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Liberal, Star Wars Nerd, Sommelier and Hospitality professional, aspiring writer, UNC, To Dare is To Do #Spurs, Always an ally

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h
Mike Rogers led the charge to flood opioids into our communities. Here's what happened.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 5h
Liberty. Capitol Hill.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:
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California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know
Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BIG NEWS: Our campaign for U.S. Congress has been added to the @electdemocrats.bsky.social’s Red to Blue list of the most competitive races in this country. This is our moment to deliver an affordable future for Tennessee.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 6h
Under the fucking prison.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 7h
Ms. Williams if your nasty! Such a bad ass!
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 7h
Well.. thats not good.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"Whatever conclusions reached by the commission of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires, they'll be handed off to Hegseth, who believes wars are won by whichever side can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military is dragging DoD down by the day."
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 13h
Throwback Tuesday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTa0...
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They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 9h
He also said he fucked over cattle ranchers with imported beef because they needed votes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
If Joe Biden got one word out of place, Jake Tapper would write a book about it. If you’re tired of the double standard- try independent media. It’s free. It’s award-winning. It has swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...
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Headlines for October 6, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 11h
I just walked through a spider web so big, I thought I was on a quest for the Golden Claw..
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“This election is likely our last chance to stop the march of fascism led by Trump and his enablers seeking to hold onto power by any means necessary…We should take seriously Trump’s repeated assertions that he intends to stay in power after 2028.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...
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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within
By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Someone finally told him its illegal as fuck.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like having a pinecone shoved in my a$$.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ken Paxton: “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and what issues are going to matter because it’s all coming from D.C. I don’t control the message or what we’re doing. I don’t have ability to change anything. I have to live with whatever I’ve got. It’s a challenge.”
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Ken Paxton Admits Team Trump Controls His Campaign in Leaked Audio
Paxton complained he can’t change anything about his own campaign.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Those caravans were weird as shit.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Too many Americans have absorbed & tolerate Trump’s insane, destructive behavior as a fact of life…the corporate media has facilitated that mentality…we are facing a constitutional emergency with an exec branch working to centralize its power at all costs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...
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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within
By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s new term and my list of dread: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
October 4, 2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is not ok.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are you talking about? Progressives are going to win damn near every primary.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whoa! Did Secret Service fail to get the memo or is the White House violating the court order? Either look is bad – either incompetent or contemptuous. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am a democrat. And yes, it's specific.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nearly 3 billion opioid pills entered MI within 7 years. Big Pharma made billions and bought off politicians like Mike Rogers, who took $1M. I put free Narcan in 100 places in Wayne County to fix what he broke. Today, on National Save a Life Day, take a moment to learn how Narcan can save a life.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Everything for our kids. Because all our kids are all our kids.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you think he has your best interests in mind?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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baileyjames978.bsky.social @baileyjames978.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He's a corporate hack. It's readily apparent.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Do you think the government of Israel is committing a genocide?”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
This November, you’ll see five questions on your ballot about making government work faster for New Yorkers. Make sure you’re registered to vote by Oct. 24 and learn what’s on the ballot at nyc.gov/fast.
This November, New Yorkers will be able to vote on how fast our government runs. There will be 5 questions on your ballot on November 3rd.Simplifying construction to speed up housing.
Making it easier for small businesses to start outdoor dining.
Speeding up city contracting.
Fast-tracking street safety projects 
And strengthening our city’s savings. 
Register to vote by October 24th.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This show is easily among the happiest (& zaniest) experiences I've ever had doing voiceover. Great scripts. Great cast. Great FUN! Now: Let's... Get... DANGEROUS!!! #DarkwingDuck #DisneyPlus
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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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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Paxton took donations from Chinese investors who help facilitate the buying up of Texas land, the very thing he has accused Talarico of doing www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Exclusive: Ken Paxton donations tied to Chinese real estate investment firm
Paxton's campaign has taken in $40,000 from donors who work for companies that facilitate the foreign investments in Texas real estate, according to records.
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“We are fed up with ICE & DHS telling us lies… NO MORE TRAFFIC STOPS BY ICE.” Wilber’s lawyer says he was sideswiped and shot by ICE without any clue who they even were — and ICE then immediately lied about what happened (again)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ohio’s only national forest is being opened back up to fracking. The federal government just leased oil and gas rights beneath nearly 2,800 acres of Wayne National Forest for about $11 million, the first competitive lease sale there since 2017.
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