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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h
the "seize ballots" part I would put in the category of "should take seriously, because that actually could happen and they've scandalously dry - run versions of that already" zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...
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Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Buck Liberty @alpinealtd.bsky.social · 13h
Government We Don't Need (R.).
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1h
The First Amendment wasn’t actually “first.” The original First Amendment was meant to ensure that the House of Representatives grew in loose proportion to the country. Instead, the House’s size hasn’t changed since 1911. Today’s “One First” on that history—and the problems a capped House creates:
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Bonus 256: The Original “First” Amendment
The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.
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Mark Somers @marksomers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11h
1/3 🧵 A word of caution about some of the strategies the Trump admin is threatening to use to cheat in the election. Do NOT allow the fact that legal scholars say “he can’t do that” to tease you into thinking he won’t, and, that he might get by with it.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 15h
Arrh! 🫶🏼 #BookSky
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h
There's a plan to pull voting machines from more than half the states five weeks before an election. No court. No legislature. One Cabinet secretary and a "national security" memo. Read this before someone tells you it's about safety. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 17h
This needs to happen 👇
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14h
Why am I not suprised that Trump will try to create a crisis before the midterms??? Yet another play out of the authoritarian playbook… www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms
Pentagon planners are weighing options, though no final decision has been made.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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The Ghost of Mark Twain @ghostofmarktwain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2547 You fuckers better vote
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026
Trump's mass deportation campaign has gotten so bad in Florida that a Miami Republican—endorsed by Trump—aired a commercial criticizing his deportation policies. How did we get here?
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Watch: Trump's deportations are tearing apart Florida communities
There's a growing backlash against ICE in the Sunshine State.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE THINKER was actually also part of a larger Rodin work based on Dante called THE GATES OF HELL. That figure was used separately as the work you know, but here it is again in context
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John HELL Roberson @jlroberson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
High res of the whole thing
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My take on what Democrats should do in the majority  newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. 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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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Why does every woman know another woman that was raped. But no man knows a rapist?” Women/girls in US are sexually assaulted every minute. That is both horrible and unacceptable. We MUST change that. My video on Cornell case and epidemic of violence versus women youtu.be/ilMc2qhoga0?...
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The Truth About Violence Against Women In the USA That No One Wants to Hear. And How we STOP this!
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎯 Fucking this right here 👇
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impeaching a chief justice takes a House majority. In 30 days we can elect one. Put your letter on John Roberts on the record now, so they know what we expect: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an amazing event yesterday! Tom Morello brought together Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, and so many others at the Power to the People festival to speak up against Trump and remind us this country belongs to all of us.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Durham Cathedral. Despite the imposing bulk of the building on its famous perch above the River Wear it is not a huge interior. The domineering forest of great Norman columns is overpowering, and there is a sense of a worshipping community camping out in the ruins of something great, now lost to us.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking up into the central tower at Durham Cathedral. The nave below was fairly complete by 1133, and the end of that century saw the building of the galilee chapel and the twin west towers. The choir was rebuilt in the 13th Century, and then 200 years later this tower was the finishing touch.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some of the glass in Durham Cathedral for #StainedGlassSunday. First, Tom Denny's Transfiguration window of 2010 in memory of Michael Ramsey, perhaps the last great Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Illumination window by Mel Howse, 2019 in Durham Cathedral. Doves hover over water and fire, all symbols of the Holy Spirit. The intention seems to be to shed coloured light into the aisle, but there's much more to it than that. #StainedGlassSunday
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ThatRossIreland @thatrji.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
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Buckaroo Banzai Peter Weller
ALT: Buckaroo Banzai Peter Weller
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Orthodox community in Jerusalem were reportedly attacked by Israeli forces for standing in solidarity with Palestine." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The former PM of Israel just said very very very bluntly when asked — without even blinking — that Bibi was absolutely told about the Oct 7 attack days before because he knows this as fact. He also said that Israeli soldiers absolutely committed war crimes in Gaza. #gaza #israel #cdnpoli
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.
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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Al Franken @alfranken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re officially a month away from the midterms. Now’s the time for Trump to get out around the country & campaign for Republicans in close races. I suggest he go to TX, OH, MI, GA, NC, SC, ME, IA, AK, KS, MS, & MN. 1/2
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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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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
BREAKING: Frank Strada, the Tennessee prison commissioner who oversaw the failed execution of Christa Pike has resigned. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
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hapm.bsky.social @hapm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Donald Trump calling NY Attorney General…Letitia James…. “corrupt”…is laughable…Letitia James and her office found Trump guilty of 34 counts of felonies! Trump is walking CORRUPTION!!!
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Justin @jlentini09.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shared by a woman I would've used a steak knife
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump is a traitor, a criminal, a pedophile. #evil
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