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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

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Astros Optimist @stros93.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I guess first team to 11 will win?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

HOOOOOO boy. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?" Lyons: "Yes ma'am." McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?" "Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m completely fed up with elected Representatives saying shit like, “Republicans will tell you behind closed doors that they don’t agree with what ICE is doing”. Playtime is over. Professional courtesy no longer exists. Name them, record them, and make it public.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 08/11/2025

HOUSTON PICKS OFF UCF IN THE END ZONE! UCF WILL LOST THEIR FIRST SPACE GAME HOUSTON IS SPACE CITY USA

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Astros Optimist @stros93.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Someone's in the Halloween mood.

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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

this should play in every ad

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Texas was devastated by deadly floods. In the aftermath, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found. In any other administration, this would be an epic scandal. But with Trump, it's treated as business as usual. Read my latest:

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Have you seen this man?

In the wake of deadly floods in Texas, FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson is nowhere to be found.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I mean it is weird that not only is the director of FEMA seemingly MIA (or at least ducking the press) but also there seems to be no stories asking where he is, right?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

If they can do this to a US senator, what will they do to you?

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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Is AI a good thing?

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’ Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac. This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/04/2025

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/04/2025

I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.

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If Bukele doesn't want to meet in D.C., I'll go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Astros Optimist @stros93.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Astros with the cougar special

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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 24/03/2025

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Hegseth had previously taken aim at Brown. “First of all, you gotta fire, you know, you gotta fire the chairman of Joint Chiefs,” he said flatly in a podcast in November. And in one of his books, he questioned whether Brown got the job because he was Black.

“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,” Hegseth wrote.

Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations postings and positions inside some of the Pentagon’s most classified special access programs. However, it does not include key assignments that were identified in law as prerequisites for the job, with an exemption for the president to waive them if necessary in times of national interest.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21/02/2025

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In May of 2024 Joe Biden signed a bill that provided funds to hire more air traffic controllers to remedy the shortage of such workers. In January of 2025 Trump fired the head of the FAA (because Musk had beef with him) and encouraged federal workers to resign. www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/p...

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Biden signs bipartisan FAA bill into law | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, enacting a law that aims to improve aviation safety and strengthen protections for passengers ...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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Astros Optimist @stros93.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Obligatory snow pics (from outside Houston)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

BBC not buying the gaslighting

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Astros Optimist @stros93.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

You're gonna lose, might as well try for the td

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