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A Wild Lib Appeared

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Here I share silliness, intriguing articles, thoughts on politics, books, & more. Follow along for the fun! 🥴🫠😭 #ElectionSky #BookSky Issues I often focus on: economy, civil rights, healthcare, housing, immigration, foreign policy, climate change. 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇷🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16h
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 14h
A final note about this Schmitt Hawks/Hawkeyes Jack Smith debacle... Because this facepalm involves sports and Caitlin Clark, this incident is almost certainly breaking through to a large number of non-political folks. I'm sure that'll help Republicans win the midterms... 🤡 #VoteBlue #BlueWave2026
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22h
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 19h
They can steal your recipe, but the sauce won't taste the same.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 20h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 22h
When you're a former Senate chief of staff witnessing one of the great staff fuck-ups of all time
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 21h
The victim, who narrates the spot, notes that her children were at home when she was raped and could hear "everything that happened." They were her attacker's children, too. The admakers chose not to include that detail in their ad but did mention it on a companion website.
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Pete Ricketts and the John Arias Pardon | Nebraska
Pete Ricketts voted to pardon John Arias, convicted of first-degree sexual assault and originally charged with weapon use, terroristic threats and false imprisonment, while victim Jody Snogren was not...
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 21h
Deleted a previous version of a tweet sharing this ad because we didn't want to suggest that the detail about the convicted rapist, John Arias, being the estranged husband of the victim was some sort of mitigation. To the contrary—it makes it even worse.
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Pardon
YouTube video by Nebraska Values
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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republican 🤡Eric Schmitt🤡 should be laughed out of the U.S. Senate for such an outlandish false accusation. My gosh #Missouri, why are you letting such a corrupt idiot represent you? You should all be so embarrassed you got duped by Schmitt.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This might be the greatest political attack ad of all time.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A key detail from this poll: "...when asked which candidate they think will actually win, Ramaswamy (53%) has the advantage over Acton (43%)." And that's an advantage for Dems. GOP voters don't think Dems can win, so they're not as worried as they should be... #Ohio #OHGov #VoteBlue #BlueWave2026
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
there is a point past which even a bad person with rotten right-wing politics is sincerely offended for the right reasons by financially predatory conduct and arresting a pregnant mom in front of her toddler for the crime of poverty is well past that point
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New Jersey Liberal Premier @njstopwonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hamilton really pulled something off here. He’s not only successfully baited Marshall into speaking on this, he’s lucked into Marshall being almost obsessive in trying to defend himself and what he did. Loads of damage to Marshall’s image for free courtesy of the Senator himself
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall has now spent more than $1,500 in less than 36 hours to promote his Facebook ad arguing that Meischa Zimmerman deserved to be arrested in front of her two-year-old daughter for missing a $50 payment on a judgment debt payment plan and also generally being poor
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW! Today on The View, host Ana Navarro called out her congresswoman, María Elvira Salazar, for hypocrisy on ICE. But then @ananavarro.bsky.social named her district's cities, asked viewers in #FL27 to "go vote", and talked up the Dem candidate, Eliott Rodriguez! @erodforcongress.bsky.social! 🔥🔥😂
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If any race could be a BIG upset win for Dems on election night this November, it's #KSSen. There are a lot of signs that something really special is happening in Kansas right now. The GOP incumbent, Roger Marshall, is facing scandals, while Adam Hamilton is surging. #Kansas #kspol #BlueWave2026
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 28/09/2026
Fort Worth's Tarrant County was long a bastion for Texas Republicans up and down the ballot. Alisa Simmons has the chance to become its first Democratic leader since 1986 in a contest that could impact her party's statewide fortunes.
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Morning Digest: Texas Democrats campaign for control of battleground county
The race to lead once-red Tarrant County could have big implications statewide
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Half of Obama's own party threw a tantrum over his novel "don't do stupid shit" doctrine in relation to Iran. Trump then immediately tore the JCPOA up to little resistance. The next president did next to nothing to try and revive it and instead spent 3 years begging Saudi to be friends with Israel.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers wrote a House Intelligence Committee report which had false information in it about Iranian nuclear power *in 2006*. He was condemned by the IAEA twice. He is now the Republican nominee. Brett McGurk, Biden's top MENA aide, fought against reviving the JCPOA and supports the current war.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/09/2026
The next No Kings is right around the corner! Find (or organize) your local event to drive unprecedented early voting and recruit volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Part 4 | How Pete Ricketts Got His Jobs
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Talarico: "Billionaires are pouring money into TX to try to buy this Senate seat ... they are hoping that Texans will care more about these manufactured culture wars than actual wars. They're hoping Texans will care more about pronouns than prices. But I think Texans see through this distraction."
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republicans are rich doofuses who have never heard of a deductible.
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Chaz Nuttycombe @chaznuttycombe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've been talking with a lot of Republicans this week whom I've known for at least a few cycles across the country, N=15, and in my nine years of these kinds of background conversations with both sides of the aisle, I have never heard one side feel so doomed about an election.
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Doc Arson @docarson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you are gay, that’s fine with me. But if you’re gay, in the closet, and advocate for policies that hurt LGBTQ, that’s not fine with me.
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
strong contender for nastiest ad of the cycle
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the first time in this election, the Cook Political Report has more seats as Solid/Likely/Lean Democratic than Solid/Likely/Lean Republican. They're finally catching up to the reality we've all been seeing on the ground: this is a #BlueWave. #BlueWave2026 #VoteBlue
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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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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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 25/09/2026
If the ballroom construction is such a sensitive national security matter, why is Trump inviting the Chinese delegation on a tour???
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The DoJ asked the Supreme Court to pause a previous order from a federal judge that requires federal immigration officials to give deportees more due process, despite the Courts consistently determining that deportees need notice and a chance to challenge. More: substack.com/profile/2357...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
The Justice Department asked the US Supreme Court to pause a February 2026 order from a federal judge that requires federal immigration officials to give deportees more due process. The Courts have co...
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 24/09/2026
Lucked out with the weather in Valdez this week. Grateful for every family, city leader, and small business owner that came out!
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Collins claims Maine women’s rights are secure after Dobbs. Theyre not. #mepolitics amyfried.substack.com/p/collins-ma...
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Contrary to Collins, Maine’s laws aren’t enough to protect women
How Susan Collins misleads on abortion, Part 2
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 24/09/2026
#NV02 is one of those very conservative districts that nonetheless seems to be in play thanks to a strong Dem candidate and a *very* poor GOP candidate. Here's the latest from @danmerica.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
David Flippo, a Republican congressional candidate in Nevada, inflated his military record multiple times in recent years by claiming he received a Bronze Star “for valor” during his two-decade Air Force career.

Flippo received a Bronze Star in 2004 for his service, but not the Bronze Star with valor, a much rarer distinction that recognizes heroism in direct combat with an enemy. Experts on military awards say such exaggerations are tantamount to lying. The Flippo campaign acknowledged the misrepresentations but downplayed them as “honest mistakes” by staff members.
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Briana @neverstopthefight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This young man put together an excellent ad for Keisha Lance Bottoms. Pay attention Georgia to the facts not slander. LETS GO! VOTE BLUE 💙🗳️
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Sam Forstag @samforstag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning, Kalispell.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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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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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a damn good billboard. Other Dem campaigns should replicate it to target their own Republican opponents. #MTAL #BlueWave2026
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A Wild Lib Appeared @awildlibappeared.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most Republican fearmongering is projection. So I have to pose the question, chat...if Tommy Tuberville is a closet furry, what animal would he be? 🤔🐼🐻🐯🤷 Oh, and if you happen to be stuck in Alabama right now, please vote for Doug Jones. #ALGov #VoteBlue #furries
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I thought this *had* to be fake. But you can see the [insert polite word for "moron"] Tuberville ACTUALLY SAYING this, in Congressional Record: www.govinfo.gov/link/crec/la... This guy is running against Doug Jones for governor. God save Alabama. fallows.substack.com/p/running-as...
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
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