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Writing, Editing. Not a bot. Registered to vote in Florida.
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Tampa Bay Times
about 2 hours ago
Echoes of Russia in Florida? This new Oscar winner sees them
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Echoes of Russia in Florida? This new Oscar winner sees them
David Borenstein just got an Academy Award for his best documentary feature winner, “Mr. Nobody Against Putin.” The Florida native carries a warning.
http://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/2026/03/20/echoes-russia-florida-this-new-oscar-winner-sees-them/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialNewsDesk
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ProPublica
about 11 hours ago
17/ We know there are more women who have had C-sections against their will, and we want to better understand their experiences. If you have a story to share, please reach out to
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ProPublica
about 11 hours ago
Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said. (Published Nov. 2025)
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774054806&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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The Tennessee Holler
about 7 hours ago
WATCH: “Proof the SAVE Act = voter suppression… if you’re trying to exercise your right to vote, Republicans want you to jump over all these hurdles + pay💰— but if they want to draft you to die in Trump’s war of choice, they’ll automatically sign you up.”
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The Downballot
about 16 hours ago
Really cool tool from VoteView that shows you which congressional districts have included your address (or any address) historically. So you can see what district you were in, or would have been in, and who represented you over time, all the way back to 1789!
voteview.com/district
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Voteview | District View
View, map, and investigate congressional votes throughout history, classify legislators as liberal or conservatives.
https://voteview.com/district
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WTAF
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
🎁link to share the misery
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Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/politics/hegseth-christianity-military.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.Vy4z._b-qu-kuV7AN&smid=url-share
about 15 hours ago
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"Staffers from DOGE are revamping rules in ways to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry." --what could go wrong?
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about 23 hours ago
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Carl Quintanilla
1 day ago
A great post about fertilizer prices — and the 2nd/3rd/4th order effects:
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List of stations to avoid if you don't want to be exposed to state media propaganda:
www.nexstar.tv/stations/
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this is really bad news
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
1 day ago
The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.
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ProPublica
1 day ago
Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1773952502&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Carl Quintanilla
1 day ago
“.. Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion.”
@time.com
time.com/article/2026...
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Kori Schake
1 day ago
Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.
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public health guy
2 days ago
who really knows without reporting, of course. but intuit is a company that relies entirely on corruption as a business model, and the main purpose of the executive order was to screw over POC, just like everything else this regime does. just saying!
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IRS paper check changes trigger tax refund delays for more than 830,000 filers
Many filers could see tax refund delays amid the IRS shift away from paper checks. Here's what to know if you receive a CP53E notice.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/tax-refund-delays.html
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Democrats Abroad
2 days ago
Where’s our money, Donald?
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Democracy Without Borders
3 days ago
According to a new assessment by V-Dem, democracy is back at 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the third wave of democratization since the mid-1970s are almost eradicated. The U.S. is downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy.
www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/
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V-Dem report finds global democracy is back at 1978 levels
V-Dem’s 2026 assessment finds that autocracies outnumber democracies by 92 to 87. With 44 countries worsening and 18 improving, the current wave of autocratization is continuing.
https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/v-dem-report-finds-global-democracy-is-back-at-1978-levels/
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The Watchdog Coalition
2 days ago
The SAVE Act would block millions of eligible voters. This is voter suppression, not security. Tell your senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!
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Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act
Contact Congress today!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-vote-no-on-the-save-act-to-protect-our-democracy/
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Alex Andreou
2 days ago
As he said on Covid: ‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.’ Same principle. He knows that those coffins will create a visual that every news channel will carry for days.
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ProPublica
2 days ago
Had the Defense Department’s harm-reduction plan not been axed by the Trump administration, the policies almost certainly would’ve reduced the number of noncombatants harmed over the past year, current and former officials tell ProPublica.
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1773878411&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
Better yet, just send ICE over there to fight the war themselves. Tons of money, with military-grade arms they do not need for immigration enforcement, and a bunch of goons begging for a fight.
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The Tennessee Holler
2 days ago
WELP
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Megan O'Matz
3 days ago
Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin whose father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.
www.propublica.org/article/sean...
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Transportation Lobbyists Have Donated Thousands to Sean Duffy’s Son-in-Law as He Runs for Congress
Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of tr...
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-congress-transportation
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Tampa Bay Times
3 days ago
With measles surging in Florida, DeSantis gets vaccine pushback | Column
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With measles surging in Florida, DeSantis gets vaccine pushback | Column
Polls show majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents support childhood vaccinations.
http://www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2026/03/17/childhood-vaccinations-mumps-rubella-polio-ladapo-schools-free-state/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialNewsDesk
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Democrats
3 days ago
Reminder
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republicans have been starving the USPS for years. Why do they hate mail (and their rural constituents!) so much?
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Democrats Abroad
4 days ago
Senate Majority Leader John Thune plans to bring the so-called “SAVE America” Act up for a vote this week. To support their resistance, Democratic senators will be looking for real stories from Americans whose right to vote would be affected. 📞 U.S. Capitol: +1 (202) 224-3121
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The Tennessee Holler
4 days ago
Wild conflicts of interest: “Tucked in the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse 🧑🌾 90% of adopting AI & precision ag tech… standards set by the industry… Trojan horse for big tech to take advantage of farmers/wrest control of the food system…”
fortune.com/2026/03/14/f...
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Sean Casten
4 days ago
If you are an American who has bills, you are the last of the Trump administration's concerns. Their words, not mine.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
Butterfly Effect 🦋
@notus.com
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Aaron Sojourner
4 days ago
Fossil fuel company owners see that they can't compete with clean energy They need public power to force Americans to choke down their high prices & pollution They gave Trump's campaign $1B as he promised to protect their profit Now he's using public $ to do it
bsky.app/profile/deva...
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The New York Times
4 days ago
The Trump administration plans to convene the so-called God Squad, a high-level federal panel that has the power to override protections under the Endangered Species Act, for a meeting related to oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico.
nyti.ms/4ryiffG
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Administration to Convene ‘God Squad’ With Power to Override Environmental Law
The meeting, planned for this month, will focus on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
https://nyti.ms/4ryiffG
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Bobby Kogan
4 days ago
Here’s my big writeup
www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-...
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Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio
Without the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt as a percentage of the economy would be declining permanently.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/
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Bobby Kogan
4 days ago
Here’s a graph I made backing up the second claim
bsky.app/profile/bbko...
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Bobby Kogan
5 days ago
Immigrants pay more into the system than they receive in benefits. Stephen Miller is lying because he is deeply impure of heart. The real reason debt/GDP is going up is because of the Bush and Trump tax cuts. Without them, we’d have enough revenue to support our aging population indefinitely.
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Tampa Bay Times
5 days ago
Get to know some of the Democrats who want to challenge Anna Paulina Luna
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Get to know some of the Democrats who want to challenge Anna Paulina Luna
Seven candidates talked about their platforms at a forum hosted by the Democratic Hispanic Caucus of Pinellas County.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2026/03/16/anna-paulina-luna-democrats-midterms-leela-gray-earle-ford-brandt-robinson/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialNewsDesk
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"...Belfer, a lawyer for the Trump administration, argued that Mr. Kennedy and the committee had “unreviewable”—or absolute—authority to make vaccine policies, even if that included recommending that people become infected with measles instead of getting vaccinated."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/childhood-vaccines-lawsuit-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.ebXx.YSakkzr0bpNn&smid=url-share
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Rachel Maddow
5 days ago
When the Trump era is over, this will be the business school 101 lesson of what happened, who blew it, and who didn't:
www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/b...
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats
5 days ago
Last year, Republicans kicked millions off of their health care: 📈 Premiums increased by an average of 114% 📉 Over $1 trillion in health care cuts This is the Republican health care plan in action: skipped meals just to afford medicine.
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Elliot
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ah yes let’s extort literally one of the poorest countries in the world (per capita GDP in Zambia is ~$4k/year) by denying them medicine so we can steal their minerals. Christian Nationalism folks.
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George Pearkes
5 days ago
Bad, dumb, and a massive green light for fraud.
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Exclusive | SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement
President Trump has said that public companies should have to report earnings only twice a year.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/sec-prepares-proposal-to-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requirement-1d700bbb
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Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.
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Eliot Higgins
5 days ago
Some in his outer circle are calling him "a fucking idiot" who has "fucked everything up".
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ProPublica
5 days ago
The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1773630005&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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TheValuesVoter
6 days ago
The Democrats tried to fund TSA itself but the Republicans blocked it (at least FIVE TIMES), insisting that ICE also gets funded. If you don’t like the lines, tell your Republican Senators and Congressmen to let TSA get funded without ICE. And ICE already has plenty of funding anyway.
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Mr. International
6 days ago
Republicans voted down a bill to pay TSA this week. That should be the first sentence of every TSA post.
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Ron Filipkowski
6 days ago
How can any Democrat justify voting for Trump’s new DHS nominee when they continue to break the law using taxpayer dollars and resources for partisan politics?
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Nancy Levine Stearns
6 days ago
🔥 FCC Commissioner
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the trump administration is siding with Live Nation, by the way
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