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Will Haynes

@willhaynes83.bsky.social
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Historian, museum professional, veteran, progressive, dog owner, and noted wife guy. Currently workshopping a book of a Civil War soldier’s letters for publication.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 4h
At exactly 0 times in my entire adult life have Democrats in Congress done what's actually necessary to hold Republicans accountable. I'm hoping this streak will be broken starting in January. But it's easy to see why Republicans think they can just keep getting away with it.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 5h
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal building.
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 4h
insane that he keeps doubling down on this -- and on the conditional in particular, which polls terribly www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-27...
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 4h
Ohio, today is the last day to register to vote for November’s election. Register online or drop off your voter registration form at your county board of elections office TODAY by 9PM. For more information, head to iwillvote.com/OH.
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h
He’s laying the groundwork for his attempt to take over the 2026 midterms. And yes, he’s a traitor to this country.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one ever says “that’s not true”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this is very funny
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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The Democratic Governors Association @demgovs.org · 02/10/2026
CAUGHT ON TAPE: In this newly unearthed video, Ty Masterson, a longtime ally of Sam Brownback, admits he wrote the disastrous Brownback tax experiment.The Brownback Plan = The Masterson Plan
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
What Hoskins did was not Trumpian fire and brimstone, bellowing about the criminality of Democrats and immigrants to try to overturn elections. It’s the unsexy, quietly effective cheating made possible by placing party loyalists in key bureaucratic positions.
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Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trump’s Attempts to End American Democracy 
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most corrupt, lawless administration in American history.👇
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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huronbluechief.bsky.social @huronbluechief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Maddow Reality Check Cartoon Break
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
man the republicans who hate language policing are going to be so mad about this
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately
As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/09/2026
Portrait of marital bliss
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"we're going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity" is the new "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Really puts the NYT story claiming ICE officials heroically pulled third-country nationals off deportation planes to comply with the court order in perspective. ICE deported people to Haiti, Cuba, Ecuador yesterday. And put Somalis who'd been held at Gitmo on a plane to East Africa. What heroism!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo
A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump calls Democrats communists, attacks Canada & NATO, then rolls out the red carpet for China's communist dictator. Go back to sleep, MAGA bro's. Your ruler is brilliant and you're not gullible suckers at all. And hey; invest in some crypto while you’re drowsy.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10. Turns out we do not have to experience the constant drumbeat of this man's lies. Turns out members of the press can do their jobs professionally and dispassionately, reporting on the president while also essentially putting him on mute.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"What I’ve noticed is how frequently “this isn’t us” is said, not as an aspiration to improve but as a denial of responsibility—as just another way of staying exceptional, just another way of demanding first sympathy for a situation we have helped bring about." www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
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This is Us
Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/21/r...
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species • Kentucky Lantern
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individua...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"In Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, people said their opposition [to AI and data centers] stemmed less from a fear of tech and more from a sense that they were being lied to by elected leaders who were at best too weak to stand up to or at worst in cahoots with wealthy industry."
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cartoonist: John Darkow
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