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AuroraErratic

@auroraerratic.bsky.social
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Potter, gardener, childless cat lady, Democrat. Guess what? WE'RE STILL NOT GOING BACK 🫘

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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 2h
My mom today: "I've been reading about this A-One. It seems scary! Do you know anything about A-One?" (I don't, except that it's actually called AI 😄)
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 8h
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 16h
Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 11h
Medicare for All is my top priority.
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Left Below @below-left.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yeah there are days when every decision feels like trying to lift an anvil.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 28/09/2026
All the coverage of Talarico's supposed "problems" with Black Tx Dems are anecdotes and vibes. Polling now shows him 20 points (20!) ahead of Beto *and Allred* with Black voters, so the metric is "enthusiasm," ignoring Black Dems' reliability at the polls. www.tpr.org/government-p...
from https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-07-09/talarico-polling-stronger-with-texas-black-voters-than-expected-but-enthusiasm-questions-remain

In the end, though, it may simply come down to party loyalty. Blank
said history suggests Democratic support among Black voters tends
to consolidate as Election Day approaches.
"In all of that polling that we've looked at, over many election cycles,
the share of Black voters who support the Democratic candidate
tends to go up the closer we get to Election Day," he said.
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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why can’t that fucker not be anymore Actually it wouldn’t even matter Elon and his ilk hold the real power
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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the love of Fat Bears. #fatBears #fatbearweek
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They are so proud of themselves for breaking the law with impunity.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: As Trump squeezes taxpayers for his paid TV ads... Lines of people seek help with utility bills in Portland Nonprofits fear $8/gallon diesel Gas prices hit new highs in 4 battleground states Lots of enterprise reporting in DAY AHEAD macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYT had no problem saying Biden was too old, he had to be forced out, for 6 straight months until they made it happen. But for Trump, they only condemn his crimes against US in riddles.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It fucking ruled how Kevin Kiley went from gleeful MAGA to Reasonable Bipartisan going on NPR when it became clear Gavin was gonna delete him, and is like the clearest possible indicator that hardball works.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
This part, this part that has been the issue for so many minoritized folks for such a long fucking time is what just destroys me constantly: "I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends." We just want to do our goofy little stuff.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What happens when Susan Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time? Mainers pay for the price for her actions. Watch our new ad 📺
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026
Before you get too gleeful about this, remember that: * More than half of all Black people in the US live in the South * Black people in the South in rural and suburban areas, are dying the most This isn't just the GOP harming themselves. This is the GOP being very effective at harming is more.
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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How did I walk 11,000 steps on my LAZY day?
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
just a remarkable choice to fumble your way into a war voters fucking hate and then go around telling aides that you’re going to step it up immediately after those voters tell you to go fuck yourself in historic once in a century numbers
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 26/09/2026
It’s weird to see an entire nation slowly waking up to the fact that the president they elected is out of his fucking mind and corrupt beyond belief, because it’s finally affecting *them*. [ cue leopards/faces posts ]
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And Trump will act like he is doing a great thing.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 26/09/2026
Price of heating oil breaks record set in 2022
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Price of heating oil breaks record set in 2022
At $6.02 per gallon, the cost of heating oil is up 81% from this time last year.
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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lmfao
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Fine Mess Pottery @finemesspottery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 2026 Cat Dish Fundraiser is on! For every 10 dishes I sell, I will sponsor a cat's adoption fee at Kennebec Valley Humane Society. I choose cats who have barriers to adoption or who have been at the shelter too long. Shop at the link & help a cat find a home: fine-mess-pottery.square.site
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 25/09/2026
We need a constant drum beat for UNIVERSAL basic income that only gets louder and louder. Consider taking a moment each day to post at least one thing about the need for UBI, or to repost what others have posted. I do this every day. You can use my timeline as a quality filter to save time. ✊️
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
The elections have begun! Make your dollar go further with our data-driven impact fund! #BlueWaveIn40Days secure.actblue.com/donate/mswbl...
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Support the MSW Blue Wave Impact Fund!
Show your support with a contribution.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I used to think the sci-fi trope that an advanced society forgot how to fix the machines on which it depended to survive was ridiculous.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think Lesbian Bar-gate illustrations something I said, there was nothing wrong with "woke 1" as an idea, what was wrong and we should acknowledge, was there were lots of horrible bullies happy to use social justice and therapy speak coded words to bully and justify their bullying
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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why are the trumpers all so angry? Like, they are ALWAYS angry. They were angry during trump 1, during the Biden administration, for the entirety of trump 2. They’re the most miserable people alive.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
i think it is worth noting that one of the first actual elected democrats to prominently call for underbussing trans people, seth moulton, just got crushed in his primary 65-35
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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026
The interesting question is, imo, "What DO we call this, how do we talk about what LLMs do without confusing ourselves, because their output feels a lot like thinking/believing/knowing, even though it clearly isn't."
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 23/09/2026
buddy, if this were a D we'd already be like 5 news cycles deep into "the D party has failed. what will replace it?" discourse
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AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Never fails. I'd love to believe people will notice that trump ran the debt up to an obscene level but I don't expect Americans to have a memory longer than the average political ad.
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!
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sherri 11/07 @17x2lizards.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o... Michelle Cottle ..the real issue may be it no longer much matters what kind of Republican Collins is. With Trump running amok, & Republicans loath to stand up to him, Collins’s presence in Senate is, on balance, costing her state far more than it is contributing'
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Opinion | Susan Collins’s Luck May Be Running Out (Gift Article)
The independence and moderation of Maine’s Republican senator hardly matters anymore.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026
Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The same point applies for members of the Cabinet. The secretary of defense has proudly and openly murdered hundreds of people as official policy. Leave the official record on that as an indifferent shrug and you're not doing anything to tell future secretaries not to do the same or worse.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He really, really, doesn't want to be impeached again. If nothing else, subjecting him to the thing he hates, and which less insane presidents are even keener to avoid, is a way to impose some kind of cost as a disincentive for the future. Otherwise the message is be as lawless as you want.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
White people reflexively default to the shoulds/the law/the rules, because all of those were designed to work for them. On almost every issue that Black people raise as problematic, there is a contingent that insists "couldn't happen because" of the system designed to work for them. archive.ph/DvLZs
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026
if what’s alleged in this story is true, not only should collins lose, she should also go to prison
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026
like, this isn’t ticky tacky “influence” stuff that’s grimy but legal, this is straight up, big money, capital-B bribery, sought by collins knowingly and deliberately
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They're not against abortions. They're against freedom.
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Texas Abortion-Ban Author Admits Affair as Former Mistress Alleges He Funded Her Abortions
Texas Republican Giovanni Capriglione has admitted an affair with Alex Grace but denies her allegation that he paid for abortions, threatening legal action over the claims.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins is corrupt, the FBI probably had her, but Trump made the investigation go away? Collins’ actions show she’s been on board with the corrupt, anti-democracy ideological project since at least 2017—while pretending to be “concerned” about it—but a personal angle too fills in some blanks.
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