people have really died in this godforsaken war. It is mind boggling and so deeply unsettling.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not like we needed more proof, but calling the guy who brings food into war and disaster zones worldwide so people don't starve to death "an asshole" is next level billionaire evil shit.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026
NEW: In a win for voters, the First Circuit appeals court denied Trump's request to allow USPS to move forward with enacting his anti-mail voting executive order. The 2-1 ruling, which applies to 23 states and D.C., comes after a lower court blocked part of the order from being implemented.
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Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Trump's sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and D.C. ahead of November's midterms.
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