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Adam Goldman

@adamgoldman.bsky.social
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Retired solicitor & former job coach to amazing autistic colleagues. Anti-Brexit. Interested in human rights, science, religion, politics and economics. #FBPE #FBPPR #FBPA Profile pic to honour the memory of those murdered by ICE.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 7h
BREAKING: Trump announces he will withhold federal funding from Ohio if they vote blue in November… Isn’t EXTORTION, a typical mob tactic?! RICO. CHARGES. FORTHCOMING. 😎✨
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 7h
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 7h
JD Vance’s guru, Curtis Yarvin, wants to replace democracy with a strongman. Bold talk from a man who looks easily startled.
JD Vance’s guru, Curtis Yarvin, wants to replace democracy with a strongman. Bold talk from a man who looks easily startled.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
When Trump says it’s the greatest economy ever, he means for himself and his family — and the tech kleptocrats that want to dismantle our democracy to seize power for themselves
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 9h
I Will Crawl Through A Minefield To VOTE Follow All and Share #LetsGetVoteReady #VoteBlue #Blues go.bsky.app/CQBWzpv
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
HASSETT: If people were unhappy, it'd show up in the data TAPPER: It seems to be showing up in the data, just not the data you're looking at
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16h
"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 18h
✊🌟 Dave Grohl Dedicates “My Hero” to “New Friend Jack” at Power to the People. Jack Smith at the Power for the People concert. consequence.net/2026/10/dave...
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 18h
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
Disgusting. Trump says he feels bad for the seven Cornell students accused of rape, and his biggest worry is that they "won't get a fair shake" with Letitia James as special prosecutor.

Not one word for the victim.

THE WHITE HOUSE LIVE 14:02 PM 

BREAKING NEWS

NOV: TRUMP TAKES QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16h
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18h
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h
Sometimes politics can be as simple as not doing stupid, awful things.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 18h
"Guess who I bumped into?" Jack Smith was spotted (with a Springsteen Tee) at the "Power to the People" concert by Joanne Leahy. Who thinks he would be a great AG?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h
The norms we miss aren’t gone, they’re waiting for us at the ballot box.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23h
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23h
A civil lawsuit. A renewed criminal investigation. And a very complicated area of the law. I’ve tried to give you the information you’ll need to understand the unfolding investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell fraternity. joycevance.substack.com/p/jane-doe?r...
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Jane Doe
Jane Doe is the name by which we know the young woman who has come forward to say she was gang raped in a room at the Chi Phi fraternity house while she was a student at Cornell in 2024.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22h
🚨 LEAKED CHAT shows Republicans offering $200 per person to disrupt an Abdul El-Sayed event.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 22h
This Ugandan doctor met the family who sponsored him as a kid. Thanks to them, he was able to access education and is now a renowned HIV researcher. Original post
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 21h
JD Vance heckled as MAGA cultists fail to get a USA chant going to drown out the lone protestor.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
A child in an Idaho faith-healing family died of a treatable condition. Then another died — and another, and another. Idaho’s child abuse laws contain such broad religious exemptions that authorities didn’t intervene — before or after the deaths.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 21h
A new Marist Poll survey found Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott trailing behind his Democratic opponent by three points, a development that left several onlookers in absolute shock.
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MAGA governor's grim new numbers threaten ‘monumental blow’ to GOP: activist
A new Marist Poll survey found Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott trailing behind his Democratic opponent by three points, a development that left several onlookers in absolute shock.“I cannot stress enough how much modern republican identity is bound up in Texas, and how monumental of a blow to thei...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 21h
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
If your vote didn’t matter they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you (H/T Gen Z for @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social ) www.instagram.com/reel/DeC2_Zb...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
So much for Donald Trump’s promise to lower costs “on day one.” Instead his disastrous economic agenda is raising your interest rates - making your mortgage and your credit card bill more expensive. Enough is enough.
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The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
Talarico is winning around 10 percent of Republican voters in the Fox poll, versus only 1 percent of Democrats going to Paxton (not a typo). trib.al/uYLNMry
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New Fox Poll—a Disaster for Trump—Rattles Fox Anchors: “Wake Up!”
They were freaking out on Fox News Friday morning over a new Texas poll. A look at the internals shows they had every reason to.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Clarence Thomas took years of luxury trips from a billionaire and didn't report them. The Senate asked John Roberts to come explain. He said no. He answers to nobody. Tell Congress to impeach him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bush's Park Service said no to a private road through Yosemite. So did Obama's. Then the developer's CEO donated to Trump, and now it's in Trump's budget papers. Tell Congress the answer is still no: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just talked with a lifelong Republican in the Delta Sky Club at LaGuardia who was heading home to Dallas. He told me he’s voting for James Talarico in November. His words about Ken Paxton: “He’s corrupt as all fuck.” And he said he’s “ashamed” Paxton is the GOP nominee.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
‘A slow-moving car crash:’ Republicans are wary of the $200 million-plus price tag to try to save Ken Paxton.
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The price tag on the Ken Paxton rescue mission has Republicans panicking
Some Republicans want MAGA Inc. to take over spending in the final few weeks.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA refused to consider additional evidence in the Cornell case. It's the whole damn system. I'm glad Letitia James is on it now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh, look! The Trump administration is making crossing the US border more onerous for all the millions of Canadians who are no longer doing it. They are smart that way.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Fall of Roe Changed Doctors. Now They’re Changing Politics. State-level abortion debates have activated physicians as a political force like never before.
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The Fall of Roe Changed Doctors. Now They’re Changing Politics.
State-level abortion debates have activated physicians as a political force like never before.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 03/10/2026
Is it sinking in that you now have to own being a Republican?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking of Kushner… cc: 🇺🇸 media
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WOMAN FILES FLORIDA LAWSUIT ACCUSING TRUMP OF 1997 RAPE A woman has filed a civil complaint in Palm Beach County, Florida, accusing Donald Trump of raping her in a Florida hotel in 1997 while Jeffrey Epstein was present. #TheCityBrief
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We owe it to our children to act - in these uncertain and pivotal times - so that they can live in a better future.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."
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Dollyanna @my2centsay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FOR THE LAST 2 YEARS I PROTESTED TRUMPS REGIME EVERY SATURDAY. My detractors said "it wont matter". My resolve: how do you know unless you try? The conclusion is coming. Over these 2 years I have made many new like-minded friends on the protest line. We know each other. IT MATTERS.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/10/2026
Nah, this doesn’t“stun” me, and it shouldn’t stun you either. This is more evidence that Cornell’s main mission was always to protect Cornell, not the student. As w/many universities. One in 3 women at Cornell say they’ve been sexually assaulted. This institution needs to do better. Much better.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians funding our super secret military bunker.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CNN: “Trump's net approval rating among voters under 30 has dropped from -7 points in October 2024 to -47… young voters' trust in Trump on the economy has shifted 73 points (!!) to -62 net approval…”
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