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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Thousands of US protestors gathered at the site where Renee Good was murdered by Trump’s ICE regime troops, have a message for the rest of the United States:

“Rise up, Take a Stand” #3E

(🎥 @ScooterCasterNY )
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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smith.senate.gov
We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.
January 8, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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blu2b4u.bsky.social
👇Complete and utter BULLSHIT‼️
Crazy lying post from Trump
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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dworkin.bsky.social
They thought they could silence him, but the astronaut Senator just hit back with a BRUTAL response that you need to see to believe. He called Hegseth "the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in history" and vowed to fight them with everything he's got. 👊🇺🇸

👇 Read the full explosive response here:
We Are Standing With Mark Kelly Against Hegseth’s Attacks, Refusing To Let Trump Rewrite Jan 6 History, and Calling Out Dangerous Russian Propaganda
They picked a fight with the wrong folks
www.dworkinsubstack.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "MAGA is a vulgar, cartoonish, cultish, and incoherent movement. So, a century ago, was fascism."

Read Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/magas-lust...
MAGA’s Lust for Fascism
Trump’s ideologues want a smaller, meaner, whiter America.
www.thebulwark.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“It’s dead on arrival,” Gene Fidell, an expert on the Uniform Code of Military Justice who teaches at Yale Law, told me. “If this ever gets in front of a judge, the judge is going to say, ‘Fuck you.’” The attack on Kelly may have a much broader aim, which is to silence other service members who might speak out about the Trump administration’s actions by threatening their financial well-being. Veterans who lack Kelly’s platform, influence, and social connections may feel that their pension isn’t worth the risk of saying something critical of the president.
January 7, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
We can’t let them whitewash history. Five years later, they’re still attacking our Constitution and our democracy.
January 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: More than two weeks past its statutory deadline, the DOJ has released less than 1% of its Epstein documents and it will continue to be in violation of the law for the foreseeable future. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Less than 1% of Epstein files have been released, DOJ admits
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
1/6/21, 1:10 pm ET: President Trump ends his speech and a Capitol police officer calls on the radio for backup as rioters arrive at the first set of barriers outside the Capitol and there have already been multiple law enforcement injuries.
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
1/6/21, 12:00 pm ET: President Trump begins his speech and 15 minutes into it he begins urging the audience to converge on the US Capitol.
January 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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meidastouch.com
This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland:

"Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."
6 January 2026 Joint Statement on Greenland Statement by President Macron of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland. Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark - including Greenland - is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them. The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951. Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
The 25th Amendment exists for a reason.
January 6, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
(SOUND 🧵1

DAY 5 JANUARY 2026

THE AUDACITY OF TRUMP & HEGSETH

I am outraged & every Veteran & American should be !
Senator Mark Kelly was censured today so they can get his Miltary Pension revoked

We in Arizona will support & fight for our great Senator, HE WILL WIN
January 6, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Looking forward to hitting the road next week, heading to La Crosse, Wisconsin for our first town hall of 2026.
Pete Buttigieg to hold rescheduled town hall in La Crosse
LA CROSSE (WKBT) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will travel to La Crosse on January 16 for a town hall discussion focused on healthcare costs, after rescheduling the event
www.news8000.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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tizzywoman.bsky.social
One can only imagine how horrible those #TrumpsteinFiles must be.

Congress must hold Bondi in contempt. But, those Republicans are all impotent cowards.
January 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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sarahwood.bsky.social
Donald Trump ordered it.
Donald Trump watched it.
Donald Trump loved it.

Now he lies about it while playing dictator, feeding lies to his cult as he tears at the fabric of America and drags the world down with him.

READ HERE:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahwoo...
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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nbcnews.com
Drake has been accused in a federal class-action RICO lawsuit of using the online sweepstakes casino to boost the play counts of his music across the major streaming platforms.
Drake accused of using an online gambling platform to inflate play counts of his music
The Canadian rapper and two others are also accused in a RICO lawsuit of using the Stake gambling platform to transfer money between themselves.
nbcnews.to
January 2, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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propublica.org
ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

(Published November)
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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propublica.org
One of our most-read stories of 2025: This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.

(Published March 2025 with @texastribune.org)
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the c...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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transnews.network
Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy.

No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.
You've talked about the paper's treatment of the pretty infamous Cass report, especially from your spot at the international desk. What happened in that case? It wasn't on my radar as much as it ought to have been. I was starting to wind down my time. I left the Times at the end of May of that year. There was an awareness that [Hilary] Cass was coming out with a report. The day before it officially came out, there was a lot of coverage in the BBC and UK media. Cass was already talking about it before its official release. The day editor's counterparts are in Seoul and London. My counterpart in London — who was actually filling in that day, but did so on a regular basis — assigned a UK reporter to do a story. That was standard practice, to be clear. [Chuckling] There’s so many examples of how standard it was. She assigned it to a UK correspondent, who wrote it in the context of UK politics, talked about it being very contentious, talked about the criticisms of its findings. Cass was talking about them herself, this isn't jumping to any conclusions at that point. It really put it in the context of being this very contentious, very political sort of document. When I saw it, because we're a few hours behind, there were 600, 700 words written. I had a pretty good sense of how the story was going to turn out. But within a few hours the story was to the top New York editors, and I don't know who exactly it was who did that. I assume it was Carolyn or her intermediary. They said ‘oh no, we want the science desk to do that,’ specifically that was Azeen [Ghorayshi], who had been a key reporter in a lot of the other anti-trans coverage. Some of what you just described, that's just outright bigotry from these reporters. Yes, but the stories are also edited too. Somebody had to approve that lede. I don't know if it was Carolyn, who was known to be directly, hands-on involved in the line editing of stories. I don't know if she was or made known her preferences. Those stories had editors. Certainly there are plenty of reporters that were fully on board with this, and others who do it out of ambition because this is what the bosses want and they want to get ahead so they insert what the bosses want.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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forbes.com
Schwartz was set to host the Washington National Opera Gala in May, but he told Newsday there’s “no way” he would set foot in the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump’s renaming.
‘Wicked’ Composer Stephen Schwartz Says He’ll Back Out Of Kennedy Center Hosting Gig
Schwartz was set to host the Washington National Opera Gala in May, but he told Newsday there’s “no way” he would set foot in the Kennedy Center after President Donald Trump’s renaming.
www.forbes.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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democracydocket.com
With Republicans active in 59 separate voting cases and the DOJ litigating another 30, the picture becomes clear: voter suppression is now a defining feature of the MAGA takeover. It will be the leading GOP strategy in 2026, and it’s our job to prevent it, Marc Elias writes.
https://bit.ly/3KCHVZj
The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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us.theguardian.com
"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York," writes @mollycrabapple.bsky.social.
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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transnews.network
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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propublica.org
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM