Gloria Caryopter
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Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton, SNL 2016
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My WW2 vet dad was proud of his service until the day he died. It defined him. I'm almost glad he's not around to see the fascism he fought against begin to replace the democracy he fought for.
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Aaron Rupar
about 3 hours ago
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down? HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs KARL: So they might not go down?
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Justin Wolfers
about 2 hours ago
To my students: Lean into skills AI amplifies, not ones it bulldozes. Frame good questions, scope problems, interpret messy data, apply judgment, explain clearly. The bot can autocomplete; you bring curiosity, context, and ethics.
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👏 Excerpts from the book 'Censorship in America' with
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
can be found in the Weekend section of the newspaper
@letemps.ch
– with a beautiful cover!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
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I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
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The Bulwark
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Rep. Thomas Massie: "Trump's being a bully…They're trying to beat me here in Kentucky. But here's what's interesting, the people financing the campaign consist completely of three billionaires, and they're all in the Epstein class. One of them is named in Epstein's phone book."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
about 6 hours ago
"... please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. It is not law enforcement; it is terror.” The biggest names in Chicago broadcast news condemn the violent attack on the city they love. I talked to the author, Phil Ponce.
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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Justin Wolfers
about 21 hours ago
Portable mortgages are like your cell phone plan: when you upgrade the phone, the plan comes with you. Let your mortgage follow you to the next house. That unfreezes movers—especially downsizers—and unlocks inventory. Lemme explain why I love this idea:
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"Portable" Mortgages Could Unlock the Housing Market, Says Economist Justin Wolfers
The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN, November 13 2025 What happens when homeowners can take their old low mortgage rate with them to their next house? This conversation tackles the rising buzz around…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4zj8Pm2QQ
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Evil AND incompetent.
#Dumbflation
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Bette Midler
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The Tennessee Holler
about 14 hours ago
We are off the cliff folks
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The Volatile Mermaid
about 7 hours ago
Jesus fucking Christ
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George Monbiot
about 9 hours ago
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Al Jazeera English
about 11 hours ago
A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.
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Dr. Jack Brown
about 14 hours ago
Hey Megyn Kelly – would you leave your 14 daughter alone with Donald Trump? Stop trying to rationalize what is clearly rape.
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 7 hours ago
We don’t have to choose — we can win the midterms *AND* build a Democratic Party that actually fights for us:
indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky
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Fear, horror, fury. 🫣😬🤬
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Ann Telnaes
about 22 hours ago
"Get the hell outta my yard, you asshole". Good for her --->
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Don the Con. 😠
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Mark Jacob
1 day ago
Greg Sargent is one of the clearest thinkers on Trump's ongoing construction of a dictatorship. Everyone who cares about defending democracy and decency should give him a Bluesky follow, read his New Republic writings and listen to his podcast. Highly recommended.
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Christopher Webb
3 days ago
The Great Depression had Gatsby. We’ve got Trump. Different century, same empty stomachs.
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paulpro
2 days ago
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Jennifer C
2 days ago
Clergy were dragged off in handcuffs at the Broadview ICE facility; faith leaders arrested for demanding basic humanity for detainees. The vigil turned confrontational after an attorney challenged ICE’s protest curfew. Instead of addressing abuses, police & ICE cracked down on clergy & activists.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Murphy: "It's clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. He wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply worried about what's in those files. What we've already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly Trump was at the center of a child sex ring ... the scandal could bring him down."
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social
2 days ago
Priests being arrested
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
Chris Murphy: "I don't think anybody with ambition right now should be planning on running for president in 2028 because we might not have a free and fair election in 2028. We all have to be in the business of saving our democracy right now."
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Christopher Webb
2 days ago
Maybe we should just call it the ‘Trump files’ This is damming 🔥
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
2 days ago
After weaponizing the shutdown to block SNAP benefits for hungry people, the Trump Admin is using the oldest trick in the book to do more of the same. This kind of red tape does nothing to prevent fraud — it just makes it harder for working people to get the benefits they need.
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Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/trump-usda-snap-participants-reapply-benefits-00651874
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Ann Telnaes
2 days ago
Trump's revenge campaign continues--->
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Democrat Eric Swalwell faces federal criminal inquiry for alleged mortgage fraud
Latest target of Trump’s retribution campaign says ‘only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/eric-swalwell-federal-criminal-inquiry-trump
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
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David Ryan Miller
3 days ago
Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records "This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"
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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET
3 days ago
It's back up again in Washington DC Over on 14th street and V in front of busboys and poets The Friendship Statue of trump and epstein "FRIENDS FOREVER " It is over 12 feet tall
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
3 days ago
This is another example of what has become one of the most dangerous — yet underreported — aspects of the Trump Administration: they fire people who tell the truth.
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Trump administration prepares to fire worker for TV interview about SNAP
The employee warned that the shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal government to put food on the table.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/13/usda-worker-snap-benefits-interview/
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Ann Telnaes
3 days ago
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and Epstein
Birds of a feather
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-and-epstein
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Kyle Griffin
3 days ago
Jeffrey Epstein in 2015: "would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
3 days ago
hmmmm maybe this why fox is almost completely ignoring the story....
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Mark Copelovitch
3 days ago
Congrats again, everyone
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Christopher Webb
3 days ago
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑
4 days ago
Helpful tracker!
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😠 Six Democrats voted for a bill to reopen the federal government: Jared Golden of Maine Adam Gray of California Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Don Davis of North Carolina Henry Cuellar of Texas Tom Suozzi of New York
tinyurl.com/ys5cye4b
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Full list of House Democrats who voted for government shutdown deal
The deal to reopen the government has become a sticking point for Democrats.
https://tinyurl.com/ys5cye4b
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Khashoggi's Ghost
4 days ago
Wow. Jeffrey Epstein writing about Trump in 2018: "He feels alone and is nuts!!! I told everyone from day one. Evil beyond belief. Mad, and most thought I was speaking metaphorically. It's obvious he could crack. Stormy Daniels? Lies after lies after lies."
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S.V. Dáte
4 days ago
Trump was credibility accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He said his celebrity allowed him to grab women by the genitals. A jury found he had jammed his fingers up a woman's vagina. A little context for the WH's denials of any wrongdoing.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump's Account Of His Friendship With Epstein Doesn't Line Up With Trove Of New Documents
Trump frequently socialized with the late child sex trafficker and once said admiringly that Epstein liked beautiful women “on the younger side.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jeffrey-epstein-lies_n_6914dcb6e4b0c2898bed69e1
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David Earl Williams III
4 days ago
Epstein mocked Trump for “leaving his nose print on the glass” while watching young women, wrote that Trump knew about illicit activity tied to Mar-a-Lago, and visited “many times,” and noted Trump’s planned visit to his neighbor Howard Lutnick’s house.
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Aaron Rupar
4 days ago
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Raw Story
4 days ago
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once tried to warn people about President Donald Trump, calling him "evil beyond belief" and "nuts," according to newly released documents from the case.
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'Evil beyond belief': Epstein's cryptic warning about Trump revealed in new document dump
Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once tried to warn people about President Donald Trump, calling him "evil beyond belief" and "nuts," according to newly released documents from the case. On Wednesday, lawmakers in the House Oversight Committee released thousands of pages of documents from the Eps...
https://bit.ly/4o3XR4A
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Wajahat Ali
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Imagine one of the worst people on Earth saying this about you, and the you happens to be Donald Trump, the President.
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“What is most concerning is not what this administration has done, but what the majority in this body has failed to do — hold Trump accountable as a coequal branch of government that we are.” -Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ)
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Arizona Rep blasts Trump and Congress during her swearing in ceremony
Adelita Grijalva was sworn in seven weeks after winning a special election in Arizona
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/adelita-grijalva-swearing-in-arizona-epstein-trump-b2864123.html
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👏💙💯 "Welcome back from your eight weeks of taxpayer-funded vacation. I hope that you all enjoyed yourselves while American families looked at their letters from their health insurance companies, terrified that their insurance premiums were going to double or triple."
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Incensed Congresswoman Scolds Democratic Colleague for Welcoming Her Back From ‘Eight Weeks of Taxpayer-Funded Vacation’
Rep. Yassamin Ansari drew the ire of Rep. Virginia Foxx on Tuesday night by welcoming Foxx back from a "taxpayer-funded vacation."
https://tinyurl.com/3um3vchk
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👏 "Spoken like Don the Con."
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
4 days ago
Trump’s all-in for billionaires with special deals and tax cuts — but wants to shut down the agency that protects Americans from grifters and rip-offs. The CFPB’s returned $21B to cheated Americans. No wonder Trump wants it gone. He’s with the cheaters.
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Trump administration moves again to dismantle top US consumer watchdog
Government argues funding mechanism behind Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawful
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/trump-dismantle-top-consumer-watchdog
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