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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 16h
The woman who has alleged that she was drugged ‌and raped by Cornell University students has been the target of threats, her lawyer said on Sunday. 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/us/wom...
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Woman at center of Cornell rape allegations targeted with threats, lawyer says
Thomas Giuffra told CNN that people have ​threatened to silence or harm her if she does not withdraw ​her civil lawsuit alleging that several members of a fraternity drugged ⁠and raped her in 2024.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 18h
In her last hours as DHS Secy, Noem's agency bought 5 planes from a donor at markups. In all, DHS gave $900M in contracts to that donor’s companies during her term. One plane had electronic bidets, 2 bedrooms, bar, wine chiller, a manta-ray skin table. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14h
Two Texas women who voted for President Donald Trump told USA TODAY very different things about the Republican Senate nominee, Ken Paxton.
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'I would hate myself': Trump voter admits she can't vote for his 'dirty socks' candidate
Two Texas women who voted for President Donald Trump told USA TODAY very different things about the Republican Senate nominee, Ken Paxton.Tamara Berger, 56, of Seguin, has voted for Trump three times. She told the paper she was "disgusted" by the backhanded way Trump praised Paxton at last month's R...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h
Louisiana helped trigger the latest wave of redistricting. The Black community of Scotlandville is reckoning with what comes next.
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A Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress after redistricting
Scotlandville is a predominantly Black community in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that's facing challenges in its political representation.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21h
Vote against all Republicans to stop them from stealing from you.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 14h
This is endless amounts of f--ked-up. Considering that Israel has murdered more journalists in recent years than any other country, that they're surveilling reporters in *Syria* who are wearing war correspondents' distinctly-marked gear, it's sinister and menacing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h
TN-9 candidate for Congress Brent Taylor: “I support Trump’s tariffs.” 🤔 As you pay more for everything, remember Taylor is a rubber-stamp for those policies. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is not. #Trumpflation
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 22h
Today, Cairo’s population is under 1,700 residents. Once majority-White in the 1960s, the town’s demographics inverted following the unrest. Cairo is approximately 75.7% Black and 20.6% White. Racism killed this town.😔 #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊 www.abandonedspaces.com/towns/cairo-...
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Cairo, Illinois Suffered Economic and Racial Struggles That Turned It Into a Ghost Town
Cairo, Illinois, was once a bustling community that thrived thanks to its unique location. Now, it has become an eerie ghost town.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He’s absolutely considering ground troops, and actively laying the ground work to make it possible if he ultimately green lights it. His advisors are urging him to ‘finish the job’ after the midterms. They’re trying not to lose any more votes than they’re already going to.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump voter says Trump is a “baldface liar” and that she has had to come out of retirement to afford to live in Trump’s economy. Womp womp.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beatty's attys say defendants take the position that all communications with Trump—even in his capacity in the voluntarily assumed post of Kennedy Center chairman—are protected by executive privilege &/or presidential communications privilege. 2/2
Defendants Withheld Swaths of Relevant Information Via Executive Privilege
These concerns about the systemic deficiencies in Defendants' responses to written discovery requests—which are exemplary rather than comprehensive-are compounded by the fact that Defendants have improperly withheld swaths of material based on blanket claims of potential Executive Privilege, in ways that are plainly inappropriate.
Plaintiff intends shortly to file a motion to compel with respect to Executive Privilege.
Plaintiff briefly mentions her concerns with respect to Executive Privilege now to demonstrate how the sum of the two issues outlined in this statement has essentially left her without meaningful discovery in this important matter, absent extension of existing deadlines (in particular, briefing and resolution of summary judgment). Among other things, Defendants have instructed one witness already not to answer any questions regarding the substance of communications involving the Chairman. They have told Plaintiff's counsel that they will instruct Mr. Floca similarly not to answer any questions about conversations with the Chairman (despite relying on Mr. Floca's testimony regarding conversations with the Chairman in their summary judgment motion). Meanwhile, Defendants have asserted a blanket privilege over any written document that "mav have the effect of seeking information protected by the presidential communications privilege."
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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🌟Deborah M. Weeks 2.0 Please refollow 🚫DM’s 🌟 @deborah-10-06.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports..."
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧑‍🌾 “Iowa is on the verge of a farm crisis that threatens to wreck the agricultural heart of the state and hurt the fortunes of Republicans at the top of the midterm ticket… Democrats could win in several once-reliably Republican states…”
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"Brace for losing everything": Farm crisis fears grip GOP in Iowa
Trump's policies have cause severe financial problems for farmers. Iowa is especially vulnerable.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt fucked up so badly today that even The New York Times isn't mincing words on how badly he fucked up.
NYT Headline: As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart

Subhed: A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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Nicolle @islandgirlygirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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DJ Eddie @electricshock25.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
interesting. you're aware that the catholic cardinal would likely be lynched by the orange men given half a chance and no cameras around? their anti-catholic sectarianism & hate is legendary. 21 people have died because of the drumcree march between 1996-1999.
list of all the people killed between 1996 and 1999 because of the drumcree parade. 21 in total.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yikes! this escalated quickly. "The legal and human-rights question is therefore a different one: does the protection of freedom of assembly require that a procession be permitted to follow this particular route through this particular residential community?"
ELDH Statement on the Garvaghy Road Parade
ELOH expresses its serious concern at the decision of the Parades Commission to permit an Orange Order procession along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, and at the legal and institutional process which has resulted in the reopening of a dispute carrying profound historical significance for the local community and for Northern Ireland as a whole It is essential to be precise about the rights at stake.
This is not a question of denying freedom of peaceful assembly or the right to parade. Those rights are protected, Including under Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights Nor IS the question whether members of the Orange Order may assemble, parade or attend Drumcree Church For almost three decades those activities have continued while the procession has followed a route which does not pass along the Garvaghy Road The legal and human-rights question is therefore a different one: does the protection of freedom
of assembly require that a procession be permitted to follow this particular route through this particular residential community, notwithstanding the historical context, the rights and interests
of residents, and the availability of an alternative route which permits the parade itself to take place?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can imagine a scenario where Schmitt concocted this thing from dipshits on X. And what's the deal with the posterboard with Smith's supposed text messages that he won't let anyone see?
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that he is directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, but the CISA agency in charge of this has been gutted. Here's what it all means: shero.substack.com/p/hegseth-pr...
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Hegseth Pretends to Care About Election Integrity after Gutting CISA
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo on Monday directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Schiff is up. Apologizes to Jack Smith. “My colleagues have attacked you, but NONE of them have tried to deny what happened on January 6th. They attack you because they don’t want to address the facts. The Barr DoJ sought toll records without a peep from my colleagues.” 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So funny. Facts do not matter to these people. They’re just gonna lie their way through it in their alternate universe
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Ricketts: "This year we're on track to have record trade with Canad-- er, ah, South Korea"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
BASH: Trump is using taxpayer funds for White House campaign ads. Do you think that's an appropriate use of tax money? RICKETTS: Well I haven't seen the ad. I can't speak to it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOLD MEN ACCOUNTABLE.......💪🏻
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Mimi Jones @1234mimijones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👁️👁️ Not Gay, Trans, POC, Lesbian etc… 👉🏼Just another Married Straight WhiteMale who can’t keep his mind off kid’s genitalia! 😑 OneOfTheseDays…Women & Girls’ll be safe 😐 Don’t hold your breath tho! #DV1 #Pinks katv.com/news/local/j...
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Jonesboro man arrested, accused of uploading 44 CSAM videos to Google account
A Jonesboro man has been arrested after he was accused of uploading 44 videos of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) to a Google account.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p... Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Inside a Texas immigration court where children fight to stay in the US | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP apnews.com/article/trum...
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Taxpayers have funded nearly $1.5M in pro-Trump ads. Criticism is mounting, including from the GOP
AdImpact says three taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump are nearing a cost of at least $1.5 million.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤡 Moms for Liberty - Gaea Powell, a hard-charging MAGA activist & fierce advocate for "election integrity" - found guilty of nine counts of election fraud by jury
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