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Interests: politics, historical and current events. Minnesota gal! I repost posts from people who post great material.

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QT 🔞 @forbiddenqt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh hey, I was just watching this earlier today! youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU?...
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Fantasies of Nuremberg
YouTube video by Jacob Geller
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grassley has repeatedly made clear to Iowa GOP grandees that in the event of his death in office, he expects his grandson and designated heir, Pat Grassley, speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, to succeed to his senate seat. Applying the principle of dynastic succession.
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not good guys
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Trump’s summit with Xi left too many questions unanswered. This is one of them.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 48% drop in employees at National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Yikes.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Flood Congress right now: Roberts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Hegseth: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Yosemite: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... 45M Acres: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... USFS: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Epstein: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
SCOTUS was wrong to allow Trump to overhaul a federal system to initiate voter registration purges, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent. Jackson said the court’s decision could potentially disenfranchise legitimate voters, including naturalized citizens: demdock.com/4xFjBIx
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The worst case scenario
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/09/2026
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE officer in Austin, Texas, is now at a detention center for the agency after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to his attorney's spokesperson.
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Man shot by ICE officer is detained in Texas with a bullet still in his back, attorney's office says
A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas is being held at a detention center after being released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’
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John Oliver on UnitedHealth Group: ‘Algorithmically driven, ruthless arbiters of who lives and who dies’
Ahead of Luigi Mangione’s sentencing, the Last Week Tonight host looked into the corporate healthcare behemoth that is UnitedHealth Group
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/09/2026
Last week’s election brought a disappointing outcome for the far-right Sweden Democrats: A populist party that made its name opposing immigration lost vote share instead of grasping power. Here are 11 lessons Europe can learn from it 👇 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/why-...
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The doctors should have refused to release him. That bullet needs to come out. Infection has to be monitored. This man could die.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: Democrats called on California to look into new whistleblower claims that DHS agents used private voter data to improperly access state voting records. The searches, aimed at finding 'unlawful voters,' were part of the Trump administration's sweeping hunt for voter fraud before the midterms.
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Senate Dems call for new California probe into new DHS whistleblower allegations
The allegations "indicate potential violations of California state law, including federal officers impersonating California voters to access their state voting records," the senators said.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ruled that the Trump admin broke the law when it ordered a 50% cut in FEMA employees — including thousands of on-call workers who respond to disasters.
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Federal judge rules Trump plan to cut FEMA by 50 percent was unlawful
The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anyone who cares about open government should care deeply about this.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/09/2026
📬 The DOJ and USPS have said Trump's mail-voting order wouldn't affect overseas voters, including military members. Now, a nonpartisan network of former military and civilian leaders warns a new USPS rule based on that order could actually disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of them.
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Thousands of overseas voters could be disenfranchised by Trump mail voting rule, advocates warn
The fate of the USPS rule currently hangs in the balance before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO” (I wonder what happened…👀) 9/12/26 … 1/
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Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO
Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are the latest to urge caution amid fears the industry is racing too fast to build powerful AI while safety measures lag.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
Tiananmen Square vigil organisers jailed for seven years in Hong Kong
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Tiananmen Square vigil organisers jailed for seven years in Hong Kong
Pro-democracy activists Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan were found guilty of ‘incitement to subversion’ in controversial national security case Two pro-democracy activists who were put on trial for organising an annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil in Hong Kong have been sentenced to seven years in jail, in one of the city’s most significant national security cases. Chow Hang-tung, 41 and Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, were found guilty in August of incitement to subversion. The court found they had “incited other persons to organise, plan, commit or participate in acts by unlawful means with a view to subverting the state power”. Continue reading...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In case anyone is still unclear they put him over the country
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People don't remember what life was like for people with preexisting conditions before the ACA and it shows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in history that loves us so much he can't even breathe" -- in extremely culty scene, Trump has his supporters pledge to him that they will vote, then tells them they will "go to hell" if they don't Here's the full sequence:
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
But to your point, I dismiss arguments based solely on "common sense." You're either proposing a policy idea or making an empirical claim. If it's the former, explain the reasoning. If it's the latter, provide evidence. "Common sense" isn't a substitute for data!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/08/2026
The US plans to warn countries to cut ties with Iran or risk their businesses being cut off from the dollar-based financial system when it unveils the ‘greatest financial offensive ever’ today, a source told Reuters. Follow live updates ➡️ reut.rs/4xTnPgg
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Live: US to announce economic sanctions against Iran as Tehran vows to retaliate
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promised to reveal severe economic and financial measures on Iran, which has endured near-continuous sanctions since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So Trump says his Canada tariff increases will take effect January 1. In other words, never.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1/3 🧵Remember the Dad who was being interviewed by MSNOW and CNN about his son…who was struggling with his mental health on the USS Lincoln?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2026
“Trump officials had known I was trans,” Julia Curlee writes of her time as an intelligence official staffed to the White House. “This hadn’t been an issue until it was public—and then nothing else I’d done mattered.”
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I am almost without words for what has become of this once proud newspaper. I will only say this: Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
ICYMI: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wow, Paxton was really showing his true colors.
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Texas Attorney Endorses James Talarico Because Ken Paxton Once Stole His Pricey Pen In Hilariously Petty New Ad
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICYMI — The @washingtonpost.com editorial board just came out in support of a DOJ subservient to Trump 🤔 (As Blanche hilariously says “Trump would never ask me to do something unethical or Illegal) #TrumpBlancheEpsteinCoverUp
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/08/2026
Luigi Mangione's state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been postponed indefinitely.
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Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial postponed indefinitely amid double jeopardy fight
Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been postponed indefinitely.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🤦‍♂️ It’s a fucking aircraft carrier, it’s not supposed to be pretty. I don’t understand why the Navy would even entertain this nonsense. He wants the tower/command center to be closer to the front of the ship. It would cost billions and result in years of delays.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 15/08/2026
Also refused to have his face on coinage....
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NPR @npr.org · 15/08/2026
President Trump said the USS Abraham Lincoln deployment is "not nearly long enough." A family member of a sailor on board that ship said those comments are shameful. n.pr/4zinYeC
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Families of USS Lincoln crew say Trump should be 'ashamed' of conditions on board
President Trump said the USS Abraham Lincoln deployment is "not nearly long enough." A family member of a sailor on board that ship said those comments are shameful.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Soviets were first to space. And then, we kicked their ass. In Fusion Energy: I think the USA is going to be first to produce a sustainable and continuous fusion reaction. But then China is going to kick our ass. They're going to be paying $0.10/month for electricity and charging EVs with it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Some good news for gray wolves! Senator Cory Booker blocked an effort to fast-track legislation that would have stripped gray wolves of their federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/08/2026
A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene. The Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after a SpaceX rocket inadvertently plowed into the moon Wednesday.
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South Korean satellite captures before and after views of SpaceX rocket's moon crash
A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene. The Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after a SpaceX rocket inadvertently plowed into the moon Wednesday.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The world is in dire need of less artificial intelligence and much more wisdom.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/08/2026
SCOOP: Sen. Lisa Murkowski tells MeidasTouch most of her constituents OPPOSE Todd Blanche's confirmation, though she has not yet made a decision.
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Exclusive: Murkowski Says Most Constituents Oppose Todd Blanche Confirmation
Alaska senator says she has not decided how she'll vote, but acknowledges growing constituent opposition and renewed concerns over Blanche's handling of Epstein survivors.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: A California court rejected the GOP’s bid to sanitize Prop. 39’s ballot description. The ruling keeps a clear warning that the anti-voting measure would block eligible citizens from voting if they can't provide government-issued ID.
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California court shuts down GOP bid to sanitize anti-voting measure
The decision is a significant win for California voters seeking clear information about how the measure could prevent eligible ballots from being counted.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/08/2026
It's amazing how quickly “If you've got nothing to hide…” became “On the advice of counsel...”
Tweet from John.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“And there it is…”.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
JB PRITZKER Said These Words Yesterday, July 31 2026.......👏🏻
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Only 3 more days until Mitch McConnel is declared dead.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/08/2026
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe reut.rs/4halBnD
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I'll believe it when you see it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/07/2026
Funny how transparency became optional.
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