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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 4h
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump attempts to use U.S. Census Bureau to revive 2020 election lies, advance attack on voting
Voting experts and former Census Bureau employees raised serious concerns about the accuracy of the report Trump cited.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 4h
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An election worker tried to protect mail ballots. Now he faces prison amid Trump's push for voting cases
The prosecution would be concerning during any administration, but it’s particularly alarming at a moment when Trump is engaged in an unprecedented nationwide assault on voting.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 22h
Seattle
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h
Trump’s evangelical allies thought overturning Roe would cement their influence. But some of their leaders are discovering just how little sway they still have. @cheetah.bsky.social went inside a major evangelical summit to see why cracks are starting to show. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hSCSS6?utm_...
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
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Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state’s voting machines
“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why you stop….
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads www.commondreams.org/news/donald-... There are not enough votes.
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Impeachment Calls Grow as Dems Say Up to $20 Million in Taxpayer Funds Were Used for 'Illegal' Pro-Trump Ads | Common Dreams
Democrats in Congress demand answers and accountability for Trump's misuse of taxpayer dollars for "illegal" ads.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
Deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the polls is illegal. And it’s deeply unpopular among voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Nearly half of Americans don’t want ICE at polls, survey shows
Nearly 40% of Americans surveyed also don't want national Guardsmen at polling places. Public dissent comes as three major lawsuits were filed to block federal interference at polling places this mont...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can once again use a flawed database to help Republicans purge eligible voters from the rolls, just weeks before the midterms. Some are calling it a partial win. I see a warning. youtube.com/watch?v=wvhm...
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There is No Bright Side to Voter Suppression
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
Citing 'Civilizational Extinction Risk,' Khanna to Intro Bill to Ban Recursive AI www.commondreams.org/news/ro-khan...
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Citing 'Civilizational Extinction Risk,' Khanna to Intro Bill to Ban Recursive AI | Common Dreams
Rep. Ro Khanna introduces comprehensive legislation to regulate AI industry, including temporary ban on recursive AI. Civilizational extinction risk must be taken seriously.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
‘So Embarrassing’: Watch GOP Senator's Attempt to Corner Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Implode in Real Time www.commondreams.org/news/eric-sc...
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‘So Embarrassing’: Watch GOP Senator's Attempt to Corner Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Implode in Real Time | Common Dreams
Sen. Eric Schmitt's attempt to catch Jack Smith in a perjury trap backfires spectacularly in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
Judge Lets Lawsuit Proceed After Police Target Miami Beach Resident Who Criticized Pro-Israel Mayor www.commondreams.org/news/miami-b...
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Judge Lets Lawsuit Proceed After Police Target Miami Beach Resident Who Criticized Pro-Israel Mayor | Common Dreams
​"Ordering a police visit to an individual’s home to discuss the individual’s speech can constitute a restriction on speech that would support a viewpoint discrimination claim," wrote a federal judge.
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NPR @npr.org · 6h
Even among ATLiens, Kenny Mason is an outlier. As he faced a creative crisis — and commercial pressures — the rap-rock iconoclast realized that he feels most comfortable on the fringes. n.pr/4jv5xhp
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How Kenny Mason learned to follow his inner visions
Even among ATLiens, Kenny Mason is an outlier. As he faced a creative crisis — and commercial pressures — the rap-rock iconoclast realized that he feels most comfortable on the fringes.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Republican members of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) adopted a resolution Monday seeking the Trump administration to intervene in a vague crusade against the state’s voting system just weeks before the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state’s voting machines
“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
Housing Protests Across Spain Win Concessions After Eviction of 87-Year-Old Sparks Uprising www.commondreams.org/news/maricar...
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Housing Protests Across Spain Win Concessions After Eviction of 87-Year-Old Sparks Uprising | Common Dreams
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez approved two decrees aimed at protecting tenants, but Spain's leftist social rights minister called the two-part strategy a "trap."
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 5h
'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deport...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10h
Markwayne Mullin had a full meltdown when he was asked how he reconciled his Christian faith with mass deportations and alleged physical abuse by agencies within DHS.
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Trump’s DHS Boss Shouting Match Meltdown Revealed
ICE Barbie’s replacement tried to thwart press coverage of the incident.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I spend my days fighting for voters in court. Most of what happens there never makes the news. That's why I started Democracy Docket. Sign up now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 10h
Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... They will scrutinize the hell out of her.
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Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority
The New York state prosecutors have decided to finally look into 2024 gang rape allegations.
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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So now if someone asks a question to A GOP member of Congress and they don't like the question they call it harassment and threaten to call police? WTF AMERICA
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/09/2026
Trump and MarkWayne Mullin want to surround our polling places with armed men in masks. But we will not be made afraid to cast our votes. Read more from LP's lawyer Mario Nicolais: bit.ly/4hMmmDd
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 25/09/2026
Doctors have warned that forced withdrawal can carry psychological and physical risks, even when medication is tapered.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026
Nolo will slow down as it nears Hawaii's Big Island and is expected to become a major hurricane this weekend, bringing torrential rain to areas that have been flooded by big storms this summer. n.pr/4iOUmzP
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Hurricane Nolo, a zig-zagging storm, threatens Hawaii with flooding rain
Nolo will slow down as it nears Hawaii's Big Island and is expected to become a major hurricane this weekend, bringing torrential rain to areas that have been flooded by big storms this summer.
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AyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The temerity, irony, hypocrisy, stupidity, and arrogance should have ended the run of this 🍊🤡💩🎪 a long time ago.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: Days after ICE fatally shot Alex Pretti, Virginia prosecutor Steve Descano got a call to join attorneys banding together to help bring charges against the federal immigration agency. Months later, Descano and his colleagues are working overtime to prepare for the threat of ICE at the polls.
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The local prosecutors who fought ICE are ready to combat federal election interference
“I think what I can say is that we’re going to be ready for anything,” one district attorney said. “And whatever that scenario is, it’s going to be kind of plug-and-play to have the place we’re going ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Total Active Cases: 197 Active Voting Rights Cases: 160 Active Redistricting Cases:  37 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 78 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 82 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 29 www.democracydocket.com
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Democracy Docket
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
substack.com/@politepoet/...
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Polite Poet (@politepoet)
Great idea.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
apnews.com/article/conn... Mohegan Tribe made an early bet on a WNBA team. Now the Sun is setting
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The Mohegan Tribe made an early bet on a WNBA team. Now the Sun is setting
After 24 seasons, the Mohegan Tribe and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun are parting ways. The tribe purchased the franchise in 2003, becoming the first Native American tribe to own a professional sports te...
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The CT Sun is leaving. The sale has raised deeper questions. ctmirror.org/2026/03/30/c...
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The CT Sun is leaving. The sale has raised deeper questions.
As the Sun and other sports teams depart for larger markets, concerns have grown that CT broadly lacks appeal for major league franchises.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Converse can’t explain itself out of its KKK-linked ad www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Converse can’t explain itself out of its KKK-linked ad
Converse has officially pulled an ad that caught all the wrong attention for imagery that resembles a lynching.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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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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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren's new plan to expand youth voting rights  www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Elizabeth Warren’s new plan to expand youth voting rights
As President Donald Trump puts pressure on reluctant Republican Congress members to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing back with...
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Supreme Court lets White House continue construction on Trump’s $400 million ballroom www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Supreme Court lets White House continue construction on Trump’s $400 million ballroom
A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the White House to continue construction on a $400 million ballroom project as lawsuits play out.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A photo of a massive, lavish breakfast spread covering a glass dining table. The spread includes multiple stacked waffles, bowls of scrambled eggs, fried chicken, bacon, sausage patties, hash browns, French toast, a large bowl of mixed fruit, shrimp, syrup, and three full jugs of orange juice. 

people in movies have this kind of breakfast and they only grab a strawberry and be like "gotta go hun!"
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A new federal forecast says that a strengthening El Niño is expected to make this fall a warmer one across the United States.
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New Forecast Predicts a Scorching Fall Across Much of the U.S.
Sweater weather may be arriving a little later than usual this fall.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts refused to lift a temporary order preventing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from further implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order attacking mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Federal judge won’t lift temporary block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
"Defendants’ branding the Final Rule’s changes as ‘modest’ does not alter the actual requirements of the Final Rule," Judge Talwani wrote.
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Kalshi punishes George Santos—and exposes its warped priorities www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kalshi punishes George Santos—and exposes its warped priorities
The prediction market does not seem to have a good grasp of how seriously its platform can be abused.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is no coincidence. This is a multi-part plan by the GOP to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Republicans, Trump DOJ press Supreme Court to weaken federal protection against last-minute voter purges
If the Supreme Court accepts their reading, states could have substantially more freedom to run systematic purge program in the final weeks before federal elections — precisely when an erroneous match...
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booksandfur.bsky.social @booksandfur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Grinding www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Grinding
A cartoon by Nick Anderson.
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/08/2026
Call me crazy, but perhaps being related to a Senator who died doesn’t qualify you to be a Senator.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a letter sent Wednesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters plan to hire Peters to replace his current assistant in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California senators call for ‘maximum oversight’ over conspiracist Tina Peters’ new election job
In a letter sent to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis’ plan to hire Peters.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20/08/2026
Companies that secretly vary prices based on how much they think individual customers will pay could face federal charges under a proposed policy released Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission. to.pbs.org/3SJjXQ3
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FTC proposal would require retailers to be transparent about personalized pricing
Companies that secretly vary prices based on how much they think individual customers will pay could face federal charges under a proposed policy released Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
According to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/p...
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Meet Natalie Harp, the aide so close to Trump she once rode in an SUV trunk to accompany him | CNN Politics
Natalie Harp has become a main conduit between President Donald Trump and the outside world, sources say.
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