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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Me: "Donald Trump wouldn't have allowed little Patrick Bet-David into this country..no Iranians were allowed in this year..How do you feel about that?" Patrick Bet-David: "You are so funny..I would have found a way to get in." Me: "You would have come in illegally? You're pro illegal immigration?"

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's genuinely funny a 74 year old senator got played by the most obvious conman ever and is now posting passive aggressively like a pre-teen who hasn't learned subtlety yet.

Senator John Cornyn
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An old, but apt fable:
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A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help myself. It's my character." @Wikipedia
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This precedent could also be applied to government officials who blow people up in boats without a declared war, due process, evidence, or trial.

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FvH1303 @fvh1303.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The US has became the worst country on this planet.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Devastated by the horrific attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego. There is no place for anti-Muslim hate in America. We must confront this violence and protect the right to worship safely. My prayers are with the victims and their loved ones.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The default assumption should be that anything that this administration says is a lie until proven otherwise. Tяump lies about everything.

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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Easily, the most corrupt president in history:

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

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Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Today, we celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia. Today and every day, we stand against hate in all its forms. Everyone deserves the freedom to live openly, love fully, and exist without fear. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #IDAHOBIT

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

this fuckin guy

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Hearing a former professional wrestling executive call something “weird” is next level.

Screenshot of a post from @atrupar on X.com showing a hearing exchange where Rep. Casar asks Education Secretary Linda McMahon whether $1 billion for Trump's ballroom would be better spent on school lunches and teachers. McMahon responds that the comparisons are "incredibly weird." Below is a photo of McMahon testifying at a hearing.

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OKNova @okaynova.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is is spot-on. The cost of healthcare, housing, food, childcare, transportation, etc. all make having a child out of reach for the majority of Americans. It's a luxury. Trump and his creepy cronies of sperm counters, trad moms and grifter thieves are so far removed from this that are clueless.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Let this radicalize you

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It's hitting tea drinkers too

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

So, the Democrats’ failure to ban gerrymandering in 2021 may cost us democracy after all.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/05/2026

There it is. Republicans’ SAVE Act is not about protecting the right to vote – it’s about putting up barriers to make it harder for certain people to vote. Senate Democrats will block this anti-democracy garbage from ever becoming law.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/05/2026

Priorities. Had enough yet?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.

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'Promising Milestone': Missouri Campaign Submits Signatures to Protect Voter-Approved Laws | Common Dreams

Missouri organizers reach milestone in campaign for constitutional amendment to protect ballot initiatives from legislat

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So much for being the "pro free speech" party.

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I would be willing to show thaty drugs this month alone have doubled in price - I went from paying $60 to $140 for a three month supply of four medications and I'm 31.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Shocking stuff from the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust on his latest earnings call:

“I must say that I consider the phrase ‘tax the rich’ — quote, tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs and even the phrase, ‘from the river to the sea,’” Roth said. He also criticized Mamdani’s singling out of Griffin, calling it an “ugly, unnecessary video stunt.”

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wednesday’s 6-3 party line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century. All six Republican-appointed justices on the court signed onto Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters, while pretending they were merely making technical tweaks to the Act.

This decision will bleach the halls of Congress, state legislatures, and local bodies like city councils, by ending the protections of Section 2 of the Act, which had provided a pathway to assure that voters of color would have some rudimentary fair representation. It’s the culmination of the life’s work of Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, who have shown persistent resistance to the idea of the United States as a multiracial democracy, and a brazen willingness to reject Congress’s judgment that fair representation for minority voters sometimes requires race-conscious legislation. It gives the green light to further partisan gerrymandering. It protects Alito’s core constituency: aggrieved white Republican voters. It’s a disaster for American democracy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This should settle it for Jeffries and anyone who still supports him. 👇😡

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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Funny how that works. 🤔🫤🤨🙂‍↔️

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Just came online and saw the news. I knew DC's political and media classes were throwing a gross party for themselves tonight in the midst of us losing a war—and our democracy—and our economy slowly collapsing, but I didn't think it'd turn into a metaphor. Glad no one was hurt.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Two key updates from CNN just now: (1) The shooting suspect is said to be a 30 year-old man from Los Angeles. (2) A Secret Service agent was shot and is in the hospital, but there is reason to believe the agent will be okay because they were shot in their protective equipment.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Note that there's been no threat to sue over this statement. I know I would be suing for tens of millions if I was innocent.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Everyone knows the way you change the Constitution is to have six people in robes make up a new Constitution as they go along.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the United States’ duty to safeguard tax return information under 26 U.S.C. § 6103 and the Privacy
Act.
The case remains in its early stages. Good cause exists to grant an extension in this matter
while the Parties engage in discussions designed to resolve this matter and to avoid protracted
litigation. This limited pause will neither prejudice the Parties nor delay ultimate resolution.
Rather, the extension will promote judicial economy and allow the Parties to explore avenues that
could narrow or resolve the issues efficiently.
II. Argument
A. Good Cause Supports a 90-day Extension.
Courts routinely grant extensions motions where, as here, an extension serves the interests
of justice and efficiency without harming any party. The Parties are engaging in discussions and
need time to work through how to ensure those discussions can take place productively to avoid
protracted litigation. This brief period will allow the Parties to initiate and structure those
discussions in a manner that best serves the interests of all Parties and the Court

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The regime is so out of touch.

Screenshot of a tweet by FactPost (@factpostnews) showing an exchange where Treasury Secretary Bessent, asked why people aren't feeling better about the economy, responds that "in their heart of hearts, they feel good" and says he's unsure what people are telling pollsters. The embedded video shows Bessent speaking outdoors in front of a manicured lawn, eyes closed, in a suit and tie.

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Incredible. Ukraine as a small nation taking on Russia and how they solve against odds that once seemed impossible is just mind-blowing. As an allied nation (or one that should be), I don't see why you wouldn't invest in the downfall of one of the world's worst actors and notorious bad players

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Watch how Ukrainian Yak-52 crew battles Russian Shahed drones:

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Yeah, I'm not sure on that. Ultimately, I think even if they did manage to get enough R and DINO votes to do this, it would get challenged on that front to the Supreme Court The benefit is once again having Rs on records not doing anything to stop this. Proving rain is wet, essentially

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Well and the reality of that is going around Trump to establish a commission to bypass his cabinet would require an impossible majority. They've solved for how they could get around the VP I think but there's no route forward while Republicans are still bending over for dear leader.

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Oh God, if they weren't brown and Muslim or if Republicans weren't awful racists, could you imagine what the Republicans would be saying on this? Imagine the reality if the goal of this war was adding them as territory of the US. It's possible that many worse timelines do exist

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That being said, it also puts the Repubs on record for when Dems do get power and forced them to be accountable for that vote so while mostly performative, there's some actual mechanisms here at play for accountability that initial outrage makes hard to see

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thank you - I had read this and keep mind holding this very important piece. The caveat of trying this now is it plays out as political theater unless they get Republicans to sign off. We can't even get all of the Dems to limit Trump's war powers in Iran because of AIPAC and Israel loves Trump.

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ThatsSoWitty @thatssowitty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

How can the 25A discussions even be seen as a viable option and not political theater without buy in from the President's cabinet?

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

stupid easily manipulated people were told immigrants were eating pets and trans people were cutting off your sons genitals and they were goaded on by a broken media chasing clicks above all else

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

its the only explanation that makes sense too, there’s a bunch of goddam morons in charge doing things they dont understand because theyre morons and theyre there because morons voted for them

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

just incomprehensible to truly describe how stupid this all is

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

donald trump just saved 90M lives and quite frankly your lack of appreciation sickens me

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