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The Special K 💙

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Writer, humanity advocate, & upholder of the moral compass. Educated ;) Ally #LGBTQIA2S+, #BLM Hate will be blocked. RePost≠endorsement. All within alleged & opinion. Yes, democracy is still worth it. 🌈 🌎 ✊🏽 ⚧️ ☮️

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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New leak says that Trump is never going to give up power again; plus a civil war. www.facebook.com/share/v/1C1S...
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delusional.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — $1 a day?? Mason, Tennessee sold out to Core Civic cheap😳: mlk50.com/2026/10/08/t... Here’s video from that meeting and the “hot mess” mayor: x.com/thetnholler/... Now reports of detainees getting their arms broken, hunger strikes… 👇🏽😕
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump's new press secretary.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
got Hegseth is a monster that even another monster cannot stand
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fine people on both sides, lol.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Say what you will, Mullin is a man of his word.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
it is morning in america and our domestic der sturmer is once again pushing for race war
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business."
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 09/10/2026
On the firing squad execution that Trump/Hegseth are setting up: "Senior officials should protest, and if necessary resign, rather than being complicit in the voyeuristic degradation of our democracy."👇
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING Politico: Trump has just established a committee of inquiry to investigate whether Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook made "false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments" — his latest effort to remove her from the central bank.
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Trump sets up committee to investigate, potentially remove the Fed's Lisa Cook
“As President, it is my job to ensure the laws are faithfully executed, including by firing subordinates who cannot be trusted to tell the truth and follow the law,” he wrote in a memo.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Is This Failed Actor Nepo Baby Now the Biggest Media Mogul Ever?” For his Zeteo ‘Ragebait’ column, media column Justin Baragona brings receipts on David Ellison:
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Is This Failed Actor Nepo-Baby Now the Biggest Media Mogul Ever?
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s ‘Ragebait.’
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Hegseth: "I don't know if we've ever said this publicly. Under Biden, there was 1 hour of TV that they advertised the most on. It shocked us. What do you think it was? The View. A lot of big, strong young men watching The View. We've totally inverted the way this department works."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Hegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
North Korea has nothing on us at this point— how is he not embarrassed?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just absolutely flailing at this point...
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Musk sticking his nose in Canada trying to get a province to separate. ‘No’: Moe shuts down Elon Musk’s calls for Saskatchewan to separate share.google/NwYufnSXfJIa...
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‘No’: Moe shuts down Elon Musk’s calls for Saskatchewan to separate
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe publicly dismissed a suggestion from the world’s richest man for the province to separate.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic National Committee sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 07/10/2026
Nolan Wells Wells Horn Island with several friends on July 4 and later chose to stay behind while his friends returned to shore. But Wells never returned home, and he was found dead on the island on July 6. buff.ly/POfcnvC
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Nolan Wells’ Snapchat Log Has Been Released. Here Are the Details.
Nolan Wells’ Snapchat log has been released, providing insight into his friend group’s messages and their reaction after he was found dead on July 6.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump says he "could have done very bad things" to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama — but chose not to, because "you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect." What he said next stunned onlookers.
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Trump bizarre impeachment rant stuns Oval Office onlookers: 'This is not normal'
President Donald Trump left onlookers stunned Wednesday when he went on a bizarre rant about what Democrats will do to him if they take back control of Congress after the midterm elections. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump told Peter Doocy of Fox News that he's aware that Democrats pl...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026
Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.
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Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible?
Christa Pike has regained consciousness and is speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 07/10/2026
Lawyers for Donald Trump's West Palm Beach golf club are pursuing a plan to turn part of the course into a "permanent" presidential retreat modeled on Camp David, one that would outlast his time in office, according to The Washington Post.
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Trump golf course set to become 'permanent presidential sanctuary' under new plan: report
Lawyers for Donald Trump's West Palm Beach golf club are pursuing a plan to turn part of the course into a "permanent" presidential retreat modeled on Camp David, one that would outlast his time in office, according to The Washington Post.The proposal calls for a parcel of the private club to become...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The blue wave shows no sign of abating. Democrats are doing a decent job of getting out of their own way. Donald Trump is traveling around the country and doing his best to make the election about himself. And the more this election is about Trump, the better." www.thebulwark.com/p/reasons-fo...
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Reasons for Hope. Reasons for Alarm.
Things are looking up—for now.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/10/2026
A former Buddhist monk in Thailand has been convicted of misusing donations meant for a hospice he established for people with HIV/AIDS and given the maximum term of 50 years in prison.
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A former Buddhist monk who founded a Thai AIDS hospice has been convicted of embezzlement
A former Buddhist monk in Thailand has been convicted of misusing donations meant for a hospice he established for people with HIV/AIDS and given the maximum term of 50 years in prison.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"why don't more women come forward?" men. the answer is men.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The workers who make Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are unionizing. The teams behind these famous games would join United Wizards of the Coast, a union established earlier this year by Magic: The Gathering Arena developers in partnership with the Communication Workers of America.
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The Dungeons & Dragons And Magic: The Gathering Teams Are Forming A Union - Kotaku
If successful, this unionization effort would bring almost every Wizards of the Coast IP under union representation
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Setting up a challenge for Trump. If Putin/Russia keeps lying about the plague incident, what is Trump going to say about the guy he has a man-crush on? HowRussiaWon.com
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Michael @michaelnaphys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They act like this isn't intentional on OpenAI's part. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" Is an "Unsafe" Mess, Testing Finds
A new Common Sense Media report found that guardrails said to be included in OpenAI's "ChatGPT for Teens" aren't working as promised.
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yup, its a lost cause cult. Sickening. www.facebook.com/share/r/1C4g...
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An excellent read: Jesse Marsch: ‘We Americans have been inundated with propaganda since we were young’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jesse Marsch: ‘We Americans have been inundated with propaganda since we were young’
As he prepares to face his home nation, the Canada manager reflects on his adopted country’s soccer, its prime minister, and its place in the world
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This certainly looks cheap.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/10/2026
“New York's law makes it much more difficult for prosecutors to go forward in cases where the victim ingested drugs or alcohol and chose to do that. This is really a form of legal victim blaming,” says Deborah Tuerkheimer, a law professor at Northwestern University, about the Cornell rape case.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
news: CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson says he will be staying on under David Ellison. "They both understand and will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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CNN C.E.O. Mark Thompson Says He Will Stay On Under New Owner Skydance (Gift Article)
Mark Thompson told the network’s employees that he had faith that David Ellison, the chief executive of Skydance, would support “independent news that CNN has always stood for.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IDF-backing Trump-backing billionaire David Ellison appoints Israeli Ynon Kreiz to as co-CEO to run his American media empire, which now includes CBS, CNN, etc… www.jta.org/2026/10/02/u...
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder how many reporters and Republicans knew and said nothing.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks, Trump! Kennedy Center Honors gala gets evicted. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Thanks, Trump! Kennedy Center Honors gala gets evicted.
The Kennedy Center Honors have been forced to relocate—and it’s all thanks to Trump’s pettiness.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This might be the least surprising news of the day. Leavitt has been on Fox repeatedly since leaving the White House and Hannity has constantly joked about her having her own show. Plus, as we all know, there's a revolving door between the Trump admin and Fox News. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 05/10/2026
Sam Altman: Bad things will have to happen to other people for us to succeed www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
“I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman told Decoded co-author and POLITICO senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon. Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said, “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.”
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
U.S. officials and other experts are urging Russia to release more info about reported case of plague lab-leak. @ashishkjha.bsky.social: "We don’t really have a full understanding of what was going on in this facility." with @lenasun.bsky.social and Mary Ilyushina.
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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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The Special K 💙 @thespecialk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kudlow: 'Are you a cult member or not?"
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