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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump says the Kennedy Center is too dangerous to walk into Unless you play in the National Symphony, which rehearses there most weekdays @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG are still in court w/ @repbeatty.bsky.social. Say one thing, do another, as we told @nytimes.com👇 -TN
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If the Kennedy Center Is ‘Dangerous,’ Why Is the Symphony Rehearsing There?
The National Symphony Orchestra is practicing inside a building that President Trump and his allies say could fall on their heads.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My oldest daughter, who is also an attorney, has said these things to me as well. When your life is built around the law, all of these blatant criminal acts must be even more frustrating.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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darksideoftheforce.bsky.social @darksideoftheforce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Critics Shred Paxton’s Head-Scratching Defense of Child Predator’s Short Sentence: ‘It’s Like He Does Oppo on Himself’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) drew a flood of shocked and critical responses when he attempted to defend a child predator's short jail sentence.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So glad he never apologized!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
🚨LIVE: Protests ERUPT at Kennedy Center…
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🚨LIVE: Protests ERUPT at Kennedy Center…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/09/2026
Diesel fuel costs 71% more than it did before Trump’s reckless war.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Key And Peele - Nooice Meme
ALT: Key And Peele - Nooice Meme
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
Oil just topped $109, the 10-year Treasury yield broke 5%, diesel hit another record high, and a major U.S. refinery suffered a total power outage. Then came the bombshell about who secretly helped bankroll Don Jr.’s wedding. Read the full Monday update:
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Monday Updates: Oil Tops $109, Yields Break 5%, Don Jr.'s Russian-Funded Wedding, and Trump's AI Meltdown – 9/14/26
Monday afternoon updates. Paywall free.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 13/09/2026
We’re with Michael Steele on this! “…tear it all down — every last inch of it. Every last bit. If his name is on it, take it off. If he built it, tear it down.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“They treated us like we were criminals” 😕
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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ViolinMage @violinmage.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My unpopular opinion. I love video games but you can keep your error-filled discs away from the future of gaming. If companies say they’re moving forward then so am I. They do amazing work and I trust them to preserve programmers’ past work in the manner they see fit. /
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ViolinMage @violinmage.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I honestly feel more and more people are turning into NPCs in rl. The handful of non-bot trump supporters left are all conditioned to react in only one way: haha he doesn’t mean that, he’s just making a joke, its so funny he triggered you, haha none of it is real. These people hold real jobs.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
60 Epstein victims will receive compensation in this court ordered settlement with the bank. But DOJ says there’s no evidence Epstein trafficked victims to anyone other than himself? www.nydailynews.com/2026/08/27/j...
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NY judge approves $72.5M settlement between Epstein victims, Bank of America
Amid endless reporting about the need for those who facilitated Epstein’s abuse to be brought to justice, Judge Jed Rakoff said, “There are cases, including very much this one, where that hasn’t just ...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/08/2026
Want to take Meidas on the go? Free news reports every day here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026
To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...
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Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions
A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
WATTERS: “Some of this stuff is just straight-up wacky.” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “You know what’s wacky? We have a president who cares more about the drapes in a ballroom than the affordability crisis or the war he got us into.”
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Canadian official Doug Ford just threatened to shut off electricity to the US following Trump's 50% tariffs on Canada. “We power 1.5 million homes and businesses... I’ll do whatever it takes.” apnews.com/article/cana...
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JeanneRussell.bsky.social @jeannerussell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.dnronline.com/news/electio...
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Virginia Democrats rally behind 6th congressional district candidate Beth Macy
“What would it look like if we didn’t count anybody out before we started?” said Joy Powers, a fourth-generation farmer in a speech Friday night.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“It’s Déjà vu all over again” Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files emergency motion asking court to block Trump acolytes on Kennedy Center board from their latest attempt to add Trump’s name to facility
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/08/2026
Ken Paxton’s office helped bury records involving hundreds of lab animals, including at least 100 dogs subjected to painful testing. Now, Meidas News has obtained disturbing photos and video of what he fought to keep hidden.
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Ken Paxton Helped Bury the Records on 400 Tortured Lab Animals.
Ken Paxton is no stranger to cover-ups. But one episode that's gone largely unreported is the fact that Paxton's own office actively helped conceal evidence of
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Have you signed yet??📜Add your name to this petition and join USDA workers pushing against the Trump administration's disastrous reorganization plan! 👇#supportfederalworkers #saveUSDA linktr.ee/defendusda
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Join union leaders and community allies organizing against cuts to the USDA workforce and to protect our food, farms, forests, and families.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We aren’t talking enough about those Destroyed American Bases….
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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good morning. Just a friendly reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell is currently protected, enjoying pampering and puppy time while America's service members are forced to drink diseased water, eat rotten meat, and huff air infested by mold. She does yoga while they choose drowning.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The most Hated Presidency in American History….. “THE SITING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GOT HIS ACCOUNTS CLOSED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING AND ITS BARELY NEWS!”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The reports coming out about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are beyond unacceptable. I am keeping the sailors and their families in my thoughts. I'm a 21-year combat veteran. Making sure our service members are treated with dignity and respect is non-negotiable.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
BREAKING: What just happened at the Kennedy Center board meeting is a slap in the face to the rule of law. We will see the president and his corrupt cronies in court. This will not stand. Official statements @repbeatty.bsky.social @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG👇
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ViolinMage @violinmage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why just as a distraction to what? Epstein files? A failed, unnecessary war in Iran? A ship with sailors literally jumping overboard because you aren’t feeding them? What now?
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ViolinMage @violinmage.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bluesky I’m begging you please create a Facebook clone assp. It needn’t be a true clone, half that thing is trash.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: The 7th Circuit joins the chorus today, issuing a 2-1 decision ruling against the Trump admin on whether a 1996 law mandated the detention without a bond hearing of all undocumented immigrants who ever crossed the border unlawfully. The split is now 6-2 against Trump.
We hold that Cirrus Rojas is not “seeking admission”—
and thus not covered by Section 1225(b)(2)(A)—because that
is his real-world status. We join the majority of the circuits
that have confronted this question in rejecting the government’s newfound statutory requirement for mandatory detention, which rests upon the illogical use of both legal fiction
and ordinary meaning for the same term.
Congress may use legal fictions to place statutory terms in
their desired context. But legal fictions are just that—fictions.
One mixes fiction with fact at their peril. And the facts in this
case are clear: Cirrus Rojas is not seeking admission to the
United States. If Congress had meant to define individuals
like Cirrus Rojas as “seeking admission,” it could have done
so. But that is not what our elected representatives decided to
do, and we must apply the statute as it is written.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/07/2026
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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