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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level since 2014 in September as an inflation-weary public took a dimmer view on the labor market and the impact higher prices. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/c...
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Consumer optimism slides to lowest since 2014 as fears escalate over rising prices and jobs
The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index tumbled to 81.9, a decline of 6.7 points and a reading well below the forecast for 89.
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Jocelyn Benson @jocelynbenson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I’m running to be the next Governor of Michigan to ensure everyone gets a fair shot. I'm a mom, military spouse, marathoner, educator — and Michigan’s Secretary of State. www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ci...
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Fair Shot
YouTube video by Benson for Governor
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
He can't raise the retirement age without Congress. Vote.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"The FBI in 2025 under President Trump shut down an inquiry into allegations that a political adviser to Senator Susan Collins had participated in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions from a defense contractor seeking lucrative federal contracts"
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here is the president of the questionable ads from the CFL. Chris Winkelman is the CLF’s president, is a lawyer who previously served as general counsel for the National Republican Congressional Committee and was the NRCC’s executive director during the 2024 election cycle.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What about the ebst. files? youtu.be/9bKB3rbRNCo?...
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🚨Judge SLAMS AG Blanche And REJECTS His EXCUSES In NEW Order In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Elon Musk Rages Over Alex Gibney's 'Hit Piece' Documentary 'Musk': 'Horrible Human'
Elon Musk slams director Alex Gibney in a series of posts on X following the Venice Film Festival premiere of the four-hour documentary 'Musk.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
Trump's announcement today that he's trying to make it so farmers and ranchers can "process their own food" came directly from Glenn Beck during their interview the other day. So America now has a right-wing shock jock making our agricultural policy. Good times!
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Imagine an administration so evil it *intentionally* makes citizens worry about where their next meal is coming from. Well, guess what? You don’t have to imagine. That evil is our reality.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The newspaper’s editorial board savaged the 80-year-old president for announcing a sequel to his “dumbest” tariff plans against a close ally and neighbor by imposing 50 percent import levies on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend. www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-pape...
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Murdoch Paper Savages Trump for Making His ‘Dumbest’ Plan Even Dumber
The Wall Street Journal says the president’s latest move makes no “economic or political sense.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Justice Department has yet to convince a single court it is entitled to states’ unredacted voter rolls, but now the Trump administration hopes to spin those losses into a win at the U.S. Supreme Court. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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With nothing but losses, here’s how Trump’s DOJ could try to sell its voter roll crusade to the Supreme Court
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made the strategy unusually explicit while announcing DOJ’s plans to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors for the November midterms.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.”
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It’s even Worse than I Thought….
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
$600 million down the drain in one attack.
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FatBaldBoomer @fatbaldboomer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Yes we live in a survellance state youtube.com/shorts/KlvT_...
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Texas Sheriff uses Flock to search nationwide for a woman who had an abortion
YouTube video by SilentMiddleChild
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Judge ‘reluctantly’ approves DOJ request to drop Jan. 6 charges against Oath Keepers thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Judge ‘reluctantly’ approves DOJ request to drop Jan. 6 charges against Oath Keepers
A federal judge “reluctantly” agreed on Tuesday to drop criminal charges against eight members of the right-wing extremist Oath Keepers group who were convicted for their participation in the Jan. …
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
U.S. ECONOMY AS EXPECTED LOST 23,000 JOBS
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan isn't buying what Todd Blanche is selling in the @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit. After reviewing Blanche's unredacted Epstein files in camera, Sullivan is ordering a HEARING to discuss the following: 1/
Upon consideration of the Defendant’s responses to the
Court’s Orders of June 25, 2026 and July 25, 2026, and the
Court’s in camera review of the documents submitted, it is
hereby
ORDERED that a status hearing shall take place at 1:00 pm
on August 13, 2026 in Courtroom 24A; and it is further
ORDERED that the parties shall be prepared to discuss the
following issues:
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last year, I held the Senate floor for more than 22 hours to ring the alarm bells about Trump's authoritarianism. Today, I introduced a 10-point legislative plan to rein it in—the For Our Republic Act.
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Democrats unveil sweeping proposal to combat Trump authoritarianism
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., is packaging together a number of existing bills with some new ideas to curb what he calls authoritarian abuses of presidential power.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Trump Regime is playing fast and loose with federal funds for clean energy, healthcare, and education. We need thoughtful and creative problem solvers in Congress.  Mark Nair is running against Trump lackey, Ronny Jackson. He shares his plans to stop the DC corruption. youtu.be/W_oKjS43URw?...
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Trump SCRAMBLES as Texas Plan BACKFIRES And Dems STRIKE BACK!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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A 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan's southern Kyushu island and dozens are injured or missing
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 has shaken Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu, leaving dozens of people missing or injured.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's late, but I am committed to writing about DOJ's emergency petition to the Supreme Court in the mail-in voting case. If you value this type of real-time expert analysis from me, support Democracy Docket by subscribing now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Katie Hobbs wasn't a lawyer or CEO before becoming governor—she was a social worker helping families through homelessness and domestic violence. That background shows up in everything she does now, from eliminating medical debt to cutting child care costs. Arizona has a governor who actually gets it
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to force Virginia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-14 in these cases. www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...
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🚨United States of America v. Beals
Learn more.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Happy memorial weekend. Servicemembers should know your "leaders" don't care about you. All they care about is your ability to kill, maim others. They don't have enough money to train medical people. They spent it all on extrajudicial murders, illegal wars, immigration, etc. #V4V #usDemocracy #dv1
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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New Mexico says US Justice Dept hindering probe of former Epstein ranch
New Mexico's top law enforcement official on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Justice of hindering the state's investigation into ​Jeffrey Epstein by withholding unredacted files on the late se...
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 10/07/2026
“Twenty states are still at the federal floor of $7.25.” The wealth of just 4 men is at a TRILLION+ dollars. Meanwhile we're getting our healthcare cut, food assistance cut, our rents are UP, and the minimum wage hasn't risen in 17 damn years. Something's gotta give. We're fighting back!
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Mark Cuban has strong words on minimum wage and employers
The billionaire investor has a message for American employers, and it is not what most of them want to hear
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There was discussion on USD alternatives but the IMF argued that “the U.S. dollar’s strength flowed from America’s “institutions, the rule of law.” Lets face facts, Trump has murdered the rule of law in America and thus severally diminished the faith the world has in the US to lead. #Sheshed
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Danny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jacks back to say thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGQG...
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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Jack Smith breaks silence on Trump I FULL INTERVIEW
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/07/2026
Todd Blanche's deadline to put up or shut up is tomorrow. It's true! @katiephang.bsky.social is a bad ass. Setting precedent and taking names. Check out our conversation about her case here. Never any paywalls. Ever. www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-major-wi...
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A MAJOR Win for Independent Media Against Todd Blanche!
I'm still reeling from Judge Emmet Sullivan's 48-page ruling in Katie Phang's case against the Justice Department in the Epstein Files Transparency Act case. This is MASSIVE.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Let's go Nancy Lacore!
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The congressional request followed reports that federal agents allowed fentanyl shipments into New Mexico. New Mexico has been among the states hardest hit by the fentanyl crisis, with overdose deaths devastating communities statewide, Torrez’ office said. www.organmountainnews.com/torrez-dea-f...
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Torrez opens investigation into DEA fentanyl operations in New Mexico
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has opened an investigation into allegations that DEA allowed fentanyl pills to be distributed in New Mexico communities.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Ivanov’s death comes at a time when Putin’s remaining inner circle is gripped by paranoia and internal warfare. A recent investigation has revealed that Putin has been on heightened alert over coup fears, choosing to run the country from fortified bunkers. united24media.com/world/longti...
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Longtime Putin Ally and Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov Dies at 73
Sergei Ivanov, one of Vladimir Putin's oldest KGB allies who was once expected to become Russia's next president, has died at the age of 73.
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Tom MaClean @thomastime.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: In a SCATHING statement, Major General (Ret.) Paul Eaton just called out Donald Trump's War In Iran for what it is: a complete and utter FAILURE.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING ACTION: Trump is actively trying to dismantle the US Forest Service—shuttering 57 research labs, relocating HQ, and forcing out thousands of federal workers, including wildland firefighters. Congress can stop this sabotage. Send your letter NOW: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...
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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network
NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For the first time,the UN placed the Russian army on blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence The UN's annual report on sexual violence in conflict has documented hundreds of confirmed cases of violence against prisoners of war&civilians
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Just Jill 💖 @justjill.sheshed.rocks · 10/06/2026
Sidestepping Johnson 🥰. He’s not a happy man today. He lost 20 to this one. Unions are great for people. Now let’s work on something that will make an impact to the people now, like food assistance or healthcare assistance. Anything. People are drowning #SheShed www.politico.com/live-updates...
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20 House Republicans cross party lines to pass pro-union bill
The Faster Labor Contracts Act is the latest in a series of employment bills that pro-labor House Republicans have bucked their party on.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 08/06/2026
Bacteria found in Target baby wipes could be life-threatening to infants; recall underway
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Bacteria found in Target baby wipes could be life-threatening to infants; recall underway
The discovery of bacterias in baby wipes sold at Target stores has prompted a nationwide recall, the FDA announced.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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msesq.bsky.social @msesq.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bam!
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