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@arknet.bsky.social
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(Image: Marian Kamensky) Identity & humanity are non-negotiable. Regnat populus y'all #ARpx Discouraging voting gets people killed. If you do it I'm blocking you. No exception. "We come in the age's most uncertain hour" Paul Simon You were warned.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 2h
The writer of the books they were based on lived in south Arkansas, and a friend of mine loved the series and got me to watch an episode, I think a few seasons in. I could not see the appeal. I told her it was Days of Our Lives with fangs.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thomas Massie has written Congress a 34 page gift and on November 9: everyone can say enough with this fool, this Replacement Steve Poochie.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 8h
Based on his number the followers, at least he's not getting that ridiculous message too far.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 8h
They probably ought to be listening to @robertgarcia.bsky.social and lawyering up.
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 9h
Jackson 51 - Collins 47 Marist Indies 52 - 45 GCB D+9 44% voting against Trump
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h
It's interesting that irl i've convinced family out of dooming.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h
I block them all because intentionally or not, dooming and cynicism depress turnout.
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Unbiased Science @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social · 14h
We're getting a lot of questions about the reported plague case in Russia, and we understand why headlines about "the plague" are scary. Let's go through what we know, and what we don't. This deserves close attention, but the chance of it becoming a wider outbreak, let alone a pandemic, is very low.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 11h
I hope everyone involved with it is investigated and charged. I hope some names come out asap. Who put the ads together, who transferred the money, who got them up, etc.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 12h
She's really not anymore. Maybe that's just the perception due to what an awful person she is, but she's degraded. Hate erodes inside and out.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 16h
This merciless lady exposes the minds of RW ideologues & adherents. People think they don’t understand harm & empathy unless it impacts them… but she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Roger Ailes yet regularly defends rapists as she is politically & financially invested in preserving patriarchy.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 12h
It's been on and on and on and on, since 2016, so maybe it's not as obvious as it should be. But this guy is now completely off of his rocker.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What we should be talking about is supporting community colleges, and vocational high school to offer affordable cosmetology classes. The wait lists are insane. At least in the Black community, anyway, hairdressers and barbers play an important political role.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
Quite an echo from 85+ years ago.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah, and cassidy feels that way about rfk, jr. No one cares.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
How did she get such a high profile and still find it impossible to keep a job? I forget. And not that it matters about anything, but she looks like she's morphing into ann coulter.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
They're having trouble with that because their nutjob in chief is not cooperating.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
N.O.N.E.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
Are we heading for a paradigm shift as a result of mainstream access media finally understanding the powers they have? Or nah?
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 14h
Whatever your level of concern about it, people need to be distinguishing between pneumonic and bubonic. I thought cases out west were the latter.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 15h
It also sets him up as having refused to vote for the Black woman nominee. The Palestinian Israeli issue is very real. Democrats are finally starting to figure that out. But refusing to vote for the person who would the do least damage, a Black woman married to a Jewish man, does not address that.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 17h
2006 it was D+10. (Sen D+5, House D+31, Gov D+6) 2008 it was D+12. (Sen D+8, House D+21) 2018 it was D+6. (Sen R+2, House D+41, Gov D+7)
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 15h
Unlike his brain cells.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 15h
Ferris Bueller was wrong. You can, in fact, go too far, and trump may finally be about to find that out.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 15h
So he just verified NY Times' reporting. Ok.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h
This weekend at a political rally for Republican Senator Jon Husted in Ohio, Donald Trump took to the stage to rail against Democrats and transgender people. He falsely claimed Democrats "mutilize" transgender kids to "make them transgender." Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Trump Claims Democrats “Mutilize” Kids To “Make Them Transgender” In Ohio Rally For Jon Husted
Anti-trans campaigning has reached a fever pitch in Ohio.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
That's supposed to say "more than any other by legacy media." My southern accent strikes again.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
That practice more than any other bill legacy made. It has put us where we are. NY Times owns this as much as anyone, no matter how good some of their content is and some of their people are.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The New York Times asks the RNC for crowd sizes for Trump's events. Rather than provide numbers, the RNC issues a meaningless statement, and the NYT prints it! Why would the RNC answer a reporter’s questions when the NYT is willingly to reprint Republican propaganda instead?
Natalie Baldassarre, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, responded to a request for crowd sizes at each event by saying on Sunday that the rallies were “drawing some of our highest ticket demands to date,” adding that “our Republican candidates will continue to build off this momentum and drive voters to the polls as we approach Election Day.”
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
"The kind of white to make body's skin crawl...a fish belly white."
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
I'm starting to believe much of what's happening with the gop trying to stop a democratic takeover has to do with the Epstein Files, especially what's being reported that many people have been saying for years about the billionaire tech bros. They know that one going down will pull them all under.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
I love having Jen Rubin on Team Democracy. We need more people who cut straight to the chase.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Until they find, I duuno, 1000 real voters (not DC insiders, pollsters, lobbyist, media types) who want Rahm Emanuel to run for president how about no stories or interviews? The legacy media look like morons slobering over him.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 16h
He started in the Clinton administration. But I'm talking more about the style of approach in dealing with republicans.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 17h
I don't know if he's a democratic presidential candidate so much as a has-been trying to worm his way back into the public eye.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 18h
Hinojosa wins Jolly wins Acton wins Lance Bottoms wins If that happens—and none of that is crazy—the 14 largest states will all have Democratic governors. The largest state with a Republican governor would be Tennessee.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Among the seats DCCC added to Red-to-Blue list is Justin Pearson's race in TN. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
House Dems target six new seats — that Trump carried by an average of 16 points
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s political director told POLITICO the party could end up with as many as 240 House seats after Election Day.
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Dj @djsoke.bsky.social · 18h
Texas unironically has the single most fickle electorate in the country My understanding is that Rs really fear catastrophic turnout here - so the a lot of the next month will be about mobilization. In that sense, a month is a lot of time to get at least a little bit done
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
Donald Trump will show up or say something and fix that for them.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
What's likely to change that between now and november 3.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
For weeks I've been blocking people for discouraging voting. About to start this policy, because at this point that's basically what dooming is doing.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
Republicans will be secretly thankful they're doing it too, because they know damn well what type of person trump's going to nominate, and he will not listen to reason from any republican.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
There's no excuse for it in 2024, and he ought to have enough self-awareness to atone for it, but I'll take his help and his money. If you're not supporting the opposition you're helping the oppressors. It's that simple, it's universal, it's historic. Influence the direction of the opposition.
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Rocket Raccoon: Figure It Out!
Alt: Rocket Raccoon: Figure It Out!
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
This guy is not relevant to anything happening. Quit trying to help him make fetch happen.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
Rahm Emanuel is shoving himself onstage to speak for groups like third way who are trying to keep the corporatists in power with this kind of stuff. I'm convinced it's an attempt to r-f the democratic party. I really can't stand these old clintonist democrats. Follow the money. I bet it's revealing.
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 18h
There was some drama going on where I worked and I told the supervisor that not communicating what was happening with staff leaves a hole where information needs to be. People will fill it up with rumors and speculation that they treat as truth. The problem here is getting the information to people.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.
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OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier
OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...
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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 19h
Crypto guy says democracies are inefficient. I really hope when the global collapse happens, they go first.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 21h
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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