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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10h

Corporate greed led to the collapse of Steward Health Care last year. My Stop Medical Profiteering and Theft Act would ensure that greedy real estate investment trusts cannot continue to put profits over patients and wealth over health.
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Senator Markey Introduces Stop MPT Act

YouTube video by Senator Markey

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 19h

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Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 1d

The paperback edition of my book OPUS goes on sale TODAY

With a new afterword bringing the story up to date, including details of Opus Dei’s links to Project 2025, the human trafficking case against it—and the challenge Pope Leo faces in holding this abusive cult to account

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 19h

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One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon

Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 20h

❣️🇺🇸 we the people…

❣️🇺🇸 Anand Giridharadas
& ❣️✨ Shakespeare…

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.”
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Riz Ahmed's brilliant reinterpretation of what Hamlet was really trying to say

A radical Shakespeare for our time -- and for everyone

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 21h

❣️🇺🇸 Miles Taylor
❣️🇺🇸 Stacey Abrams

Harry Truman’s living monuments include these two who continue their public service despite attacks by DJT’s thugs.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 21h

❣️🇺🇸 Miles Taylor
❣️🇺🇸 Stacey Abrams

Harry Truman’s living monuments include these two who continue their public service despite attacks by DJT’s thugs.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 21h

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MUST READ: America’s governors must hold an emergency meeting, right now

PLUS — Stacey Abrams maps out what a real resistance looks like

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 22h

🤦‍♀️ DJT’s…
“getting rid of the building built to house the Social Security Administration, along with the murals that champion the government’s role in protecting the equality and security of ordinary people, while Trump contemplates building a triumphal arch,”

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October 13, 2025

Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 23h

🎯 Lisa Needham
“Miller realized he slipped up by saying Trump has plenary authority under Title 10, but not because he thought he said something incorrect. He slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power”
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Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

❣️ 🎯 Paul Krugman…
“By now it's obvious that Donald Trump suffers from CBS — Cowardly Bully
Syndrome.”

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How Crypto Became a Trump Trade

It’s primarily a vehicle for crony capitalism now

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

❣️🇺🇸 The 4th... why those who are able will stand up for 'we the people' at 'No Kings...🇺🇸❣️

❣️🇺🇸 Joy-Ann Reid ….
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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

❣️🇺🇸 Joyce Vance…
“Trump promised he'd deport violent criminals. Instead, ICE is going after legal residents and terrorizing children.
The message: if you're an American citizen, don't exercise your First Amendment rights unless you want to become a target too.”

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Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

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Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

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Michele’s💙🌊 (@democraticwarrior)

A message left behind by a beautiful soul! I loved her acting, quirkiness, fashion, laugh, and free spirit!! Thank you Diane Keaton for entertaining us with your wonderful talent!! ♥️

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

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Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer (@themouthyrenegadewriter)

100% hell yes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

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7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Christopher Columbus

President Trump has vowed to bring Columbus Day ‘back from the ashes.’ But here are some shocking things you may not know about the much-celebrated historical figure behind it.

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

🤦‍♀️Before DJT..
“America still had a commanding position, thanks in large part to our unmatched research establishment, our great research universities, and our ability — thanks in large part to the openness of our society — to recruit talent from all over the world.”
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How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

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kenaiseasky.bsky.social @kenaiseasky.bsky.social · 1d

❣️🇺🇸 HCR…
“Historians study how and why societies change. As we dig into the past, we see patterns that never entirely foreshadow the present but that give us ideas about how people in the past have dealt with circumstances that look similar to circumstances today.”
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October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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