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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/05/2026
Suing his own IRS? Creating a $1.8 billion slush fund? What the hell is Trump trying to pull?
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Suing his own IRS? Creating a $1.8 billion slush fund? What the hell is Trump trying to pull?
Whatever it is, it's staggeringly corrupt, and possibly very dangerous.
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
They're torture camps
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social's map-based theory of Trump’s Greenland obsession.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
NEW & amazing stats: Trump is losing 2/3 of legal cases Over 80% if you include immigration! Judges are standing up & courts are holding the line DESPITE the biased "Trump judges" We explain @contrariannews.org:
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Donald Trump Is Losing in Court
Notwithstanding his appellate appointees’ efforts, Trump's loss record is impressive.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/11/2025
Unpacking the MAHA mirage: Trump guts healthcare while preaching wellness
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Unpacking the MAHA mirage: Trump guts healthcare while preaching wellness
"They're moving us back almost into the Dark Ages."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The "peace president."
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the lakeshore undead @thecorlew.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Jesus fucking Christ.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/10/2025
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.
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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
These charges are insane fascist bullshit.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs." Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/10/2025
Shortly before the shutdown, the USDA moved to scrap the Household Food Security Report, the nation’s primary tool for tracking food insecurity, and in doing so, stripped away the very infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in America.
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The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking
Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.
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Grist @grist.org · 16/10/2025
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains. grist.org/oceans/coral... #Coral #Ocean #Environment #Climate #Science
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Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
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zenpear.bsky.social @zenpear.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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How Can We Share a Country If We Don’t Share a Reality?
Note from the author: An earlier version of this piece appeared under a different title.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line
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Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 11/09/2025
I hesitate to even post this on the kind of platform fueling the crisis we're in. It's almost certainly futile, as the algorithms don't want anyone to hear this kind of sentiment - which is a big part of the problem. www.levernews.com/we-must-stop...
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We Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s Unstoppable
Once we accept deadly violence as a normal part of American life, we’re done for.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/08/2025
Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
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Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2025
In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/08/2025
Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.
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Fact-checking Trump’s claim that crime in Washington is ‘out of control’
Trump claimed DC crime is surging to deploy the National Guard, however, the city’s preliminary data proves otherwise.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/07/2025
2/ As reservoirs shrink and glaciers melt, people have increasingly drilled into a largely ungoverned cache of fresh water underground. And as @abrahm.bsky.social explains, our sinking ground is actually a foolproof sign of this supply disappearing.
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For the last quarter century we've been shown a parade of white dudes who were going to change the world and they have all, every one of them, reinvented feudalism.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/07/2025
Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.
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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
i'm an accelerationist on the single issue of Trump trying to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship. it's important that this reaches the Supreme Court so that there's a clear historical marker of how stupid this country has become.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yes
Trying to solve every problem by figuring out the right way to talk about it is an approach with limitations that probably
should be obvious. Elected Democrats and the donors that keep the party running are, nonetheless, quite captivated by it. Newly elected Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, for instance, invited Matt Yglesias-the "issue salience" guru whose writing was said to be widely circulated in the Biden administration-to a $5,000-a-head donor retreat he held in March at something called the L'Auberge de Sedona resort. (Yglesias told Rolling Stone he was not accepting a fee to speak at the event.) Sometimes, like in the case
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 10/07/2025
“The unpleasantness of our present is directly connected to the apathy and animosity that took control inside voting booths in the past. It’s an example of how the past is prologue, which then demands that we make the present ground zero for change.”
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From Project 2025 and the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ — America did this to America
This isn't just about one election; Americans have been voting against their own interests for a long time.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/07/2025
I really would love it if you read this. newrepublic.com/article/1976...
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The Deadly Floods Revealed Texans’ Heroism—and Their Failed Politics
Irresponsible political leaders have poisoned residents of the Lone Star State against government solutions, and the civic corrosion is having increasingly deadly results.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2025
The Trump administration has chosen not just to trivialize the danger presented by climate change, but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The "unitary executive theory" is a fancy name for a strategy used by authoritarians worldwide, rebranded for the US. It’s a legal blueprint for a power grab, and my new article explains how it turns the law itself into a tool for undermining democracy:
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How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally
The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
WTF??!! And is anyone going to do anything to stop him when he goes to do this? Biggest question for me, will SCOTUS side with him and anoint him king?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2025
NEW: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon
TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America’s uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nat...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
the main difference between the bush administration and this one is that the neoconservative ideologues have been replaced with people who want to see explosions on the tv
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zenpear.bsky.social @zenpear.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This is a good essay about our batshit nihilistic political moment and why we have to resist the far right in power, believe in a future www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
MeidasTouch is winning with, of all things, empathy and truth. The great Ben Meiselas joined me on What Rough Beast. + @meidastouch.com open.substack.com/pub/virginia...
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Empathy as Strategy: The Meidas Method
You’re listening to What Rough Beast!
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