Laura Lindamood
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I love DC, drinks outside with friends, journalism, snoozing.
#dcstatehood
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Mark Follman
about 14 hours ago
A refresher on what Rubio once said about the Jan. 6 insurrection that Tarrio helped provoke: "3rd world style anti-American anarchy" âdisgustingâ âunpatriotic" âinexcusableâ "national embarrassment" "one of the saddest days in our history"
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Julie K. Brown
about 17 hours ago
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets.
www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.
https://www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein-victim-fbi-trump/article_21a2149f-f4a1-4351-9ac7-d12746f03a58.html#tncms-source=latest_posts
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
about 16 hours ago
âStop the Stealâ advocate who joined lawsuit to disenfranchise millions of voters in 2020, played a key role in the Jan. 6 plot, and then refused to honor officers who defended the Capitol is now going after successful DC pedestrian safety measures because he didnât plan ahead on Inauguration Day:
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David S. Bernstein
2 days ago
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
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Jay Rosen
3 days ago
This is why we need big newsrooms with lots of reporters who can dig into things.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/with...
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Chris Murphy
4 days ago
Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran. And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program? This is incompetence. Plain and simple.
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Carl Quintanilla
6 days ago
WSJ: â.. U.S. officials and lawmakers with access to classified information say the Trump administrationâs assertions about threats from Iran are incomplete, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong.â
@wsj.com
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
8 days ago
this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.
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David Roberts
8 days ago
So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."
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David Corn
14 days ago
A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it.
@nlanard.bsky.social
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/jeffrey-epstein-files-howard-lutnick-email-cantor-fitzgerald/
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Geoffrey Hatchard
13 days ago
Wowâhere's some info to spread around: MPD announces at this month's DC PAC meeting that starting soon, MPD will be enforcing the law regarding license plates that are obscured with plastic covers. It is an *arrestable offense* that will be fully enforced. *Any* covering. Not just a ticketâarrests.
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Joshua Eaton
15 days ago
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know donât have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
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Adam Serwer
14 days ago
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it
bsky.app/profile/thed...
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Julian Sanchez
16 days ago
Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leaderâs face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly canât think of one.
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RenĂ©e Graham đłïžâđ
16 days ago
It took nearly a year for this killing to become public, so one can only imagine that far more have been killed by ICE/CBP agents than we may ever know.
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Julian Sanchez
17 days ago
Again, maybe the most depressing aspect of the past decade has been that itâs made it impossible to avoid recognizing that a terrifyingly large minority of our fellow citizens are just flat out evil.
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The Tennessee Holler
17 days ago
âGazaâs coastline alone - $50 Billion of valueâ At Trumpâs Board of Piece circus, Billionaire Marc Rowan (business partner of Leon Black who is all up in the Epstein files) grotesquely discusses Gaza as a real estate deal they all plan to make obscene amounts of money from
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Richard Kadrey
19 days ago
2026 basically
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Aaron Rupar
18 days ago
congrats to DC on achieving statehood
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Joshua Holland
21 days ago
âReaders should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said⊠The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like âumâ and may judiciously delete false starts.â -NYT ethical guidelines
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Baratunde
27 days ago
Ask your nearest CEO what theyâre favorite food is and see what they say. If they are all about Soylent and supplements as a way to fuel their productivity but have no interest in the beautiful sensation of food itself, BE WARY!!
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Michael Oberg
22 days ago
Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
20 days ago
So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis aloneânot yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.â $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.
www.fox9.com/news/operati...
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Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis at least $203 million, city officials say
Minneapolis officials have released an estimated tab on what Operation Metro Surge has cost city residents so far.
https://www.fox9.com/news/operation-metro-surge-cost-minneapolis-millions-officials-say-feb-13-2026
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ProPublica
22 days ago
An American-made hunger crisis. A worsening cholera epidemic. Our reporters journeyed to some of the places most devastated by Trumpâs dismantling of foreign aid. They spoke to hundreds of people who witnessed and experienced how political appointees cut programs in arbitrary ways:
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What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut
YouTube video by ProPublica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TeKNU_Dps
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ProPublica
25 days ago
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LuV82l0vs
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Alex Blechman
25 days ago
Dentist: Have you been flossing? Me: *deflects by consulting my burn book of dentist insults* Big talk from a guy who looks at tongues all day
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Chris Hayes
25 days ago
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Jamison Foser
27 days ago
I just wrote about two recent NYT articles that create a misleading picture of public opinion by centering Republicans and suggesting ICE reform proposals are unpopular.
www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...
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The New York Times manufactures consent for ICE
Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regimeâs lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldnât know that from reading two recent New York Times art...
https://www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york-times-manufactures-consent-for-ice/
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StrictlyChristo đșđŠđ»đ«đ
26 days ago
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) to Acting Director of ICE Todd Lyons: "People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist. If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one."
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Aaron Rupar
26 days ago
Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies
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Jane Coaston
27 days ago
"okay, just don't mess up referencing the Armenian Genocide" challenge: impossible
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Vance Acknowledges Armenian Genocide, Then Deletes Post, Igniting Outrage
By deleting the social-media post, Vice President JD Vance upset Armenians after a historic visit.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/vance-acknowledges-armenian-genocide-then-deletes-post-igniting-outrage-c368f5d4?mod=mhp
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Norm Charlatan
27 days ago
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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Al Franken
27 days ago
Donât look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. Theyâre not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldnât either.
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G Elliott Morris
27 days ago
The NYT says Democratic proposals for reforming ICE are âfacing blowback.â But blowback from who? Not the people! Polls show support for most reforms exceeds 60%, with some ideas reaching as high as 94% of the public!
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Free DC
28 days ago
The bill in the Senate this week that will attempt to interfere in DC's tax code is chaotic, bad, and should get voted down â but don't take our word for it. Here's a running thread of the people and organizations who want Senators to VOTE NO on S.J. Res102: đ§”
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Clara Jeffery
27 days ago
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. Itâs in the Constitution!
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Prem Thakker ă
29 days ago
NEW: Leqaa Kordia â whoâs been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil â has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas becauseâŠshe sent money to help family in Gaza.
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David M. Perry
28 days ago
some things are actually getting worse here.
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Jess Craven âđ
27 days ago
If you can read these letters from kids detained at Dilley and not feel sick to your stomach then something is broken inside of you. Absolutely vile what weâre doing to children in detention. But I guess when youâve got a government filled with child abusers this horror makes perfect sense.
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Cheryl Rofer
27 days ago
This was that first frightening video in which masked men grabbed her off the street on her way home. Now masked men are grabbing people off many streets every day. Many of the charges are dropped, only after harms to those who are kidnapped.
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Janosch
28 days ago
Rep. Stansbury after coming out of the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition: âThe United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.â
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Max Berger
28 days ago
Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epsteinâs lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump. The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files. What else are they hiding?
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Rep. Raskin Confirms âTroublingâ And âUnnecessaryâ Epstein File Redactions
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-live-updates_n_6989c9d4e4b0a89b5c061101/liveblog_698a36d8e4b0509b81278fac
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Screamer Jim
28 days ago
Haha cool man you have the same face tattoo as a convicted rapist
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Marisa Kabas
29 days ago
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Joshua J. Friedman
28 days ago
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! đ§”
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Brian Beutler
30 days ago
Becoming more and more convinced that Bezos entered a quid pro quo agreement with Trump, where the quo is âdestroy the Washington Post.â
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Brooke
30 days ago
And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.
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Kelly
about 1 month ago
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and heâs been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.
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Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/twin-cities-tow-truck-driver-returns-abandoned-vehicles-ice-arrests/
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Mike Hixenbaugh
30 days ago
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. âShe was at the brink of dying,â a lawyer told me. But the girl didnât go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912
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