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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 1h
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Reed cont] Among Dems opposition to GAC bans runs 16% ahead of support for them, 50% to 34% Inds oppose bans by 10%, by 46% to 36%. And among Reps-- the main supporters -- they only run 8% ahead by 50% to 42% oppose. Not exactly a major slam dunk anymore.
erininthemorning.com
New Poll From The 19th News Shows Public Turning Against Republican Anti-Trans Healthcare Bans
The poll even shows faltering Republican support for such bans.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2h
Yesterday, the Governor signed into law my bill authorizing people to sue ICE and Border Patrol (or any other federal official) for violating their rights. Hours later, 3 people filed lawsuits under the new law. The era of impunity is ending. When we act decisively, we can fight authoritarianism.
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3 Californians sue ICE officers hours after Newsom signs bill greenlighting lawsuits
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 747 Tuesday as part of a slate of bills designed to combat the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h
occasionally you see birds which make you think, “oh yeah, okay, i can see how these were once dinosaurs”
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Señor Panda @raf.bsky.social · 6h
also the NPOs he founded had & still have horrific work-life balance issues & are essentially sweatshops (see: the PIRGs) those canvassers that ask if you have a minute to save the environment? that’s all Nader.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 12h
Ralph Nader is also a big reason why California's home insurance market is in shambles: Prop 103 1988 www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
latimes.com
Voters Splitting Evenly on Nader's Prop. 103
Ralph Nader's Proposition 103, with its promise of sweeping insurance rate rollbacks, was running dead even in election returns early today, with big blocs of urban votes still out in counties where i...
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 14h
Democrats haven't openly hated their opposition like this in a while and God it's hot
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h
UPDATE: Florida killed Curtis Beasley this evening. Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty noted this is the DeSantis administration's "44th execution." Beasley is "the 13th veteran, the 14th senior citizen, and the 27th person ... to die despite a non-unanimous jury vote for death."
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14h
It's even worse than what I surmised, which is Schmitt got Hawks and Hawkeyes confused. It's that the only basketball league they thought to check was the NBA. They didn't even think about college basketball. Does Schmitt's entire team not do March Madness or something?
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 15h
Hmmmmm
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20h
🇫🇮🥔 At the Nations League match "Finland - Belarus" a banner with an owl attacking a cockroach with the face of Lukashenko was unfurled Nearby were Ukrainian flags and the inscription: "Your day will come".
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15h
In terrible news, the Secretary of State has decided to ruin the best part about voting in Georgia and destroy the tradition of the peach stickers. Thanks for nothin, Brad. 0/10
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 15h
If only GA could do the same
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anoetic 🏳️‍⚧️ @obliqueanoetic.bsky.social · 17h
Hey you, just in case you don’t have jewish folks in your life pointing this kind of thing out, the antisemitism thing is real and is rising and being some kind of lefty doesn’t inoculate you from it.
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 17h
barest of minimums, but WHAT
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h
Even if Smith had been in Atlanta, there really was nothing to Schmitt’s false accusation that he met Willis that day than that he happened to be in one the nation’s biggest cities?!
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 19h
[Bill Alert] @governor.ca.gov has signed AB 2074. AB 2074 speeds recovery of dense urban neighborhoods by streamlining high-rise housing near transit hubs and identifying state-backed loans to cut costs. Thank you, @matthaneysf.bsky.social. cayimby.org/news-events/...
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 19h
Whelp, there we go, the biggest org anyone could point to re: "Dems are bad on trans issues" has utterly folded and is now openly pro-trans. Which of course means the goalposts will move, rapidly, somehow.
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 20h
lmao
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 22h
All it could take for the national popular vote compact to reach a majority of electoral votes is for Democrats to flip six legislative chambers across Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map.

Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential members have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined.

The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.
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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 23h
Dems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23h
i think that it is hard to overestimate the sheer hatred red state libs have for republicans
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 23h
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, an Ohio Democrat whose past record was generally supportive of LGBTQ people, referred to “transgender ideology” and keeping “boys out of girl’s sports” in an ad. The state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Amy Acton, said in a statement that she opposed “boys playing in girls’ sports” and then her campaign set off several negative news cycles with its adversarial stance to queer people who were taken aback by her calling trans girls “boys.”

“A, it’s disrespectful, which is the most important part,” Erickson said. “And B, I don’t think it’s helpful to the political cause. A lot of the research we’ve done has shown as much – that repeating that language makes voters picture something that’s not helpful.” 

She added: “Some candidates are repeating the language of the attack, which is not helpful on a policy ground or a political ground, but there are others who have more nuanced responses, and I’m hoping that some of those folks are going to win their races, and then we can show examples of how you can respond to these attacks in a way that combats them politically, but also does not give ground in the important policy context.”
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23h
Incredible, Democrats have officially hit a 10 point lead on the generic ballot
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 29/09/2026
Preach
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 29/09/2026
YESSSSSSSS REVERSE 1983 REVERSE 1983 REVERSE 1983 reverse1983.org
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Reverse 1983
protecting First Amendment rights from deprivations under color of federal law
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World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther @corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
El-Sayed +5 and Benson +7 on this Cygnal/Beacon Research poll. Both firms have high ratings. enjoyer.com/michigan-pol...
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Who Is Likely to Win the Michigan Midterms?
Full results from a survey of 600 likely Michigan voters on the races for governor, U.S. Senate and statewide office, the candidates, and the issues.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is an excellent piece well worth your time. Perry lays out how the very category of "culture war" issues creates a permission structure for Dems to adopt GOP positions on them. What's mainly going on here is contestation over what politics is about, with one key dimension left out entirely...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
The haters said Atlanta didn't deserve the 2028 DNC. And they were correct (Cop City, TAD, BeltLine Rail, Flock, AI slop by KLB and friends). Honestly great call from the haters. bsky.app/profile/vote...
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 29/09/2026
Wouldn’t be surprised if only Penny Brown Reynolds, Josh McLaurin, Peter Hubbard and Shelia Edwards win their elections downballot this year. Joke ass campaign, joke ass state.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 29/09/2026
Missouri Republicans spent months trying to stop voters from getting to weigh in on ballot measures to block their new gerrymander and restrict the legislature’s ability to interfere with citizen-backed ballot initiatives. They lost in court and have little time to put together actual campaigns.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scientists think Alzheimer’s might be reversible.
reuters.com
NEWSLETTER: Genetic discovery yields clues toward reversal of Alzheimer's brain damage
Today we highlight a discovery with potentially important implications for future Alzheimer's research and treatments. We also report on an experimental Gilead therapy showing great promise ​against a...
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
um
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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those who don't feel "Unc" enough at that statement. 2028 will feature voters who's birth was covered under Obamacare.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perfect Trump backers. Perfect!
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we’re winning texas.
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 29/09/2026
Again, with Congress assured to flip, the Democratic caucuses will have to find a way to give concurrent resolutions some teeth outside of the Hill.
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Solenoid: better than Excel @jortscity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so much of his head volume is in the upper half...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Dj @djsoke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You all sound like this!
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ELB: “Supreme Court Reauthorizes SAVE Program, but It’s Not as Big a Deal as Some Would Have You Believe” electionlawblog.org/2026/supreme-co…
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love a one-sentence letter from the clerk after cert grant and briefing to announce recusal!
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Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 28/09/2026
The right string of words, good bot
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Fauci Accepts Award From LGBTQ Equality Forum - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Blade reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci accepted an award from the Equality Forum on Sunday in which he told the audience that he is honored to be part of the LGBTQ community’s history. “Over ...
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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Linden, NJ moment
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Michigan - Senate Polling: Initial Ballot: 🔵El-Sayed: 48% 🔴Rogers: 44% Likely Voters: 🔵El-Sayed: 51% 🔴Rogers: 44% Most Motivated Voters: 🔵El-Sayed: 54% 🔴Rogers: 44% unitedstatespolling.com/p/el-sayed-s...
unitedstatespolling.com
El-Sayed Surges Ahead in Michigan
AES’ lead grows among definite and highly motivated voters as Rogers continues to face headwinds
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want to go the rest of my life without reading another damn news story citing the words "AI agents" and "going rogue". GTFO of here with that shit.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When early voting starts in a few weeks, it’ll be important to look at turnout in North Georgia. That was the first sign of trouble tor Dems. Then soft numbers in Gwinnett.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Early ballot request numbers in Georgia very blue. Not surprising, but robust. Very healthy in the Black Belt.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i broadly agree with the thesis, but not the way that WBF argued it
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