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True Blue Progressive

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Progressive, literate, educated, human with a soul and a heart and compassion and a conscience. I work in a field where sharing my personal views could impact me professionally. So, I don't share my name. He/him.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
Our reporter mimicked the betting patterns of a problem gambler for 10 weeks, consulting a panel of addiction specialists, recovering gambling addicts and professional sports bettors for advice. Here are five things he learned.
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Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.
ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson immersed himself in the world of online sports betting on DraftKings to test the limits of the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. Here are five things he learn...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h
Mike Rogers spent over two decades in Washington advocating for forever wars in the Middle East and has been a staunch advocate for Donald Trump's illegal war in Iran. Watch our new ad, "War."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
The push alerts we received from multiple major news channels assured us there was an energy ceasefire. Surely they wouldn’t fall for Trump’s lies this easily.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 6h
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h
Visitors entering the historic building of the first crematorium and gas chamber at the former Auschwitz I camp. ▶ Watch a video about the first gas chamber at Auschwitz: youtu.be/wZmBSRVYLoE Photo: www.instagram.com/javidibad
A group of people is entering a stone bunker with a lit bulb above the entrance, surrounded by lush greenery and stone walls.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 17h
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
Mike Rogers knows how to deliver BIG results: bigger hospital bills, bigger access to opioids, bigger war with Iran, and bigger gas prices.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 4h
Another Select Steve Sack cartoon
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 4h
Sunday's sermon should be about this 👇
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 4h
Select Bill Bramhall cartoon
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 4h
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
The FAA warned rocket launches could “significantly reduce safety” for airplanes after we reported earlier this year on a SpaceX rocket explosion. Such disruptions will likely become more frequent, as SpaceX is planning up to 76 launches a year.
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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris
A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h
Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10h
Students at a Georgia high school staged a fake cafeteria fight to draw their principal over. Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe High School targeted Principal Bobby Davis on his birthday, highlighting the close bonds he has formed with students as a longtime school alumnus and first-year leader.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 7h
Your Cartoon of Truth....
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Target allowing ICE to use its parking lots as staging grounds.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 8h
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h
Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2h
11 October 1915 | A Pole, Piotr Jaskier, was born in Skrzyszów. A shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 21 February 1942. No. 23691 He was shot in the camp on 25 June 1942. --- A short video about Block 11 and the Wall of Death where shooting execution took place: youtu.be/3hjDCsqgGY0
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 3h
#SC 1000+measles cases this year. South Carolina is the epicenter. Lindsey Graham voted to put RFK Jr. in charge of public health-now his sister Darlene (with no experience) is running to perpetuate this nightmare for families. Your kids are paying the price for incompetence. Vote for Dr. Andrews!
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 4h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 8h
11 October 1937 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Preigher, was born in Neuilly. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Vintage black-and-white photo of a young girl wearing a bow in their hair and a light-colored dress, looking slightly to the side.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 5h
Now that the weather has cooled down, Gilroy area tomato workers have to start work later because the cold makes tomatoes fragile and easy to damage. "Olga" says, "Switching work times based on the weather with kids to care for is difficult, but there is no option." #WeFeedYou
A Gilroy tomato field
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 4h
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 7h
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in their quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local and state officials have been little help.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 11h
On this day in 1930, a Czech Jewish boy was born. On the 30 Jun 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his parents and brother (17) and on the 8 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where he was murdered. His name was Petr Bauer
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Melanie D'Arrigo Is Correct.......
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 11h
On this day in 1943, a 32 year old Ukrainian man perished in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 11 months and 21 days. Before being imprisoned he was an electro-mechanic. His name was Yakov Parfieniuk Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11h
11 October 1912 | A German Sinti woman, Emma Rosenbach, was born in Damgarten. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 14 March 1943. No. Z-3693 She perished in the camp on 3 December 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschw…
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 11h
On this day in 1861, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 6 Jul 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his wife and on the 19 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where he was murdered on arrival. His wife perished in Theresienstadt. His name was Jan Hutter
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
He knew. He intentionally stiffed them because he’s an arrogant prick who sues his OB/GYN patients. They repeatedly tried to get the bill paid. Then someone posted their pleas on social media. A bunch of us retweeted it. It went viral. ONLY THEN did this scumbag pay.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11h
An old man and his cat trade meows and words like old friends mid-chat, and science backs up why it feels so real.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin as Zelenskyy’s team met with Witkoff and Kushner in Miami. Ben explains why the deal won’t meaningfully lower prices, but could signal protection for Russian refineries as Trump pressures Ukraine to surrender territory.
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John Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 11h
On this day in 1919, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 20 Jun 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her parents & on the 6 Sep 1943 to Auschwitz where she & her mother were murdered. Her father perished in the ghetto. His name was Erika Schönhofova @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14h
11 October 1941 | Dutch Jewish boy, Heinrich Lange, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in July 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with his mother Berta. His father Hans perished in the camp in September 1942.
Family portrait of Lange family. The father and mother stand with a baby. The father holds the baby in front of them.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"What's happening to children across this country right now is so utterly reprehensible. And we're going to be living with the repercussions of that for a generation." - NYC resident speaks on the INHUMANE treatment she has witnessed in CHILD immigration courts LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia on Fox & Friends: "People need to start giving him credit for his multifaceted approach and how he's trying to bring down prices almost unilaterally all by himself"
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 17h
...the self-described “radical street librarian” is bringing books directly to children in neighborhoods with limited access, turning a green-and-gold trolley into a rolling destination for young readers. 👏🏽📚💫🌺 people.com/radical-stre...
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‘Radical Street Librarian’ Quits Her Job, Then Transforms a Trolley into Mobile Library to Provide Free Books for Hundreds of Kids
Ms. Maze is bringing the magic of reading to underserved Baltimore communities by giving children free books from her colorful trolley.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
“President Zelenskyy could’ve solved the war” — Trump (The one person with the power to immediately end the war is Putin, the aggressor)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico mocked MAGA conspiracy theorists Friday when he attended a popular music festival after almost two weeks off the campaign trail due to the flu. #JamesTalaricoForTexas 🗳️🌊 www.thedailybeast.com/democrat-sta...?
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Dem Star Mocks MAGA’s Wild Conspiracy Theories
James Talarico reemerged this weekend at Austin City Limits.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18h
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17h
11 October 1924 | Polish Jew, Moïse Wajnsztajn, was born in Warsaw. He emigrated to France. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Pithviers on 31 July 1942. He perished in the camp on 24 October 1942.
Black and white portrait of a young man with short wavy hair, wearing a striped tie and a formal suit.
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Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
The Defense Department first awarded the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal a $67 million deal shortly after George Kollitides started at the Pentagon. Then came a bigger, no-bid contract for the firm: $281 million working with Kollitides’ office.
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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