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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Did you know it takes over 15,000 litres of water to get 1kg of cow flesh? 💧
An infographic with a sunset background and silhouettes of cows and trees shows the text: “Producing 1KG of beef requires 15,000 litres of water.” The message highlights the extreme water usage involved in beef production.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. (Published April)
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Before 2026,The Knicks Won Their Last Championship In 1973. 15 Months Later, Nixon Resigned.......
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Former Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth commented on social media, “The summary execution of two more in an alleged drug boat brings the number of murders ordered by Trump to more than 210. There will come a day when he faces prosecution for these crimes.”
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Kaisarion Kaiser @kaisarionkaiser.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#TheGOPIsComplicit #TheRepublicanPartyIsComplicit
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/05/2026
DHS officials previously insisted children were not zip-tied during this raid, but in his claim, a 16-year-old boy who hyperventilated at the sight of agents assaulting immigrants said he and his mom were zip-tied outside the building.
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Immigrants Detained in Chicago Military-Style Raid Seek Millions in Damages
New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal agents’ alleged actions. These descriptions form the basis of claims filed thi...
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Ask Me Agains @askmeagains.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
How are the voters of Virginia not able to decide what happens in Virginia? This is an attack against WE THE PEOPLE
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VeronicaAG @veronicatess.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Never in the history of America have we ever had a Supreme Court so political that it overrides decisions based on politics and not on the rule of law
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
FUN FACT: He advised Queen Elizabeth to pardon her son 3 years, 5 months & 12 days after she passed away. Please add "UNINFORMED" to my list. Thank you for your attention to this embarrassing matter.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Looks like it was a narco trafficking compound in exactly the same way Alex Pretti was a domestic terrorist.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/03/2026
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Israeli government has displaced a total of 6 million people from their homes. (3 million Iran, 2 million Gaza, 1 million Lebanon). 6 million people. The equivalent of the entire population of Maryland displaced from their homes. By one government.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is the world really going to have to burn because the USA can't impeach a president?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is it happening again?
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 14/11/2024
Trump is opening his administration to fracking billionaires, oil lobbyists and far-right climate deniers. Our global team of investigative reporters is tracking the damage. Here's a starter pack of DeSmog investigators and some of the climate disinfo journalists we follow. go.bsky.app/MrJdbio
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If it's not made a crime to sell your personal data and location to third parties - organizations like ICE are going to keep buying and using it
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/03/2026
Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/02/2026
New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2026
We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My friend Alexis Goldstein is a warrior against Wall Street and oligarchy. The Trump regime fired her from the CFPB as part of their plot to gut consumer protections. Now, she’s running for Congress. Please donate if you can. She’s a real one!
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Donate to Alexis Goldstein for Maryland
Alexis Goldstein is running for Congress in Maryland's 6th district because we deserve leaders who shows as much bravery as ordinary people are showing in defense of their neighbors.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/02/2026
NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...
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NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them
ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2026, there could be evidence of the president raping and threatening to kill children, and he would *still* be allowed to stay in office, I would have politely asked them to put down the meth pipe.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
What Marco Rubio conveniently left out of his "ode to empire" at Munich over the weekend. I brought some receipts about the human costs of Western imperialism in my latest Guardian column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/02/2026
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Excellent news.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/02/2026
America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year—let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests.
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What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE
I'm an expert, and the misconduct and corruption is far deeper than even their deadly surges have shown.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 04/02/2026
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
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A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future
In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
why we have to *drag* Dem leadership to the truth. why are they not *leading* with it. why do they take exception to Trump admin narratives yet fail to advance true ones. facts are the Renee Good/ Alex Pretti murders were staged by CBP ICE at direction of Trump & the 2024 election was rigged.
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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 02/02/2026
A photo of Noah Feldman beside A quite with the ABC News logo “If we cannot impeach a president who abuses his office fir his personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy — we live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictator.@ Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
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Stoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The Epstein case reflects systemic issues within the American elite. Despite clear evidence, the perpetrators will probably never be charged. They engage in exploitative practices without consequence.The American oligarchy has amassed its wealth through parasitism
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up. Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A 45–55 Senate vote blocks a bill funding DHS, Defense, and HHS. Every Dem voted no, joined by 8 Republicans. Most of the federal gov shuts down in under 36 hours and most of this fight is over basic safety protocols for law enforcement. Hey GOP, what happened to “law and order”?
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It’d be wild if Italian authorities arrested ICE the moment they landed in Milan. No charges. No hearings. Just shackled, put on a plane, dumped in a detention center in a country they’ve never been to, with social media clips to celebrate. I bet human rights would click fast.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE shot a mother in the face. ICE kidnapped a 5 year-old boy. ICE executed a man on the street. It’s time to tear down this secret police force.
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