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Kenneth Nunn @professornunn.bsky.social · 1h
Guys! I just got back from two days driving through central Virginia. No interstates, just two lane county roads. I went through lots of small two horse towns and passed multiple farms. I DID NOT SEE ONE TRUMP SIGN OR ONE IDIOT IN A RED HAT! MAGA is going to lose in November, at least in Virginia!
Landscape photograph of central Virginia with Blue Ridge Mountains in the background.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 14h
Decisions over what happens to your body shouldn't depend on who wins the next election. That's why David Crowley supports a constitutional amendment to guarantee reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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State Senator Dianne H. Hesselbein @senhesselbein.bsky.social · 20h
It was an absolute pleasure to join Rep. Joers at Wisconsin Heights to recognize Marissa Bode, best known for her role as Nessarose in Wicked. Having her return to her alma mater to share her story and encourage the next generation makes this recognition even more special.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h
National Republicans just pulled nearly $2 million of spending out of the Georgia Senate race, per Dem source who shared ad-tracking data with me. The source believes some of it might get redeployed to South Carolina. Another sign of the times.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bookshop, which supports local book stores, has free shipping today! May I make a suggestion? bookshop.org/p/books/unde...
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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thin...
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what I had to say turned out not to be a column
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Something Like People
A poem
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No Coal No Gas @nocoalnogas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Phone Zap on ICE's National Tip Line Call 1-866-347-2423 and give them tips on how they can build a better world through creative noncompliance!
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Nato (Nate Orshan) @natosongs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Does someone you love live in any of these districts or cities? #FranklinCountyKY #FrankfortKY #OwenCountyKY #OwentonKY #CarrollCountyKY #CarrolltonKY #GallatinCountyKY #WarsawKY Then they need to know about Stella Pollard, Democrat for State Senate, District 20! Please share this & let 'em know!
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can counter the threats MAGA is lobbing at our elections, but this requires voters know about them and be equipped to respond accordingly. Latest from me and the fabulous @tarabuss.bsky.social anatosaurus.substack.com/p/sounding-t...
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Sounding the Mobilizing Alarm on Election Sabotage
Voters are already hearing about Trump and MAGA Republicans’ attempts to sabotage our election. We need to help them turn awareness of danger into defiance – and prepare them to prevail.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 07/10/2026
ICYMI: 24 new SF/F (plus some others) books that are out in the first part of October.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 07/10/2026
Jon Watts is reportedly directing the first episode of a new Star Wars trilogy. I'm somewhat optimistic for what this means: a new trilogy that seems like it's being sketched out ahead of time. But we've also been down this road before. I've jotted down some thoughts:
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Another new beginning
Jon Watts will reportedly helm the next Star Wars film
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 06/10/2026
October is packed with new books, so much so that I've split my usual book list into three parts. Here's the first one, with 24 books to check out this week alone: www.andrewliptak.com/october-2026...
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24 new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to check out in October 2026
Another packed month for readers
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Crowley for Wisconsin @davidccrowley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The many over the money. That’s how we get this done.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 06/10/2026
I post about new issues, photos, and all the usual stuff, but it’s just a lot, and it can all quickly change with a new algorithm. I’d rather spend my time writing than figuring out the latest way to self promote. The best way is always the most direct: just sign up at the source.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 06/10/2026
I've been thinking a lot about the nature and purpose of the newsletter I write, Transfer Orbit, particularly in a day and age when we're surrounded by an environment that's increasingly flooded with AI articles.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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meghan kelly @meghanbkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UMASS BIOLOGISTS DISCOVER WHAT MAY BE THE WORLD'S LOUDEST BIRDS www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
A bare-throated bellbird yelling or cawing
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 29/09/2026
The Shadows of the Leviathan series by @robertjbennett.bsky.social is a modern fantasy masterpiece, one that's delivered plenty of stomach-churning crime scenes along with a phenomenal story about an empire in decline. Here's my review of the series thus far:
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Fantasy book review: Robert Jackson Bennett's Ana and Din novels
Robert Jackson Bennett's Shadow of the Leviathan series is a modern masterpiece
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 2028 election may create "an historic opportunity for Democrats to establish a 'New New Deal,'" writes @davidrlurie.com. The challenge: building "a broad and resilient" coalition to lead us out of our political and economic crises. Yes please. No infighting. 🙂 www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...
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Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS, for a third time, rejects efforts to upend Missouri’s congressional map. Criticizing the Eighth Circuit’s actions, the Supreme Court’s order stated, “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”
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Breaking: SCOTUS, for a third time, rejects efforts to upend Missouri’s congressional map
Criticizing the Eighth Circuit’s actions, the Supreme Court’s order stated, “Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise.”
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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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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every Appropriation Bill next year should have specific instructions that Congres require an agency to submit regular, detailed accounting reports as a condition for receiving their budget. No more 17 million dollars to RFK, instead of infant mortality health.
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 25/09/2026
Hey, I’ve got a piece up on #shelfies, the newsletter edited by @lavietidhar.bsky.social and Jared Shurin! I really love reading this newsletter, and it was fun to reminisce on the books that I’ve gathered around me as a writer and reader. You can read it here: shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-1...
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Shelfies #107: Andrew Liptak
What book nut hasn't dreamed of having a wall with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf?
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WisDems @wisdems.org · 25/09/2026
MAGA extremist Congressman Tom Tiffany banned two journalists from a campaign event today. Sounds familiar.
IMAGE Meme from The Office Pam is holding two images and says "Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture. They're the same picture."

PICTURES One of a headline saying that Trump had banned 3 outlets from the White House in latest attack on press freedom. The other is an image of a journalist being banned from an event  for Republican governor nominee Tom Tiffany.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 24/09/2026
MSNOW is reporting live on air that its reporters' credentials are being restored.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly grants CNN, MS NOW, and Politico’s TRO against the Trump administration, ordering that the reporters affected “immediately” have their White House hard passes reinstated. The TRO is in effect for 14 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
For all these reasons, it is hereby ORDERED that:
1. Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, ECF No. 2, is GRANTED.
2. It is further ORDERED that Defendants (except for President Trump) and their agents, representatives, and all persons or entities acting in concert with them shall immedi-
ately return, reinstate, and restore the White House "hard pass" press credentials held by employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked on or about September 18, 2026, until further Order of the Court or the expiration of this Temporary
Restraining Order.
3. It is further ORDERED that this Temporary Restraining Order shall remain in effect for 14 days.
4. It is further ORDERED that Plaintiffs shall post a $1.00 bond in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) by October 1, 2026.
SO ORDERED.
Is/ Timothy J. Kelly
TIMOTHY J. KELLY
United States District Judge
Date: September 24, 2026
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 23/09/2026
Every person running for president needs to have a serious and implementable plan for de-Nazifying the federal government
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats have a shot at winning a trifecta and making real change. Voting rights. Fair maps. Union rights. All three are on the ballot this year.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 22/09/2026
There are just a couple more weeks left in September but there are still a whole stack of new books hitting shelves in the last couple of weeks of the month. Here’s what caught my eye: www.andrewliptak.com/september-20...
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Here’s one last batch of new sci-fi and fantasy books to read this September
13 new books to close out the month with
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to the community speaking up, Wilber has left the detention center to get medical care. This is important news & a positive first step. Now, we have to make sure he fully recovers, is reunited with family, & gets to tell law enforcement the full story of how he was shot in the back by ICE.
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bethred.bsky.social @bethred.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is very good news. Finally some solidarity from the major press.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they've notified Trump administration they're filing a lawsuit over denied White House access.
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