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Yvonne Dawdy

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Gardener, love books and movies, proudly owned by my Sealyham Terrier.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Early in Trump's first term, David Frum wrote that every time Trump and MAGA say "the deep state" you should hear "rule of law," then it'll make more sense. That stuck with me. And I thought of it again as an unqualified and unconfirmed director of national intelligence conducts political purges.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
InfoWars is now live.
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WELCOME TO THE REAL INFOWARS
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We feel like this is the Trump administration’s strategy lie, lie, lie. Keep repeating the same falsehoods and hope people eventually accept them as truth.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/06/2026
The president of the Utah State Senate who championed a huge data center beside the Great Salt Lake was defeated in his Republican primary on Tuesday night, one of the most high-profile signs of the voter backlash to data center projects.
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Utah Senate President Loses Republican Primary After Data Center Backlash
The upset of J. Stuart Adams represented one of the strongest examples of how the data center issue has affected elections.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that Michelle has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.
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Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sending you off early tonight with this gentle group of friends…sweet dreams, everyone 🤎✨ (art Elaine Bayley)
A group of calm and peaceful animals huddle together as friends beneath an ancient and magical tree. Night has fallen, and a full moon is out over the forest in the distance
shining magically…and together a fox, hare, badger, and owl, and surrounding fungi and plants, all gaze up at the moon, as twinkling stars and enchanted glowing lights surround them.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“We all should be ‘really, really freaked out.’ Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Yes, Trump is less popular…But it’s almost as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can for them not to matter.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-per...
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Trump’s Permanency Project
Who cares about popularity when you can make elections irrelevant?
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Michael @silverback59.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My hand built backyard stream. I adore the sound of a waterfall.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley is a former war correspondent, Whit House correspondent, nightly news anchor. NIck Bilton wrote a book about influencers.
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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I watch this video of Lin Manuel Miranda at the Obama White House (when they had poetry, not cage fighting ::sigh::) on hard days so I can enjoy everyone’s rising excitement and delight as they all see the very fresh damp beginning of something great. youtu.be/WNFf7nMIGnE?...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: (8 of 8)
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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions “We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.
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Historic Black church in Virginia will fund Black student council at Mizzou, pastor says
“Although they’ve been defunded by the government, we have decided we are not going to let that student organization fail to have programming,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.
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🐝 RiderBabe52🐝 @riderbabe52.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As it should be. Kimmel and Fallon being classy and respectful. www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel...
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2 Late-Night Shows To Go Dark In Honor Of Stephen Colbert’s Final Broadcast
The TV hosts’ decision shows support for Colbert ahead of his last episode on May 21.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
i was told there would be no math
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Fitzroy Maclean Angel @mzgunter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Project 2025 working as designed.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Democracy Docket is currently tracking: Active Voting Rights Cases: 161 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 78 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 www.democracydocket.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Another in a series of late nights. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
As someone who’s had shingles twice: this is just fucking evil www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 03/05/2026
New polling and high-stakes races suggest the Buckeye State may be increasingly competitive
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Ohio Might Not Be Lost to Democrats After All
Can Ohio — a Midwestern state dominated by aging, working-class White voters, where Republicans have a supermajority stranglehold on the legislature — really become a political bellwether and battleground again?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Don’t listen to me, here’s Ford’s CEO youtu.be/Gy8OAasb8-w?...
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Ford CEO Jim Farley "Humbled" by Chinese EV Technology
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/05/2026
Warnock: "I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I'm tired of racism. I think it's a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I went peepee in the potty today. Aced it. There was a sink and a tub and a trash can but I didn’t peepee in any of those. I used the potty. The part where you should lift the seat cover first is very easy. They say “which part do you pee in?” And I say “the water part.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Steven Rattner: Trump’s meme coin peaked last year at over $45 just after it launched. 

Its value has since crashed 95%, destroying billions in wealth for millions of average Americans tricked into buying the token.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“[I]t all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life. The source of the corruption has to be addressed at its source for America to have any kind of democratic rebirth or for civic democracy to have any chance at survival.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 29/04/2026
This is Cooper. He tried to politely decline the blowout, but apparently it's a nonnegotiable part of his spa package. 13/10 (IG: biscuitsandbathnyc)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gift link. Great piece, remarkable embedded footage: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...
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Why Is There a Voting Rights Act? A Timeline
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2026
standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"
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Vera Kober Art @vera-kober-art.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I love painting flowers
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society, and no one is going to pay taxes anymore, well ... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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So Nobody Is Going to Pay Taxes Now?
America actually needs a tax base.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 27/04/2026
This is Ellbie. She somehow snuck out her apartment's 13th-floor balcony and walked the ledge to the other side of the building. After two days of searching, a neighbor found her with his drone. She has withdrawn her application to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Dog. 13/10
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Exactly. People see all the corruption and assume there are no rules. They don’t know there’s only immunity for Trump family members and top allies.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Strong Horse, Weak Horse talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/stron...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC, where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"Restoring democracy required opponents of fascism—nationalists, republicans, and Communists—to work together despite serious misgivings about one another’s views. Purity tests had to wait until the war was over." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Film That Explains Contemporary America
“The Sorrow and the Pity” has lessons for how authoritarianism takes root—and how to fight against it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology. The queen of all vices: Pride. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Pope James David Vance the First
The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Peace, but only during trading hours
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"Basically a Second American Reconstruction, to make sure these abuses never happen again. "I want to be Jamie Raskin's wingman, a guy I really, really admire. …" Errol: "Got it, got it. Unusual times call for an unusual candidate." Me: "Exactly!"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"What happened in Hungary is that Magyar, who's now going to be the prime minister, went out in the country and basically explained how the corruption and criminality affected people in their everyday lives. And that's what's happening here."
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Kimm Rogers @kimmrogers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Garry Kasparov: "Trump's character, corruption, and cognitive trajectory were well-established. You could sooner criticize the scorpion for stinging. But the Republicans who ignored it, enabled him, and are, even now, still his sycophants deserve all condemnation and removal from public life."
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