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Tommy Paine

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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 22h
If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.
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Amish Super Model @amishsupermodel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth, declares Crusade on non-white, non-male, non-Christians.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sir, I find your terms acceptable. Deal!
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Liberals spend forever wondering if these people believe what they are saying and it doesn’t matter. Their audiences 10000% believe it and they vote accordingly.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
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Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There it is
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To quote the Coen Brothers: “T’were that it was so simple.” @politico.com @michaelsantoli.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The contagion, officially declared vanquished by vaccination, ripped through the Miller family over the summer, sickening six of the seven children and their mother. It skipped only their father, Marvin Miller, and one daughter, Mary Ann. Both had been vaccinated.”
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Measles Outbreak in Amish Country Forces Some to Rethink Vaccines
The spread of measles in Pennsylvania and Ohio is largely affecting Amish communities where vaccinations levels are low.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why won’t network evening news broadcasts show their audience video of Trump dozing off during press events in the Oval Office in the middle of the day while people are talking, as he’s done dozens and dozen of times? Is that not newsworthy? Is it impolite? Will you lose access?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best, uhh, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MSNOW REPORTER DENIED ACCESS TO WHITE HOUSE AFTER COURT RULING -MSNOW
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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justfara @justfara.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pools that haven’t been kind to Trump: ~ Reflecting ~ Press ~ Gene
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration would be so funny if it wasn’t so historically embarrassing and destructive. America deserves serious leaders.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is America great again yet? #StillWaiting
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So which one of Kash’s friends trying to join the FBI had a bestiality conviction on his record?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's a small world after all!!
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
This colossal new tax will likely be charged to the university (!). Few universities — obviously — will pay. That will mean a collapse in access to OPT. That in turn will kneecap international enrollment at US universities, because the bridge OPT provides is a major reason students come—>
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OPT Reforms and the Relative Supply of STEM Skills
(May 2026) - Since the late 2000s, reforms to the optional practical training (OPT) program have allowed international STEM graduates to work in the United States for up to three years after graduatio...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After skipping the NYC 9/11 service because they wouldn’t let him give a partisan political speech, and falling asleep again in the middle of the day at the Pentagon ceremony, Trump will be in Ireland this weekend promoting his own golf resort at our expense.
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Straight of Whore Moose @ericlackner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
At least PBS keeps it honest. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Unspeakably excited to finally have this book in my hands
A book called “is this it: the never ending rise and fall of the strokes (and rock n roll)
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Since Trump called on his followers to commit election fraud, is Attorney General Blanche going to investigate?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty)
pic of an orange-faced Trump leaning forward with an angry look on his face as he snaps at a reporter
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Somebody tell the New York Post there's a rich asshole lying that he rushed down to Ground Zero during the attack and had to be carried away by firemen. I bet they're going to be SO MAD when they hear about this.
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Could you imagine anyone else in the history of history, let alone the President of the United States, so blatantly defiling the memory of our fallen brethren? What a terrible, broken person.
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Tony da Franca 📎 🇵🇹🇬🇧🇪🇺 @fdb.graphics · 07/09/2026
Electricity bill. Oil on canvas.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s a cleaner look tho
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Russia's Latest Target: Ukraine's Gas Stations
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Russia's Latest Target: Ukraine's Gas Stations
Along almost every highway in Ukraine’s east, Russia is systematically bombing civilian gas stations
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
FEDWATCH: Diesel’s impact on food prices — one of the heaviest CPI components at 13.7% of the basket — .. could add a few tenths to headline inflation. .. For PPI, this calculation is worse.” 👀
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