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Just trying to stay present in this chaotic world.

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God @thegodshow.com · 28/06/2026
When Bernie ran in 2016, the billionaire ‘Epstein class’ freaked out. It’s ten years later and they’re freaking out ever harder over the rise of AOC and Mamdani. They will gladly burn the country to the ground to avoid paying an extra 2% in taxes per year. Luckily, they’re really, really stupid.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UPDATE: @aoc.bsky.social endorses @justinjpearson.bsky.social in TN-9 www.instagram.com/p/DaA9A9WRvk...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 19/06/2026
A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...
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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If Democrats aren't advocating for massive Supreme Court reform, then they aren't the change you seek or need, folks. If they aren't willing to fight or campaign on this, then we're totally f'd.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 29/05/2026
Who does AIPAC hate the most? AIPAC has tweeted hundreds of attacks on politicians since 2025 started. But among Dems floated as potential presidential picks, the 3 biggest targets are AOC, Ro Khanna, & Chris Van Hollen. @premthakker.bsky.social tracked how many times AIPAC attacked them:
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.
 ALTMAN: "WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s all rigged.
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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is will ferrell's son sounding like robin thicke?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This morning, activists recreated the historic March from Selma, then congregated for a rally in Montgomery. #allroadssouth #freedomsummer2026 (01/07)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
UPDATE: reportedly ALL Dems were stripped of committees… but white male house Dems are still listed. Only Black reps & women removed. Weird! Sexton + TN House Republicans not beating the “it’s about race” allegations. (P.S. It’s all standing committees. We have screenshots.)
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Ted Alcorn @tedalcorn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
With data from the @nytimes.com API, I analyzed all national+local coverage since 2000—224,000 articles— to see which topics in each state get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country. A portrait of how the paper of record sees America, one state per tweet, alphabetical. 👇
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/05/2026
"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New — The Senate has just voted against advancing an Iran War Powers Resolution for the seventh time, 49-50. This time though, a Democrat was the *deciding vote.* Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski voted to advance it. John Fetterman voted against it.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Reading my advance copy of The Emergency Playbook, and seriously, preorder this, fam. You can't get it soon enough, and everyone should own a PHYSICAL copy.
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The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation
A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/05/2026
FIRE. CHUCK. SCHUMER!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A really tough week. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
This isn't a priority contest. We have to fight on every front. Not give up an inch. But historically, white women were oppressed 'subjects' still within the human category, while Black people were legally 'objects' outside of it. Anti-Blackness is the foundation the whole hierarchy is built on.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
There is no compromise to be had with a movement whose whose whole reason for being, whose core identity is their hatred of Black people and their desire to dominate them. The right wing have their side quests and folk demons of the week, but the whole foundation is anti-Blackness.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/05/2026
The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
pet treats? khakis???? white people going after poc when amazon’s race war on what white people need to survive is right in the open
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Lara (NOT TRUMP) @endlesswinter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/04/2026
Black text on white background:

If corporations allow you to sign up with one click, you should be able to cancel with one click too.

Subscription traps, whether from an app or gym membership, are just another way corporations take advantage of working people. 

We've already put hundreds of companies on notice. This week, we proposed a rule that would make NYC a national leader in cracking down on abusive practices that nickel-and-dime New Yorkers.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Over the course of her career, #MostCorrupt2026 member Sen. Susan Collins has accepted a breathtaking $8.3 million in corporate PAC donations. She’s repeatedly abandoned Maine families and used her position of power to reward her friends on Wall Street. #MESEN
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2026
ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)
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How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
😭😭😭
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🔥 HASAN: “There’s a battle brewing — against not only the corrupt, fascist forces of the Republican Party… but also against do-nothing Dems that fundraise from corporate donors and put YOUR interests 2nd… Remember: every dollar spent on a bomb is stolen from YOU.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/04/2026
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 04/04/2026
This and Victor Glover are the aspects of the Artemis mission that I am most excited by. Also, Victor Glover became the farthest any Black man has travled from Earth.
Astronaut Victor Glover
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s the enablers that give him power. Never forget that.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bernie is the billionaire class’s nightmare.
Screenshot of a tweet by Acyn summarizing a Fox News exchange in which Brian Kilmeade asks about Bernie Sanders’ claim that billionaires don’t pay their fair share, and Jamie Dimon responds that he doesn’t know what “fair share” means. The image shows Kilmeade and Dimon seated across from each other on the “Fox & Friends” set, with a banner reading “Blue State Exodus.”Screenshot of a tweet by Bernie Sanders responding to Jamie Dimon, explaining that under his proposed 5% wealth tax, Dimon would pay more in taxes while middle-class families would receive payments. Sanders adds that Dimon would still be worth billions and calls that fair.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 29/03/2026
The California Courier likes to run Facebook ads against Democrats. Its funding, and most of its writers, are a mystery.
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Could this mysterious website influence the 2026 election? – The Markup
The California Courier likes to run Facebook ads against Democrats. Its funding, and most of its writers, are a mystery.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2026
To give the public more insight into American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities. Check it out 👇
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ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database
Our database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes. Now you can search by owner, manager or officer name.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
He’s literally a make-a-wish kid living his best life
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
50501 DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF WILLIE BELL BODYCAM FOOTAGE Bradenton Police Officers shot and killed Willie Bell on 3/10. After speaking with their legal team, Bradenton PD stated that they would not allow anyone to review the footage and claimed that they “lost" the audio from one camera
DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY
50501 DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF WILLIE BELL BODYCAM FOOTAGE

Bradenton Police Officers shot and killed Willie Bell on March 10th, 2026. After speaking with their legal team, the Bradenton Police Department stated that they would not allow anyone to review the footage and claimed that they “lost" the audio from one of the cameras. Bell's family is mourning their loss, and all they are asking for is to be able to view the body-camera footage.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Soulless.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 15/03/2026
Things make more sense when you understand that the real American dream is hoarding enough wealth, power, and resources so that you can rule over those you see as socially inferior to you. People will happily give up their own rights if they're allowed to kick you further down the ladder.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 3 DAYS TO GO!!! 💥 AIPAC and dark money groups are PANICKING!! 💥 But we’re in the streets — and you can be too!! 💥 Canvass shifts in Algonquin, Morton Grove, Skokie, Evanston, and Andersonville!! 💥 Knock doors with me and Jamaal Bowman!! 💥 Phonebanking from 2 PM to 8 PM today!!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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