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Tax billionaires. Tax churches. Just say no to fascists. 🌻 Mind your own damn business. 👩🏻‍🎨

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Catwalk.. 👌
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FFS. UATX—founded by Bari Weiss & Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale—-announced plans for an unaccredited new law school at an event featuring Judge James Ho who opposes campaign finance restrictions, tried to ban mifepristone, & ruled in 2023 that domestic abusers retain gun ownership rights. 1/
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Trump Judge Judges
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In his first opinion, one of the president's new appointees argued rich people have a constitutional right to buy elections.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While I appreciate the sentiment, you have to point to who is causing the pain…
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 THE KAPOW HANDBOOK IS FINALLY DONE!!! 🚨 6 months, 5 authors, and 60 pages later, we’ve written a guide on how to integrate mutual aid and direct action into electoral politics. And we’re not gatekeeping this info either. Get a free digital copy on 9/21 at kapow.works/handbook !!!
Me, holding a spiral bound notebook that reads “how to KAPOW the system”Two pages of the book, one is an FAQ asking why campaigns haven’t been doing this the whole time. The other is a black intro page for PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURE that reads “Cynicism is for losers. We can build the world we want to see.”Two pages on how to make a mutual aid hub in your campaign office with loads of
Polaroids of our office and volunteers
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026
ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/09/2026
Michigan vote Abdul Florida vote Angie Minnesota vote Peggy Texas vote James S Carolina vote Annie Maine vote Troy Ohio vote Sherrod Alaska vote Mary Kentucky vote Charles We can flip the US Senate Blue & do so with a Fetterman proof majority.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's not a real political party, folks It just isn't
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/09/2026
A reminder that the problem isn't hijab, nor is the problem women, the problem are people who think it's their place to force their views on women.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/09/2026
And just a reminder for attorneys and legal helpers: If your client's ICE plane is in the air, habeas still applies until that plane lands! Get your filing in before then, get the flight record from Habeas Flight Watch, and ICE has to bring them back.
An example of a Habeas Flight Watch flight record printout showing info for the aircraft, call sign, flight times, etc.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11. What happened next?
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25 years ago, two strangers met in the twin towers and escaped on 9/11. What happened next?
Stanley Primnath and Brian Clark were two of only four individuals known to have survived above the impact zone in the north tower
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/09/2026
Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 02/09/2026
Republicans in congress like Rafael Cruz voted $54.7 billion in farm subsidies to Texas corporate entities In return Texas Republicans got massive kickbacks Rafael Cruz $4.1 million John Cornyn $992,000 Jodey Arrington $740,000 Mac Thornberry $668,822 Ronny Jackson $95,000 Greg Abbott $17,050
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 30/08/2026
While the American people struggle, the Trumps, their friends, and their donors get richer and richer. Americans deserve a government that fights for them. We can’t let the President get rich off the backs of the working class. It needs to end.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/08/2026
Immigration agents have shot at people on at least 23 occasions, with some publications citing a higher number of incidents.
There have been another 49 incidents in which agents “have held bystanders, protesters, or other people at gunpoint under questionable circumstances”. 
At least 10 people have been fatally shot by ICE agents during Trump’s second term including American citizens Alex Pretti, Renee Nicole Good, and Ruben Ray Martinez.
A recent report in Time magazine has identified “418 times agents shoved, tackled, or pinned people; 76 times they pulled people from cars; 130 times they brandished weapons and 69 times they verbally threatened to use weapons or force; 361 times they pepper-sprayed or used other chemical irritants on people; and 81 times they used tactics so dangerous that they’re sharply prohibited by many law enforcement agencies because they’re deadly, such as chokeholds and grabbing people by the neck.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026
Kusama turned her hallucinations into works that ranged from polka dot paintings to 'Infinity Mirror Rooms'.
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Yayoi Kusama, Japan's ‘queen of polka dots', dies at 97
Kusama turned her hallucinations into works that ranged from polka dot paintings to 'Infinity Mirror Rooms'.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
US Navy sailors are in worse living conditions than Ghislaine Maxwell.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
They’ve been described by groups like Amnesty International as “readily misused for torture.” And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them.
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BREAKING: What just happened at the Kennedy Center board meeting is a slap in the face to the rule of law. We will see the president and his corrupt cronies in court. This will not stand. Official statements @repbeatty.bsky.social @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG👇
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
From April: gillianbrockell.com/water-is-wet...
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Water is wet, and DHS’s ‘deportation fleet’ boondoggle expands under Markwayne
DHS under the former “Senate’s Stupidest” Markwayne Mullin is still buying more planes for a supposed “deportation fleet” that only seems to fly around MAGA VIPs.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trump just dismantled this so his blatant corruption and his cronies overseas can operate without consequences or detection. Organized crime is now legal and the US is open for exploitation by foreign and domestic criminals. Don’t expect Rubio to say a word.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today's vote to advance Todd Blanche is a slap in the face to the rule of law ... the senators with concerns about the slush fund & the Epstein files asked for a legally binding commitment & settled for a pinky promise." Our full @democracydefendersaction.org statement👇 -TN
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Judiciary Committee Vote Advancing Blanche’s Nomination Is Deeply Troubling for Rule of Law | Democracy Defenders Action
Following is a statement from Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), on the Judiciary Committee’s vote today advancing Todd Blanche’s nomination to attorney general.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It took all Monday, but here's my report: www.lawdork.com/p/blanche-co...
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Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law, and John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care
Blanche's Sunday night moves should not save his nomination. The reaction from the pair of soon-departing Republican senators is not oversight and not principled.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Orbán is no longer able to tap his national budget to support far right parties in Europe so the Trump administration will step up to support them. english.atlatszo.hu/2026/07/30/a...
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After Orbán’s defeat, Washington may fill in to fund the European far-right – English
A new grant program by the US State Department appears to be designed to fund the European network of right-wing think tanks and influence groups that the Orbán
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“A Reuters analysis found the ​image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It will never *not* be funny that America's Most Famous Draft Dodger stupidly salutes like he’s serving in the military during the national anthem instead of placing his tiny, bruised hand over his nonexistent heart.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Rep. AOC: Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg, if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. I was just in Memphis. Everyone in that area is getting poisoned. This conversation is not just about technology, it's about people's ability to live without getting cancer.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A quick check on grocery prices based on the last full month of Biden's presidency to June 2026 the latest data from Trump's second term. So far in 17 months Trump hasn't made any progress. FRED has recorded several record breaking prices on basic grocery items.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I visited the small town of Marfa, TX. A local mariachi band greeted us with a song they wrote for our campaign! Our Frontera Tour has been full of special moments — but this was a highlight. 🎶
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/07/2026
Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley, Piyush Amrit Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal, & Raphael Edward Cruz ran as Ted Cruz Meanwhile—Ilhan Omar ran as Ilhan Omar, Zohran Kwame Mamdani ran as Zohran Kwame Mamdani, & Abdul El-Sayed is running as Abdul El-Sayed—& MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/07/2026
US Congressman Ro Khanna says Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles detained his delegation while touring Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says troops intervened after receiving reports of blocked vehicles, allowing the convoy to proceed.
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