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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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bookgato.bsky.social @bookgato.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Joanne B. Freeman is an American academic and tenured professor of both U.S. history and American studies at Yale University. She points out how important our citizenship is. We need to treasure our freedoms and fight for our democracy. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Censorship is the point. “Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for ‘historical purposes’ in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Other than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Opinion | With Trump Flailing, Some Conservatives Are Having Second Thoughts About Trumpism
What is the future of the conservative movement?
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 07/10/2026
We probably should have ensured that crazy theocrats like Hegseth never got control over a country’s nuclear arsenal, either.
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 07/10/2026
A good reminder that White Christian Nationalism didn't start with Project 2025, or even Trump 1.0.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/09/2026
Political violence has no place in our democracy. I’m glad Dr. Amy Acton is safe and grateful for the swift response from law enforcement. We settle our differences at the ballot box, not through violence. These acts must never be tolerated or normalized.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪 @skeletonkey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 31/08/2026
“Simply practicing their faith” is a strange way to describe an investigation that began with a violent extremist threatening assassinations, mass shootings and bomb-making. Religious freedom protects Catholicism. It doesn’t make religiously motivated extremism immune from investigation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Walmart spent $43.4B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2025, enough to give each of its 2.1M workers annual bonuses of $2,953. Last year, retiring CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $29.2M — his largest payday ever and 958x Walmart's median worker pay of $30,520. Textbook corporate greed.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
North Carolina teachers spend an average of $1,632 of their own money on school supplies, per Fortune.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 26/08/2026
A lesson some conservative Christians desperately need to learn: Facing consequences for your own actions is not religious persecution.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW: As Democrats get hammered for Hasan Piker saying "America deserved 9/11"... ...the media ignore these Republican candidates sponsoring a pastor who blamed America for COVID and Jan. 6...
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GOP Candidates Sponsor Preacher Who Blamed America for Jan. 6 and COVID
Republican candidates sponsor the Bible studies of a preacher who said America was incurring divine wrath
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Tim Irwin @tfirwin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
true, but has to be paired with clear messaging on whom the necessary legal duties of executing interior immigration enforcement would fall to, ensuring the agency couldn’t be influenced by the executive, oh wait, unitary executive theory. fuck. but to gain real momentum, the message has to broaden
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/08/2026
It’s amazing how many political argument still used today originated with The West Wing.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 01/08/2026
Calling it now: within 48 hours this will become another lawsuit claiming “Christian persecution.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well this is true I suppose. trump can’t be bought; he is subscription based. You have to keep bribing him forever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 19/07/2026
So...a performance about one of history's most infamous examples of religious panic was apparently canceled because of... religious panic?
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Our News Media needs to get it together….
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/07/2026
GURL.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/07/2026
seems like a real hallmark of our era is the total inability to be normal about anything. it is just a movie! watch it or not but this shit is weird.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Clearly not the answer they were looking for...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)
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Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 06/07/2026
When he wins, it's not rigged. When he loses, it's rigged.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2026
would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 04/07/2026
Perkins’ standard for “virtue” makes one thing abundantly clear: Calling yourself a Christian and living a life of integrity are not the same thing.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Perhaps if his kids owned a ballot printing company, Trump would stop attacking voting by mail.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!
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Tim Irwin @tfirwin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“The combined force of these decisions is clear: It’s good to be a corporation. If you’re anyone else, your rights may not be very useful to you at all.” @leahlitman.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights
The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026
BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on J6? TRAYNOR: The actions on January 6 were deeply troubling to watch, but I'm not going to characterize it B: You are perpetuating a lie. I don't know how you can continue as a district court judge, let alone serve on court of appeals. Frankly it's shameful.
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Californians deserve a tax structure that puts hardworking families before billionaires and giant corporations. That's why I've proposed a progressive corporate tax that would allow us to give tax relief to struggling businesses and eliminate state income taxes under $100,000.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s telling that when Hassett was asked about the spike in delinquent credit card balances, he talked about the potential harm to credit card companies, not people.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I’m old enough to remember when Trump was accusing Democrats of being socialists. What do you call this? Government ownership of the means of production. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
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U.S. Plans to Invest $2 Billion and Take Stake in Quantum Firms
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/05/2026
Judge Andrew Oldham sounded frustrated by the UnitedHealthcare lawyer arguing 15-year-old Emily Dwyer no longer needed residential treatment. United’s approach, the judge said, essentially boiled down to “We’ll just gamble with her life.” (Published Dec. 2024)
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposin...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/05/2026
Everything about the $1.8 billion fund is ludicrous but don’t ignore the irony of blue states being forced to pay for bullshit “weaponization” claims as the government is being weaponized against them. Gift link:
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Taxpayers get the bill for Trump’s grievance fund —  but not the benefit.
Taxpayers pay the cost, but won't get the benefit.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The Republican super PACs spending to prop up her candidacy also must be called out and condemned for weaponizing a system that enables dark money to flood our elections, suppress votes, and drown out the actual will of the people. (2/2)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2026
NEW: Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bids for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers overlooked or rejected. With @inquirer.com
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With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers
Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers ...
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