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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Will every Republican running for office be asked to disavow this Nazi supporter?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really could be bigger than ‘06 or ‘18. It’s almost October and party leaders aren’t doing the usual thing where they 1) pretend to have different positions than they’ve been voting on for two years or 2) manufacturing a “caravan” style scare tactic that has any chance of breaking through.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rough day for Susan Collins in the local Maine press, where ProPublica's bombshell story is the lead story.
Screengrab from WNTWScreengrab from Maine PublicScreengrab from Portland Press HeraldScreengrab from Bangor Daily News
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back. Now, Wilber can’t move the left side of his body. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, considering your envoy acts like a four-year-old who just caught Santa with a bag of presents when he sees Putin, let's just say we assumed, Marco.
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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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm a parent and I can't possibly imagine voting for a guy who wants my kid dead and believes my child is lesser because of who they are, in fact you could say I was a huge giant pile of rat shit for doing so and that I am personally responsible for my daughters death
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This and Independent’s being like D+30 seems really under-discussed in why the midterms will be a shellacking
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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yesterday we showed how important primary turnout can be on a national level. But there's interesting things going on at the regional level, too. Most notably, in the core of the South, Democrats *outvoted Republicans* for the first time in decades in the primaries! (thread)
Total primary midterm votes in the core of the South from 1918 to 2022 showing a recent Democratic surge. States include VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, and TX.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump called 18 deaths “small potatoes”. 8 suicide attempts won’t even register with him 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Endless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
International criminals preparing to punish International Criminal Court
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026
ICE shot a man in the back in Austin this afternoon. But we're also learning this weekend about the death of Carlos Josué Marchena, a 37-year old man from Costa Rica who appears to have died at the Winn concentration camp in Louisiana after 9+ months in ICE detention.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 NEWS: Ken Paxton kept taking money from a longtime political ally accused by at least eight men of sexual abuse, even after the allegations became public. The disturbing ties span more than a decade. Receipts below.
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Paxton Kept Close to Alleged Child Abuser Long After the Allegations Surfaced, Taking Money From Him
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent more than a decade cultivating a political alliance with Paul Pressler, the once-revered Southern Baptist power
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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sam @samthielman.com · 18/09/2026
realize I'm a little bit of a quirky guy but being punched in the face repeatedly by masked men with guns actually is something I find frightening
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
makes sense since marshall actually lives in florida:
kansasreflector.com
US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The nations our government considers allies and enemies is changing rapidly.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is good, more please.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight-up extortion seems like a losing political strategy
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Current Republican Senator John Cornyn (Texas) is now vagueposting about a possible endorsement of James Talarico, instead of Ken Paxton (who gave a pedophile a plea deal to escape jail time). Be prepared for a truly nuclear October Surprise in the Texas Midterms
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Why I'm Voting for a Texas Democrat by @KarlRove wsj.com/opinion/why-im... via
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The American media is not adequately capturing the collapse of American global power under Trump. Something profound - and dangerous - is underway.
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Aurelian89.bsky.social @aurelian89.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another extortion via voting racket
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I took a video of Mitch McConnell leaving his house about half an hour before this vote today.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my guess is that most americans do not perceive these deportations for what they are -- systematic crimes, under a framework directed at the highest levels of government, the evidence of which is in this defiance (inter alia). the rest of the world would rightly call this crimes against humanity.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How much crazy breaks the dam exactly?
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I think we should ask some follow up questions for the FBI director who insists he's only hiring people who were *forced* to have sex with animals against their will because it sounds like Human Resources wrote a Black Mirror episode
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TEXAS — quite the headline for @jamestalarico opponent Ken Paxton. Yikes. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the musk family is, uh, something www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
In a voice-over, Gibney says there are 14 known children of Musk’s but likely many more. Musk has built a compound in Austin for the children and their mothers.

His thinking, according to tech journalist Kara Swisher: “I have superior genes, and I need to procreate.”

Musk’s parents also appear in the documentary. His father Errol, it should be noted, told the Sun in 2022 that “the only thing we are on Earth for is to reproduce.” He was defending having a second child with his stepdaughter. (You read that correctly.) Errol describes his son’s childhood as one rife with bullying and beatdowns.

His mother, Maye, meanwhile describes a chaotic household in which Errol would tell her three times a day how stupid and ugly she was, before occasionally beating her.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Naked graft, selling out the country. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Calling him a "scandal piñata" was pretty damn good too
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
people need to go to jail for a very long time for this
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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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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Seriously though are Republicans ever asked about Musk’s support in tandem with quoting his most racist or anti-Semitic tweets?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias
The GOP operative class is younger, better educated, and more urban than the national average which means their intuitions pull the party to the center.
The Dem operative class is also younger, better educated, and more urban but that means their biases pull Dems off-center.
4:15 PM • 11/7/22 • Twitter for iPhone
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Some Republicans have expressed concern that a small but growing faction of younger people in the party have interacted with or expressed fealty to white nationalist and racist ideologies that have long been considered fringe." O RLY
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Empty seats on both sides of me as I hear the president insist that the American Airlines Center is full and there are thousands of people outside. Nothing new to say, just... wow, 11 years of this, huh
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What an amazing time for Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan, to travel all the way down to Texas just to kiss Trump's ass on stage.
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