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One who just walks into Mordor

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Just a dude in CA who believes in human rights for all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
SANDERS: Trump claims we pay lowest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Wow! Is he telling the truth? OVERTON: There has been immense progress- S: Do we pay lowest prices like POTUS said? You just told us you're gonna stand up to him O: We have seen- S: Is it true? O: *more dissembling*
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
News: A California DA tried Stanford students with felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported the DA was fundraising off of this. A defense attorney dug more & filed a motion to recuse him off the cases. A judge removed him in May + gave cases to the AG. AG just dropped felony charges.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mayor Bass has not gotten enough heat for this: When ICE was terrorizing Downtown LA, good folks + press showed up to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. What did the Mayor do? She stood quietly by when the LAPD brutalized my neighbors & made things worse with an economically devestating curfew.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/09/2026
Phenomenal essay on the way the current moment is affecting prominent trans folks. It's a pressure cooker that is systematically breaking us down to take us out of the fight.
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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
VICTORY in the most severe criminal case against the student movement for Palestine! The California attorney general dropped felony charges and $329,000 in restitution against Stanford students who occupied a building to demand their university divest from Israel’s genocide.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Golden should be stripped of his committee assignments
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Always follow the money. This is wht vote Blue no matter who won't save us. If a Democrat takea corporate PAC money they will simply go for restoration instead of transformation and hand power to the broligarchy but be, you know, a little less racist.
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Paramount logo with the mountain and stars but it says "Bonesaw" instead of "Paramount"
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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TheyAdoreShaun 💋 @quadswig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even Tyson Beckford in the comments talking about ‘ Shaq give it back’ ☹️
A pig and a coon glazing each other
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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On a list of how to help workers in Hollywood, classes in AI training doesn’t make the top 1000. If anything, this is a gift to the AI industry, not Hollywood, and definitely not workers. Newsom sucks.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gavin Newsom is the slimiest fuck in all of California and completely untrustworthy. He's against the billionaire tax in his own state, but he supports a federal one? He's trash. We hate him. He is a Republican. He is a joke.
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Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition, California Democrats endorse Prop 40 billionaire tax measure | abc7news.com
The California Democratic Party has endorsed Prop. 40, a November ballot measure that would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of billionaires.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's this. www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne...
offmessage.net
A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics
You can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My mom had polio and post-polio syndrome and it completely wrecked her health, she's lucky to be alive and I wish these assholes were all dead
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Alex Rikleen formerly for Senate @rikleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a grossly anti-trans ad. This cannot be the path Democrats take, we must speak out against this - not just members of the trans community. Also - this will gain the candidate absolutely zero votes. Wrong on morals, wrong politically.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is bad and should be called out. I push back against accusing everyone that breathes for wanting to throw us under the bus, so it is credible when we call it out when it unambiguously occurs. This is an unambiguous occurrence.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Want to know if there's an election denier running for office in your state this November? Now you can, thanks to data from @statesunited.org and the incredible work of @regret.bsky.social Try out our interactive map here: www.wired.com/story/hundre...
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To do this during the worst measles outbreak in 35 years just after 4 Americans have died is pure psychopathy and tells you exactly where he stands on vaccines 🤬🤬🤬
arstechnica.com
RFK Jr. headlines sold-out anti-vaccine conference alongside Andrew Wakefield
The event is hosted by Kennedy's anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense.
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Mr Socko @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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dan favale @danfavale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
dear macklemore,,,
"i owe you an apology. i wasn't really familiar with your game."
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 14/09/2026
Tone Capone, producer of rap classics like "I Got 5 On It," has died at 59
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Tone Capone, "I Got 5 On It" Producer, Dead At 59
Bay Area rap producer Tone Capone, a man who helped make some absolute classics, has passed away. KQED reports that Capone died on Saturday. No cause of death has been reported. Capone was 59. Tone Ca...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore has been dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for advocating for a free Palestine, which a growing majority of Americans support. Meanwhile unrepentant abuser Chris Brown was just presented with a congressional honor on his tour
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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
Will, I don’t know what else to say. Many trans people aren’t going to vote for Dems that call us biological males or advocate for healthcare restrictions. It’s a step too far. We won’t vote for Republicans, but we very well may leave those races blank. You can’t leave us behind to save yourself.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If Democrats get to 50 or 51, he's going to flip. Which is why if they get to 52, they should strip him of his committee assignments and exile him from the party. No tolerance for this shit. Democracy is on the line.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dodgers are fucked lol
Pablo torre next investigation is the dodgers which he said he’s dropping tomorrow
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“After receiving an ankle monitor, Bel could no longer play soccer without it beeping. He couldn’t be fitted for an ROTC uniform like his peers. At school, he was bullied and called a criminal.“
prospect.org
A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy - The American Prospect
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, committed suicide after being fitted with a tracking device by ICE. “That ankle monitor is what killed him,” a family friend said.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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ICE agent charged with lying to investigators in nonfatal Minneapolis shooting
The case is the first known instance of the Justice Department seeking to prosecute a federal immigration officer for their actions during the operation.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"At least 18 service members have died and more than 400 troops have been wounded ...."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A reminder that the last CDC Director was fired for standing up for science.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They start school in LAUSD in August and my kids class had to spend 2 hours in the library every day last week because they couldn't afford to fix the air conditioning at school. Every grade had to take turns getting a cool down period in the library. @governor.ca.gov you are a pile of shit.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 02/09/2026
Years of sweat and advocacy.
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CouncilWoman Anna Hernandez @district7-phx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In response to Tucson experiencing a direct and devastating attack on our LGBTQ+ community 🌹 The District 7 office is heart broken.
Black graphic with the Phoenix City Council District 7 / Anna Hernandez logo at top. Large white headline reads "WE ARE HEARTBROKEN." Body text: a statement mourning Vincent Anthony Siquieros and Cameron Davis Capara, expressing solidarity with the Tucson LGBTQ+ community, condemning the targeted gun violence and the federal government's role in fueling anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and affirming a belief in a world where everyone can live openly and safely. Below that, a resource line directing LGBTQ+ community members to the Trevor Project crisis line. Signed with Anna Hernandez's signature and "Anna Hernandez, Phoenix City Council, District 7.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is really insane, Newsom got beat on trying a utility bailout, and now wants to kill the good bits he and the leg could agree on (meaning hedge funds will still be allowed to by wildlife claims) and maybe do a holiday lame duck session to push the bailout through.
BREAKING: The California Assembly will kill the wildfire liability plan CALeg & Gov. Newsom agreed to days ago, multiple sources tell me. 

The plan (SB 492) had been giving PG&E/SoCal Edison financial heart burn because it wouldn't let them shift future fire costs to insurance.
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The decision came after Democrats in the Assembly caucused for more than an hour this afternoon. 

Ball is in Gov. Gavin Newsom's court to call a special session, which he has not ruled out:
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: You don't see this everyday. Wyoming GOP voters rejected a ton of Republicans who wanted to crack down on voting. They ousted nearly all members of House Elections Committee, incubator of new restrictions. And: SoS primary was won by a man who rejects fraud claims + defends election workers.
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Wyoming Voters Oust GOP Faction that Wants to Crack Down on Elections  - Bolts
In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the far-right Freedom Caucus lost a lot of ground in the legislature.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
complete silence at the NASA center as Trump brags about the stock market and touts fake foreign investment numbers. just a brutally awkward speech that is going over like farts in church
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gavin Newsom is trying to cap liability for utility companies that cause wildfires. A front group called "Wildfire Victims First" pushing for the bailout has "victim" members who get payouts from the industry and is run by Newsom's former comms director. Story by @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social.
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Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout - The American Prospect
At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
53% of North Dakotans voted to create an ethics commission to hold politicians accountable. 56% of South Dakotans voted to expand Medicaid. Now, the GOP put measures on the Nov ballot in both states that'd raise the threshold for such amendments from 50% to 60%. To watch this fall.
boltsmag.org
"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...
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