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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11h
President Trump denied $227m in storm aid to Democratic-led states, POLITICO reported, while ABC News said he separately approved more than $846m for nine Republican-leaning states. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-deni...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11h
Trump has absolutely no intention of paying back the nearly $12 million he already spent on these ads. He planned to spend $20 million, and the majority of the ads were reruns of his campaign ads. apnews.com/article/d728...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11h
Whether Trump reimburses taxpayers for the money he stole in producing these illegal ads doesn't change the fact that he stole $20m from all of us to illegally run ads to fluff up his bleak electoral prospects. Jawdropping abuse of power by the worst American leader in our history.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h
👀 Would you feel free to vote with an FBI agent watching? Newly obtained documents show the DOJ tested that theory in Arizona’s primary, raising concerns that aggressive surveillance will be used to restrict ballot access or intimidate voters nationwide.
democracydocket.com
DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
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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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10h
A civil lawsuit says Trump-backed Byron Donalds threatened to ‘crush’ a woman in a grocery store. His campaign calls it a political stunt as his Florida governor bid intensifies. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-back...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h
The nation's largest trucking groups said Tuesday that Trump's executive order aimed at easing diesel prices would do little to increase availability of the key transportation fuel. They cast doubt on his claims that the move would help bring down the cost of goods across the economy.
politico.com
‘Minimal relief’: Trucking groups pan Trump’s diesel executive order
The trade associations said tax relief on dyed diesel would be complicated to implement and do little to increase availability of the fuel.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h
🚨BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court struck down key GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives. The unanimous ruling is a major win for direct democracy — and a powerful check on the Legislature’s ability to interfere with the people’s lawmaking power.
democracydocket.com
Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives
The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Trump and lots of people close to Trump are making a lot of money off wars.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13h
NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and election denier Tina Peters are both pushing a scheme to have Trump's commerce secretary seize voting machines as part of a broader effort to interfere in the midterms. But legal experts say their scheme is way off base and blatantly unconstitutional.
democracydocket.com
Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump's commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery, the country's second largest at 310,000 barrels per day, just unexpectedly exploded and caught fire, forcing a full shutdown. The fire started at a gas line connecting the refinery's diesel hydrotreater and halted the whole plant, including the boilers. #ETTD
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h
Will the 11th Circuit see through Trump’s new delay tactic as he tries to keep the public from seeing the Mar-a-Lago volume of Jack Smith’s report? joycevance.substack.com/p/pat-robert...
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Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better?
But he shouldn’t.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8h
When Trump took office, there were roughly 40,000 Flock cameras. By the end of 2025, Flock’s own internal data showed more than 170,000 cameras. Say the line: “This is what we voted for!” www.newz.com/map-reveals-...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8h
Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery exploded.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8h
Susan Collins’ accomplishments: ~ Sponsored ad • Paid for by bribes for Susan Collins ~
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 8h
DOJ is already using "Super Intelligence" instead of Artificial Intelligence and it reads ridiculous. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 8h
Trump Removes Election Commission Members Months Before Midterms President Trump fired two Democratic members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, leaving the federal agency without sitting commissioners before the midterms. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-remo...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 8h
If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 7h
The aim of the Republican Party is to delegitimize and dismantle the United States government in order to resegregate, restore patriarchy, privatize and plunder the states they control.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h
Troy Jackson clearly won tonight’s first Maine Senate debate, repeatedly putting Susan Collins on the defensive over Trump, Kavanaugh and her record in Washington. Collins leaned heavily on seniority and what she’s delivered for Maine — but Jackson landed the sharper punches by far.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 6h
The OSCE report on the 2020 election pronounced it free and fair. Trump will never forgive them for telling the truth.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Supporting Medicare for All is not radical. Opposing it is. #MedicareForAllNOW www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 10h
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h
In a normal world, the 26 Republicans up for election in our target districts would condemn Trump for his treasonous comments last night. But they won’t.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 9h
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Whatever happened to the new no-patent COVID vaccine touted as a global game changer?
The inventors of Corbevax said it was cheap, easy to make, effective and safe. They hoped it could bring vaccine equity to countries that can't access costlier shots. Has it lived up to its promise?
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 9h
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 9h
Me and 1,200 of my friends in St. Clair County. This movement will win on November 3rd.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 8h
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 7h
With U.S. elections a month away now, Donald Trump's disapproval rating on the economy is now at an astonishing 73%. A 65% majority also blame Trump for higher costs due to his policies like tariffs and his stalemated war against Iran: apnews.com/article/trum...
A line chart indicating public opinion about Donald Trump's handling of the U.S. economy. It begins with about 40% approving and 60^ disapproving in March 2025 and gradually shifts to 26% approving and 73% disapproving in October 2026.

The source is the Associated Press-NORC poll
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
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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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15h
This map shows where SNAP recipients may be most vulnerable to losing benefits, not where states lose the most money. Red states face the greatest risk of responding to new federal costs by tightening access, adding barriers, or cutting enrollment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15h
Invest 92L- current models project a path that could expose nearly 2 million barrels per day of U.S. refining capacity, including some of the largest refineries in the nation: Marathon @ Garyville, LA and ExxonMobil @ Baton Rouge, LA. any downtime is problematic.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15h
The trade deficit last month was $36 billion larger than the Biden average. Trump's tariffs have failed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
So now diesel users don’t pay taxes on fuel while the rest of us do All so Trump can keep his pointless war going
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
Still telling the “vandalism” lie not a single soul believes 🤥
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h
... Who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h
You can reasonably dispute the meaning of a lot Trump says because he’s so incoherent and inarticulate. But what you can’t reasonably dispute is that he is a sadistic and delusional narcissistic sociopath, at once both psychopathic and psychotic ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are! Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
axios.com
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h
Rick Wilson on Trump inviting Iran to "take out" two American cities: "At the lowest boundary, it's political malpractice. At the highest boundary it's bordering on treason"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
The status quo is not enough.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
Alarming — 🇺🇸 Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social denied access to military facilities in the Middle East: “Unprecedented. Hegseth is trying to cover up the extent of the damage from a war spiraling out of control. This should be unacceptable to everybody, Republican or Democrat.”
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11h
CDC on Russian plague reports:
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