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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · 1d

This news is like a breath of fresh air to me as someone who was born there and lived there until age 18.

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 17d

One of the amazing things about Tom Homan taking 50k is that Trump has made 3 billion off the presidency. Kushner made 100s of millions. Stephen Miller is invested in Palantir. JD is a made man in the PayPal mafia. But their top dog ICE man is bribing for 50k.

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ALT: a man wearing a black headband and a gray jacket says this game is rigged man

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SeekingTheRoot @seekingtheroot.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Sep 6

Cleta will get even madder if you read and share this article. So, please, don't do that...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections

Read more here.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Sep 4

September 3, 2025

[Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Sep 3

Amen!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 2

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · Aug 28

From Poland to South Africa to the United States, unions have been the most effective check on oligarchs and autocrats. If we want to save democracy, we start by rebuilding them. Michael Podhorzer explains.

The One Single, Proven Constraint on Oligarchy and Autocracy

By Michael Podhorzer

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fascinating and troubling - but it was funnier when I read the second paragraph as starting with "Comer..."

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've used em-dashes in my serious writing since late high school, I think.

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 19

Since what they regularly did to Jim Wright (and not only him) - steal material without attribution - I don’t click on Occupy Democrats at all.

Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hooray! Everybody get out there and buy (and read) this!

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Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Happy eBook/audiobook birthday to HAZE by Katharine Kerr | Fuse Literary

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Weekend Update #146: A Deal To Destroy Ukraine

Europe Will Have To Choose Soon; The Pokrovsk "Collapse" Was Nothing Of The Sort

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Organization of American Historians has issued this statement condemning Trumps efforts to whitewash US history by illegally controlling what the Smithsonian Institution puts in its museums.
www.oah.org/2025/08/14/s...

OAH | Statement on the White House Review of the SmithsonianOAH | Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 13

Who could possibly have predicted this?

Kenny Kenoir @kenoir323.bsky.social · Aug 13

Racism is expensive

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Aug 7

It was eloquent!

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · Aug 4

Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files.

Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office.

One side dodges accountability.
The other fights for democracy.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Jul 23

July 22, 2025

First thing this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X a statement from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying that under Bondi’s direction, he had talked to the lawyers for Ghislaine M...

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · Jul 20

An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years

As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jul 19

Genocide "doesn’t mean that you have to kill everyone," says historian and renowned Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. "It means that the group will be destroyed and that it will not be able to reconstitute itself as a group. And to my mind, this is precisely what Israel is trying to do."

"I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza

We speak with leading Israeli American historian Omer Bartov about his latest essay for The New York Times, headlined “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.” Bartov cites the United…

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jul 17

“The moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,” one of the two Guard officials said. “This is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is one of the most important pieces I've written and I hope you'll read it. Politicizing the military is dangerously destabilizing for democracy-learn more from the vantage point of people who have served. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Why We Don't Politicize the Military

When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.

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Hugh Agnew @hughlec.bsky.social · Jul 16

We grew up (1950s-60s) listening to a record of Pete Seeger singing various protests songs, and the “Song of the 15th Brigade” was right up there.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · Jul 16

In 1936 & 1937, 35,000 people came from around the world to defend the democratically elected Spanish gov't against fascism. 3,000 volunteered from the U.S. They would found the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. #StoriesOfResistance @undertheshadow.bsky.social @globalexchange.bsky.social

Fighting fascists in Spain: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Thousands left their homes in the United States to stand against Spanish General Franco and fascism. This is episode 58 of Stories of Resistance.

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