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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 1h

Today, my district office in Minnesota received a letter containing a suspicious substance. I am grateful to the Plymouth Police Department and the Plymouth Fire Department for their quick response to this threat and keeping our office and staff safe.

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 38m

NEWS: Trump admits his Iran war would already be over, except it won't end until "I want it to end." Yes, Donald Trump is John Belushi as Bluto Blutarsky.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22m

Trump’s and Vance’s speechwriters need to meet for coffee

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15m

TOMORROW: Millions across the US will make history with #NoKings! Find your local event at bit.ly/nokings1017. ❌ 👑

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5h

Not only does voting early avoid long lines, it protects voters from Trump’s attempts to interfere in the midterm elections. Read more LP's lawyer Mario Nicolais: bit.ly/4dLfN1n

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Early Voting is Safe Voting

Not only does voting early avoid long lines, it protects voters from Trump’s attempts to interfere in the midterm elections.

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Karl DEFEND DEMOCRACY Bunday 🇺🇸 🗽 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @45xiatai.bsky.social · 3h

I was glad to be part of campaigning to defeat Trump in my precinct, in my town, in my state senate district, in my congressional district, in my county, and in our six-generation home state of Minnesota three times. Minnesota knows Trump doesn't deserve our votes or our trust.

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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump lost Minnesota decisively three times in a row.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4h

We can't just refer to anything new that happens and involves people who are left-wing as "the New Left" — words mean things!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

New in PN: Dumb and dummymander "In the aftermath of their mid-decade gerrymanders, the conventional wisdom was that the GOP had successfully buffered itself against potential House losses this year. That conventional wisdom steadily eroded as Trump’s numbers collapsed over the past 15 months."

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Dumb and dummymander

Turns out redistricting can’t fix being super unpopular.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

FOX BUSINESS: The fact the president has got to come to Oklahoma & campaign, does it tell you dissatisfaction w/ the economy is way higher than you would have imagined? LANKFORD: Oh, people are really frustrated w/ high price of gas and diesel & it's affecting everything. There's no doubt about it

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6h

Speaking of crimes, Kristi Noem took bribes and failed to disclose them, and self-dealt hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money while bypassing the established, legal protocols for those funds.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

Team Trump in 2024: We'll fix everything on Day 1! Team Trump in 2026: "You can't correct the ship overnight."

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7h

One of the reasons I don’t really like posting about politics anymore and basically just stick to numbers about oil, and even then I’m logging off a lot more, it’s because you get insane bullshit like this You did not have $500k in debt from the birth of your child. You had a paperwork error.

It *is* insane how Americans accept our dogshit healthcare system. Despite having a gold marketplace plan, my Canadian immigrant wife and I had over $500k in debt from our daughter's birth and NICU stay. She spent hours on the phone every week managing bills and payment plans.
* Joined Dec'23
ACA plans cannot make you pay more than $21K a year for in-network health care. Did you go out of network?
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It was an emergency premature delivery at a hospital followed by a three-week stay in the
NICU. We had already hit our out-of-pocket maximum paying for visits to the high-risk OBGYN and assumed everything would be covered. The NICU stay went into the New Year and it was unclear which services...
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went into which billing year. By the time the last bill was paid over 3 years later we were out over $30,000. My wife went back and forth with the hospital and Cigna about the $500k bill until it was written off without any further explanation. It wasn't clear at any time what was in network or out.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve honestly been wondering where Sky went and this explains it perfectly. If you care about data, if you care about policy - if you care about *reality* - it’s hard to even express how depressing it is to see everyone mutually agree that facts simply don’t matter anymore.

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Mike Madrid @mikemadrid.bsky.social · 6h

Should Democrats shift right or left to win back Hispanic votes? greattransformation.substack.com/p/sons-of-th...

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Sons of the Valley

Should Democrats shift Left or Center to win back the Latino vote?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

A 52% gain in price. In a year. 🇺🇸 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 6h

Horrifying news out of Oregon. Kids at school should be worried about their next pop quiz, not about gun violence. We have the power to protect our kids and stop gun violence before it happens. We don't have to live like this. Let's find the courage to do better by our kids.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

Russia’s latest disinformation tactic is using an army of bots to make fake videos targeting Democrats ahead of the US midterms look widely viewed. Read more: bloom.bg/4zGj6zE Sources: Bloomberg, Antibot4Navalny, Graphika, dTeam

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

“I’m hearing she’s leaving without settling her bills. Hair appointments, beauty treatments… various places, apparently.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

😳 Zacharia flames out on Fox for the 2nd time in 12 hours 😳 With wreckage still smoldering from her Hannity debacle, Katie went on Fox & Friends & received another grilling: "It's been a tough week for you. Do you wish you would've disclosed to POTUS about not passing the bar?" Here's whole thing:

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 12h

People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 9h

. @mls1776.bsky.social, any thoughts you could share on Judge Cannon's "ban" on (ex-)Executive Branch employees providing a House of Congress with certain information about Jack Smith's investigation of Trump? Eg, does it trump whistleblower statutes? Congress' oversight power?

From @emptywheel.bsky.social's article -

I expected then that the filing might serve two purposes: To challenge the terms of compelled testimony in the Grand Conspiracy case proceeding under one of Aileen Cannon's two hats, but also to force Cannon to adopt rules on testimony that would be consistent across all of government, including testimony before Congress or other official proceedings, like employment lawsuits.

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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 8h

Jeffrey Epstein's crimes were beyond heinous, but we still don't have a complete picture, as Trump's DOJ has dragged its heels every step of the way. I'm supporting a new bill that would state AGs more power to deliver the transparency the American people deserve. www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Commu...

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Attorney General Ellison urges swift passage of latest Epstein Files Transparency Act

Joins 17 AGs in urging Congress quickly pass Epstein Files Transparency Act II, which would give state AGs and survivors the power to enforce the transparency that Congress has already demanded but Tr...

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 7h

A brutal fact-check. My opponent is flooding the airwaves with ridiculous lies — don't believe them.

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.

When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

I argued that that lawsuit by 9 FBI Agents fired bc they worked on the stolen documents case has an impeachment referral stuck in the middle of it. emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/t...

The outline of the lawsuit 9 FBI agents filed against Kash Patel yesterday. I've pointed to these sections claiming they are an impeachment referral.

C. While Still a Private Citizen, Defendant Patel Injected Himself into Plasmic Echo: This section describes Kash’s public blabbing in 2022, his subpoena to testify (served by Linton), his immunized testimony, a subpoena investigators obtained for Kash’s communications around the same time, his partying at the Olympics, and his attempt to use the subpoena as an excuse to fire the plaintiffs to distract from his partying.
As part of this section, it describes Kash’s claims to Congress on March 19 and September 15 about why he fired the plaintiffs, and then describes the public evidence those claims are false.
E. Plaintiffs Are Summarily Terminated: Having already described how Kash lied about why he fired plaintiffs (and provided some of the proof that he did lie), the complaint then describes how each plaintiff was terminated, naming the FBI managers who affirmatively told plaintiffs they were not being fired for cause, explaining to anyone who might want to know how to find proof that Kash lied to Congress.
Along with individualized descriptions of how each plaintiff was terminated (which is necessary for the lawsuit), this section also describes how, the day after Kash’s debauchery in Italy, the corrupt FBI Agent who spied on Jim Comey’s Attorney-Client communications, Miles Starr, took steps to find out who was on the stolen documents case. This is necessary to substantiate the claim that Kash fired plaintiffs because of his own embarrassment, but it important for other reasons.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

Peggy Flanagan runs the kind of ad that every user on this website has been demanding Democrats run for years and the replies are just people getting mad that she didn’t use the exact words that they wanted. This website is addicted to getting mad and should knock it off. It’s embarrassing.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 10h

The Dem Party may have the longest to-do list in history. But a couple MoC should be in charge of nothing but organizing events to publicly shame each of these degenerates on a regular basis, with a perpetual threat of criminal charges hanging over their heads. They should not have a moment’s peace.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10h

Pleased to share a draft of my essay, "Rules for a Recidivist Republic," forthcoming in the Chicago-Kent Law Review. The argument for Trump's executive order wasn't new. It was a rehash of nineteenth-century parlor tricks, defeated by Radical Republicans' design. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10h

Current state of the WH press secretary is Fox & Friends's Ainsley Earhardt gently asking Katie Zacharia if she'd like to clean up anything she said last night on Fox's Hannity. The degree of "not ready for primetime" here can't be overstated.

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Karl DEFEND DEMOCRACY Bunday 🇺🇸 🗽 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @45xiatai.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently some people have made "Fake it till you make it" such a large part of their career planning that the only employment offers they can find are from MAGA fakers. I prefer seeking employment from truth-tellers, even if that makes me accountable for telling the truth.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

I don’t want my entire intellectual world to be consumed by convincing people that their brains are worth using 😭

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Zelenskyy is not a good guy for us to deal with ... I'm not a big fan of Zelenskyy. They've destroyed that country." (Note that Trump also blames Obama for the war, but never Putin!)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h

I keep thinking of how morally bankrupt it was for Republican lawmakers to wear AR-15 lapel pins.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

An absolute train wreck. You can tell Hannity is going into this with low expectations. Then when he realizes there is no chance of this working and it’s another Trump appointment disaster he just plays her off while looking and sounding defeated. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 12h

Nobody seems to want to take responsibility for ordering the code red on Starshield — controlled by the US — degrading Ukraine's air defenses without warning at a time when Russia was stepping up attacks on civilians and power stations. Bipartisan senators have asked DOD IG to investigate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Ossoff on Trump campaigning in Georgia: "I'd be delighted for the president to come every day between now and the election"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

NEWSMAX: If Talarico does win, will you have any regrets about endorsing Ken Paxton? TRUMP: No, because I think Cornyn would've lost

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 15h

we have a long history of animism

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 14h

(3) is pretty worrisome. mil-mil relations between the u.s. and europe are still very good. this is a big part of what's driving the "european voices urge zelenskyy to temper criticism of trump" stuff, not fear or love of trump

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 14h

before all the angry comments about europe sitting on its hands or whatever, really truly consider that these attacks are designed to be difficult to attribute and impossible to respond to in kind www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Romania Says Russia Attacking Black Sea Route for Ukraine Ships

Russia is increasingly targeting Ukraine’s grain export corridors in the Black Sea and that increases security risks for the entire region, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said on Friday.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 13h

this is exactly right in a big-boy war against a missile-armed adversary, you use those interceptors. *early on* u.s. allies overused patriots and high-end air defense stuff but it was sorted out within a few weeks

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 12h

We used to have some levels of moderation in the Democratic Party that would make your head spin. www.slowboring.com/p/the-lost-w...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

Tomorrow is NO KINGS DAY! Millions of Americans will gather at more than 3,000 events to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 10h

Infantino: “everywhere I go, big burly men rush to me with tears in their eyes, they say ‘thank you, sir, but it’s too much peace’”

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