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@barcachicago.bsky.social
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Proud Democrat. Wisconsinite in Illinois, I do my canvassing in Wisconsin :-) Now that we have fair maps, let’s win the state legislature majority in Wisconsin! 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇺🇦 Balloon Juice lurker since 2007 :-)

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22h
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
YES!
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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm attending WisDems's event, “Bridge Building Canvass in Kenosha!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That ache in your heart, that pit in your stomach, that's what reminds us we're all in this together, that we're not just one United States, we're one united people.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sen Jon Ossoff (D-GA) just gets it, if you’re tired of the high costs, chaos and corruption we can’t allow despair to make us not want to vote. Check your registration, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot to get a #BlueWaveIn30Days
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Always remember this figure from the Financial Times that showed that @kamalaharris.com outperformed virtually all incumbent party candidates worldwide in 2024. She ran an incredibly strong campaign in the worst possible circumstances & saved dozens of congressional seats for the Democrats.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Its just a coincidence this dude discovered people of South Asian descent were a problem after an African American-South Asian woman became the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties. Yeah, that's it. Just a coincidence.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
During the Biden administration, the Treasury Department made cracking down on sanctions evasion a centerpiece of its effort to punish Russia. The department imposed thousands of additional sanctions, targeting companies and networks designed to move money around financial restrictions.

The pressure has largely disappeared. Since President Trump returned to office, the administration has removed more restrictions than it has added, according to a Times analysis of Treasury data.

That has made it harder for banks to screen for illicit activity, in part because new actors and organizations can spring up without fresh information. A7 shell companies, for example, have facilitated payments to companies that banked at major American and European banks, The Times found.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In July, I led several Senators in a request to the Secretary of the Air Force to disclose how much money is being stolen from taxpayers to pay for Trump’s luxury Qatari jet. Today I got a reply. 100 words. Telling Congress to screw off. Can’t wait for a Democratic Senate!
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
YES!!
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE is a danger to every community. People shot in broad daylight. Inhumane conditions. Deporting citizens. All funded by more than $70B from the GOP’s Big Ugly Law.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We stopped the federal administration from cutting critical grant programs meant to retain teachers in underserved school districts.  With this win, we can provide students with the programs they need to succeed and thrive.
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Judge blocks Trump’s $600 million cuts to DEI grant funding for teachers
A federal judge in Boston found the administration couldn’t even define what diversity, equity and inclusion is.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This seems fine, I can’t think of any reasons why we might need counterterrorism expertise right now
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Global humiliation served daily…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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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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WisDems @wisdems.org · 25/09/2026
MAGA extremist Congressman Tom Tiffany has 3 billionaires funding most of his campaign. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered this recently. Then the journalist who wrote this piece, and another journalist from the Sentinel, were banned from a Tiffany event. tinyurl.com/y6mwtnwv
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL HEADLINE "3 billionaires put Tom Tiffany in a big cash lead over David Crowley"

IMAGE A trenchcoat with three heads coming out of the front. Dianne Hendricks, Elizabeth Uihlein, Richard Uihlein. Tom Tiffany's head is on top through the neck hole of the coat.
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David Crowley @davidcrowley4wi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MAGA Congressman Tom Tiffany can try to divide and distract Wisconsinites, but we are united, locked in, and ready to keep him out of the governor’s seat this November.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/09/2026
Blanche quietly turns over unredacted FBI notes on Trump accuser without telling court
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Blanche quietly turns over unredacted FBI notes on Trump accuser without telling court
Attorney General Todd Blanche quietly turned over unredacted handwritten FBI notes involving a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual and physical abuse when she was a teenager — but apparently left no notice on the court docket, according to attorney and journalist Katie Phang.Phang sai...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)
pic of JD standing while talking to reporters on an airport tarmac looking off balance and a bit like 3 kids in a suit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Amplify.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is hilarious. 😂 😂
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 15/09/2026
Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender
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Spanberger quietly kills Youngkin-era transgender rulemaking effort
“There’s no legal authority to move forward with rulemaking and prior administrations may have tried to create lanes and we’re not doing that,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sarah McBride is running for leadership. This news broke three hours ago but not a single person on this app posted about it. 🤔
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barcachicago.bsky.social @barcachicago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm attending WisDems's event, “Bridge Building Canvass in Kenosha!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Bridge Building Canvass in Kenosha! · Mobilize
Ready to make a difference this year? Join your neighbors and fellow Democrats as we get out into our communities to listen, engage, and build momentum for the months ahead. Whether you're a seasoned ...
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If Black Americans could survive hundreds of years of slavery and legal degradation, you can survive the next 2 years of Trump. Stop the histrionics:
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oklahoma Republicans are paying people in prison $2 an hour to call voters on behalf of the GOP. oklahomavoice.com/2026/08/30/oklahoma-prison-inmates-operated-political-insurance-calls-centers-behind-bars/
Background: closeup of Black man in orange jumpsuit standing behind bars | text: OKLAHOMA REPUBLICANS ARE PAYING PEOPLE IN PRISON $2/HOUR TO CALL VOTERS FOR THE GOP
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