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Katie Yo

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Empty nester, dog mom, cat mom, political junkie, book lover, eternal student, GenX

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Rather than examining why the GOP is investing such enormous political capital in a bill that strips voting rights from millions of Americans, the media focuses on whether it might backfire politically. I want to warn you and I want there to be a record. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...
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There are no two sides to a confession
Over the years, I have watched the Republican Party morph into a crime family that boasts about rigging elections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-back…
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UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/10/2025
NEW: Comey has filed his motion to dismiss based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsay Halligan. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Marco Rubio sold out people cooperating AGAINST the gang that Trump claims to be trying to defeat in order to gain access to Nayib Bukele's concentration camp. Yeah, we know they suck. But this is just stunning. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
RE: Dutch spooks deciding they're less willing to share w/the US: Remember that the docs from SVR that were the focus of the (now declassified) Durham annex and HPSCI reports were from the Dutch. Basically Tulsi burned all that to smithereens for partisan gain. nltimes.nl/2025/10/18/d...
Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S
The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have reduced the amount of information they share with their American counterparts, citing political developments in the United States under President Donald Trump and growing concerns over the politicization of intelligence and "respect for human rights."

In a joint interview with de Volkskrant, AIVD Director-General Erik Akerboom and MIVD Director Peter Reesink confirmed that the agencies have become more selective in their cooperation with the CIA and NSA. “That we sometimes no longer tell certain things, that’s true,” Reesink said. Akerboom added, “Sometimes you have to think case by case: can I still share this information or not?” While both officials stressed that relations with U.S. intelligence agencies remain “excellent,” they emphasized that the Netherlands has become “more critical.”

According to the two directors, the Netherlands is increasingly focusing on European cooperation. “We have scaled up enormously,” Akerboom told De Volkskrant, referring to a leading group of Northern European services — including those from the United Kingdom, Germany, Scandinavia, France, and Poland — that are exchanging intelligence more intensively. The war in Ukraine and the growing Russian threat to Europe have accelerated these multilateral intelligence partnerships. Reesink noted that a similar development is visible within military intelligence circles.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
On top of detaining U.S. citizens, ICE is now fining legal residents for not carrying their papers. It was never about going after the “worst of the worst.” It was always about cruelty.
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ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/10/2025
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I am no Legal Scholar, but this feels like a terrorist threat to an American City
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Reupping: How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/h...
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How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More - emptywheel
There are a lot of pieces of evidence that Durham not only chased a Russian conspiracy theory to frame Hillary Clinton, but did so knowingly. Most telling is the way Durham obscured the timeline showi...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Todd Blanche: The sex trafficker said she didn't SEE Trump doing anything bad. Ghislaine's former cell mate: Um. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Comolli says it was common knowledge among inmates that Maxwell didn't aim to serve her full 20-year sentence and instead had hoped to get a pardon from then US President Joe Biden in exchange for information about Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election. 

'I heard her tell another inmate that she had dirt on Trump and that it was going to get her a pardon from Biden. I guess Biden's camp just didn't want to go down that route.'
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Ruh-roh.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror. The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.
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Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV
Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/23/j...
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Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims - emptywheel
In his order telling Todd Blanche to actually meet Second Circuit guidelines for grand jury unsealing requests, Judge Richard Berman reminded Todd Blanche that DOJ is supposed to be concerned about Je...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This just REEKS of corruption.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Mike Pence has the courage! "Release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution. ... Anyone who participated or was associated with this despicable man ought to be held up to public scrutiny." www.cbsnews.com/video/mike-p...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
BREAKING: The single solitary thing that is out of the President's control in the entire US government is whether the Epstein files come out. 🤡🤡🤡
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In firing Maurene Comey, Pam Bondi fired someone who had cultivated the trust of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, she did so AFTER Trump started to go nuts abt Epstein, and Bondi did so invoking Donald Trump's personal authority. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/p...
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Pam Bondi Fired the Avenger of Sex Trafficking Victims on Donald Trump's Personal Authority - emptywheel
Pam Bondi fired Maurene Comey, one of the people who convinced Jeffrey Epstein's victims she would fight very powerful people to win them justice. And Bondi did so in Donald Trump's name.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2025
Why didn’t Dems put Trump in jail over the Epstein stuff? Because Alex Acosta and Alan Dershowitz got Epstein a deal that came with a non-prosecution agreement for Epstein’s clients and coconspirators. Then trump rewarded Acosta with a job as Labor Secretary.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I think people aren't describing the Emil Bove corruption adequately. He blew off an order from a judge SO THAT he could send hundreds of mostly innocent men to a concentration camp, based on false claims of gang ties.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/06/2025
Take your masks off ICE, show us how proud you are adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/06/2025
Trump has gutted FOIA, Inspectors General, and will be curtailing sharing information with Congress. We rely on whistleblowers now more than ever. You can support them by donating: whistlebloweraid.org/beans
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Daily Beans Fundraiser - Whistleblower Aid
Daily Beans Listeners Fundraiser for Whistleblower Aid The American rule of law has survived many challenges, but now faces one of the most serious threats in our history. Checks and balances within o...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2025
Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Phang: If you were scrolling on social media and saw a dog locked up in the middle of the Everglades—in the sun, in the heat, in the humidity—the outrage would be wild, wouldn’t it? But then—we’re okay with human beings being treated like that?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Reup: Does Stephen Miller Know Pam Bondi Is Harboring Criminal Aliens? In Pam Bondi's bid to punish Kilmar Abrego Garcia, she's working on releasing two guys who are WORSE than what he is alleged, possibly letting them stay in the US. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/22/d...
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Does Stephen Miller Know Pam Bondi Is Harboring Criminal Aliens? - emptywheel
Pam Bondi may let the two guys who allegedly directed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to smuggle migrants out of prison and into the country so she can sustain a claim that Abrego Garcia is a terribly dangerous ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2025
Confirmation they did not destroy the uranium stockpiles. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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Politico @politico.com · 15/06/2025
Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
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Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed
The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Jesus Christ... the Washington Post is so fallen from its former glory that it tacks on the name of Robert W. Malone—one of the most infamous, shameless, and dangerous misinformation merchants in the United States—as one of the Kennedy Jr. appointees without making any comment about his past at all.
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RFK Jr. picks new members of influential vaccine committee after purge
Kennedy said the picks will demand “definitive safety and efficacy data” for vaccine recommendations. His picks include at least two critics of mRNA coronavirus vaccines.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
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TyTy @equality4all83.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: Congresswoman Maxine Waters confronts National Guard, "Why do you have guns? You gonna shoot an elected official? If you're going to shoot me, you BETTER SHOOT STRAIGHT." 😳👏👏👏
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“Kennedy’s move appears to violate a pledge he made to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) during his confirmation process that he would ‘maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes’” 👏🏼 That’s why you don’t vote to confirm these people 👏🏼
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/05/2025
Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/28/a...
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As Trump Seeks New Ways to Defund Harvard, Elon Musk Continues to Blow Shit Up - emptywheel
Every complaint Trump makes about Harvard applies better to Elon Musk.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/05/2025
BREAKING: MeidasTouch, the nation’s top independent pro-democracy media network, is proud to announce that attorney and renowned legal analyst Katie Phang has launched a brand-new YouTube channel in partnership with MeidasTouch. Subscribe now: youtube.com/@katiephangnews
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.
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