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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.”
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A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 21h
Trans kids have been playing sports for more than 15 years. It only became a political issue when the far right ADF began targeting them. No one is asking Dems to commit “political suicide” That is a misleading formulation. Sincerely, please read up on this
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20h
Annie Andrews in 2022: "This does nothing to protect or support women or children in SC. I will always support trans youth" Annie Andrews in 2025: It's wrong to "throw this population under the bus to score political points." Annie Andrews today:
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 10h
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 18h
COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was reminded of this, by @juliaserano.bsky.social juliaserano.substack.com/p/the-stigma...
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The Stigma-Contamination Mindset
and how it drives the transgender “social contagion” and “grooming” myths
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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rnjt2024.bsky.social @rnjt2024.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm an er rn at a small community hospital and the amount of heartbreaking situations I see on a daily basis of people sacrificing time money energy happiness to caretake for sick ones or putting off tests until they're almost dead due to a lack of healthcare makes me insane
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's what happened to the students arrested: www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
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5 Quakertown students arrested during ICE protest will enter diversionary programs, DA says
The Quakertown Community High School students accused of assaulting Police Chief Scott McElree and other officers have entered diversion programs.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's what happens to high school students in the U.S. protesting ICE: whyy.org/articles/qua... - most people barely batted an eye.
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Quakertown police chief on leave after clash with student protesters
Scott McElree was seen on video placing a student in a chokehold during a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 02/10/2026
10 years ago, the mortgage rate was 3.47% and the median home cost $232,200. Today the rate is 7.3% and the median home costs $429,100.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
The fact that the French establishment is targeting children with stun grenades 🤬
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can you imagine being the nepoiest of nepo babies and still failing this spectacularly?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Christian Nightmares @christiannightmare.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Talk about testosterone!" Apparently, this guy met Manly MAGA Jesus in Heaven...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 06/10/2026
every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause."
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
treating the whole of the world as backdrop to a two-degree shift along the moral arc of a single white American conscience remains undefeated as a unifying narrative
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Local journalist @phileil.bsky.social has an op-ed on how a well-known local progressive newspaper has been taken over completely to be AI-written. He offers a fairly balanced take, though unsurprisingly he comes down on the side of the humans. ↵ rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/10/05/c...
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Can AI agents produce real news reporting in Rhode Island? A human journalist has some thoughts. • Rhode Island Current
A human journalist shares thoughts about Uprise RI’s use of AI-generated “LLM reporters,” which raise broader questions about transparency, trust and what it means when machines begin reporting the ne...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.
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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
Years ago I used to say that Elon would be remembered as one of history's greatest monsters because he knew he could solve world hunger and chose not to. Then he decided to make everything so much worse, deliberately. The scale of death he is responsible for is difficult to grasp.
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/2026
4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026
“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” Aaron Swartz told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2026
This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.
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Brooke (she/her) @brookebee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree the Atlantic is one of the absolute worst, just vomit inducing.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) @gladlaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration’s new rule could leave low-income families with transgender kids without Medicaid coverage for medically necessary care. Read more from Steven Porter @bostonglobe.com: bit.ly/4AL1jbH
Image of a newspaper article from The Boston Globe. The headline reads, "Four transgender youths in N.H. sue Trump administration over Medicaid ban on gender-affirming care for minors." Below is a photo of a protest in front of a government building with a gold dome. People hold signs and a Pride flag. The article is by Steven Porter.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Honor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When this is over, the assets of Trump and his Republican co-conspirators need to be frozen until we can claw back every penny he stole AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hilariously he has disabled replies and quotes on the “please report transphobia” post lmao
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