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protectdemocracy.org
Government-wide efforts to access and aggregate unprecedented amounts of voter data and other personal info should raise significant concerns for every American. We outline the details and implications of the admin's latest privacy-invasion move with @cdt.org and @civilrightsorg.bsky.social ⬇️
Protect Democracy, CDT, and the Leadership Conference release new analysis of federal efforts to access voter data
In our explainer, we examine the potential harms associated with the Trump administration’s latest privacy-invasive actions.
protectdemocracy.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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strictscrutiny.bsky.social
NEW: we recap the last oral arguments of the year, including decoding the WOLF references.

tl;dr - SCOTUS is going to give Trump more power & control over independent agencies.

We also chat the campaign finance case & other legal news crooked.com/podcast/scot...
a close up of a wolf laying down with its eyes closed .
Alt: a close up of a wolf laying down with its eyes closed .
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December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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ianbassin.bsky.social
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.

I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.

And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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We are going to win
Trump is losing the race against time
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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craigipedia.bsky.social
Step 1: Recruit Donald Trump to topple your government

Step 2: Try not to get caught in the crossfire

Step 3: Profit
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d
Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it.

Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
Photo of María Corina Machado on a balcony in Oslo, Norway after escaping Venezuela. She had almost completed an escape that had been in the works for about two months and was carried out by a Venezuelan network that has helped other people to flee the country, the person close to the operation said. The group said it made an important call to the U.S. military before they set out to sea, warning American forces in the region of the vessel's occupants to avoid the kind of airstrike that has hit more than 20 other similar vessels in the past three months, killing more than 80 people. "We coordinated that she was going to leave by a specific area so that they would not blow up the boat," said the person close to the operation. The Trump administration was aware of the operation, said people familiar with the matter, but the extent of its involvement was unclear.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
padilla428.bsky.social
See the guy in the back with the gun? That's us now. #CaptainPhillips
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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metatheory.bsky.social
LISTEN -->>
gpatrick.bsky.social G Patrick (wouldn't it be great if we didn't need SNAP?) @gpatrick.bsky.social · Oct 30
Shared from Senator Peter Welch yesterday.
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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terre-strial.bsky.social
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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rickhasen.bsky.social
Supreme Court at any time may issue 2 orders on its emergency docket that will greatly affect how Americans live over the next few years: one on legality of national guard troops in American cities and one on whether States like Texas can re-redistrict and get away with it on timing grounds for 2026
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
You won’t believe how many of such “journalists” are in and around DC.

english.nv.ua/russian-war/...
Exclusive: Leaked documents expose global Russian soft-power influence network
NV English has obtained documents revealing a sprawling Russian global espionage and influence network — evidence of the Kremlin’s effort to build a civilian ecosystem for shaping international narrat...
english.nv.ua
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Putin wants peace, huh?
Ursula von der Leyen * @vonderle...• 9m I just spoke with President @GitanasNauseda. The situation at the border with Belarus is worsening, with the growing incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania's airspace. Such hybrid attack by the Lukashenka regime is completely unacceptable. Lithuania continues to have our full solidarity. We are preparing further measures under our sanctions regime.
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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69eerrr.bsky.social
Did I miss when kushner got his security clearance?

WTF is he doing in the "peace" negotiations?

Oh that's right, to make sure the money 💰 gets to trumps and his and putins pockets.
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Toothless Sanctions on Russian Oil
Last month, the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, signaling a renewed desire to drive Moscow to the negotiating table in its war a...
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Oh, and India's second largest refinery (I believe) bought record amounts of Russian crude to refine last month--and is opening up new markets for its products. oilprice.com/Energy/Crude...
India’s Nayara Energy Defies Sanctions With Record Russian Intake | OilPrice.com
Crude intake at Nayara’s 400,000-b/d Vadinar refinery plunged to just 240,000 b/d after EU and US sanctions hit in August, but rebounded to 420,000 b/d in November.
oilprice.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
Conservatives are often stubbornly illiterate, but never more so than when they've been given a pretentious robe and a cute little toy hammer.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
This was posted 5 HOURS AGO before the meeting between US and RU officials even began in Abu Dhabi
Rustem Umerov & @rustem_umerov X.com We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump's steadfast efforts to end the war. Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva. We now count on the support of our European partners in our further steps. We look forward to organizing a visit of Ukraine's President to the US at the earliest suitable date in November to complete final steps and make a deal with President Trump.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Welker and Brennan ask questions like they’re sexting RFK Jr.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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bridgetbrink.com Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 25d
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.

Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
padilla428.bsky.social
I've got a boy crush
Hate to admit it but
I got a hard rush
Trump’s Oval Office Surrender to Zohran Mamdani
In a stunning White House meeting, Donald Trump abandoned his party’s narrative and embraced New York City’s mayor-elect, while Mamdani stayed laser-focused on issues facing the city.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Nov 14
💯 Mind blowing conversation with @lincolnsbible.bsky.social We explored the explosive Epstein emails through a Russia lens. You’re gonna need a big cup of coffee.

www.youtube.com/live/kyMQXDD...
Jen Taub LIVE - Russia, Russia, Russia
YouTube video by Jen Taub
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
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.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 9
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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santiagomayer.com
Nancy Pelosi never let her caucus break on important votes. Chuck Schumer can't even keep his caucus together to protect 10 million people's healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM