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I’m here for the opposition but also for the connection, beauty and love that still exists

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Damn, that was a quick Iranian response about Traitor Trump threatening Los Angeles and San Diego. I love these. They beat the shit out of Pedolf Shitler's fake, laughable AI posts where he pretends to be a hero.😅
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h
"Federal law explicitly prohibits the use of U.S. funds 'for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress.'"
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 23h
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23h
We should destroy it the moment we have power again. Besides the obvious symbolism, it will just turn into a .su style defunct cybercrime cesspit otherwise.
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RFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hear me out. All police misconduct cases paid out of police pension funds. Because as a citizen I'm really sick of public funds being used to pay these AND having to worry about a cop doing something shitty to me because they have no accountability.
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
She's not wrong. ⁣ From "What the Heck Just Happened", 10.4.26, with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social ⁣⁣ 🐾⁣⁣ Steve⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #protectdemocracy 15s
quote from the october 4 2026 episode of "what the heck just happened" with Heather & Joanne. Slide reads "Trump is not even just destroying the constitution; he's acting as if it never existed."
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Are Democratic Leadership and Donors Actively Sabotaging Progressives?" Why do Never Trump Republicans have more influence and sway with Democratic donors and leaders than the actual base that is begging for progressive policies and massive reform? thelefthook.substack.com/p/are-democr...
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Are Democratic Leadership and Donors Actively Sabotaging Progressives?
Why do Never Trump Republicans have more influence and sway with Democratic donors and leaders than the actual base that is begging for progressive policies and massive reform?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have to crush these sociopaths. The problem is that many Democrats take money from them, which means they will get bailed out at our expense in the next 2-4 years.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Thomas Baker @firescape1066.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Christ Almighty. As both a member of the medical community and as a signed up donor, this is infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked Me (Gift Article)
The organ donation industry has routinely violated ethics standards.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 19/09/2026
A local Republican official working on Mike Rogers' Michigan Senate campaign publicly sounded the alarm this week over collapsing GOP enthusiasm on the ground.
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'Worst I've ever seen': Swing-state GOP campaign in crisis as volunteers fail to show up
A local Republican official working on Mike Rogers' Michigan Senate campaign publicly sounded the alarm this week over collapsing GOP enthusiasm on the ground.Jackson Karki, a Northern Michigan University freshman who chairs at least four counties for Rogers' Senate bid, vented from his anonymous X ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huge issue in the northeast as well.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gas prices hit $4.46 a gallon today — a gain of 17 cents over the previous week and $1.26 higher than the same point last year. Diesel prices are up more than $2.74 from a year ago. Families, farmers, and truckers are all getting squeezed. Meanwhile...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A big problem we face is that most Republicans view anyone with a differing political view as a threat to America, an enemy, whereas most Democrats are under the delusion that such Republicans are just political opponents...and not the threat to America they really are.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I would like to know what American government will look like next year if every seat, district and state which Trump won by 18 points or fewer goes Democratic
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries has got to go. He is not going to be a leader of anything if Democrats win and we have free and fair elections.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
$5,500 for a play excoriating Musk, Thiel and Hitler by Ishmael Reed, one of America's best living writers? That's nothing! If anyone can spare a few, chip in. sf.gazetteer.co/brother-can-...
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Brother, can you spare $5,500?
Oakland author Ishmael Reed is raising funds to mount ’King Ludd’s Revenge,’ a new play featuring Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Adolf Hitler
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 16/08/2026
The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
But Jeffries doesn't want to abolish ICE. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools
The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Your regular reminder Republicans in Congress fully support this.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Why is Kushner anywhere near this? He has no security clearance or role in the government. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/w...
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Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ask every Republican if they denounce and condemn Charlie Kirk for his hateful statements. They're doing it for Hasan Piker and every Democrat who has been photographed with him. The media won't. Why is that?
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Musk's genocide.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/08/2026
NEW: Judge Sullivan spent the final 30 minutes of the Phang v Blanche Epstein files hearing telling a story of the one time he had to hold DOJ lawyers in contempt. He says he's done it before, and he'd rather not do it again, but he will if he needs to. "It's not a threat, it's a promise."
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I love the way the media pitches Democratic primaries “between the party’s left and center factions” as somehow more concerning than Republican primaries between the party’s crazy and fully delusional factions.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump sharted himself to safety in a catering truck while abandoning his own staff and White House reporters on a potentially compromised Air Force One. What a brave hero!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Would love to see half as much outrage on this as, say, Hasan Piker's past tweets. And I'm talking to media and Democratic consultants. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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Trump Stokes Islamophobia by Calling Democratic Candidates ‘Jihadists’
Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying “they’re not smart.”
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hunter Biden joins The Left Hook. Wednesday, 4 pm ET Let me know what you want asked and answered. No paywalls. thelefthook.substack.com
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The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali | Substack
A political, cultural, and intellectual playground for the rest of us with writer Wajahat Ali. Click to read The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscr...
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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Giving my Michael Wolff piece a restack, because he’s still sitting on 100 hours of interviews with Epstein that contain damning information about Donald Trump. @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social #EpsteinFiles ellieleonard.substack.com/p/the-beginn...
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The Beginning of the End of Co-Conspirator, Michael Wolff
Before Michael Wolff came to Substack in late October, 2025, I followed his writing religiously.
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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It was always a grift… 🎯
BRIAN TYLER
COHEN
APPLE REPORTEDLY GOT $2.2 BILLION
BACK IN TARIFF REFUNDS. AMAZON GOT $600 MILLION.
WHAT'S THEIR PLAN TO GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK?
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“During the rally, another group of hecklers yelled out ‘Paxton protects pedophiles.’ Security quickly escorted them out as well. ‘You protect the Epstein class,’ a member of the group shouted as he exited the Angry Elephant. ‘You protect the pedophile president. You’re all pedophile protectors.’”
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Hecklers crash Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate campaign stop in San Antonio
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton speaks at the Angry Elephant on Saturday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton caught flak from hecklers during a
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/08/2026
AI data centers don't create jobs. They kill jobs. And if you want to beat China, try green energy. That's where the future is. These people are so stupid.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump economy is Trash 🗑️ Lying, Stealing & War Biden's was the 'envy of the world' www.economist.com/special-repo...
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The envy of the world | Oct 19th 2024 | The Economist
The envy of the world. Special reports from The Economist. You've seen the news, now discover the story.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
James Talarico: “We can stop our government from spending billions of our tax dollars on a useless wall in Big Bend, one of the most sacred places in the state of Texas.”
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
No platforming lies No platforming conspiracy theories No sanewashing No cliche questions No Beltway navel-gazing We can cover the news, without all the crap.
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Call to action from tree defenders: 💩 Yuck! Complicity in border violence really stinks! ☎️🚽☎️🚽☎️🚽 Call Stamback Services Monday Aug. 10 between 10am-1pm PT! They are the only provider of portapotties for this section of the wall. Tell them to end their contract with Fisher Sand & Gravel immediately
Flier showing a blue port-a-potty with yellow fluid shooting out from both sides. Phone Zap: Clog the Line! Tell Stamback Services to stop providing portapotties for workers at the border wall! Don't let them poop in peace! Call Monday 8/10 from 10 am - 1 pm.
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We need your help getting a fake TikTok page taken down. This page is directing people to private chat apps and asking people for money on Heather’s behalf. This is not her, and she will never do that. If you're on TikTok, could you please report the handle "@HeatherCoxRichardson" for impersonation.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social I want a bill passed that requires that East Wing be restored and Trump to pay for the restoration!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Trump’s rug looks ridiculous.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Local man suggests jailing own boss.
Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
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