Mary Beth Schneider
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Former politics and government reporter for The Indianapolis Star. I once was The Twitter Lady.
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David Darmofal
about 2 hours ago
Trump going with losing 10,000 government lawyers is good, actually.
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George Takei
1 day ago
Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video:
xcancel.com/patriottakes...
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Frank Amari
about 7 hours ago
"One memory asks us to honor a man who led a war to preserve the enslavement of four million people and to encode that honor in the rhythms of civic life, in school calendars and state holidays and the quiet authority of official observance..."
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Larry Glickman
about 12 hours ago
One reason people would be surprised to hear that Trump has left Iran’s “military alone” is that earlier this month Trump said he had “completely destroyed Iran’s army,” and that “every single ship they had is resting underwater at the bottom of the sea.”
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Rep. Mike Levin
1 day ago
There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵
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Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department
Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.
https://www.notus.org/us-news/samuel-philip-alito-trump-treasury-department
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Vince D. Monroy
1 day ago
Historically unpopular president can’t handle the popularity of the pope
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Bill Kristol
1 day ago
Enjoying the fact that Trump’s attempted hijacking of our 250th birthday is backfiring; that the harder he tries, the worse it’s getting for him; and that it shows it’s the democratic opponents to an authoritarian cult of personality who are the real patriots.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump to headline Great American State Fair after music acts cancel
Trump's advisers are quickly working to organize a rally after news that more than half the performers slated for the Great American State Fair concert series to be held this summer on the National Ma...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/30/trump-headline-great-american-state-fair-after-music-acts-cancel/
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Maria
1 day ago
The European Gymnastics Federation allowed russians and belarusians to compete under the flags of their countries the russian won one of the competitions, the Ukrainian athlete took 2nd place a Ukrainian's reaction to the russian anthem
#UkrainainView
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Amanda Marcotte
1 day ago
Hmmm, looks like some Republicans in North Carolina want to legalize domestic homicide, if a man is killing a pregnant woman.
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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NC bill would legalize killing those who seek an abortion. Really. | Opinion
The most extreme Republicans believe abortion is the exact same thing as taking the life of a fully formed human being, and should be punished as such
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/05/29/north-carolina-abortion-bill-murder/90278189007/
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Seth Cotlar
1 day ago
The Schmenge Brothers, however, have confirmed that they will be performing their hit “Cabbage Rolls and Coffee, mmmm mmmm Good” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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MeidasTouch
2 days ago
What a birthday gift for JFK
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More Perfect Union
2 days ago
USPS is now on the verge of dramatically limiting voting by mail. The postal service is proposing a rule to limit mail-in voting for the midterms, expanding federal control over voting without congressional approval. It's a big step in Trump's plan to take over elections.
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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
It signaled it plans to send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postal-service-trump-attack-mail-voting-proposed-rule/
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Well that explains it!
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Norm Eisen
2 days ago
BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client
@repbeatty.bsky.social
& my colleagues
@democracydefendersaction.org
& Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption
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Roger Sollenberger
2 days ago
The fund for Biden “weaponization” was supposedly created because of Trump’s lawsuit over leaked tax returns, which were leaked in 2020 under the first Trump administration by a man who was then prosecuted & given the maximum sentence under the Biden administration
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/...
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Trump DOJ 'lawfare' fund temporarily blocked by judge as suit proceeds
The DOJ has face strong criticism for the creation of a $1.8 Anti-Weaponization Fund which could compensate allies of President Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/29/trump-doj-fund-lawfare-blocked-judge.html
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Nancy Levine Stearns
2 days ago
Another artist drops out of Trump’s Freedom 250. Bret Michaels suggests he was misled. Were Freedom 250 corporate sponsors also misled? Sponsors include Mastercard and United Airlines.
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jamelle
2 days ago
the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history”
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...
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Curating in the Cross Hairs: Is This the Smithsonian Chief’s Last Show?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/arts/design/lonnie-bunch-smithsonian-american-aspirations.html
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Kyle Griffin
3 days ago
Martina McBride just pulled out of Trump's partisan America 250 event. 5 of 9 artists have now pulled out.
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MeidasTouch
3 days ago
BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene. Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
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Anna Kramer
3 days ago
SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.
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The Trump Administration Is Spending $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold
The Interior Department quickly gave nearly $100 million in contracts in a rush to beautify D.C.
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/national-park-service-dc-beautification-contracts-horse-statues
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Craig Harrington
3 days ago
Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.
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George Takei
3 days ago
I'm sorry, did I read that correctly?!
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USA TODAY
3 days ago
A U.S. judge declined to block President Donald Trump's executive tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party.
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US judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order in loss for Dems
A U.S. judge declined to block President Donald Trump's executive tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party.
https://bit.ly/4vjA1Wy
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Max Boot
3 days ago
Oh look, more corruption: “Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was considering funding at the time, Vulcan’s was the only deal initiated by a top aide to the president, said an official at the Pentagon who was not authorized to speak publicly.”
www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house
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Matthew Dowd
3 days ago
RIP poet Maya Angelou died this day 2014. “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
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ProPublica
3 days ago
NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Anthony Michael Kreis
3 days ago
This is like playing with Confederate money. It isn’t statutorily permitted.
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Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
https://wapo.st/4fM4Hei
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Ron Filipkowski
4 days ago
Stephen Miller starts out the day posting that Talarico is trans, then he gets called ugly and has his wife run onto Fox to rant and rave that he was subject to excessive abuse and violent rhetoric. ❄️🍼😭
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The Tennessee Holler
4 days ago
What a disgrace. Says it all, really. 😕🇺🇸
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The Editorial Board
4 days ago
He's got the juice.
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Team Talarico
4 days ago
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: “To call Ken Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder.”
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
4 days ago
Marco Rubio has a lot of explaining to do.
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gwen howerton
5 days ago
John Cornyn tried reading Art of the Deal, going to Trump Burger, proposed renaming a Texas highway after him. He ate so much shit for Donald Trump and now he's out of a job, anyway. I wrote about it:
www.chron.com/texas/articl...
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All the ways John Cornyn painfully debased himself for Trump's endorsement
Texas' soon-to-be-ex senior senator lost both his reelection campaign and any dignity he had left.
https://www.chron.com/texas/article/john-cornyn-primary-runoff-22276753.php
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
5 days ago
This is absurd.
#fl
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Steve Herman
5 days ago
Multiple people hurt and killed in a major chemical explosion at a plant in Longview, Washington.
komonews.com/news/local/m...
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Multiple injuries, deaths after 'major chemical implosion' at Longview paper mill
Multiple people were heart and killed after a "major chemical explosion" at a plant in Longview, according to the city's fire department.The Longview Fire Depar
https://komonews.com/news/local/multiple-injuries-after-longview-rocked-by-major-chemical-explosion-at-paper-mill-nippon-dynawave-kraft-pulp-liquid-packaging-plant-emergency-response
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Harry Dunn
5 days ago
Happy to share our first campaign ad!!
Www.Harrydunnformd.com
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Aaron Rupar
5 days ago
Trump is now daydreaming about fictional victories over Iran and getting pre-mad that the media isn't covering them fawningly enough. Bonkers coo coo stuff.
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It is NOT “reasonable.”
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Politico
5 days ago
South Carolina Republicans defied Trump and blocked a redistricting measure that would have drawn out the state’s lone Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn. The move all but kills their chances of flipping that seat for 2026.
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Clyburn’s seat survives for the midterms as South Carolina Republicans buck Trump on redistricting
President Donald Trump had ramped up pressure on the Palmetto State, but he fell short in his goal of ousting the state’s lone Democrat.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/south-carolina-redistricting-fails-clyburn-trump-00936000
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Thank you South Carolina Senate Republicans who like Indiana just rejected Trump’s push to redraw congressional districts.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
5 days ago
Yikes.
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ACLU
5 days ago
BREAKING: A federal court blocked Alabama from implementing a congressional map that intentionally discriminates against Black voters. This is a victory for fair representation.
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Don Moynihan
5 days ago
This is a truly astonishing story about how the incompetence of Trump's political hacks makes them unable do the most basic tasks.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
5 days ago
The effort to redraw congressional district maps in Georgia and other states is a cynical Republican ploy to subdue democracy and disenfranchise Black voters.
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Redistricting push in Georgia and beyond is a direct assault on Black voters
https://www.ajc.com/opinion/2026/05/redistricting-push-in-georgia-and-beyond-is-a-direct-assault-on-black-voters/?utm_campaign=mrf-bluesky-ajc.com&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202605266a12e8401f0de911809acbbd
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Senator Andy Kim
6 days ago
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
6 days ago
More video from today at Delaney Hall. In the background at the start you can see Andy Kim trying to help a man ICE was beating in the middle of the street.
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Scott Imberman
6 days ago
Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.
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Olga Nesterova
6 days ago
Per Ukrainian sources, Lavrov threatened Rubio with attack on Kyiv and told to evacuate US personnel
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Kevin Elliott
6 days ago
We SAID this would happen
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The Atlantic
6 days ago
At a frantic hospital near Ukraine's front lines, the retired U.S. Army neurosurgeon Rocco Armonda is operating on the country’s most critically wounded soldiers—and he’s treating far more brutal injuries than he did in Iraq, Martha Raddatz writes:
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The U.S. Brain Surgeon Volunteering at Ukraine’s Most Frantic Hospital
Rocco Armonda is treating far more brutal injuries than he did in Iraq.
https://bit.ly/3PXwfmu
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