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Laura Lindamood

@talkingbird.bsky.social
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I love DC, drinks outside with friends, journalism, snoozing. #dcstatehood #momsdemand

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” The Trump administration's ultimate goal? “To make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.”
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Rege @rjserinko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russle Vought confuses himself with Congress.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Jaime Fear Her 👻 @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The news cycle has moved on, the National Guard hasn't. Since Aug. 14 they've patrolled Trinidad daily, armed and w/ fed agents. That's 67,680 mins 1128 hrs 47 days almost 7 wks 12.88% of 2026 my child and others have asked why there are soldiers at their school and in front of our house. #FreeDC
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Still unfathomable to me given the horrendous destruction of DOGE and how unfathomably heinous he continues to be on his social media duchy, that he can shovel cash to Republicans, go to a state dinner, and the press still doesn't treat him as remotely problematic as Hasan Piker.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember, it was this guy getting beaten up off U St that was the excuse for the National Guard’s deployment to DC.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's comments always age so well.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m still seeing way too much credulity given to the stated purpose of the Guard’s deployment in DC, especially from people who should know better. There was never an emergency justifying their deployment; implying that there is any valid justification carries the administration’s water.
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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is outside Bruce Monroe Elementary in Ward 1, a bilingual Title 1 school with majority Spanish dominant kids. Three blocks from my house. Fuck this task force, send them home to WV #FreeDC
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Instead of dumping money into TV ads or dark influencer games, liberal billionaires could just set a good paper in a swing district up for success…but will they? No.
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Laura Lindamood @talkingbird.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Crap. Ohio journalism friends, can we buy the Blade?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Toledo Blade, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, will publish its final edition on Dec. 31. if it can’t find a buyer “Founded in 1835, the newspaper is Toledo’s oldest continually operating business”
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Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale
Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the ...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I respect Lonnie Bunch enormously. He has done stellar work as a historian, on so many levels. His absence is indeed terrible news -- for the Smithsonian and the country.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‘Springfield is under siege right now.’ ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/31/s...
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'Springfield is under siege right now.' ICE agents in Ohio have detained 2 Haitian pastors. • Ohio Capital Journal
More than 40 Haitians in Springfield have been detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status earlier this summer.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good thing he's not a Twitch streamer without any formal role in government or his entire political party would be compelled by the media to denounce him. Just a Nazi working in the State Department. No big deal!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the man who lunged at dr. amy acton had two guns and a taser. how is that not an assassination attempt?
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Amy Acton was attacked at the Canfield Fair — and both campaigns are responding
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Amy Acton was attacked Sunday afternoon while visiting the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, according to her campaign.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They’re here to intimidate and to be used as a tool for an aspiring authoritarian government. The Guard is not here to help.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026
So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
there’s still crap everywhere, the grass is a mess, they clearly cut down some trees ….but you can actually go on the Mall again for the first time since like late May
Some kind of viewing stand with red white and blue stars tilted on its side on the ground by the national Mall
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 28/08/2026
Every face on that wall was a person. Someone loved them. Someone misses them. They should still be here. #SheShed 🎥 IG: defiancedispatch
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Three journalists from Stars and Stripes, the nation's independent military newspaper, are suing Pete Hegseth and other top officials to prevent their firings — which they allege came in retaliation for negative news coverage and speaking out about the importance of press freedom.
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Stars and Stripes journalists sue Defense Department over attempted firings
The three journalists allege Pentagon officials retaliated against them for defending the military newspaper’s editorial independence.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The president has no role in elections. Six disgraceful partisan hacks on the Supreme Court have just given him a lawless green light to manipulate votes by mail for voter suppression. The Roberts Court majority fits more in Putin’s Russia
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Keya Chatterjee @keyachatterjee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is the 2nd year our kids have to pass armed soldiers/agents to get to school. @starsandstripes.bsky.social (before it was gutted) alerted us- Now troops from GA and SC are targeting two mostly Black neighborhoods- Trinidad and Anacostia. Shame on Gov Kemp & McMaster. www.freedcproject.org/guard
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National Guard Out Now — Free DC
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
One thing Ossoff is showing that you can hold pretty normie Dem positions but still campaign like you can read the room and understand the high stakes of this election. People are incredulous and angry at what’s happening, maybe common ground is a necessity later but nobody wants to hear that now.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026
one of the many, many things to hate about this admin is the way in which all of these unqualified idiot cabinet heads have no real responsibilities related to their official portfolios and just make the rounds on cable news as uninformed gadfly mouthpieces
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Couldn’t make it up if we tried
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Yeah but that's the kind of censorship we like." --Harpers Letter signatories www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the US that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Navy Carrier’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War
Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(FT) - Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US’s public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6cb3...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/08/2026
This is what the fake "free speech" advocates have built: an administration that harasses critics. Produce research showing the expensive National Guard deployments didn't lower crime? Get sued by Trump's lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hegseth firing the @starsandstripes publisher for saying censoring news for service members would be a red line ‘1984’ is upon us
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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I misread this, and it's really depressing that less than 50% of Democrats favor D.C. statehood (declining from 75%), even after the occupation of D.C. Really feels like a stab in the back.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wonder what it’s like being so comfortable than a few hours a year in a work-required seminar is the worst thing you can imagine, and being so self-centered that you think it’s worse—a more pressing national concern—than state repression, censorship, corruption, crimes, and abuses of power.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
being a decent human being in secret only is NOT a plus lol, some people have fully lost the plot
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE
Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Again- our educational system is our superpower, bringing bright and ambitious people to the United States and often kindling in them the desire to be part of this great experiment. Turning off that tap has no benefits for anyone, in this country or not!
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Luke Russell @lukerussell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Imagine the morale hit for troops from all around the country deployed for absolutely nothing but the Mad King's ego.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card. (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the media doesn't care about normal americans and doesn't care about our rights. it would be easy to cover this as a persistent scandal but they instead treat it as normal and re-print trump's lies about "vandalism."
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Ravioli Ripple 🌹 @ravioliripple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump and Republican are losing *military families* on the military
About 200 family members packed into a banquet room at the Island Club, a catering and event center on base, demanding answers from the acting secretary of the Navy. At times, spouses of sailors on the ship were in tears asking leaders what was being done to address issues of mental health and exhaustion, the two people who attended told MS NOW.

One parent said her daughter feels that she is never going to come home and believes she is going to die on the ship. Others asserted that the Navy had not done enough to take care of the sailors as they fight this war. 

One woman questioned the mission and said she found it difficult to be proud of her sailor when she believed the military was “killing innocent civilians” and her sailor expressed guilt about what he was doing. Her comment was met with applause from the audience.
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