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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If DOD needs $80b to replenish stocks and pay for Trump’s unauthorized, unwise, and unsuccessful war, every cent should come out of the bloated appropriation for ICE and border patrol for Trump’s awful mass deportation project.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/06/2026
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And under the treaty they signed at Versailles in 1919, the Germans paid less to the Allies in constant dollars than Trump agreed to pay Iran in the surrender instrument he signed there yesterday.
John Cusack: It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies. Trump is clueless as to what he just did
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"[Donald Trump] has done things far worse than what the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 approved in the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. Republican senators ended up going to the White House, saying, 'You don't have 33 votes in the Senate, you're done. So you need to resign.'"
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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nobody loved White House UFC more than the Beltway elites who have started wearing MAGA credentials as if they’re a talisman to ward off Real Americans who might otherwise want to stuff them in a locker. www.thebulwark.com/i/202117679/...
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We Can Reject Trump’s Orgy of Decline
And in many ways, we are.
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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If you're a controller in the area, protect yourselves & don't forget to Article 65 everything if you need to. 4/end
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps I.C.E. agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with I.C.E. and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
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Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
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Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here
A pie chart labeled "benefits of staying in academia after PhD" where the categories are salary, wellness, stable mental health, and confidence for your future. They are each associated with a different color. The pie chart has four pieces of different sizes and colors. But the colors in the pie chart do not match the colors Associated with the four items supposedly being visualized here.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
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Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat
Even the president’s supporters are alarmed.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Doug Burgum my house is powered by solar and this screen shot was taken at 5:14 pm today. My system produced 47.9 kWh and I’ve used 7.4 kWh today. If you look down at the bottom my battery has enough energy to run my home for the next 18 hours. Solar is the way you lying moron.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2026
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"Voting Rights Act" by John Darkow.
"Voting Rights Act" by John Darkow.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
No wonder Trump laments Robert E. Lee's loss at Gettysburg. After multiple defeats on Northern soil, POTUS 47 looks to the ex-Confederacy to indict his enemies and save Congress by deleting Black districts We shall overcome the new Southern strategy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Goddamn, Aziz Ansari took belt to ass last night on Kash Patel. I’m not even kidding when I say this might be the actual tipping point in Trump firing him.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Democrats really should sue CBS for big bucks, as @brianbeutler.bsky.social proposed here. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Time For The DNC To Sue CBS News For $20 Billion
A free idea for Ken Martin.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
It turns out they do know how to make a plane turn around and bring people back when they want to.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
As I have been saying for a while this is going to happen and we need to start talking about it and pushing for it. We have to MAKE it happen If we take the defeatist approach that some Dems take—that he'll just magically disappear, or that we can just wait until Jan. 2029, ... (1/3)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We’re at the point where the President says something, and we wait for the LEGO video to see if what he said is true.
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NASA reminded us all that, even in the darkest of times, our flag is still there. 🇺🇸 ❤️
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/04/2026
One corrupt wannabe authoritarian down. One to go.
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Orbán Will Lose Hungary’s Election in Two Weeks—If It’s Clean
Péter Magyar is a seemingly unstoppable force—but don’t expect the embattled Orbán to give up without a fight.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 08/04/2026
Before Donald Trump launched this unnecessary and costly war, the Strait of Hormuz was open, gas was $1 less and 13 more American servicemembers were alive. Only someone as deeply incompetent, delusional and unfit as Trump would see this as “winning.”
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/04/2026
Iran now controls a Strait that was fully open before Trump started this. American lives are lost, more than 300 injured, sanctions lifted, gas almost $5, damage to US bases... Now, Trump is getting us into a joint venture that puts Iran in an even better position than before.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/04/2026
The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator. The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization. Congress is on recess. This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Read @jvl.bsky.social on a subtler cost of Trump's Iran War: the US's ability to borrow on the cheap "If petrodollar system were to change, then America’s ability to finance debt as cheaply as we do would be imperiled. And so our ability to sustain Social Security & Medicare would be imperiled, too"
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The Iran War Is Coming for Your Social Security
A story about petrodollars, the gold standard, and the greatest trick Uncle Sam ever played.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Infuriating and disgraceful. Trump and Markwayne Mullin, and for that matter the United States Congress, could stop this at any moment. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
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ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
Trump is clearly unfit to be President. But do not let that explain away the evil of his threatening war crimes against the Iranian people, on Easter Sunday no less.  We cannot let Trump normalize this.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post by President Trump that reads: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”
NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.  NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Make good use of the power given to you, and remember that whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me.” cruxnow.com/vatican/2026...
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Pope Leo XIV walks the Way of the Cross, offering lesson on power
The last pontiff to carry the Cross for the entire fourteen-station Way of the Cross procession was Pope St. John Paul II.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Psychologist Dr. John Gartner on Donald Trump: "He has the most severe personality disorder that a human being can have. It's called malignant narcissism. It was originally introduced by Erich Fromm, who escaped the Nazis, to describe the psychology of Hitler and other murderous dictators like him."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Hey, Lindsey: Instead of glib comments like "My money’s always on the Marines,” put your money where your mouth is. If you believe in what you say, do the right thing--introduce a resolution in the Senate authorizing the Iran war and the introduction of ground troops. wapo.st/47opeRm
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Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran
If President Trump approves the plans, such an effort would mark a new phase of the war that could be significantly more dangerous to U.S. troops than the first four weeks.
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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I want to include that someone set up 160 pairs of shoes to represent the deaths of U.S. bombing at a girls school in Iran. I couldn't find out who set up this anti-war protest piece.
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Bombed as they learned Never coming home from school Empty shoes Needless war

Girls are not expendable Mr Trump Not in a School Not on a private island We will not forget them
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My latest video essay: Listen closely and you'll hear it... The White House admits that immigrants aren't taking your job after all. Lemme youtubesplain: youtu.be/9ZVJQ-bgfU4
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Trump Officials Accidentally Revealed The Truth About Immigration
If job growth slows when immigration slows, what does that say about the story politicians have been telling for years? Justin Wolfers uses plain-English economics to answer that question—and to show…
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.
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Ana Cabrera @anacabrera.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...
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Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds
The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
ALERT: House Judiciary Committee Democrats say Newly-Released Records Indicate Trump Showed Classified Map to Passengers on Trip to Golf Course open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...
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ALERT: House Judiciary Committee Democrats say Newly-Released Records Indicate Trump Showed Classified Map to Passengers on Trip to Golf Course
Memos, documents released under GOP-led Arctic Frost probe raise new questions about Mar-a-Lago classified records case
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/03/2026
This is what Republicans controlling all 3 branches of government looks like.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/03/2026
The GOP is now adopting the Democratic position on the shutdown and calling it a win. Fox News said it, not me. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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The Democrats Are Winning the Shutdown — And Here's Why It Matters for 2026
In almost every case, the most reasonable position wins, and the party in charge loses
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If Congress and DOJ don't subpoena the company for the name, it is because they think the person who made the insider trades was Trump himself.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 24/03/2026
A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners. He hasn’t.🧵
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Lots of suspicious trades in oil/equities just ahead of Trump tweets backing off his ultimatum. Sure looks like somebody close to Trump knew he was about to TACO, and exploited that inside information to make huge, instant profits From @pkrugman.bsky.social: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...
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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2026
The American commercial-aviation system used to be a modern marvel—but years of disinvestment capped by political dysfunction have left it quietly eroding from within, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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American Aviation Is Near Collapse
Fatal crashes, overstressed controllers, and endless security lines reveal a system teetering on the brink of failure.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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