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Memo to Democrats: you can't win the public's trust if you drink from the same corporate trough as the Republicans. Reject Big AI Money (and all corporate campaign contributions) and regulate AI. www.commondreams.org/news/ai-electi…

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Voters in Key States See AI Campaign Cash as More Politically Toxic Than AIPAC: Poll | Common Dreams

"Candidates should seek support from the AI industry at their own peril."

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 13h

Faith in Colorado's elections has been under dual assault for years by President Trump's false claims and Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold's blunders. This mistake is brutal for voters' confidence in elections. I'll have more tonight on Next. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 13h

We are facing the worst measles outbreak in decades, yet the Trump administration has actively undermined childhood vaccines, delayed routine shots, and underreported measles deaths. That’s why I’m demanding immediate answers from the CDC Director to defend settled science.

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Bennet, Schrier Lead Colleagues to Demand Answers on Childhood Vaccines EO, Measles Deaths, & Delayed Vaccine Access - U.S. Senator Michael Bennet

Denver — Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-Wash.) led 29 colleagues in a letter to Dr. Erica Schwartz, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control a...

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 11h

Great @cprnews.bsky.social piece examining where GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is spending his huge fundraising haul. Makes a lot of sense if you subscribe to the idea that Marx is paying out friends/family and building an email list, rather than trying to win. www.cpr.org/2026/10/08/v...

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Victor Marx’s spending is as unusual as the rest of his campaign

The Republican candidate for Colorado governor has focused his cash on raising more cash, while minimizing traditional spending.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

When Trump calls for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, and his crowd of MAGA faithful cheer in response, we witness the completion of a process of psychological transformation associated with totalitarianism. Urging physical harm to fellow citizens has become a test of fidelity to the Leader.

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The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us

Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 13h

How to put on socks when you have a hard time reaching your feet [📹 Mister Odd and Miss Tree] Original post

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This 1673 French merchant's scale set was used to verify silver and gold coins by weight, a common anti-counterfeit practice before standardized currency when clipping metal from coins was widespread. IG: @redbeardsrelics www.instagram.com/redbeardsrel...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy. Join @indivisible.org's midterm election protection program to help make sure we're ready for whatever tricks Trump tries to hold on to power. indivisible.org/campaigns/ou...

MS NOW: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump hates California because he knows we hate him and love our state. Enjoy these images from my dad, Walter Coles, taken in Huntington Beach yesterday. 🌅 🏄🏽

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Minnesota, you have an opportunity to select an extraordinary person and public servant as your next U.S. senator. Please take it!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

However good you think this is going to be, it’s better. Steve just has Alito dead to rights.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here’s a brilliant idea for when you’re out there making good trouble and raging against the machine. I love it.

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Women know this in our bones—they’re everywhere. But for the more data-driven, this should drive the point home…

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...

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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services

The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 06/10/2026

There have to be hundreds of people willing to claim they visited Heaven for 15 minutes of fame and a book deal. How does Fox decide which completely unverifiable story deserves airtime? Best description of Jesus? Most marketable hallucination? Random drawing?

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 06/10/2026

We dealt with Jim Bakker’s religious grift more than once over the years. His legacy is a reminder of how easily religion can be weaponized to exploit people’s faith, fear and trust for profit.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Barack Obama is back in his role as Democrats’ closer-in-chief. He just cut ads for 24 Senate & gubernatorial campaigns—targeting races where he can help move persuadable voters. At 57% favorability, Obama is the most popular living president. Expect to see much more of him before Election Day. 💙

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Scout @bsbduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you Kyle. Keep up the great work.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 05/10/2026

The First Commandment literally orders students: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The state has no right to tell children how many gods to worship, which gods to worship, or whether to worship any at all.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alabama Republican Rep Brett Easterbrook spent years positioning himself the key promoter of Christian family values within the Alabama GOP. He sponsored the bill forcing trans girls to use boys bathrooms in schools. He voted to ban LGBTQ-inclusivity in classrooms, keep trans girls off girls’ teams,

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Alabama state representative, school board member charged with attempted human trafficking | Alabama Reflector

Brett Easterbrook and Kory Wesley were arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon for attempted human trafficking.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump's people are using blue curtains to hide empty seats at this evening's rally in Grand Island, Nebraska. Those accurate reports of poor turnout in Ohio and Alabama *really* got under his skin.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Suspected plague incident leaves 1 dead, 200 under quarantine in Siberia Russia has yet to confirm what caused the lab worker’s death. Read more: bit.ly/4jpfPzR 📷: NIAID

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seeing many posts about #plague, so a reminder: Plague is serious -- an incident involving a high-containment lab warrants investigation. Right now, we have an unexplained death from pneumonia, NOT confirmed plague or evidence of an outbreak. Watch closely. Avoid speculation. Follow the evidence.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All this is obvious, true and but for a couple of very brave pieces in WSJ, not reported or discussed in US corporate media, which are afraid of him.

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 05/10/2026

Atheists don’t hate God. We don’t think he exists. We advocate for thinking freely and following your own beliefs. It’s the religious authoritarians who claim to know exactly what God demands, then try to impose those demands on everyone else. Who’s playing God again?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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