Mike Chesser
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physician, Navy veteran, pro-democracy
Of course Trump waits until markets close to hit Iran today.
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Michael Sainato
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I spoke with workers about Elon Musk hitting the trillionaire mark and their struggles with inflation, affordability, and not be able to save or plan for the future
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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As billionairesâ wealth soars, US workers struggle: âThe rich keep getting richer for no good reasonâ
Ultrarich face backlash as billionaire tax in California makes it to the ballot and Americans organize for higher wages
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-soars-as-workers-struggle
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Guardian US
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Study also finds high humidity means people in hundreds of cities are enduring their worst ever heat stress
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European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-impossible-without-climate-crisis-scientists?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1782482083-1
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Robert Reich
2 days ago
Americansâ personal savings rate has dropped to one of its lowest levels in 15 years. Household debt is at a record high. Millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, which aren't keeping up with inflation. Meanwhile, corporate profits are at a record high. The system is rigged.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
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âWe make Nixonâs corruption look like small potatoes in comparison.â
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Katie Phang
2 days ago
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan just granted my Motion for Preliminary Injunction, ordering Todd Blanche to produce TO THE PUBLIC, on or before July 2nd, specific UNREDACTED Epstein Files documents or show cause as to why they should not be produced. Details to come!
www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246...
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#15 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) â CourtListener.com
ORDER granting 9 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 6/25/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 06/25/2026)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246595/15/phang-v-blanche/
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Rachel Maddow
2 days ago
Trump and Republicans "Big Beautiful Bill" has already taken food assistance away from more than 770,000 American kids:
www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trumpâs signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldnât affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps
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Hart Cunningham
2 days ago
đĄDeaths of Despair 3x Great Depression levels, 2.7x since â00. Drug ODs 5Ă, alcohol deaths 4.6Ă higher. OUR crisis, intentionally created by putin/bibi/krasnov elon/murdoch /yarvin/theil/ellison/zuckđşđ¸đ˘
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
3 days ago
"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.
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Chris Murphy
4 days ago
I donât know man, who is âthe Democratic Partyâ if itâs not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.
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Missing The Point
4 days ago
I'd honestly rather watch the algae bloom.
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Itâs too early in the morning to listen to advertising exec Donny Deutsch, worth $ 250 million, lecture Democrats about going too far left. Not when this economy is leaving the majority of hard working Americans behind. Heâs part of the parasitic economy.
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Brent Toderian
5 days ago
Youâd think it ironic that someone clearly awful at deal-making wrote a book called âThe Art of the Dealâ⌠until you remember that someone else was paid to ghost-write it, and Trump probably didnât even read it. Itâs as fake as Trumpâs fake success on âThe Apprentice.â Both lies helped get us here.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
5 days ago
American Jew, here. Rabbi, actually! AIPAC is not, in fact, "Millions of people." It's a lobbying *org* that spends a lot of money to influence lawmakers with the goal of getting substantial military spending to another govt., & associated goals. US Jews are a *people*, with diverse opinions!
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TommasinaResistâď¸đŚđââŹ
6 days ago
Paul Krugman is right: there's nothing âinevitableâ about Social Security cuts. The crisis is political,not mathematical. Corrupt Republicans took new revenue off the table so they can force benefit cuts onto workers. Donât accept the gaslighting.
#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
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Brent Terhune
6 days ago
Green Reflecting Pool
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Acyn
6 days ago
Ossoff: âThey lie on beds of ivory and anoint themselves in the finest oils,â and while living in these Mar-a-Lago-like conditions, they indulged in corruption and abused their power.
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www.instagram.com/reel/DZxt-ff...
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Chris Tickner on Instagram: "Itâs always the ones youâd most suspect. #reflectingpool"
4,211 likes, 561 comments - ticksax on June 19, 2026: "Itâs always the ones youâd most suspect. #reflectingpool".
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZxt-ffTqIi/
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes
7 days ago
It's been over seven months now and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
7 days ago
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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Robert Reich
7 days ago
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Asha Rangappa
7 days ago
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Y.O.L.O.0311
8 days ago
ANY other President would have been removed, disgraced, and castigated.
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Jon Cooper
9 days ago
Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this â not in a million years. Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. đşđ¸
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Sheryl with an S
8 days ago
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#Pinks
Go ahead and try to find one thing on this list that is not good for the American people. All of this is attainable if the current government would stop wasting our money on DonOLDâs vanity projects. When heâs gone, we will have to tear it all down. Tacky crap!
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Karl Kuszaj
8 days ago
This doesnât surprise me at all.
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
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pnhp.org/moral-injury...
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Moral Injury in Medicine
PNHP
https://pnhp.org/moral-injury-in-medicine
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Carl Quintanilla
9 days ago
MELONI: â.. Trumpâs statements are completely fabricated. Iâm frankly shocked. I donât know why the president of the United States behaves this way towards his own allies, and itâs not the first time itâs happened.â
@cnn.com
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www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...
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Will Trump do anything to stop Netanyahu from bombing Lebanon, to save this Iran agreement? He hasnât, up to this point. Does Netanyahu have some kind of leverage over him, something related to Epstein?
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The Bulwark
9 days ago
How did people hear of the end of slavery? The testimonies from five men and women from four different states recount how they heard and responded to the news of their freedom.
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Juneteenth: âThe Day of Freedom Cameâ
First-person accounts of emancipation.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/43Hab2S
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D. Earl Stephens
9 days ago
đUsing this Juneteenth to remind everybody how damn far we still have to go to truly be a free and decent country, and that DEI is about fairness not favoritism. And to all you phony universities, corporations, and politicians who caved to the bigoted Trump on this extremely important issue: SHAME!
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MeidasTouch
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đ¨ TRUMP SPARKS DIPLOMATIC CRISIS WITH ITALY: Italyâs Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has canceled his planned June 21â22 trip to Washington after President Trump insulted Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, claiming she âbeggedâ for a photo with him at the G7 and that he âfelt sorry for her.â 1/
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Aaron Rupar
9 days ago
Trump opens Medal of Honor event: "The stock market just hit an all-time high" (note the total silence of the audience đŹ)
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Adil Sayeed
9 days ago
Biden economic record good. Inherited misery index = 7.8 2021-1, handed 7.0 = 3.0% inflation + 4.0% unemployment to Trump 2025-1, lowest misery index left by outgoing prez since 1953. In Trumpâs golden age, May 2026 misery = 8.5 = 4.2% inflation + 4.3% U.
economystupid.substack.com/p/lucky-trum...
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Lucky Trump? Best economy for new president in 70 years
Biden hands Trump best misery index for new POTUS since 1953. But, vibes still low.
https://economystupid.substack.com/p/lucky-trump-best-economy-for-new
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Laura Jedeed
10 days ago
When Trump went to war with Iran, I watched every speech anyone in the administration gave and made a chart of every reason given for going to war "Eliminate ballistic capability" was the #1 reason given: more even than preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon
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suzette sommer
10 days ago
No, they canât, without enough votes to overcome the Republicans in Congress. Why is that so hard for so many people to figure out? People who arenât voting for Democrats are simply supporting Trump, whether they understand the effects of their non votes, or not.
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Aaron Rupar
10 days ago
Ossoff on Trump calling him "Os(jerk!)off" -- "I didn't think it was his best work as far as nicknames go. But more to the point, he is increasingly unstable. And I think it flows the fact that he is globally humiliated from this failed war."
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Thought Crimes: The Knock on the Door Has Arrived
The pre-crime apparatus is no longer theoretical. Americans are now being prosecuted for meetings, messages, and protest activityâŚ
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/thought-crimes-the-knock-on-the-door-25b?r=1mvudn&utm_medium=ios
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kenofseattle
3 months ago
"Biggest scam in modern political history."
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ProPublica
10 days ago
NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
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Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-elon-musk-ipo-foreign-investors-china?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Mark Jacob
11 days ago
Sounds like Trump's personal "Strait of Hormuz" just opened.
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Gabe OrtĂz
11 days ago
More than 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP assistance after President $600 Million Vanity Project Ballroom changes federal food program. â⌠reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.â
www.propublica.org/article/snap...
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trumpâs signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldnât affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps
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Yashar Ali đ
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1. Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was âconstantâ and ârelentlessâ pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.
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Elizabeth Warren
13 days ago
Trump and Secretary McMahon are pushing millions of student borrowers off a default cliff. Theyâve gutted Federal Student Aid and buried repayment applications. This is an economic catastrophe. Iâm pushing for answers.
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If only Sinclair Lewis were alive today to chronicle our descent into madness. He probably wouldnât be the least bit surprised.
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M Meerkat
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LIKING BERNIE'S TOUGHNESS......
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
15 days ago
TESLA: A shitty company that loses money and makes bad cars that blow up. TWITTER: A shitty platform that ruined civil discourse and loses money. SPACEX: A shitty company whose rockets explode and only survived thanks to government welfare. WALL STREET: "OMG! Elon Musk is a business genius!!!!!"
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