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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
January 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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#Justice4ReneeNicoleGood ⚖️
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
BRENNAN: Tell me about the officer, Jonathan Ross

KRISTI NOEM: Don't say his name! I mean, for heaven's sake, we shouldn't have people continue to dox law enforcement

BRENNAN: His name is public

NOEM: I know, but that doesn't mean it should continue to be said
January 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
For those that don’t know, Minneapolis unions called for a statewide strike
minneapolisunions.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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thehousered.bsky.social
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Enjoy your MAHA-approved affordable dinner during the Golden Age. It’s your patriotic duty to ration and fight inflation for Dear Leader. The nation is counting on you.
January 16, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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jamellebouie.net
“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 9d
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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andrewsolender.bsky.social
Growing list of House Democrats saying they support Kristi Noem's impeachment:

Kelly (Ill.)
Ramirez
Ansari
Randall
McBride
Casten
McCollum
Tokuda
Kamlager-Dove
McGarvey

Schneider, AOC and others say they're open to it.

@axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/09/k...
Democrats warm to impeaching Kristi Noem after Minneapolis, Portland shootings
"There's a rising clamor for oversight and potentially impeachment of Secretary Noem," said Rep. Jamie Raskin.
www.axios.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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ebharrington.bsky.social
Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.

The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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rbhubbell.bsky.social
Angry old man yells at kids to “Get off my lawn” for 20 minutes in a nationally televised speech.

Ouch! Trump's speech was a trainwreck! American Carnage II, delivered in the style of your MAGA drunk uncle trying to win a family argument at Thanksgiving by being the loudest person in the room.
December 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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yasharali.bsky.social
2. Rob Reiner reacts to the brutal murder of Charlie Kirk.
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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jesscraven101.bsky.social
The Senate GOP just put a final nail in the AC’s casket. Never forget it.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Dec 9
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
“Your kids should get less for Christmas than kids have in a communist China.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 10
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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gilduran.com
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.

Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Dec 6
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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indivisible.org
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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slotkin.senate.gov
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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@50501movement.bsky.social
Title: What you can do. Text: Image of a sign that says "Shop Local" next to the text: Redirect your dollars. Support small businesses who struggle to compete with the sales and bolster your local economy. Image of a white shirt on a hanger with the text: Buy secondhand. Give books, clothing, electronics (and more!) a new home and help reduce waste. Go even further and join a local Buy Nothing group. Image of a jar full of dollars with a label that says "Donate" on it. Logos of Political Revolution and 50501 are along the bottom. The dates November 27th to December 1st are centered above weaintbuyingit.com between the logos. Title: Participate with us. Text: Want to lessen your environmental impact even more? Join the We Ain’t Buying It movement and don’t buy anything from November 27th to December 1st. Our focus is on Target, Home Depot, and Amazon, but every big retailer should be taken into account. Redirect your money to your community, join the movement, amplify the blackout, and recognize the power of your wallet. Join us at WeAintBuyingIt.com. Logos of Political Revolution and 50501 are along the bottom.
November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Primaries for senators
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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50501sanjose.bsky.social
It’s not over until it’s over.
Call your senators: reps.fyi

If you don’t know what to say, here’s a script: 5calls.org/issue/federa...
Demand a Strong Deal to End the Government Shutdown ⭑ 5 Calls
The federal government shutdown is now the longest running shutdown in U.S. history. The House has remained out of session for its entirety, at the …
5calls.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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steventdennis.bsky.social
! A key group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting for a deal to end the shutdown, provided final details can be worked out like worker protections (Gift link)

(Deal does NOT include an ACA extension.)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thune Plans Test Vote on Shutdown, Saying Deal Is Getting Closer
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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muellershewrote.com
ATTN: if you’re on the sandwich guy jury, my Signal is in my bio. I’d love to talk after the trial. I’ll keep you anonymous. Please share widely.
November 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM