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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Under every Administration, there were policies I agreed with and those I did not. As a US professional, career diplomat, however, it was my duty to promote even those policies that I personally disagreed with. Trump is different. He is an extential threat to the USA, as are his enablers. 2/2
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For 30 years under five different Presidents, I served my country 11 overseas postings plus the USA in a completely non-partisan fashion. I served R and D Presidents alike and always did my best to promote US interests and the Administration's policies. Under Trump, I cannot remain nonpartisan. 1/2
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Trump orders up another snuff flick. This time it will be Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. He will die by US Army firing squad, because Trump thinks this has more entertainment value for the MAGA base.
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Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan to die by US Army firing squad
Hasan, a former Army officer who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009, will be executed by firing squad.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 5h
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 4h
I was curious today and looked and this place holds 6k and I’m not sure they got half that
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16h
The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15h
Democrats need to renew American’s faith in democracy and their government. Trump has committed many impeachable acts, committed outright crimes, and attacked democracy itself. Impeach and remove. It’s that simple.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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🧐Trudy Lynn 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @tlt55.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The worse the crime, the more money Trump can demand for a pardon. Those are the most lucrative pardons to give.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
100% worth reading.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Against brute force – D.H. Lawrence on the superpower of vulnerability www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/03/d...
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Against Brute Force: D.H. Lawrence on the Superpower of Vulnerability
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/10/2026
Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot
Me standing on the wing of a yellow De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, on a sunny afternoon. I’m wearing a flight suit and aviators and trying to look cool, which may or may not be effective, but the lighting is really good at least
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 04/10/2026
“Religious freedom” doesn’t mean freedom to funnel dark money into elections. Voters deserve to know who’s spending money to influence their votes. Churches shouldn’t become political money-laundering machines where donor disclosure disappears at the collection plate.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every day more instances of disgusting & blatant corruption revealed as our money is being plundered by the Trump Crime Family & their cronies. Do American voters care anymore about corruption? I guess we’ll find out soon because it’s just staggering with this crew of criminals.
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“What is distinctive is the way evangelical theology & organizational structures enable those with authority to perpetrate, cover up & dismiss abuse… Evangelicals have created totalizing systems that shield perpetrators & silence victims.” – @kkdumez.bsky.social, LIVE LAUGH LOVE (p. 295)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
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Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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bluedove2024.bsky.social @bluedove2024.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
⬇️"..Trump is not a true fascist. Fascism requires allegiance to the state, which Trump lacks. The biggest threat to the US is not fascism but mafia state autocracy...controlled demolition by a billionaire criminal network, abetted by complicit actors within the US government."-S. Kendzior 2024💔💙🇺🇸🙏🌎
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don Henley is a mensch, part 12,946: (Wrote about his environmental projects in our book, and here: fallows.substack.com/p/be-not-sim... ] www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Eagles legend Don Henley is putting big money into turning Texas blue
The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once again, I ask why the New York Times & every other media outlet immediately & instinctively reports on the 🇩🇪 AfD as a “far right” or “extremist” party but does not regularly cover the 🇺🇸 Republican Party as such: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
For clarity, the judge here is saying that a STATE can criminalize non-citizen voting, but the federal government can't.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also attending Paramount's dinner to honor Trump was AG Todd Blanche. This took place as the Justice Dept. was about to decide on the antitrust implications of Paramount's bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Of course the regime gave its OK. It was unethical for those people to party with each other.
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Paramount Throws Party for Trump as It Awaits Approval of Warner Bros. Deal
The gathering included executives and leading journalists from CBS News, which Paramount owns, and the head of the Justice Department, which is reviewing the acquisition.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jan Crawford, the CBS reporter who interviewed Alito, attended Paramount CEO David Ellison's dinner in April honoring Donald Trump. A reporter who valued a reputation for nonpartisanship would have steered clear.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago, Illinois faced the nation's biggest fiscal challenge — budget turmoil, unpaid debt, and a credit rating downgraded 24 times. Now, we're in the strongest financial position in decades — 8 balanced budgets, 12 credit-rating upgrades, and no overdue bill backlog.
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
Illinoisans have lost access to food assistance because the President wanted to make himself and his friends at Mar-a-Lago even richer. He made families choose between putting food on the table and paying their bills by driving up costs and cutting SNAP.
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Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"
More than 5 million Americans have lost food-stamp benefits since 2025. "I have to prove that I'm sick," one SNAP recipient said.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's when a president illegally confiscates money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose because he decides, after the appropriation becomes law, that he doesn't like it. The fact that the Republican Congress ignores that is another reason they should be voted out. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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tomdurff.bsky.social @tomdurff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As with his boss, beginning with the Covid deaths he caused in 2020 and coming forward.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2026
I’m calling on my fellow public servants - Democratic and Republican - to reject the influence of AI and Big Tech spending in our politics and elections.   Americans deserve full confidence that our federal government focuses on their safety, not on companies' profit margins.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
77 million Americans voted for national suicide in 2024. We're seeing it unfold right now: The economy vandalized, the military weakened, politicians bribed, tech run wild, immigrants terrorized, and government goon squads committing murder. Vote against all Republicans. It could be our last chance.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The evidence mounts that Trump picked Hegseth because he knew he was mentally disturbed enough to order American troops to fire on American citizens.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Republican Party is a toxic force in our society. Matthew Gertz nails it here.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 30/09/2026
One word makes this argument fall flat on its face: “Why?” Why God? Why your God? Why does God exist? Why does God need no creator, but the universe does? Calling the mystery “God” isn’t an explanation. It’s giving the mystery a name and pretending you solved it.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How to be a lichen — adaptive strategies for the vulnerabilities of being human from nature’s tiny titans of resilience www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/02/l...
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How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity
When I was a child, little delighted me more than the magical green garlands draping from the pine trees, which I made into wreaths and mustaches to roam the mountains of Bulgaria as a miniature Or…
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