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PhillyZeus @zeusofphilly.bsky.social · 4d

@zberm.bsky.social my son chose your book for his reading.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Aug 5

Powerful. Just — wow. Including artist details on next post. 1/2

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 3

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jun 4

My feed is filled right now with Israeli government defenders being absolutely destroyed in TV interviews with UK journalists - Piers Morgan, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Kamali Melbourne - and being exposed.

Begs the Q: why can’t US TV interviewers do tough interviews with Israelis?

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of.

They’re not branding it an Obamacare repeal this time around, but congressional Republicans are pursuing cuts to programs that are part of the 15-year-old health-care law.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @anamariafortexas.com · May 6

IDEA charter schools got over $800M in tax dollars last year – more than any Texas university – without the same budget accountability.

Our kids deserve schools run by educators, not businessmen. Public dollars should go to public good, not private gain. #txlege

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 6

seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control

The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · May 4

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · May 2

Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.

Why did Tommy Tuberville vote in Florida if he lived in Alabama?

Election records show Tuberville voted in Florida after he says a homestead exemption puts his residency in Alabama.

www.al.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · May 2

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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 29

Swalwell: What are we doing here? What in this hearing achieves lowering costs for the American people? Do you know how far you’ve deviated from that goal? This is where you are: today, you will make it easier to deport more American citizen children with cancer.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 24

Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

apnews.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Apr 16

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Apr 15

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

All with an average donation of $21.

THANK YOU & Pa’lante 🙏🏽♥️

Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben @oliverhw.bsky.social · Apr 15

News: AOC had her strongest ever quarter, raising over $9.5m from 266k individual donors for an average of just $21.

AOC doesn’t take a dollar from lobbyists or corporate PACS. Our top donor professions are teachers and nurses. 64% were first time contributors.

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · Apr 14

“If Nike did a campaign and the first hundred people who come to this event get football boots, I’d be the first one there. How do you create that same feeling around nature and flowers and gardening and food security?”

After a local disaster, Tayshan Hayden-Smith helps neighborhoods rebuild—with plants

The former pro soccer player has returned home to London with a plan to rejuvenate the city’s neighborhoods—and empower its young people—with urban gardening.

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Apr 10

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this.

We can't. We need answers.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Apr 10

@motherjones.com just won the National Magazine Award for best magazine in the "literature, science, and politics" category. It's a BFD. Congrats to the entire MJ crew—of which I am proud to be part of.

(BTW, now would be a good time to subscribe.)

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Mother Jones Magazine and Digital Subscriptions

Subscribe to our magazine for the hard-hitting stories that others in the media are ignoring. Subscribe today and get a full year of Mother Jones!

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Apr 10

Don’t look up.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 10

Susman Godfrey, Chris Krebs, Miles Taylor, the president is openly targeting his political enemies with what his party once projected and called ‘lawfare’. It’s openly authoritarian. And we can’t say we weren’t warned. This is what fascism looks like.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Apr 9

Trump has signed an executive order targeting Susman Godfrey, the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain its $787 million settlement from Fox for the network's 2020 election lies.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 9

Not sure how these people sleep at night

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Apr 9

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Apr 9

NEWS

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas.

But then she voted in Hawaii.

Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics

Election law experts said Gabbard’s vote, coupled with her claiming a homestead tax break on her Texas home, raises questions about whether she properly cast her ballot and illustrates the complexity ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Apr 1

Baby mama drama continues for the DOGE man.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 27

"Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media"

Powerful new testimony, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo, reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.

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Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media

Powerful new testimony reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.

zeteo.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Mar 26

I’m sorry, but underlying national security crisis aside, that’s a LOT of typos and grammatical errors for an official response from the White House. Leavitt should be embarrassed for herself.

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