Atessa Helm
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Mom x 5. Linguist. Traveler. Baker. Reader. Writer.
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Marc Elias
3 days ago
North Carolina will be sued.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
3 days ago
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: "Trump hopes the golden gleam of his monumental architecture can blind the American people to the suffering he has brought upon them. But a failure wrapped in cheap gold leaf is still a failure, even if it shines."
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Christopher Webb
5 days ago
You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.
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Marched 11,000 steps with my daughter in Chicago yesterday. Captain Haddock is over this fascist bullshit and so am I.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
11 days ago
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
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David Bier
15 days ago
ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.
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Sounds good to me 🤷🏻♀️
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15 days ago
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Yes. Yes, he has in fact lost his marbles.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
18 days ago
THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!! MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!! Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
17 days ago
Q. What's the difference between Pam Bondi and Meg Ryan? A. No one wants to have what Bondi's having.
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Aisha K. Staggers
18 days ago
Dems, this is your shutdown message for today! They have money to bailout the president of Argentina who is literally doing stunts and shows (he can't fund his own bailout ticket sales look pretty good), while letting Americans foot the bill AND pay higher premiums on their health care.
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Mike Nellis
20 days ago
Multiple videos from this weekend show ICE tear-gassing Chicago police officers. Things feel like they’re spiraling fast across the city.
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The Bulwark
24 days ago
"The effect of such violence extends beyond its immediate targets, affecting the community at large and interfering with everyday life. But Americans are mobilizing to protect their neighbors and communities." Some awful news, and some hopeful news:
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...
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The “Moral Monsters” Among Us
Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-monsters-among-us-immigration-ice?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=The+Bulwark&utm_campaign=publer
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
26 days ago
via
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🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
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Dave Vanness
26 days ago
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Mehdi Hasan
27 days ago
So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.
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Seth Cotlar
28 days ago
This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.
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Mike Sacks
28 days ago
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells
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's
@ninatotenberg.bsky.social
"very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
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Halcyon + Martian
about 1 month ago
Burying facts, science, and truth if it’s unfavorable or contradicts the false narratives and lies is the whole-of-government strategy of this administration. Everybody knows it.
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DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists
The Justice Department has taken down a study that proves Republicans’ entire narrative wrong about left-wing violence.
https://newrepublic.com/post/200537/justice-department-deletes-study-politics-domestic-terrorists-right-wing
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.
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Wajahat Ali
about 1 month ago
Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
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Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY
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Brandon Friedman
about 1 month ago
People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all. A few points 🧵
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
about 1 month ago
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Christopher Webb
about 1 month ago
Last night in LA… Nightmare fuel on a freeway wall.
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Scott Smith
about 1 month ago
This is the sad truth.
#USDemocracy
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Babies can be infected by their mothers during the birth process. Mothers may not know they have Hep B. This man is a moron. Education matters.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
about 1 month ago
1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.
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Scott Horton
about 1 month ago
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries demonstrate yet again why The Economist concludes that America has no opposition leadership at present. They are silent on nearly all issues of importance, and respond to the Trump campaign against their opponents with this utterly limp statement. Shameful.
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Ryan Cummings
about 1 month ago
If this is true, this is the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the United States and it's not even close. It would amount to a **$2B** bribe to the President; the next closest scandal in terms of $ would be Teapot Dome, a measly ~$10M in today's $s
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jen sometimes aph 🌻
about 1 month ago
“Calling people a fascist is dangerous, violent rhetoric.” ... Here's a compilation of Trump doing precisely that: ht:
@micaherfan.com
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
about 1 month ago
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
about 1 month ago
I have no words for this.
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Jon Cooper
about 1 month ago
Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.
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Christopher Webb
about 2 months ago
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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The Bulwark
about 2 months ago
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
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Chris Murphy
about 2 months ago
News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 2 months ago
The Democrats who forged Trump’s signature on that card and put it in Epstein’s papers 22 years ago to frame him when he was president in 2025 sure were diabolical.
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Gotta love New York 🤌🏼
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Ashley Parker
about 2 months ago
At 3 pm Wed., a woman was stabbed just off a busy intersection on H Street, NE. National Guard members were dining al fresco at a taqueria DIRECTLY across the street, yet the suspect got away. "So safe," a local texted us. Our postcard from an Occupied D.C.:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A Postcard From an Occupied Washington
The presence of the National Guard on the streets of D.C. has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-national-guard-deployment-dc/684055/
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Andrew Couts
about 2 months ago
NEW: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower Charles Borges resigned today—but his resignation email quickly disappeared from recipients' inboxes, sources tell
@wired.com
.
@makenakelly.bsky.social
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@davidgilbert.bsky.social
report:
www.wired.com/story/charle...
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SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.
https://www.wired.com/story/charles-borges-resignation-email-disappearance/
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Lawyer dude
about 2 months ago
Is… is this a real cop? Only one dude, non-regulation lights on an old pickup without government plates, three metal handcuffs, two mags for a rifle he’s not carrying, “SEND ME” patch (what even is that), and generic “police” patch.
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about 2 months ago
As a public defender for over 30 years, I never once had a case or even heard of a case where the cop was masked. Not once in probably 9000-10,000 cases. This is straight up fascism.
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Mark Joseph Stern
about 2 months ago
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
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Scott Horton
about 2 months ago
The Trump administration appears to be defying the DACA program and arresting its enrollees.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Immigration advocates alarmed over detention of Daca recipient: ‘No legal basis’
Border patrol arrested Catalina Santiago, who had been granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/daca-recipient-detention-immigration
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
2 months ago
ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already a green card holder.
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Decoding Fox News
2 months ago
Trump hasn’t mentioned my hometown of St. Louis when he talks about crime. It’s almost always in the top five list for murders per capita. It’s also losing a larger share of its population than any other U.S. city. It’s in a deeply red state with extremely loose gun laws. 🤷🏼♀️
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Acyn
2 months ago
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
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