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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 1d

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 5d

On Lawfare's litigation tracker you can find the dockets for 200 cases challenging actions from the Trump administration, including Illinois's suit challenging the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, a U.S. citizen suing ICE over an alleged wrongful arrest, and many more.

Litigation Tracker

Find legal challenges to executive orders and actions from the Trump administration.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lastly, DOJ emphasizes that Trump's pardon of Tarrio does not erase his guilt for seditious conspiracy, and notes that the other four convicted Proud Boys leaders' — whose sentences Trump commuted — are still technically in ongoing criminal cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 26

JUST IN: The Trump administration seeks to dismiss the lawsuit by Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys leaders over their Jan. 6 prosecutions.

There's simply no evidence the evidence against them was fabricated or knowingly false, DOJ says.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nope. Not here. Not in this country. Let us not put up with this. Let us not normalize this. We must resist this.👇

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

America 2025: Formalizing the use of military forces to routinely police American cities.
Text of the EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Aug 18

"Noem has also been particular about the service on the Coast Guard planes. In one incident, she and her staff grew irritated when a weighted blanket she often uses on trips was not provided to her, an issue that was “escalated” within the service..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Kristi Noem is living rent-free in home used by Coast Guard commandant

A DHS spokeswoman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 18

In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding.

When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.

Well...here we are.

Subscribe to Democracy Docket now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 15

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 15

The most powerful force in American politics today is antiestablishment rage at a system that’s rigged against most people.

Democrats should ignore the carping of corporate and Wall Street Democrats and embrace Mamdani and other young progressives as the future of the party.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Jessica Yellin: "Millions of people still care about truth. They are seeking facts on social media from credible voices they can trust. They just aren't always sure where to find them or from whom. I know because I interact with these people every day..." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

Truth is still alive on social media—but it’s not easy enough to find.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Read this thread about our @propublica.org reporting on how immigration officers are increasingly smashing car windows to arrest immigrants

(just a warning, many of the videos in this thread contain footage/audio of violent arrests and screaming children)
⬇️ projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · Aug 8

No pop-ups, no paywalls, no ads. Free to read, and free to republish: Subscribe to the Ohio Capital Journal newsletter today! ohiocapitaljournal.com/subscribe/

Subscribe • Ohio Capital Journal

With waggish headlines and sharp insight, you can start your news morning off right with the latest from the Ohio Capital Journal and highlights from other publications across the state. We will lead…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Cathy @doermanc.bsky.social · Aug 8

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Playing Ear Man in 'Crimes of the Future'

Talking to the guy behind the freakiest part of the freakiest film of the year.

www.gq.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 5

“I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book”

That is an investigation we published in 2020. Watch our recap here and check back for part two later today!

I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book…

YouTube video by Mother Jones

www.youtube.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Jul 6

My periodic reminder about Democracy Docket:

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Just a Bill @bdowney2338.bsky.social · Jul 4

I know everyone is hurting right now but my god it’s a rough time being Empath. The overwhelming weight of it all is crushing.
Find your happy place and hide out there as needed. 🙏

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Cathy @doermanc.bsky.social · Jun 14

It's not like we didn't tell them this before the election, but the Russian bots were 1000x worse after Felonia took over Twitter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 13

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · Jun 7

When you work for the devil, sometimes you find yourself in hell. #ICEsucks

www.democracynow.org/2025/6/6/hea...

ICE Agents and Their Prisoners Left Stranded in Shipping Container in Djibouti

Nearly a dozen ICE agents have been left stranded alongside a group of eight deportees in a converted shipping container at a U.S. military base in Djibouti. That’s according to an extraordinary docum...

www.democracynow.org

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Cathy @doermanc.bsky.social · Jun 5

Is this a coup to install the Manchurian candidate? Vance was groomed by Thiel. Musk and Thiel have what they want now. All our data to create skynet and big eye big brother. (Sounds like a conspiracy theory right?) And Putin is big mad about Ukraine so ...Who knows. But sounds juicier.

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Cathy @doermanc.bsky.social · May 27

Why are you pandering this BS. Nothing but lying BS. Spend some time documenting the psycho president we have who talks about windy bacon, and claims he's some friggin miracle worker who just lies through his teeth every second he's awake.

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · May 26

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

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MeidasRick 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · May 6

open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Stephen Miller Promotes Indoctrination of Children Through the Public School System

It was never about “parental rights” or “the children.” It’s fascism.

open.substack.com

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