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@alva1a.bsky.social
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Mother, grandmother, liberal, and improviser. (She/her), Definitely not here to date anyone.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
The camera cut to Katie Britt right after Eric Schmitt’s attack on Jack Smith turned out to be bogus. Schmitt claimed Jack Smith attended an Atlanta Hawks game in Atlanta. However, the texts were actually about the Iowa Hawkeyes playing Maryland in Maryland.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 8h
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined "​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump" after a federal judge found that the attorneys misused the court system in "settling" his IRS lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...
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Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement
A US appeals court declined on Tuesday ​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 8h
#GreenEnergy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | Hackers Could Overwhelm Our Power Grid. This Is How to Stop Them. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration should build a stronger alliance with clean energy companies in spite of its culture war with them.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 12h
Today before Senate.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10h
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 9h
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 11h
Check out an excerpt from @lindsayowens.bsky.social's new book Gouged featured in @fortune.com! Giant corporations are reinventing the ripoff while ending what we know as the price tag. It's not too late to fight back. Together, we can restore a fair price in America.
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The end of the price tag | Fortune
The modern economy has given rise to a new kind of gouging: companies can now manufacture the appearance of scarcity.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 10h
A wonderful review on @lindsayowens.bsky.social's new book Gouged from @halsinger.bsky.social in @prospect.org: "Owens has put everything she’s learned over the past several years together in a book detailing how pricing is distorted, manipulated, & seized upon by profit-hungry corporations."
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Battling an Army of Price-Setters - The American Prospect
Lindsay Owens’s new book details all the ways that corporations seek to maximize profits at your expense.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 9h
The era of the “price tag,” where prices were clearly advertised and the same for everyone, is rapidly disappearing. "Gouged is an important piece of the puzzle that helps explain why economic stability seems so elusive," says @forbes.com.
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Price Gouging: Another Side Of The Affordability Crisis
The affordability crisis is affecting workers across the board. Price gouging may be another aspect of why everyday necessities seem so difficult to afford.
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 NEW: Big Business rewrote the rules in its favor. We’re rewriting them for shoppers. Our Shoppers’ Bill of Rights lays out 12 basic protections against hidden fees, pricing games, and the corporate tricks driving up everyday costs.
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Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it
How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules – and a consumer uprising
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11h
Back to smith hearing, the Rs are assessed with smith having subpoenaed their toll records (i.e. records of numbers dial not conversation). But that move was completely orthodox. If not mandatory to learn what Trump and meadows were up to that day. And the idea that it’s speech or debate is risible.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11h
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," former special counsel Jack Smith said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. to.pbs.org/4hwiB3E
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WATCH: Jack Smith says he would prosecute Trump again for 'serious crimes against our nation'
Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard” for Trump’s “political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy i...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11h
If you haven't been keeping up, Sen Schmitt tried to play gotcha with Jack Smith and it blew up in his face.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, Republicans. The entire news cycle on your moronic Jack Smith hearing will now be dominated by Eric Schmitt’s basketball game buffoonery and John ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ Kennedy asking Smith about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Brilliant job, once again by the feckless fools.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11h
It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.
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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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions in the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
This is crazy. They are laughing at us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you joined the military recently hoping you could just do your job and serve your country without being called upon to participate in a Christian nationalist crusade against Muslims abroad or a prop in a Pete Hegseth workout video, you picked the wrong time.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 14h
Pete Hegseth’s top choice to take charge of the Army has been accused of inflating his resume.
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Pentagon Pete Goon’s Big Boast Blows Up in His Face
The defense secretary has continued to back Sean Parnell despite claims from Capitol Hill staffers.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14h
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's choice to be the next Army secretary is being called out by former Trump officials for puffing up his resume — adding to the pile of problems facing Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.
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'Simply false': Hegseth's pick for Army chief accused of lying on resume by ex-Trump aides
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's choice to be the next Army secretary is being called out by former Trump officials for puffing up his resume — adding to the pile of problems facing Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.Parnell, who already has allegations of spousal abuse clouding his future, is now a...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16h
Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 12h
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases (Gift Article)
State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fact-Checking Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: Fact-Checking Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force
Vice President JD Vance claimed that the White House anti-fraud task force found $250 billion of fraud. Our reporter Linda Qiu explains why that claim is exaggerated.
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Firms manipulating process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental groups warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Datacenter developers accused of skirting key US pollution rules
Firms manipulating process to avoid emission controls and scrutiny of their projects, environmental groups warn
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
Fascinating new paper by research directors at major AI companies bluntly warning world policy makers to act now to prevent AI from getting out of control and potentially threatening society/humans. casp.ac/reports/inte...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hegseth begs for mail-in votes while Trump trashes mail-in voting
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Hegseth begs for mail-in votes while Trump trashes mail-in voting
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alva1a.bsky.social @alva1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"appeared 2 be tacitly acknowledgng th argument made by Jamie Raskin,a Dem congressman & legal scholar,tht any governmnt employees who worked on th first pro-Trump ad-“or used government resources 2 make it”-may have committed a felony violation of th Hatch Act" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads
John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midterms
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Chef Toneman @tonemanb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He doesn't care! Steven Miller told him it was good policy.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI as 'co-deputy director' work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside. Bailey was overseeing election-related matters at the FBI.
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