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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11h
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I too had a chance to read an advanced copy of Outed by @timothysw.bsky.social on the life of Walter Jenkins and it is a must-read! (It's relevant to my own book project on the arc of American democracy from 1964-2024). Read it!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An important note here:
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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 24/09/2026
This is a familiar pattern that repeats itself every time Republicans get on this voter fraud kick. Another familiar pattern is Republicans who complain about voter fraud not living where their voter registration says they do.
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
OF COURSE the Trump/Patel FBI shut down a criminal probe of corruption by Susan Collins' team. Regardless of whether she or her aides violated criminal law, they were deeply enmeshed in corrupt pay-to-play by a convicted defense contractor. #OustCollins #ElectJackson www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 22/09/2026
Y'all, if we put our minds to it, we can absolutely make 'disgorgement' @merriam-webster.com's 2029 word of the year.
disgorgement
Disgorgement is a remedy requiring a party who profits from illegal or wrongful acts to give up any profits they made as a result of that illegal or wrongful conduct. The purpose of this remedy is to prevent unjust enrichment and make illegal conduct unprofitable.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pretty significant news, especially getting a preliminary injunction in a state like Alabama. Comes from the lawsuit filed by Leonardo Garcia Venegas, the U.S. citizen and Alabama resident detained three times by immigration agents. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
propublica.org
Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he say...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely disgusting: Trump's dirty deals, paying hundreds of millions of YOUR taxpayer dollars to third-party countries willing to take (and often abuse) immigrants deported by ICE storm troopers. We MUST oust this sickening regime and restore decency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
washingtonpost.com
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's Constitution Day tomorrow -- I know, I know, feels like it comes earlier each year! -- and in that spirit, here's a free course from Thomas Patterson at Harvard: www.edx.org/learn/govern...
edx.org
HarvardX: American Government: Constitutional Foundations | edX
Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been missing for six days. ICE says it is “not responsible” for this, even though they forcibly expelled him to an authoritarian country he’d never even been to. Please take the time today to follow this link to contact your lawmakers, especially Arizonans! findahmedsoliman.org
findahmedsoliman.org
Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool
Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 16/09/2026
With Flock contracts getting cancelled in places as red as some of these (e.g., Hood Co., TX, where Trump got 83% of the vote in '24), we should all talk more about the outrageous expansion of mass surveillance that our communities' LEAs are part of. It's not just Flock.
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Which Texas cities are ending Flock camera contracts? Search our map.
Our interactive map shows which Texas cities and counties are ending Flock Safety contracts over privacy concerns on license plate readers.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/09/2026
For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping point. Read our interview with Sanders from June. 👇
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Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming
For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustration with Big Tech, billionaires, and unchecked AI is reaching a tipping…
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At least three alleged suicide attempts have occurred over the past year at the California City Detention Center. An anonymous source says staff and detainees are at their "breaking limit." The full story: lataco.com/alleged-suic... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The outside of the California City Detention Center. 

Headline reads "Detainees Are Allegedly Attempting Suicide in California City Detention Center"
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
there is no presidential candidate jon ossoff unless keisha lance bottoms is elected governor of georgia. why? we can’t afford to lose that senate vote, so he would need a democratic governor to replace him with a democrat.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They're committed to this project of protecting pedophiles on an *international* level
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US embassy child abuse images suspect flown from UK before police interview
The individual worked at the US embassy in Vauxhall, south London, had diplomatic protection, despite not being a diplomat.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More and more, people are calling them the party of pedophile protectors
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation’s voter rolls, according to a federal whistle-blower’s account released on Monday.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The important thing to know is that [Trump] is a liar, a skinflint, and a scammer, and that he will give you nothing, because he wants all the money, all the power, and all the country for himself.” Nuf said. @nberlat.bsky.social | @atrupar.com in Public Notice
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For those of you still waiting for this administration's release of the full Epstein files and the prosecution of those involved in child sexual abuse, consider this moment something of a tell:
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My Latest: On Thursday night, Trump stood before the Republican faithful, demanded they raise their right hand, and pledge to vote whether they are "registered or not." He then told them to "cheat like hell." newsletters.democracydocket.com/trump-told-r...
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Trump told Republicans to "cheat like hell." Here's how we stop it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
"Twelve years into our endless era of Trump, mainstream outlets remain reluctant to tell the public in stark terms that their president is an orange bag of gas and flimflam whose promises are as much of a hoax as his increasingly grotesque hair."
publicnotice.co
“Trump Dividend” is the new Trump Steaks
The con artist in chief’s latest scam.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After our victory today in DC, the DOJ has rushed to SCOTUS to again claim the Postal Services new voter suppression rule "is analogous to the existing registration and tracking requirements for cremated remains." I cannot fathom how they think this is a winning argument. But alas...
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE calls the use of this kind of cage and other forms of solitary confinement "segregation." No joke. It's all over the official standards and reporting docs and everything.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
True of the slaveholders, true of the segregationists and true of their racist descendants and ideological heirs today.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: We're urging a federal court to refuse to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the violent detention of hundreds of people at a horse race in Wilder, ID. Law enforcement descended on an event popular with Latine families wielding flashbang grenades, guns, and zipties. We demand accountability.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Americans are an amazingly brave people, who have accomplished so much,” Bunch said. “They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history.” 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
nytimes.com
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unfortunately, American journos do not regard allegations of #Corruption, #Racism, #Dementia, or even #Pedophilia against Republicans as "newsworthy". Now, if a Democrat left a bank with a ballpoint pen that wasn't his, that would require 24x7 news alerts.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to lift a lower court order and allow it to use a flawed federal immigration database to initiate voter registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ asks Supreme Court to let it use immigration database to purge state voter rolls
It marks the DOJ's latest bid to get the court to greenlight Trump's attempt to increase the executive branch's control over elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When it comes to choosing between a decorated four-star general who's served the military honorably for decades and Kid Rock, Pete Hegseth had an easy choice
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Under Hegseth, Chaos Prevails at the Pentagon.” Will Trump keep him? @paulwaldman.bsky.social discusses in the @atrupar.com's latest PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Pete Hegseth will be the next to fall
Trump will only tolerate being embarrassed for so long — especially when he can scapegoat him for Iran.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"First Draft: Trump Is Insane. Just Check Out What He Posted All Over Labor Day Weekend" The U.S. president, once again, makes his own strong case for his own removal from office.
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First Draft: Trump Is Insane. Just Check Out What He Posted All Over Labor Day Weekend
The U.S. president, once again, makes his own strong case for his own removal from office. Meanwhile, as the big 9/11 anniversary approaches, Trump toady Rudy Giuliani disgraces himself yet again.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The conditions inside the ICE family prison (that’s basically what it is) in Dilley, Texas: “Parents reported finding cockroaches in their food and said their children were vomiting after drinking the tap water. Some children were so depressed that they weren’t eating at all.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TODAY: Protesters in #Danbury are demanding #ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in 4 days. 60+ businesses shut down & the community marched from the Library to the Green. #Connecticut #CT
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pierre Damas Bel. Say his name.
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 03/09/2026
"Revkin is now sending more than $10,000 a week through her nonprofit, Each Step Home, to families being held at Dilley so that they can buy food and other essentials at the commissary." No paywall: archive.ph/Qztcr Donate: eachstephome.org?form=donate
washingtonpost.com
She’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accounts
Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another example of ICE targeting the most vulnerable among us. Loreto Javar has stage 4 cancer and has a valid green card. ICE grabbed him in June and he’s missed multiple chemo appointments and suffered a blood clot. They will kill this man if they don’t release him.
wsws.org
ICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interview
Loreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.
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charliebe82.bsky.social @charliebe82.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
LUTNICK: It's just not. I'm no longer involved in my own companies & this is just minor stuff anyway. The minor stuff: Howard Lutnick’s estimated net worth has increased by roughly $4 billion to $5.4 billion since Donald Trump took office for his second term.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Israeli Raid Forces Gaza Kindergarten to Frantically Evacuate 200 Children" On the ground in Gaza City, Zeteo speaks to the principals of a nursery school who had to calm young children and get them to safety amid Israeli gunfire and heavy bombardment near their school.
zeteo.com
Israeli Raid Forces Gaza Kindergarten to Frantically Evacuate 200 Children
On the ground in Gaza City, Zeteo speaks to the principals of a nursery school who had to calm young children and get them to safety amid Israeli gunfire and heavy bombardment near their school.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 01/09/2026
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social calls out Byron Donalds, Ron DeSantis, & the entire Republican Party for their silence on Trump ally Laura Loomer calling Black women — including Angie Nixon, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar & Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — "ghetto…black BITCHES.” 🔗 zeteo.com/subscribe
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tired of lazy ‘disarray’ spin? @nberlat.bsky.social ‘s breakdown of races from ME to TX shreds beltway tropes with real data, while exposing actual GOP chaos. Love his sharp, incisive wit and essential perspective. Great piece in @atrupar.com ‘s Public Notice.👇🏼
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges
The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 01/09/2026
Last night, a whistleblower from the U.S. Postal Service gave us key information about how Trump is trying to disrupt and destroy mail-in voting. We have to protect the right to vote by mail in this country. We're fighting back in the courts and in congress.
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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A USPS whistleblower just exposed Trump’s secret plan to restrict voting by mail. Trump knows the midterms are coming. Instead of earning your vote, he’s looking for ways to make it harder to cast one. I’m not going to sit back as Trump tries to restrict your right to vote.
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