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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. 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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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wow, this verdict against Meta for harming children in violation of consumer protection laws could be a game-changer. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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New Mexico jury says Meta harms children's mental health and safety, violating state law
A New Mexico jury determined Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms, a verdict that signal...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Welcome to America, where masked federal agents can murder you on the street and not even get investigated but journalists get cuffed and charged for filming a protest.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
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Patric Reynolds @patricjreynolds.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This should be a huge scandal, right? If the media is going to lose it's collective shit over Hunter Biden's pardon, I would think that Trump selling pardons to rich convicted felons for $6 million a pop should register as more than a blip (if mentioned at all) in the news. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/12/2025
Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/Cm9AQRb
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Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
If you are looking for a weekend read, I hope you will consider my @talkingpointsmemo.com series on the realities of mass deportation and the emerging Undocumented Underground that is fighting back. talkingpointsmemo.com/undocumented...
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Undocumented Underground
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
😳 On 12/18/25, Senator Mike Lee posted: “Would you like to seize cartel assets as a privateer? My bill would allow the president to issue you a letter of marque. Time to take these pirates down. 🏴‍☠️” 1/ x.com/senmikelee/s...
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery
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The King's Slaves
A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If Mr. Art of the Deal really wanted to end the shutdown and cared about federal workers, programs and services, he would be negotiating instead of building a ballroom. And if he’s too busy with the ballroom, he could allow Thune to do it since Mike Johnson is a useless fool.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them. Now, thanks to his shutdown, millions of Americans in at least 25 states will lose access to food stamps on November 1st. The perfect storm of cruelty.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Here we go …
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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/10/2025
Pregnant people in ICE detention have suffered severe medical neglect and abuse. ICE must identify and release all pregnant people in their custody immediately.
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Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/10/2025
"The idea of a president convincing his own Justice Department to furnish him with nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer cash seems too absurd to take seriously," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis cnn.it/47BMPhH
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Trump's potential $230 million DOJ payment would be astonishing -- even for him | CNN Politics
The idea of a president convincing his own Justice Department to furnish him with nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer cash seems too absurd to take seriously.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is fascism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2025
Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hmm. Free link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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White House Senses Political Risk on Healthcare Despite Shutdown Bravado
Aides to President Trump are discussing proposals to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies on which millions of Americans rely.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/10/2025
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
These are the FACTS.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/10/2025
They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.
Screenshot from Politico: SPOTTED: Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and other GOP pals dining last night at swanky Capitol Hill hotspot Bistro Cacao — where filet mignon and magret de canard go for $45 a head and the cabernet sauvignon list ranges from $60 to $750 a bottle, per Playbook’s Adam Wren. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown?
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown
On the HUD website - partisan propaganda.  "The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government.  HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need. " 

Button circled: Website Feedback
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout. China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina. Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers. The Art of the Deal…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/10/2025
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
There’s a pretty clear pattern in recent lower court rulings suggesting that SCOTUS has lost and respect & legitimacy not only in the eyes of the general public, but with the rest of the judiciary, which is saying so with increasing frankness. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This Is the Most Withering Indictment of the Supreme Court Ever By a Sitting Judge
Over the past few months, a growing number of sitting judges have expressed public skepticism toward the Supreme Court.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ME: "Jesus, why does your close friend Speaker Mike Johnson relentlessly bear false witness?" JESUS: "WHO???"
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2025
Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I asked the FBI to expedite the release of the tape of "border czar" Tom Homan being bribed. FBI said it couldn't see how there wasn't an urgent need to provide the public more information about (checks notes) an active federal official taking bribes and denied expedition of the request.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Project 2025 referenced shrinking farmers access to foreign markets, restricting growth opportunities for producers. (p. 307)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.
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