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when in trouble or in doubt run in circles, scream and shout

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We have to impeach him.
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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Schumer rightfully getting a lot of flack. But Durbin should be getting just as much flack. He's the Senate whip. His job is to whip votes to hold the line. Yet he just voted to cave to Trump and allow healthcare premiums to skyrocket. Both need to step down from leadership.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Centrists and moderates, what have you done for America lately? Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago. Just useless.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 29/10/2025
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
block this shit
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
this case will get pilloried for its lawlessness, and correctly so, but we also have to see this nonsense (and most of Trump’s bs) as the opportunity it is. you can go make the law what you want it to be. fake? doesn’t matter, you can make it real. what we need is a left willing to seize that.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 18/09/2025
Just to be clear, Charlie Kirk was a racist piece of shit, Israel is committing genocide in Occupied Palestine, and trans rights are human rights, and if a million people file ARDC complaints against me or send me death threats I will never recant any of those things.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Fire Kilmeade.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
So some deaths are funny and other are so serious that people should have their entire lives ruined because they didn’t feel sad about them
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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/09/2025
we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/09/2025
We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/09/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 28/08/2025
“This is not the first time the Israeli government has committed a live-streamed war crime and then told all of you that it was just a mistake.” @premthakker.bsky.social lists 10 times that Israel has attacked civilians, journalists and health workers and brushed it aside with an apology.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Just now…
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.
Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies
Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We can play too.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."
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I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids
Perhaps controversially.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Phang: You think Ghislaine Maxwell is going to appear for a deposition before House Oversight and implicate herself in any way? She’s appealing her convictions and sentence.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2025
Records obtained by ProPublica show the Trump administration is preparing to shut down seven major investigations of alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where HUD already found civil rights violations had occurred. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under…
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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The new Jubilee video is like 15 racists vs one journalist or something and all the racists are using it to get big Twitter followers and I’m begging people to understand that this is not a media entity operating with anyone’s best interest in mind
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
need 30-50 hoggs
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 17/07/2025
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In 1965, the government recruited thousands of strapping high-school boys to replace Mexican workers on farms in Texas and California. A lot of the boys went on strike. Others quit. The program "was considered a giant failure and was never tried again." www.npr.org/sections/the...
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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 09/07/2025
If you’re not advocating for a socialist transformation of society I don’t actually care to hear about how everyone should be non violent because you don’t even believe that. You believe in the grotesque violence of capitalism. You have just accepted it and normalized it.
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"Iowa City Transit’s fare-free pilot program will continue beyond its initial two-year run, following a City Council decision to extend it due to positive impacts on ridership and sustainability."
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Iowa City extends fare free transit, expecting 68% boost in ridership
The program, which started in August 2023, aims to eliminate public transit barriers, increase ridership, and reduce carbon emissions.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples. They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
WATCH: “If Biden answered any Q like this can you imagine how long @jaketapper’s book would be?” Asked how long detainees will stay at “Alligator Alcatraz”, Trump spent 3 mins on how much time he plans to stay in Florida. The media didn’t even cover it. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLoIPar...
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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 02/07/2025
We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys Sam Walton & Reverend Daniel 'Woody' Woodhouse: In 2017, we did exactly what #PalestineAction did last week Our actions were extremely similar to theirs, and so were our aims. novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...
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We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Novara Media
In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Arendt says you know you're in a police state if facing criminal charges makes you safer. "Only as an offender against the law can he gain protection from it. As long as his trial and his sentence last, he will be safe from that arbitrary police rule against which there are no lawyers & no appeals."
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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 30/06/2025
The best way to combat the enshitififcation of a product is to stop using it and find a replacement. This is an argument against Google Search (and Chrome). buttondown.com/natebowling/...
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Breaking Up with Google Search
Today's newsletter is a bit of a hodgepodge. Hope and I are back in Tacoma and spending quality time with family along with attending our usual events and...
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons blasts non-white politicians for criticizing ICE, threatens them. www.boston.com/news/politic...
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‘I’m demanding that they stop’: ICE director bashes Wu, other politicians for criticizing agency
ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons lambasted Mayor Wu and other politicians for “ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Short exchange that distills everything
Three tweets:

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Tonight shows the complete political homelessness of
American Jews. There's still November, but this day will live
in infamy. It is that bad.
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Josh Olson @joshuarolson • 8h
American Jews voted for Zohran in massive numbers.
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Shut up Nazi
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."
Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts "fuck you” and ignore any such court order. Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.21 - Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove's statement because, to Mr. Reuveni's knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership - in any Administration – had ever suggested the Department ofJustice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a "fuck you.” Mr. Reuveni was in disbelief, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice consistently advises its clients of their obligation to follow court orders, not to ignore them. Mr. Reuveni knew that it was absurd and unlawful to do otherwise, a proposition that Mr. Reuveni felt even more certain of after a brief conversation with his supervisor, August Flentje, shortly after the meeting.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
THANK YOU to the 79 House Dems (see below) who voted against tabling Rep. Al Green's motion to impeach Donald Trump for high crimes & misdemeanors for his unconstitutional usurpation of Congress's warmaking powers. Shame on the 128 who voted with the GOP to kill it.
Alma Adams (NC-12) 	Veronica Escobar (TX-16) 	Summer Lee (PA-12) 	Linda Sánchez (CA-37) 
Yasmin Ansari (AZ-03) 	Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) 	Teresa Leger Fernandez (MN-03) 	Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) 
Becca Balint (VT-AL) 	Dwight Evans (PA-03) 	Doris Matsui (CA-07) 	David Scott (GA-13) 
Nanette Barragán (CA-44) 	Valerie Foushee (NC-04) 	Jim McGovern (MA-02) 	Brad Sherman (CA-32) 
Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) 	Laura Friedman (CA-30) 	LaMonica McIver (NJ-10) 	Lateefah Simon (CA-12) 
Brendan Boyle (PA-02) 	Maxwell Frost (FL-10) 	Rob Menendez (NJ-08) 	Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) 
Shontel Brown (OH-11) 	John Garamendi (CA-08) 	David Min (CA-47) 	Eric Swalwell (CA-14) 
Troy Carter (LA-02) 	Chuy García (IL-4) 	Gwen Moore (WI-04) 	Mark Takano (CA-39) 
Greg Casar (TX-35) 	Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) 	Kevin Mullin (CA-15) 	Shri Thanedar (MI-13) 
Joquin Castro (TX-20) 	Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) 	Jerry Nadler (NY-12) 	Mike Thompson (CA-04) 
Judy Chu (CA-28) 	Al Green (TX-09) 	Donald Norcross (NJ-01) 	Bennie Thompson (MS-02) 
Gil Cisneros (CA-31) 	Jahana Hayes (CT-5) 	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) 	Dina Titus (NV-01) 
Yvette Clarke (NY-09) 	Jared Huffman (CA-02) 	Ilhan Omar (MN-05) 	Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) 
Steve Cohen (TN-09) 	Glenn Ivey (MD-04) 	Chellie Pingree (ME-01) 	Jill Tokuda (HI-02) 
Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) 	Sara Jacobs (CA-51) 	Mark Pocan (WI-02) 	Norma Torres (CA-35) 
Danny Davis (IL-07) 	Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) 	Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) 	Nydia Velázquez (NY-07) 
Diana DeGette (CO-01) 	Hank Johnson (GA-04) 	Delia Ramirez (IL-03) 	Maxine Waters (CA-43) 
Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) 	Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) 	Emily Randall (MA-06) 	Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) 
Maxine Dexter (OR-03) 	Robin Kelly (IL-02) 	Luz Rivas (CA-29) 	Nikema Williams (GA-05) 
Lloyd Doggett (TX-37) 	Raj Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) 	Raul Ruiz (CA-25)
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
david hogg off the top rope on the other site
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The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free.
Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h
The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period.
47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat...
Early Voting By Age Group
(Raw Votes Cast)
Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
8,487
4,941
13,096
26,524
25-34
29,557
15,620
45,195
90,372
35-44
20,591
10,365
31,488
62,444
45-54
14,438
7,411
23,252
45,101
55-64
19,159
10,548
27,079
56,786
65-74
23,131
14,055
24,861
62,047
75+
16,071
10,346
15,483
41,900



Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate)


Age Group
Days 1-4
Days 5-6
Days 7-9
Total (Days 1-9)
18-24
6.5%
6.7%
7.3%
6.9%
25-34
22.5%
21.3%
25.0%
23.5%
35-44
15.7%
14.1%
17.4%
16.2%
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
BREAKING: SCOTUS over liberals' dissent, blocks district court order requiring process before carrying out third country removals. SCOTUS's order allows Trump admin to carry out third country removals without the protections required—notice and opportunity to raise a challenge. No reason is given.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A1153
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18, 2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25-cv-10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 23/06/2025
California has introduced a bill that will prohibit all law enforcement in the state from masking their faces
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
migrantinsider.com
ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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