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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
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Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is the second time this has happened. CBS News's Investigative unit got a retired ICE agent to break down the Good shooting frame-by-frame. On the record, he said the agents were entirely out of line. The piece was only posted online and never broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...
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Retired ICE agent breaks down deadly Minneapolis shooting
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In Alabama, the Roberts Court hands Republicans yet another shocking gerrymandering win
By reinstating a discriminatory map, the justices are once again doing all they can to help the GOP.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/06/2026
"A new peer-reviewed analysis, which tested 197 homes across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, found that 93% of homes served by gas had consistently elevated indoor methane levels compared to all-electric homes." Quit poisoning your family: go electric!
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Indoor methane consistently above outdoor levels in homes with natural gas service
Background Methane leaks across the natural gas process chain, including in homes. To date, no studies have described how common it is to have elevated methane in homes served by gas, in comparison to...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Every time Trump's failures catch up to him, he falls back on the same tired racism and bigotry. We all know who enables fraud and corruption. Just a few of Trump’s pardons: •Philip Esformes — $1.3B Medicare fraud • Lawrence Duran — $205M Medicare fraud • Jason Galanis — $60M fraud
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We learned people detained inside Delaney Hall in Newark say prisoners are being beaten by guards and that some kind of chemical is being deployed inside. @jordanchariton.bsky.social and Jon Farina are LIVE NOW on Status Coup’s YouTube.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/05/2026
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
For the second time we know of, Kash Patel's FBI got a warning about a dangerous Nazi sympathizer (the other is the Evergreen shooter) but did not prevent an attack. This time 3 people were murdered. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...
The F.B.I. also was alerted to concerns about one of the teens before the shooting and had an open inquiry within its threat monitoring system, according to internal agency communications seen by The New York Times.

Local law enforcement agencies regularly flag possible domestic terrorist activity to the F.B.I. by submitting reports to the bureau’s Guardian system, where agents assess whether the federal government needs to open its own investigation.

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When the F.B.I. does investigate a report, it has 30 days to determine whether the incident could be considered terrorist activity and then update local law enforcement partners about its decision.

It is not clear what local law enforcement shared with the F.B.I. or whether it prompted the bureau to investigate. The F.B.I. did not respond to a request for comment.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/05/2026
Black text on white page that reads: 

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m trying to imagine any Republican governor in America doing the equivalent of what Jared Polis just did. This is why Democrats lose.
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Michael C Merritt @mikecmerritt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Separated bike lanes = 44% FEWER DEATHS
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Seizing the moment: Pakistan targets 95% renewable electricity by 2040, 60% by 2030! The key rationale is cutting reliance on imported fossil fuels.
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
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Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
i think biking or being a pedestrian in any major city is enough to polarize anyone sane against the idea that driving is an absolute right, especially when you see how many people are on their fucking phones
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026
it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The 10 highest-paid utility company executives raked in more than $220 million last year. Meanwhile, utility companies asked for a record $31 billion in rate increases, affecting 81 million customers across the country. Yes: utility CEOs are raking it in while millions struggle to pay their bills.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/04/2026
Dying in office is not supposed to be a fucking goal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it. Every single Democrat should be saying this.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
This bit right here. This is John Roberts basically admitting, explicitly, that he is dreaming up a legal doctrine out of nothing because he does not like or approve of Obama's policy:
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.
Southcom website press releases page showing a near daily recent pace of “lethal kinetic strikes” on boats, each of which resulted in the intentional extrajudicial killing of multiple people outside of a recognized armed conflict.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
None of these would be valid. No amount of exaggeration about the pardon power can overcome the express mandate to the President in Art II, Sec 3: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." He can't pardon people for breaking the law on his behalf. Contrary arguments are invalid.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 09/04/2026
U.S. military service members claimed the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Iran's deadliest attack on America's troops during President Donald Trump's most recent war.
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Troops dispute Hegseth's 'false' account of Iranian attack that killed six: report
U.S. military service members claimed the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Iran's deadliest attack on America's troops during President Donald Trump's most recent war.CBS News reported that survivors of the attack that killed six and wounded 20 were "left dangerously exposed" when they were ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The richest 0.1 percent of the global population are hiding nearly $3 trillion in offshore accounts to evade taxes — more than the wealth held by the entire bottom half of humanity. It would take about $93 billion per year to eradicate extreme hunger by 2030. Taxing the rich is a global necessity.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Iran has elections, but to its great shame, it has an unaccountable council of ayatollahs that overrules the elected representatives. Here’s why we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act. by John Roberts
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Good from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social on why D's need to avoid the conventional wisdom from centrist pundits about the need to be "more moderate" and instead embrace authenticity and push for real change. Lines up with the research @waytowinus.bsky.social has done. @perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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What the Democratic Moderation Debate Gets Wrong
Political scientist Jake Grumbach says it’s not surprising that Democrats are doing well electorally even though the party has not moved rightward in the way that some centrist pundits want.
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Jeannie Albert @vtgenie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
“Even as the cost of infrastructure for active transportation is being used as a reason for inaction, evidence is accumulating that when the full economic cost is considered, driving costs society more, while cycling and other forms of active transportation save society money.”— @sflkirk.bsky.social
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Bike lanes don’t cause congestion, cars do - Halifax Examiner
If our premier and HRM mayor truly want to demonstrate fiscal responsibility they’d build those bike lanes faster, because the cost of car-centric infrastructure is unsustainable.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Quiet. Part. Loud.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
53 years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct role in the Vietnam War. I remember seeing this anti-war PSA back then. Its message is sadly still very relevant today as Trump drags us into another unpopular war.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The premise of this article makes no sense. There is no either/or between protests and organizing. It is a plus/and. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...
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A Challenge for ‘No Kings’ Protests, the Third Time Around
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
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