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DC Local | Gemini Zoomer | JD'd | I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive [...] So, I'm forced to be an optimist. I'm forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must - James Baldwin

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UNSEAL THE POWERPOINT
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h
Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’
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Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h
most cucked man alive
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Sassy Denise @sassydenise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pre the Trump Criminal Age this scandal would be career ending. Post Trump it doesn’t even make the news. I’ll never be able to understand this crap that’s now considered acceptable.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reuters: FAMILY OF RENEE GOOD SUES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER FATAL MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING BY IMMIGRATION AGENT
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
They gave her two syringes of pentobarbital and she's alive...as far as I'm concerned, God granted a stay Sign from the universe to call the execution off
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
who once what
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
last night we had ed sheeran apologizing for saying what’s happening in palestine is bad and at the same time david byrne putting up a huge graphic that says MAKE AMERICA GAY AGAIN and showing footage of ICE brutality to a sold out crowd. you can actually be famous and successful AND give a shit.
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Mila ........ Flip The United States Senate Blue 💯💙🇺🇸💙 I’m Blue @iwantmycountry26.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Robert Kraft Is a Epstein Island Visitor. The New England Patriots Owner Is a Child Rapist
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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026
A lot of people really have no idea what's coming with the energy crisis in the coming months. A lot of the crisis from the start of the war were postponed but those tricks can no longer work. We're about to see the worst energy crisis in 50 years.
Screenshot of an X post by The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) reporting breaking news about Saudi oil exports.
The post reads:
"BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has informed its European customers that late-September crude oil cargoes will be cancelled, due to the East-West pipeline being shut after last week's attacks and Yemen's Houthis taking over the entire Red Sea coast, per three sources to Reuters.
Yanbu had five to seven days of crude stocks left for export when the East-West line went down, per industry sources on Saturday, and cancelling late-September cargoes means Riyadh does not expect the line back before they run out. Europe has been taking Saudi crude through Yanbu because Hormuz has been closed since spring. On top of the pipeline, the Houthis appear to have struck the YASREF refinery at that same port this morning."
The post is dated 10:20 AM · Sep 15, 2026, with 155.9K views.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Mitch McConnell says he's going to be voting in the Senate tonight after not being seen in public since mid-June and refusing to answer questions or speak in public about his health since he "had a bad fall."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this statemement robert kraft gave to @wgbh.org re: macklemore and ed sheeran is so gross, framing his ultimatum to sheeran as though he was doing jews a service by protecting us from "hate speech." there is nothing hateful about saying "free palestine." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A post has created a ton of online discourse in Texas today, including some GOP officials condemning it. It’s from Bo French, GOP nominee in a statewide race in TX (Railroad Commissioner, which deals with oil & energy). Picture shows nonwhite students cheering; I didn’t want to share full photo.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pretty much the worst dumbest most dangerous thing Ted could do
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers for that coat button
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UCLA left this particular Bluesky post out of their allegations. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be because I clearly state I’m “not celebrating violence or murder”…?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The Texas Supreme Court blocked a GOP-led county’s plan to switch its local voting maps between the primary and November election. The decision rejects an egregious strategy to optimize partisan advantage at the expense of voters.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow, if there's any truth to this, we should probably open up all the government's files on child trafficking and pedophile rings and their powerful protectors
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Welcome to the race, Governor Abbott. To catch you up to speed, I've spent the last year talking to Texans about the issues that matter to them: saving Texas schools and putting money in their pockets. Texans are ready for change this November.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: NAACP files amicus brief in defense of mail-in voting: “This is nothing more than a desperate, ill-advised and unconstitutional attempt to weaponize the U.S. Postal Service to deny,” organization says.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/09/2026
Yesterday, I was proud to stand with New York’s labor movement to rally for worker power and demand a city that works for all of us, not just the wealthiest few.
Mayor Mamdani embraces a worker in an orange vest.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/09/2026
in terms of optimal impact, the time to make a big outlandish promise is like four or five days before the election, not two months before
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Closing comment for me would just be the ramblings of an old man in a half-empty auditorium changed the minds of zero people”
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org filed a Hatch Act complaint against Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy He pitched DOT policy at a super PAC event in Michigan & tied it to a Senate endorsement You can't electioneer with your cabinet title. Congress settled that in 1939 Our complaint👇 -TN
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Garcia: There’s a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors that are here in Dallas. And the survivors are saying that they are also disgusted that Todd Blanche is out there giving speeches while refusing criminal convictions, while refusing to release the rest of the files.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history." (p. 50) www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/257...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander order
The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And then there’s this response from the alignment science lead at Anthropic
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Amy Acton, Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate, was attacked at a campaign event; multiple people reportedly injured
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Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured
Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Historian here. Let me explain how in the past far-right parties in Germany have caused problems not only for their own country, but for other countries as well: (1/?)
Far-right AfD wins historic victory in German state
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Clear now, RFK Jr? “The child contracted measles, and measles caused the death of the child”
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Infant died of measles in Pennsylvania, coroner confirms
The Lancaster County coroner said he did not know if this death is one of the two disputed by federal health officials.
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