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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Jon Ossoff is spot on.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
AOC: “The problem is that these big companies think they are governments – they want to be governments. They want to have totally unchecked power I believe that we need to pursue antitrust. We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far too big - & we need consumer protections for ppl”
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Donald John Trump and his team of useless sycophants are so incompetent they can’t even sustain an abject surrender.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Posted by the Kurdistan social media page.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
who made this
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Michael Clark @smintheus.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This piece is thorough and persuasive. It has always seemed clear to me that the real catalysts for political support are the 3 Cs: conviction, consistency, & the credibility those bring. Together they spell good faith. As regards this claim the authors make toward the end, it's highly perceptive.
"Scholars of democratic breakdown know that moments like this demand institutional coordination, civil society mobilization, and the political courage to name and confront the authoritarian threat on its weakest flank. Every democracy facing this challenge has learned you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their corruption."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
Elon making plans to go to Epstein's island:
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...
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ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
YouTube video by Seth Moulton
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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Updates Key Races N.Y.C. Mayor

Va. Gov.
County
Margin

Shift from 2024 pres.
T Votes
Loudoun

Spanberger +29
* 12 pts.
164,366
Prince William

Spanberger +34
× 16 pts.
161,419
Portsmouth

Spanberger +47
* 8.1 pts.
29,956
Washington

Earle-Sears +49
* 4.5 pts.
20,927
Louisa

Earle-Sears +20
* 6.5 pts.
18,719
Orange

Earle-Sears +15
* 9.3 pts.
17,127
Powhatan

Earle-Sears +40
* 4.4 pts.
16,957
Pulaski

Earle-Sears +38
* 7.1 pts.
12,466
Dinwiddie

Earle-Sears +17
~ 6.3 pts.
11,974
Harrisonburg

Spanberger +41
× 15 pts.
11,753
Manassas

Spanberger +30
* 16 pts.
11,514
Carroll

Earle-Sears +57
~ 6.1 pts.
11,277
Wise

Earle-Sears +59
~ 4.6 pts.
10,962
Fairfax City

Spanberger +45
* 11 pts.
10,232
Fredericksburg

Spanberger +43
* 11 pts.
10,191
Salem

Earle-Sears +12
6.9 pts.
9,374
King William

Earle-Sears +34
* 7.1 pts.
8,999
Russell

Earle-Sears +63
* 4.9 pts.
8,860
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 18/10/2025
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
No one is above the law, except for every single Republican politician and activist convicted of a crime over the last decade because Trump has pardoned all of them or commuted their sentences.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This *ought* to be a clarifying moment for the evangelical right Sure would be if anyone else said it
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 24/08/2025
The last time troops policed America was in the 1770s. We fought a revolution against that king, and wrote into the Constitution the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to prevent it from ever happening again. Pass it along…
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
.400+ AVG, .500+ OBP, .850+ SLG in any 38-game span of any of the last 55 MLB seasons: Pedro Guerrero (1985) Big Hurt (1994, 1997) Bagwell (1994) Mo Vaughn (1996) Helton (2000) Bonds (2002, 2003, 2004) Edmonds (2004) Berkman (2008) Harper (2015) Judge (2024) Nick Kurtz (2025)
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/08/2025
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
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DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show
Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2025
Hochul: "I will put saving democracy as my top priority at any cost. Bc it's under siege. Just like those who put on uniforms to fight battles across the ages. For centuries we stood up & fought. Blood has been shed. This is our moment in to stand up for all we hold dear & not let it be destroyed."
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☁️ retornam ☁️ @retornam.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Meme showing Principal Skinner from
The Simpsons in two frames. 

The first frame has him with the words "Am I out of touch?"

The second frame has him with the words “No it is the entire corpus of human knowledge that is wrong."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's way down on the list of horrors, but National Parks having to post signs asking visitors to report anything there that provides "information that [is] negative about either past or living Americans" is utterly pathetic. The past isn't all positive, kids. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Self-improvement takes time. After all, you didn't turn into a piece of shit overnight.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“The fear to speak. In America?” CBS’ Scott Pelley asked. “If our government is—in Lincoln’s words—‘of the people, by the people and for the people’—then why are we afraid to speak?” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-s...
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Snapshot: Scott Pelley Tells the Truth
The CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent did not hold back in his Wake Forest commencement address, providing another powerful and necessary pushback
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A bracing warning from "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley: "Our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools..." #WFU www.youtube.com/live/FcWa-wX...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This is not good. State trooper cars should be highly visible and marked. It’s not safe to have unmarked or low visibility vehicles pulling people over, especially in the age of ICE kidnappings. www.kctv5.com/2025/05/09/c...
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Coming soon: ‘Ghost graphics’, harder to see markings on Missouri Highway Patrol vehicles
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is putting out a warning for drivers.
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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2025
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/04/2025
"I very much want to believe that we will once again find our way before too much damage is done, before we descend into a time of monsters. But I very much fear that the lamps are once again going out all around us."
thebulwark.com
The Lamps Are Going Out Around Us
We may want to believe that this is a glitch or a temporary fall. But we must be open to the likelihood that this is the end of the American-led world order.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
America has been cursed with ‘nearly 80 million’ ignorant bigots, who thought this foolish senile old man really had something special…👇 Many are still in deep denial that they RUINED our nation. But they did. These people should be shamed until the end of their miserable lives. WHO AGREES?! 🤚
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2025
Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."
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WayBeyondSoccerMom @waybeyondsoccermom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's literally the fifth amendment of the US constitution. And it states "person" not "citizen" , meaning it applies to anyone in the country, regardless of status.


https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/
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wakeforestranger.bsky.social @wakeforestranger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Instead of referring to Elon Musk as the “richest man in the world”, call him what he actually is the “Greediest Man on Earth”!
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a group of south park characters are sitting in purple seats with the caption these guys are only motivated by money
ALT: a group of south park characters are sitting in purple seats with the caption these guys are only motivated by money
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/03/2025
Jessica Aber, the former U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia, was found dead Saturday morning, police say.
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Former U.S. attorney for Virginia found dead at 43
Jessica Aber, who was the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for three years until resigning in January, was found dead in Alexandria on Saturday.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The eventual fate of the GOP
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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 10/03/2025
North Cascades is one of about a dozen national parks, including Olympic, that depend on pack animals to cart heavy loads into the backcountry. The string averaged 20 multi-day trips and 11 single-day trips per season. Some seasons Koon-Swanson has spent 100 nights in the backcountry.
A string of pack mules on a trail in North Cascades National Park. (Photo courtesy of Heather Koon-Swanson)
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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 10/03/2025
Heather Koon-Swanson led the North Cascades National Park pack mules for two decades until retiring in December.
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History and hope may not be enough to save North Cascades pack mules | Cascadia Daily News
Packer Heather Koon-Swanson has not been replaced since retiring. Federal moves threaten national park program
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/03/2025
A Trump administration freeze on purchase cards that agencies use to cover everything from dumpster pickups at national parks to liquid nitrogen for lifesaving military research is upending work across the government, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.
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DOGE’s $1 spending card limit touches everything from military research to trash pickup
The crackdown on routine expenses is part of a campaign by the president and Elon Musk to reset the scope and mission of America’s sprawling bureaucracy.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
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