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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h
NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers @latenightseth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seth takes #ACloserLook at Senate Republicans embarrassing themselves at a hearing youtu.be/RotCje2J5Ik?...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt & GOP Humiliate Themselves at Train Wreck Jack Smith Hearing: A Closer Look
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...
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In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheel
Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026
Democrats vs. Republicans in a nutshell. This absolutely nails it.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
definitely worth reading. I think maybe the broadcast pointing tv cameras into the crowd deserves some opprobrium as well.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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BrendaW @brmagr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Abolish Ice reader.gr.mlive.com/2026/09/22/g...
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Gov. Whitmer orders state police review in death of motorist who fled ICE traffic stop
Immigration advocates have set a press conference for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, to raise concerns about how Grand Rapids police work with ICE as well as the motorist’s death.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 18/09/2026
a lying, obfuscating and performatively memory-challenged Florida woman ran into a @jimdefede.bsky.social buzzsaw Jim keeps her honest with ease. take notes media. 🧢 @nycjim.bsky.social @whodat35.bsky.social
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵
A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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BrendaW @brmagr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Love hearing the boos for cruz on game day
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The fired managing editor of 60 Minutes let loose yesterday on Bari Weiss' CBS/60M takeover. A must read. "We would not compromise our principles or reputations by jamming unverifiable notions or White House talking points into our reporting." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Ex-60 Minutes managing editor says fired staffers ‘refused to be accomplices’ in show’s ‘destruction’
Guy Campanile addresses ouster in Facebook post and says ‘we were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs’
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Housecleaning by Nikki Giovanni
TEXT: Housecleaning
i always liked house cleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening
the cabinets
posting new paper on
the shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must remove you
from my life
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know there's not much of a chance newspapers will print this one but you can't have a word like 'ballroom' and expect me not to do a joke about it.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An essay I've just written for @nytimes on why Big Tech is the 21st Century’s equivalent of the East India Company: "What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 29/08/2026
The Fox News host objected to "a personal question” when the Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate nominee asked about his body.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, your anthem for the midterms
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Oval Room
YouTube video by Margo Price - Topic
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our techno-fascist oligarchs really, deeply believe that criticizing them, or even refraining from praising them, means they’re persecuted victims. Negative words in their direction is unquestionably worse than violent state repression of others. And they constantly reinforce this belief together.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 14/08/2026
I was offered a deal to promote a prediction market company for the 4th time yesterday. Here’s what I told them:
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 11/08/2026
This is so great. Paulina Borsook deserves her flowers. One of the best things about the past year has been (accidentally) helping to get her book re-published. Paulina is one of the only tech critics who got it right. Buy her book! Put her on your show! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow, this dude is impressive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_E...
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Abdul El-Sayed - Wikipedia
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism by @peterbeinart.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abdul El-Sayed offers a template for Democrats to defeat Trumpism | Peter Beinart
The candidate has crafted a progressive nationalism and shown his party how to turn Republicans’ financial advantage against them
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2026
DNC is throwing all its support behind El-Sayed. You can donate here at ActBlue. secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_m...
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Support Abdul El-Sayed
Support Abdul El-Sayed
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you want to watch a pretty good movie and support free speech and indie film: watch.eventive.org/everyoneisly...
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Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Everyone Is Lying to You for Money — Live from New York | Everyone Is Lying to You for Money
Actor and author Ben McKenzie investigates the lies, hype, and harm behind cryptocurrency’s rise—and who’s really paying the price.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ben's a good guy doing good work and you should watch his good movie.
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you’ve ever been curious about wtf Trump is up to w/crypto, this episode does a fantastic—and hilarious—job laying it out in plain English. Bravo
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 27/07/2026
Here’s last night’s story about how sprawling and ethically compromising Trump’s crypto projects are, and how Jimmy Carter could’ve made a killing off of his peanut farm. youtu.be/A9iZ10yIRwM
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
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There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Iirc when we asked @benmckenzie.bsky.social about who the last Hollywood strike was for, he just said “waiters”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
This thread is worth your time 👇
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
They don’t care about fertility any more than they cared about women’s sports. They want to own women and children as property. The only real fascist goal is domination. They have no other. The rest is just whatever lie they’re currently telling to disguise that fact.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 15/07/2026
1. After pushing anti-trans laws to ‘protect women’s sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation now wants women’s sports gone to ‘assist fertility.’ Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
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After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’
Turns out it was about women’s sports all along—if getting rid of women's sports counts, that is.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
All of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
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Opinion | Welcome to the Golden Age of the Crone (Gift Article)
A new generation is not willing to settle for being invisible.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whether this story is apocryphal or not, how we shit on Lindsay Graham today matters. Other Quislings who are still alive and enabling Trump need to know how they will be remembered if they don’t turn on him immediately. This is the legacy that awaits them all.
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chris “bluesky” poster @chrisrd19.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is a great piece, Anne. Thanks for re-upping. The powerful become complicit with the tyrant because they want to stay powerful. The hacks who could never gain prominence in any other situation become complicit to achieve glory.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump took another cognitive test and had another physical at Walter Reed. Has it even been two months since his last physical? There’s a massive coverup surrounding the President’s health happening right now.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!
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The Wet And Wild Freedom Day Catastrophe
There Is No Joy In Mudville, Not Even For The Right
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