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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 29/08/2026
President Donald Trump stumbled over his words Saturday morning as he heaped insults on CNN and MS NOW — and contradicted himself in the process.
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Trump hurls 'DEATH SPIRAL' insults as he praises CNN and contradicts himself
President Donald Trump stumbled over his words Saturday morning as he heaped insults on CNN and MS NOW — and contradicted himself in the process. Trump's random and rambling Truth Social post targeted both cable news outlets with claims that their ratings were tanking. "CNN is in a DEATH SPIRAL," Tr...
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
You can’t make this up. The “libertarian” wants to prosecute the witness for invoking their Constitutional rights.
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Malreynolds Firefly Speechless Reaction
ALT: Malreynolds Firefly Speechless Reaction
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deanm97.bsky.social @deanm97.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s impossible to mourn a man who said in print that he didn’t became a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids".
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Federal judge ran PR firm for 6 mos. But since it was a family business, it was a "gray area," apparently. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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‘Is she even allowed to be doing this?’: Inside a federal judge’s side gig running a PR firm
Jennifer Mascott’s tenure at public affairs firm Adfero sparked questions around conflicts of interest and partisanship.
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Dean Haddix @doctoreon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“If Mr. Carville doesn't want to be in my party….” It should be bigger news when an elderly Senator forgets he’s not a member of any party. Or that time he actually started his own party and it failed miserably.
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Bernie Sanders: If Carville Doesn't Want To Be In The Party Of Hasan Piker and El-Sayed, "He Can Start His Own Party"
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday responded to veteran Democratic strategist James Carville saying the Democratic Party isn't big enough for both himself and Hasan Piker. In an interview on CNN, ...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“I’ll take ‘Perverts’ for $1,000, Alex.” www.wavy.com/video/jeopar...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
this is basically an unheard of number and if it relates at all to voting intention in november the GOP is staring the apocalypse in the face
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You know the Epstein files are *bad* when Donald is drawing our attention back to COVID, his most deadly blunder, to distract from them.
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Dr. RawheaD @rawhead.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yeah, lawsuit.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The World Cup is supposed to bring shared entertainment and joy to people around the globe. But Trump is trying to fix the result in his usual corrupt fashion. Republicans ruin everything.
NYT: Trump asked FIFA to review U.S. top scorer’s World Cup suspension
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The nation's top law enforcement officer is defying a federal court order...right now...TODAY...with a shrug. Nixon handed over the tapes. Even the scoundrels used to obey the gavel. That's the 250-year-old deal being tested this week. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/07/2026
Trump tries again to delay $5m sexual abuse payout to E Jean Carroll
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Trump tries again to delay $5m sexual abuse payout to E Jean Carroll
Lawyers file request days after US supreme court declined to hear an appeal, with payout topping $5.8m with interest Lawyers for Donald Trump have requested more time to pay a $5m civil judgment to magazine columnist E Jean Carroll from 2023, days after the US supreme court declined to hear an appeal. In a new filing, the president’s attorney said that since his former lead counsel, Justin Smith, took up a position as a federal judge last month (a post he was nominated to by Trump), his new lead counsel, Josh Halpern, needed more time “to become completely familiar with the facts and procedural circumstances” of the case. Continue reading...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/07/2026
Donald Trump gave Vladimir Putin more attention on Independence Day than he gave the country he’s supposed to lead.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20/06/2026
Republicans know their ideas are unpopular. They know the president is unpopular. That’s why they desperately want to hold on to power. But Rep. Justin Pearson is fighting back. “The playbook they are using ... is about their control being solidified, not for a year or two, but in perpetuity.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/06/2026
For days, workers have been trying to rid the Reflecting Pool of algae after a more than $14 million renovation that President Trump said “could last for 100 years.” But now workers have another problem to contend with: peeling paint.
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The blue paint is peeling off the Reflecting Pool
An "American Flag Blue" paint sheet was seen floating on Thursday as workers cleaned algae after Trump's $14 million renovation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/06/2026
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org
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This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/06/2026
As New World screwworm cases spread across Texas and New Mexico, some officials fear the outbreak may be larger than confirmed counts suggest, stoking fears about whether the government is moving fast enough to contain it.
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Flesh-eating maggot outbreak puts Trump administration response under scrutiny
As screwworm cases spread across Texas and New Mexico, some officials fear the outbreak may be larger than confirmed counts suggest. Internal debates and interviews reveal growing concerns about wheth...
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 19/06/2026
Letter to the Editor: All a person needs to read is the Declaration of Independence to see that Donald Trump wants to be king instead of president.
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Letters: President Donald Trump is a lot like King George III
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
While drunk rednecks who wore shorts and t-shirts to the White House were brawling on the lawn. MAGA is so trashy.
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7thkkid.bsky.social @7thkkid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Yes, hopefully more people are united in thinking they are despicable people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2026
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/06/2026
Author @quinnslobodian.com says Elon Musk's business empire and his work for the Trump administration are closely connected. DOGE was not about demolishing the government, but a way to "refashion and reformat" it so that Musk and his companies become "an indispensable part of the infrastructure."
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Knicks ticket holders should sue if they miss any part of the game.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2026
Make it make sense… Trump says he needs a $200 million ballroom, bulletproof glass, and a security fortress to keep him safe at the White House. Then he hops on a plane and heads to a packed Knicks game in New York.
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.
A bearded white man paints on an easel on the right side of the frame. Zuckerberg's eldritch horror of a yacht is on the left.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 29/05/2026
Via Anna Barrett: A three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday evening allowed Alabama to use a 2021 State Senate map that a lower court judge had ruled racially discriminatory against Black voters in two Montgomery-area districts.
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Federal appeals court allows Alabama to use 2021 state Senate map | Alabama Reflector
A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that a lower court ruling finding the 2021 map was discriminatory "irreparably harm(ed)" the state of Alabama.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 06/05/2026
“We’re only going to react when the sea level is rising in New York, London and everywhere else, but by then it’ll be 200 years too late,” says renowned conservationist Paul Nicklen
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‘I have nightmares about our oceans dying’: The photographers defending nature
Renowned conservationists Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen on their relationship, near-death encounters and the struggle to protect the natural w...
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Ryan @ryhio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’m sure this deal is just as real as the last 7. On an “unrelated” note, were there any huge stock buys in after hours trading last night?
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid @marvintheandriod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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ON CAM: Trump TRIPS AND FALLS As Secret Service Rushes Him Out After Shooting At White House Event
YouTube video by Times Of India
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik
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Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik
Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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NPR @npr.org · 20/04/2026
The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed. n.pr/4sIYv9O
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Who owns presidential records? Trump's Justice Department says it's him
The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2026
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/04/2026
“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next?
“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/04/2026
The latest iteration of the Save America act could disenfranchise millions of voters. Guardian democracy reporters @neonflag.bsky.social and @samrlevine.bsky.social will be answering readers’ questions at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) today about its implications.
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What does the Save America act mean for US democracy? Post your questions now
The latest iteration of the Save America act could disenfranchise millions of voters. Guardian democracy reporters George Chidi and Sam Levine will be taking readers’ questions at 12pm ET (4pm GMT) on...
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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2026
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons. n.pr/3OEEHGE
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Trump administration moves to erase Jan. 6 riot convictions for seditious conspiracy
The Trump administration is moving to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of extremists involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, who earlier received commutations instead of full pardons.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/04/2026
Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.
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Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case
David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack did not apply to child exploitation.
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WIRED @wired.com · 14/04/2026
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...
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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: A jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues.
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Jury finds that Ticketmaster and Live Nation had an anticompetitive monopoly over big concert venues
A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Looks like Epstein trafficking victim Amanda Ungaro may be why FLOTUS is panicking. Ungaro needs to be protected. All sorts of nasty people will be trying to silence her.
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Fight The Right… 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏿 @wtafc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 01/04/2026
The 14th Amendment says “all persons born in the United States,” not “only if Donald Trump likes their parents.” Trump calls it a scam, but that’s the Constitution!
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump attends Supreme Court as legal losses mount youtu.be/UkG_HkOmusI?...
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Trump ATTENDS SCOTUS Hearing as LOSSES PILE UP
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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