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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

something most democrats still dont understand is that "fuck off" is a perfectly valid response to 99.999999999% of the right's criticisms, which are always made in bad faith

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happening now in Chicago: Local officials and attorneys, alongside Border Patrol shooting victim Marimar Martinez, are holding a presser outside CPD's District 19 police station to announce the filing of police reports over alleged crimes by federal immigration agents.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wouldn't it be easier & far less time consuming to just report when he actually tells the truth?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW: The staff of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan agency created to help states administer elections, released a memo detailing what the agency can and can’t do after President Donald Trump abruptly ousted its leadership last month. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Federal voting commission says it can't change rules after Trump sacked leadership

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission staff said in a new memo that the agency’s key functions cannot proceed without leaders.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Only a few years left to kill off American children based on the conspiracy theories of people with no medical background

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rogers is a very fitting name for Mike. Because that's his answer every time a corporation or Donald Trump tells him to do something. "Roger!"

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mayor Mamdani announces a plan to hold Amazon accountable when their delivery drivers are injured or involved in an accident on the job

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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“The danger facing the United States isn’t theoretical anymore. It’s visible. It’s gathering force. It’s wrapped in flags, crosses, propaganda and rage. The republic won’t survive through denial.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-madnes...

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The madness on the Mall

PLUS: Details on the Save America Movement 24-hour Epstein filibuster that begins TODAY at 12 pm ET

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

93 House Democrats are trying to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

How much of this $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds will @RepOgles grab, claiming he’s a victim when he’s a liar who allegedly faked a loan to his campaign? What about @MarshaBlackburn, bc her phone was looked at re: the insurrection? So corrupt and insane. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Seems like it ought to be a bigger story that Donald Trump is creating a government slush fund to make all the January 6th insurrectionists millionaires.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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Alana @alana807.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Anderson Cooper's last segment on 60 mins. We are witnessing the death of a network. CBS. The last to go Stephen Colbert.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hawaii just enacted a law that effectively neuters Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

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Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/05/2026

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

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Bonny Resist! 🏳️‍🌈 @bll4ever.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Putin doesn't have to bomb the US, he has agent orange doing it for him. 😷

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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 17/05/2026

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

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The Fight for Voting Rights Returns to Selma

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Ashok Dadhwal @ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In just months, Zohran Mamdani has shown what politics looks like when leaders actually try governing for ordinary people instead of donors and cable news panels. Affordable housing, childcare, transit, workers’ dignity and immigrant protection are not “radical” ideas.

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Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the Moon

Note to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK

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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“Please enjoy Colbert’s final shows,” John Oliver told viewers at the end of Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight.' “He’s the f*cking best. Good night, and good luck, motherf*ckers!” Full story: latenighter.com/news/john-ol...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

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Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

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Space Force Cadet @spaceforcecadet.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I miss having a President of the United States.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Do you agree with Gov Newsom that we are seeing the return of Jim Crow in our country with the elimination of 14 Democratic congressional districts across the South that represented Black communities? I do & it's vital that everyone fight to win every seat possible. CA-40 is winnable. Please help!🧵

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If Cassidy goes down maybe he'll actually take some principled votes on war powers, the ballroom, ICE, etc. He and Tillis should chat.

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Louise @louiseplease.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Trump is pulling out all the stops to push Thomas Massie out of Congress. @smencimer.bsky.social’s profile is a must read ahead of primary on Tuesday www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Thomas Massie has always been a pain in the ass

Can the Kentucky Republican—inventor, farmer, gadfly, genius—survive standing up to Trump?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

TODAY — and every day until we have justice for all: We fight for equal rights and we join together to support each other in this battle. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

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All Roads Lead to the South — National Day of Action for Voting Rights

The voting rights they marched for are being stripped away right now. We're going back. Are you coming?

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We cannot afford this man. He never stops taking from us. He’s a con & a thief. I blame the entire GOP for not reining this corruption in. There is not a single working class American that has not been harmed by his disgusting corruption & criminality. It’s a sickness. A plague. #ProudBlue #Onev1

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/05/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats. The parliamentarian ruled that the provision violated the Byrd Rule.

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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 16/05/2026

We can’t wait for politicians in DC to fix the broken system they created. So we’re taking matters into our own hands, starting here in Alaska. It’s time for our state legislature to pass term limits on our federal delegation.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026

“What is happening now is that all the legislatures in the old Confederacy states are going backwards. They’re the ones jumping backwards, not to do justice but once again reimpose injustice in the voting of Americans and all Alabamans.” @dougjones.bsky.social #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Trump calls for GOP challenger to Rep. Boebert as she campaigns with Massie in Kentucky #TheHill

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Trump calls for GOP challenger to Rep. Boebert as she campaigns with Massie in Kentucky

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Tough break for the Trump Ballroom Senate Parliamentarian rules the $1 billion project will require 60 votes for approval, per Senate Budget Cmte Democrats Very very steep climb

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

People will try to tell you it’s “just a joke,” but it’s much more than that: This is a test. Our democracy will not collapse in a single moment. It weakens when the public becomes numb to rhetoric that would once have been unthinkable. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 16/05/2026

From Montgomery to Massachusetts, our destinies are tied. That's why I'm in Alabama today organizing and mobilizing to defend our right to vote. The blueprint for our survival has already been written, and we just have to follow it.

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today I traveled to Selma with my colleagues in Congress to take a stand against the radical right-wing plot to suppress Black political representation and dismantle our democracy by gutting the Voting Rights Act. We’ve made too much progress in this country to go backwards. We won’t be silenced.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Marching in Alabama… same bridge, same fight, different century… (H/T @memphisforall )

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/05/2026

I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done. Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment." "The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

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Opinion | CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/05/2026

Bill Cassidy could have chosen to live in reality and recognize that he’d never win re-election and instead do the honorable things when they counted most. Instead he clung to delusion and ego, and single-handedly inflicted RFK Jr. upon us for a likely 3rd-place finish. I have no sympathy for him.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/05/2026

‼️THE SOUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED‼️ Today’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge is a reminder that voting rights were paid for in blood. And now those same rights are under attack again. Next: Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/05/2026

We're celebrating our 50th anniversary! 🎉🎉 Join us Tuesday, May 19th, for a fascinating conversation about how nonprofit news is proving to be a sustainable model for the news industry in San Francisco and across the country. Click the link below to learn more! bit.ly/4urf8Z6

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

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