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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
When I heard Trump was gonna sign our housing bill, I ran down in excitement! But he was nowhere to be found…. Trump refuses to sign a bill that would make housing cheaper for you because he rather make voting harder for you!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If Lutnick is not asked about this when he testifies in Congress today, it would be profound negligence. Here’s proof that he lied about his relationship with Epstein and had deeper financial ties with the sex criminal than he admitted. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Trump said ballroom would be privately funded, which brings its own problems, but now his Senate allies want to stick taxpayers with the bill. Meanwhile, 35 million Americans live in poverty.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
But I was promised 50% off energy prices within a year…
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Families across America are watching their paychecks disappear at the gas pump. Trump promised relief but delivered chaos. His war with Iran isn't about security - it's about enriching oil executives while working people suffer. #TrumpsGasCrisis
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/05/2026
Spirit specifically cited why they couldn’t stay in business: skyrocketing fuel costs due to Trump’s war. And the Trump admin is still trying to blame Biden for everything?! It’s May 2026. Trump was the “I’ll make everything cheaper on day 1” guy. The “no new wars” guy. Own your actions.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If you want to help me, here is my one ask: pread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Ballroom hooey 1. THAT event isn't at WH anyway 2. They dont give a crap about shootings at schools ...so the answer is a ballroom for Trump? 3. What about, you know, the rest of us, esp kids who face gun violence 4. It is all about him and Americans should be disgusted at the greed and selfishness
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hey MAGA, you really want to play that game of blaming the entire left/Dems when someone on the left commits an act of violence? Ok…then Trump & the entire GOP are to blame for the 23 killed at that El Paso Walmart in 2019. You wanna keep playing? Or can we all grow up & stop playing that game?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/04/2026
Donald Trump and Republicans gifted Meta BILLIONS in tax breaks last year. Meta reported record profits — then turned around and laid off thousands of workers. Giant corporate tax handouts don't "trickle down."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Here are the questions Raskin wants Patel to answer: tinyurl.com/528pdfs3
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
He is absuard/disgraceful and should be fired. If not I'd urge someone take up impeachment
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
You always have to pay attention to what is actually happening, not what Trump says is happening. Because Trump lies about everything. Too often media serves as Trump’s daily stenographer, passing along his propaganda verbatim.
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ReMarkable @remarkable59.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We keep pouring enormous amounts of our tax dollars into this war of nonsense while the only ones making money are Trump friends placing bets before this post on polymarket
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The fact remains that yesterday, Donald Trump threatened genocide. His party did nothing to push back. A two-week delay doesn't change either of those things.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Some people teach us how not to behave…
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Jamel Jackson @yallagal.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"We’re watching what by any rational standard is an unhinged president of the United States.” MS NOW Military Analyst Ret. U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey slams Pres. Trump’s Truth Social post threatening Iran with "hell," using the f-bomb, and pledging to attack power plants & bridges on Tuesday.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 30/03/2026
I will not vote for one more dollar for this reckless and out of control agency. Congress must do its job and hold them to account.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The thing about dementia? A total lack of filter will keep manifesting.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/03/2026
Jane Fonda wants you to get in touch with your local organizers: indivisible.org/get-involved/find-a-group/
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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 21/03/2026
ICYMI: Far-right extremist Joe Kent says Trump’s illegal war with Iran “didn’t need to happen.” Let that sink in. When a white nationalist conspiracy theorist is calling out a reckless war, you know things have gone dangerously wrong.
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Top counterterrorism official Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war, says Iran posed no imminent threat
President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I wrote a lot about Bob Mueller across a lot of chapters of his career. I wanted to share two @wired.com pieces that I wrote about his defining life experiences—both a picture of an era of public service all but lost today: 1) His brave *voluntary* service in Vietnam: www.wired.com/story/robert...
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The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit Vietnam's bloodiest battles.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Because the president of the United States is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. It's just that simple.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/03/2026
LIFTING SANCTIONS ON IRANIAN OIL MAKES TOTAL SENSE, if you don’t think about it. Trump’s at war with Iran. And lifting sanctions on their oil. Sanctions that have been in place since 1979. So… we’re fighting them and helping them raise money to fight back at the same time.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
When reporters would ask me about "how will the public see the effects of DOGE?" my answer was pretty unsatisfying. 1. Performance declines in orgs that deliver direct and measurable services (e.g. IRS, VA, SSA) 2. Emergencies reveal lack of expertise when you need it. The Iran war is a #2 case.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great point!!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Trump is taking us back to the days of our shameful invasions of Nicaragua, Haiti, Honduras, and Guatemala. He is clinging to an ugly past when a new generation wants a just future for our nation & world.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"By the end of its sixth day, the war’s cost exceeded $11 billion, including more than $5 billion worth of interceptors. To replenish its arsenal, the Pentagon is expected to ask Congress for an additional $50 billion. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump wants to add ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/03/2026
“They’re using facial recognition, every advanced tool that they have to try and identify protesters and squash what we’re doing.” The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on protestors.
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/03/2026
Don Jr. and Eric Trump backing a drone company to target military sales is a total collapse of American ethics. In any functioning democracy, the President’s family selling weapons to the military their father leads would be a federal crime.
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Exclusive | Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales
Powerus says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell to the U.S. military.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Buttigieg: You’ve got money from the Middle East going into the Trump family crypto fund while you have Americans going to the Middle East for Donald Trump’s war.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/03/2026
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.” ➡️ Read more of the children's letters: propub.li/3OJUwLV
A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more. It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2026
NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump tried to nationalize American elections So we took him to court & won He's trying again — bold move for being 0 for 1 on election EO's Not to mention doubling down on illegal wars Why he'll fail again in this week's publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN
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Trump Can’t Use War or Other Excuses to Take over American Elections
The Contrarians won't let you — Publisher's Roundup 56
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 28/02/2026
“The Founders missed Frankenstein by 30 years and the Mar-a-Lago face by a few hundred more. But they may have recognized the presidency we have now: a grotesque concentration of authority in the hands of Trump.” More from @alexiscoe.bsky.social: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCi...
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