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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The immensely wealthy men who run the AI companies are forcing the economy to serve their dreams and crowding out everyone else's.
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AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/ In May, I wrote: “The real fraud is the con that this is about fraud at all.” I warned fraud claims could become cover for cutting benefits. Four months later, 760,000 ACA enrollees are being removed in an anti-fraud sweep. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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badfragments.bsky.social @badfragments.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is about the upcoming Midterms, and only that, so no, they haven't been voted in yet.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: I just listened to the press conference with Oz & Vance...and sure enough, just as I suspected, they're apparently relying heavily on AN AI MODEL to "decide" which ACA enrollees meet the financial eligibility standards and which ones don't.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 1960, these people were assuring you, ASSURING you JFK would allow the will of the Pope to override Congress. The playbook literally never changes.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Image of Brendan CarrCarr graduated from Georgetown University, then earned his law degree at Catholic University, where he met his wife, Machalagh, who went on to serve as chief of staff for Kevin McCarthy when the California Republican was House speaker.They are among D.C.'s power couples. Earlier this year, she joined billionaire Peter Thiel's data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026
DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy
washingtonsun.com
Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
While RFK Jr.'s been shouting "Make America Healthy Again" from the rooftops, over 160 foods have been recalled so far this year. There’s nothing healthy about food-borne illness.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Census Bureau tells staff not to talk publicly about its new rule, which would dramatically shift how the survey is conducted and redistribute political power from blue states to red ones.
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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Smithsonian does not belong to the President, to the Administration, or to any politician. It belongs to the American people. Period.  We’re here today to say Hands Off the Smithsonian!
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Reps. Stansbury, Jackson, and Mfume Introduce Bill to Defend the Smithsonian
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Attorneys for Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) alert the judge that Team Trump appears to be considering demolishing Kennedy Center New filing this morning ====>
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026
We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17/09/2026
Another win for Illinois — best in the Midwest for teachers!
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Best & Worst States for Teachers in 2026
Best & Worst States for Teachers in 2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.
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badfragments.bsky.social @badfragments.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
First they need to get voted in though...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/09/2026
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the ‌procedure is unconstitutional.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 16/09/2026
💚 HCR.
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Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)
💚 HCR
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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badfragments.bsky.social @badfragments.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People can withhold their vote.Dems can't control both branches and get rid of ICE if people won't vote them in.So people withholding their vote from a Dem now help keep/put a Republican in office which will embolden ICE even more.Help keep Republicans in office and we get more of this nightmare.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The United States government had $46.5 billion, a fleet of bulldozers, and the entire Department of Homeland Security. A county water board in Texas beat all of it with one thing they forgot to do. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-just...
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Trump Just Went 0-4 In Court. Even A County Water Board Beat Him.
A professor, a VA employee, and an attorney general who filed eleven times before a court answered
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.
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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026
There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Casey Revkin helps more than 80 children and 67 families a week who are held at Dilley Detention Center in the Texas desert. She joins me to explain how she’s sending more than $10,000 a week to these families’ commissary accounts to help them get food and essentials. youtu.be/EmE26ez2t-Q?...
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Trump's ICE Facilities EXPOSED as ONE WOMAN Reveals SHOCKING INSIDER SECRETS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design, it inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue
Read more here.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/09/2026
If SCOTUS allows Trump’s anti-mail voting order to move forward for the midterms, it may rely on Purcell to justify the chaos that decision would unleash. If so, the justices would be stretching an already strained legal doctrine far beyond the limits of logic: demdock.com/4h0tpXk
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/kXtHd... Don't conflate the top 1% of INCOME earners pay taxes, and the top 1% of the WEALTH earners who don't. Have a listen! @hcrhq.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @raymadoff.bsky.social
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A False Narrative
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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badfragments.bsky.social @badfragments.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Someone who knows about it... (Heather Cox Richardson shared this and I will too.) bsky.app/profile/more...
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please note that this project is not an initiative of the current administration, or cause for alarm because of that. (I've worked just upstairs and now down the hall from the WI State Cartographer's Office, and they've been updating people about this for years, along with lots of other good work.)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026
WATCH: Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our documentary with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
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Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Also a reminder that if you're already a subscriber and/or would just like to buy me a coffee (or something stronger 🥃), you can do so here:
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Aaron Rupar
Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🇺🇸❗️The US is pressuring NATO allies to dismantle the International Criminal Court, - Politico. During a closed meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels in July, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker called on Alliance countries to help dismantle the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute.
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