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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19h
Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Both parents feed & protect the chicks. “One of my all time favorite loon clips. This was the first time that I got 2 chicks on the parent’s back at the same time several years ago.” Canon R5 and 100-500mm lens IG: @harrycollinsphotography www.instagram.com/harrycollins...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 29/09/2026
The proof is in the underwear. Farmers are finding ways to reduce environmental impacts while growing more food. We visited two farms to see just how they’re doing it.
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Underwear and turkey eggs: how farmers are finding ways to help the environment
By incorporating new methods of planting, fertilizing and generally operating, farmers are reducing their negative impacts and growing more food
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 28/09/2026
What we need are: 1.) Energy credits to protect people from the cost of living crisis, and 2.) Price controls to stop profiteering by energy companies. We then need massive state investment to re-nationalise the energy sector, rapidly moving us away from reliance on fossil fuels. #CostOfGreed
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/09/2026
The Great Lakes hold more than 80% of North America’s surface fresh water. We have to protect it — it’s hugely important for the future of Illinois’ economy as well as for the people of our state.
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re only $40,000,000,000,000 in debt. Glad we have money to pay for a TV commercial promoting Trump that aired during NFL games. Who really needs Social Security, highways and veterans benefits after all? www.mediaite.com/media/news/a...
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‘Abuse of Power!’ Ethics Watchdogs Blast Trump for Running Back a 2024 Campaign Ad as a Government-Funded Promo Spot
Ethics watchdogs are crying "abuse of power" over 2024 Trump presidential campaign ad that the White House is currently running as a PSA.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where’s my surprised face🫠 www.michiganfarmnews.com/about/news-m...
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AFBF: Increased beef imports have not lowered prices for consumers | An official publication of Michigan Farm Bureau
Policies intended to increase imports under the assumption that they will bring down prices for consumers have yet to deliver meaningful savings.
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MrC Careens Haphazardly Through Time & Space @oldmisterc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ReleaseALLThe*rump-epsteinFiles #RemoveTheFatStupidRapistFelonNow
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another Steve Sack cartoon
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russian state media threatens Lithuania with “short” special military operation www.byteseu.com/2403872 Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency has threatened Lithuania with what it described as “another short special military operation”. The agency published a column by Alexander …
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Russian state media threatens Lithuania with "short" special military operation - Bytes Europe
Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency has threatened Lithuania with what it described as “another short special military operation”.
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Decrypt @decrypt.co · 28/09/2026
Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks
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Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks
The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 27/09/2026
Surveillance is not safety. Flock cameras are tracking Texans everywhere they drive, all without a warrant. Our freedom and privacy shouldn't be the price we pay for Big Tech's surveillance network.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth 👇
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
It was a rare federal dataset that captured human emotions. Consumers could have their complaints about American businesses published for all to see. For years, corporations have critiqued the system. Now the narratives are no longer being published.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing." ~ George Orwell @mluckovich.bsky.social
Mike Luckovich
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This all needs to be illegal
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Barry Zigas @barryzigas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gosh, I can still remember when Trump was shilling Teslas on the White House lawn.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
750,000 Texas Voters Disenfranchised Up to 750,000 Texans registered through the DPS online portal are missing from County Voting Rolls. Talarico “the government failed to do its job.” Registration deadline: Oct. 5. 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls
“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck the GOP. #politics
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As soon as Russia's Duma elections were over the prices for food in Russian grocery stores immediately went up. That is hilarious and precisely how Russia functions.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😓 Three dead in Kyiv parking lot, - Klitschko 7 people were injured. Emergency services are working on the scene.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🗳️ HEADS UP OHIO: Voters who want to register to vote while applying for a driver's license will now be required to provide proof of citizenship. Voters who register through other means will only need to sign a statement, the lone dissenting judge explained: demdock.com/4xOunfV
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Epic lecturing of LAPD for violating a court order. Most of LA cops are moonlighting as ICE slave catchers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everything for our kids. Because all our kids are all our kids.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mike Rogers told Michiganders he was an assembly line autoworker who made Chrysler LeBarons. Turns out it was a complete lie. Shameful.
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Mike Rogers claims he was an assembly line worker. The UAW said that is stretching the truth. • Michigan Advance
Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Release the #EpsteinFiles!
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 25/09/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: A government report released Thursday found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in many communities. ow.ly/938O50ZR932
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 24/09/2026
Nova Scotia communities are pushing back on two proposed power plants, underscoring broader concerns about fast-tracking projects without adequately considering environmental and social impacts, @camfenton.bsky.social reports.
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Risking salmon, climate and Indigenous Rights: two Nova Scotia power plants underscore fast-tracking concerns
Government says proposed Nova Scotia power plants don’t trigger the duty to consult — but Mi’kmaq communities disagree, citing environmental concerns
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Trump is threatening to deploy ICE at the polls. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries are suing to stop him. www.democracydocket.com/cases/federa...
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🚨 DSCC et al v. ICE et al
Learn more here.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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