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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Army Secretary resigned this week, leaving American forces without confirmed leadership at nearly every level. And with Pete Hegseth in charge, things are likely to get worse before they get better. 
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Running It Right Into The Ground
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This regime doesn’t want you to vote. They don’t want you to voice your concerns over their lack of doing anything for America. Tearing down democracy is the goal. Fuck them ALL! 🗣️ #Vote in numbers too big to rig!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE AS WELL.......
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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 02/09/2026
So... quick reminder.... executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. executive orders are not laws. EXECUTIVE ORDERS ARE NOT LAWS. guides.library.umass.edu/govinfo/exec...
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LibGuides: Government Information: Executive orders and proclamations
A Guide to Government Information Sources
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💙 amsterdamred 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪 Please NO DM'S Please. Just an Old Hippie @amsterdamred-5280.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Anyone or any country that has access should release the Epstein files in full, only REDACTING the victims (children who were sexually assaulted) and leaving the perpetrators UNREDACTED. Everyone needs to know the names of the scum.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Recommended reading: How Russia Won by @davidcorn.bsky.social. Available Sept 15 howrussiawon.com
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/06/2026
If any president tried to shape the rules of an election before votes were cast, we’d all be alarmed. We shouldn’t apply a different standard now. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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How Badly Can Trump Meddle In The Midterms?
Here are 5 ways experts warn the midterms could be influenced by the President
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
An entire section of the Trump admin’s blue $14.2 million waterproofing paint layer has detached off the floor in one area of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, following days of chemical treatment by the NPS to remove the algae blooms
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What Germany signed at Versailles was long considered the gold standard of diplomatic humiliation. Trump just managed to outdo it. Did anyone else Nazi this coming?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Iran Has Trump 'By the Balls,' Say Senior U.S. Officials" Read @swin24.bsky.social latest reporting for Zeteo:
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First Draft: 🍒 Iran Has Trump 'By the Balls,' Say Senior U.S. Officials
The administration revealed the deal to end its illegal war, only for the president's incoherence and the vice president's perceived incompetence to dominate the day. Elsewhere, there's still no DNI.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The worst scandal in American history before Watergate, which happened over 100 years ago & is still taught in AP government classes, lead to a cabinet member's resignation & conviction, and caused Congress to pass new disclosure laws, involved less than 1/5 this much money. Inflation adjusted.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/06/2026
Iran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation, Graeme Wood argues: “Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself.”
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Iran Has Humiliated Trump
Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Given that the White House is (illegally) building the ballroom with Big Beautiful Bill funds, I think it’s fair to say that they took away people’s health care and food to pay for the ballroom. Pretty bleak!
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/06/2026
New: "More than one in four senior Commerce Department officials appointed by President Donald Trump have apparent conflicts of interest" by me & Doug Pasternak for @publiccitizen.bsky.social
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How Industry Insiders Are Running the Department of Commerce - Public Citizen
Executive summary  More than one in four senior Commerce Department officials appointed by President Donald Trump have apparent conflicts of…
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The guy who promised so much winning led America to its most humiliating defeat in two hundred and fifty years. This is why you don’t elect stupid.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/06/2026
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK
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National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds
A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It had immediate impacts. Within minutes -- literally less than 20 minutes -- Texas announced it would be enforcing a law that the federal government had already determined was racially discriminatory TWICE
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
When the Roberts Court suspended preclearance in 2013, however, they made us a promise. "Section 2 is permanent," they wrote.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Folks, these are the stakes. Black Americans spent a century fighting and dying for the VRA. It is no more. It falls to all of us to pick the work back up, and carry on. Lament. Rage. Cry. Scream. I've done all these and more this week. But it will take our demanding it for it to happen
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We are sooo off the rails from 'normal'
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Derrick ♎ 🟧 🟦#BLM 🏳️‍🌈 @spawn03.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The defense department spends 93 billion excess dollars on crab legs, lobster tails, and steak while American families struggle to put food on the table. That's not making America great. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/02/2026
The Department of Justice was reportedly caught deleting evidence that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was in possession of three interviews that could possibly be used as blackmail over President Donald Trump and were not released to the general public.
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DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump
The Department of Justice was reportedly caught deleting evidence that sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was in possession of three interviews that could possibly be used as blackmail over President Donald Trump and were not released to the general public.On Friday, investigative reporter Roger Solle...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
What else are you missing? Have a seat — this is gonna take some time.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Remember this, next time one of three pops off about judicial activism or originalism. It’s all a con.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
$175 billion dollars.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Today wasn't just about tariffs SCOTUS rejected Trump's claim that courts can't review his emergencies That logic extends to the Alien Enemies Act, The National Guard & beyond The rule of law is holding--for now I discuss @ 6pm ET on @ms.now w/ @arimelber.bsky.social -TN
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 01/01/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 02/01/2026
Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Translated: "No other American president ever needed a cognitive test." Trump's taken at least five.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/01/2026
New in PN: The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives "Republican policies have created a perfect vicious cycle: Privatize services, let private companies run amok, then declare that the government is the problem. And the Trump administration is turbo-charging it."
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The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.
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T. Randall Riggs @trriggs49.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If I were innocent, I would want everything released to prove my innocence.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is mental illness.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
13 years ago today.
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/12/2025
The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Never forget Jamal Khashoggi and the two animals responisble and complicit for his murder and dismemberment..
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/11/2025
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/11/2025
Epstein survivor Haley Robson refutes Mike Johnson: "The survivors that don't want to be public are Jane Does. They've been protected and their names have been redacted the whole time ... I don't care if my name is redacted is not."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Trump administration just unveiled a plan to significantly narrow which bodies of water qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act. They proposed a new definition of what counts as a “water of the United States,” a change that would
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/11/2025
Fox Biz: "A new Reuters poll shows President Trump's approval rating falling to its lowest level. This is because, apparently, of prices and the Epstein files."
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Check out Piggy’s “hot” economy.
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