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This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Last week: We revealed that Trump immigration agents have detained more than 500 citizens This week: House members introduced the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act The bill's sponsor, @fernandez.house.gov, says our reporting was "the genesis" fernandez.house.gov/news/documen...

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 16h

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 17h

Support and Co-Sponsor H.R.10803, To abolish the Department of Homeland Security and establish a Department of Community Safety billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can someone buy me this for Christmas, please? 🎄📖 #BookSky

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026

Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Trump-Putin fuel deal is already the subject of memes in the Russian blogosphere, such as this one mimicking Stalinist propaganda. (The joke here is that during World War II, the US provided the USSR with millions of tons of fuel – now, they say, the situation is reversed.)

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Support and Co-Sponsor the “Preserving and Remembering the History of Trump and other Tyrants Act” billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A new app lets you find out who’s behind the political mailers you receive, which comes in handy for people who don’t want to be manipulated by self-interested billionaires. Learn all about it from @juddlegum.bsky.social who created the “paidforby” app. joycevance.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...

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Paid for By

Judd Legum tells us about his new app for unmasking whose behind political ads

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Too many news orgs rely on “horse race coverage”, “sanewashing”, “false equivalence”, “euphemism” and other inadequacies. Endorse our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...

Ahead of the midterms, journalists must:
• Make threats to democracy clear.
Protect Americans from disinformation.
I Cover elections like they matter more than sports scores.
MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
PROJECT
Sign our open letter asking for pro-democracy coverage by visiting mediaanddemocracyproject.org

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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Activate Maine💪🗓️ @activatemaine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts thought he could hide out at his mid-coast Maine vacation home. These protesters said “not on our watch.” And just like that, kayaktivism was born. The great state of Maine knows how to show up.

Kayakers on the water ( a dog in one boat) near Judge Robert’s place holding signs:

Robert’s Benched The Constitution

The Roberts Court: Rubber Stamp for Fascism.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Support S.5565 - To Authorize Federal Foreign Assistance Funding For Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Services billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-s5...

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Support H.R.10600 - To Authorize Federal Foreign Assistance Funding For Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care Services billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-hr...

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot

I'm a College Professor. Writing Isnt as Important as We Think.

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Support and co-sponsor S.J.Res.213, signaling Congressional disapproval of the DHS rule change setting fixed time periods for student visas billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bill Mauldin's editorial cartoon commenting on the ongoing Watergate crisis and following the resignation of Nixon's VP Spiro T. Agnew, October 1973.

Cartoon shows the eagle symbol of the US with a cloud over it and hiding its eyes with its wing.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SIMON PEGG impersonating all four Beatles in 10 seconds. Seriously impressive.

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Support and Co-Sponsor S.5435 - A bill to prohibit immigration enforcement actions at school bus stops for children billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Support and Co-Sponsor S.5437 - A bill to prohibit immigration enforcement actions at children's playgrounds billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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billmiddleton @billmiddleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Support and Co-Sponsor S.5436 - A bill to prohibit immigration enforcement actions at child care facilities billmiddleton1.substack.com/p/support-an...

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