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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h
Bo Hines never worked in government or crypto. But Trump put him in charge of the White House crypto council and he helped write the first real crypto law in U.S. history. He got so rich from it he bought a bigger house and his dad bought a private jet. Full story at the link in the comments below:
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 9h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Paxton is bought and paid for
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I called Trump’s deal with Putin “a deepening betrayal” on Monday. Now it’s clear he’s a despicable traitor with blood on his hands as Ukraine’s civilian deaths mount—and who’s making all of us less safe. www.americaamerica.news/p/another-be...
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The Deepening Betrayal By Putin’s Servant
In his deal with Vladimir Putin for Russian diesel, Donald Trump assists Russia’s war against Ukraine and our democratic ally’s fight for survival
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
WATCH— @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “We’re often told the only way to tackle the debt is on the backs of working people… not true. We can close billionaire tax loopholes + end this disastrous war… The debt exploded the last 30 years because of tax cuts for the rich and forever wars.”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Treason, Article III, Section 3: “adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare the past year. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. Trump says, "Pretend I'm on the ballot" ahead of the midterms. Please do.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Men, we need to be better. Call it out.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wishing a speedy recovery to Pope Leo XIV. He continues to serve the world as a much needed source of moral authority when many leaders, at home and abroad, are abdicating their responsibilities.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/10/2026
Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump has canceled Biden-era law enforcement actions against 200+ corporations accused of wrongdoing, according to Public Citizen. Corporations that have benefited have previously given $210 million in contributions and pledges to Trump's super PAC and GOP PACs. Everything is for sale.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are accountable 10% of America’s $40 TRILLION DEBT since gaining power in January 2025. Republicans don’t care about the national debt as long it benefits CEOs and billionaires.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Denaturalize and deport South African IMMIGRANT Elon Musk for meddling in OUR elections. Yes?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For the love of God, stop saying this regime's ruthless authoritarianism "raises questions" and start telling us what answers you have for us. If you can't do that, get the fuck out of the way.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not one of these members of Congress had their houses searched even though they all plotted and attempted to carry out a coup.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sometimes I get sent a video or photo of a dog and we have to drop everything. This was such a case. Left behind by his "owners" and in a bad way medically. I'm hopeful we can turn his life around. I called him Frank as I hope he puts on weight one day and becomes Frank the Tank
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Again, we don't need chapters about "what DOGE might have been if the people involved had had any decency at all." We need to send these people to jail forever for unprecedented crimes. We really need to <not> spend anytime on "right idea, wrong execution" right now (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).
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The Guy Behind The Big Short and Moneyball Is Back to Take On Elon Musk and DOGE. It’s a Roller Coaster.
Michael Lewis’ Blockers tells the stories of good public servants driven away by the Trump administration.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
WASH POST: “Emboldened by Netanyahu’s government, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have been carrying out a campaign of violence and intimidation unmatched in recent memory…” Reminder: 🇺🇸 taxpayers make this possible. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 08/10/2026
Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, federal agents have detained at least 70 American children. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026
When Hegseth spoke about the execution livestream with far-right streamer earlier this week, he hardly seemed able to contain his excitement.
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Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff film
The defense secretary plans to telecast the military’s first firing squad execution since 1945.
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valjean129.bsky.social @valjean129.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Only in legal documents.
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Snarky McSnarkerson @dr0923.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To fix what?? The fact that it won best big city in the US for 10 consecutive years?? www.choosechicago.com/press-media/...
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Chicago named Best Big City in the U.S. by Condé Nast Traveler for a record 10th consecutive year | Choose Chicago
Chicago is celebrating this unprecedented “Perfect 10” run by proclaiming October 10 “Best Big City Day” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IMAGES & BROLL Media Contacts: Stephen…
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hikercat.bsky.social @hikercat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey republicans, nothing like demonizing people who think differently. Republicans are going after Microsoft again. Republicans are eliminating Visas most used by tech companies. If these tech companies were so "Super Intelligent" they would never have bent the knee to republicans to begin with.
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valjean129.bsky.social @valjean129.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Blessings to the people who intervened to help the children. That is the best of America - the America worth fighting for.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 09/10/2026
Florida governor candidate David Jolly says he differs from his fellow Democrat, Angie Nixon, but they're united on "housing, healthcare, and education," and that the real threat is not socialists in the Democratic Party but "right-wing authoritarianism within the Republican Party."
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 09/10/2026
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economics columnist Catherine Rampell said the Trump administration now allows wealthy donors to stock Trum...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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valjean129.bsky.social @valjean129.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We spell it "judgment".
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy. What happens when that bubble bursts? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new app lets you find out who’s behind the political mailers you receive, which comes in handy for people who don’t want to be manipulated by self-interested billionaires. Learn all about it from @juddlegum.bsky.social who created the “paidforby” app. joycevance.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...
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Paid for By
Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Those who remain at Fox to celebrate the network's 30th anniversary either revel in or are willing to accommodate its core aims of GOP dominance and Trumpian propaganda.
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: As gas prices soar amid Trump’s war in Iran, Republican Senate candidates are asking their own supporters to donate money to cover campaign fuel costs.
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GOP Senate Candidates Have Been Fundraising For Gas Money
Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, and Mike Collins voted for a war which spiked gas prices and are now asking their constituents to pay for gas for them to campaign
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 08/10/2026
Layoffs announced in 2026 so far: Volkswagen: 50,000 employees UPS: 30,000 employees Oracle: 21,000 employees Amazon: 17,500 employees Meta: 10,500 employees Heineken: 6,000 employees Microsoft: 5,500 employees PayPal: 4,500 employees Uber: 3,300 employees
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Don't they have enough?? All these little weeny billionaires do is suck up our resources and leave us with nothing." ICYMI - South Park calls out billionaires for data centers and resource extraction👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Monopolization: great for executives, terrible for everyone else.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.
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Wall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 Billion
A blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News at 30: Even the pretense of impartiality is all but gone
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
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Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kudos to whoever floated this idea. Link: buff.ly/S1XadZo
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