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A gold-coated statue of a naked Trump on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “The Orange Plague.” by Danish artist Jens Galschiø Inscription: "I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except step down from his back -Leo Tolstoy

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 47m

More Trump vanity project grift on our dime: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David where future presidents and heads of state can visit — and he says he’ll comp memberships for his successors. archive.today/kNMX0

President Donald Trump applauds as he is greeted by the Palm Beach Central High School band upon arriving at Trump International Golf Club to watch the Super Bowl in February.

Photo credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images for the Washington Post

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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 30m

We’re tracking where and how much Elon Musk is spending on the midterms, updating daily. So far? His America PAC is all in on Texas, and spending way more to tear down Democrats than to boost Republicans. from @dell.bsky.social and @hugolowell.bsky.social

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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily

To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS! This is what happens when there are little to no regulations in place for supplements. According to @drjessicaknurick on IG- “Things we need: More science literacy More media literacy More regulation of Al-generated accounts and the scammy supplements!” Take a listen! #Pinks

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Too many Americans have absorbed & tolerate Trump’s insane, destructive behavior as a fact of life…the corporate media has facilitated that mentality…we are facing a constitutional emergency with an exec branch working to centralize its power at all costs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...

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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within

By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic

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SCBernard @scbernard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in SE Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after protesters protected it for more than 70 days…. Dubbed the ‘Grandmother tree,’ [it] was 100s of years old.”

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Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ Luminaria

Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after pro...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026

Spot the difference

Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!

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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My department has a new opening in Cinema Studies! Please spread the word. cuny.jobs/staten-islan...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The horrors of Medicaid cuts will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to use this campaign to explain that the worst is still coming, thanks to Republicans who gave Trump everything he wanted.

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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have become monsters.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm an occasional reader/reviewer of theses for the nonfiction MFA program I attended. And I can't stress enough how often I give the feedback for personal essays & memoir: the reader has never met you, or your family members. They know nothing about them. You need to describe them from scratch.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes we make the simple complicated. Meta's current business model depends on #surveillance; therefore, the incentive is for it to design products to further that surveillance, not to benefit you (much less your friends and family!). www.wired.com/story/muse-c...

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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trump, 2016: "When we win ... we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. ... And we will do it very, very quickly." Trump, 10 years later: "We will pass a truly great health care plan." Still no health care plan.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.

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SCBernard @scbernard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“…and will report to the President of the United States (ME!)…”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026

Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brief bullshit 🧵: Trump: “Europe wants to copy us. Everybody wants to copy us.”

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines

RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies

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SCBernard @scbernard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Legality aside, a person’s vote - and future - is worth more than $100.

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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026

A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs

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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/10/2026

Voters are still outraged that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion. If the Trump administration tries to impose a backdoor nationwide abortion ban on top of that, whether now or later, voters will remember. We’ll make sure of it.

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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026

Mamdani holds Sliwa's hand so he doesn't faint getting a flu shot. No wonder the right wing media has stopped talking about our Scary Radical Mayor.

A doctor gives former Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa a flu shot on camera while the mayor, who already got his, holds his hand. Everyone is laughing.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Maybe if they hadn't communicated crimes and violated the Constitution.......

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Killer Pete Hegseth? “Forget equality. Forget expertise. Forget decades of experience. Forget the law to achieve his violent ends. Expect more of this unless Dems take over Congress. And if they do: The hunger to impeach to him may turn into real action.” www.americaamerica.news/p/fighting-f...

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Fighting for the Future We Want

Listen to the words of Trump, Hegseth and a federal judge. They are a warning of two different fates for America after the midterms.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law

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