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Longtime CA/originally PGH/now NV Leader @SwingLeftReno Politics/fashion/art Fighter for American democracy NO DMs unless I know you IRL #Resist #Steelers #VoteBlue

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 5h
C’mon now. It’s not like he did something inexcusable, like call some people “deplorable”
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 5h
"You're not gonna mess with our elections." Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, the top election official in the state, pushes back on President Trump's claims of election fraud. 
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 5h
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18h
Would you have stopped to help? Original post
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 3h
"The anti-Acton mailer is a vivid illustration of why more journalistic scrutiny of political mail is necessary. Every claim on V-PAC’s mailer is either flatly false or deeply misleading:" open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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The falsehoods billionaires are mailing to Ohio voters
A pro-Ramaswamy super PAC was caught pushing misinformation.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"At least half a dozen demonstrators interrupted the US president...One was physically assaulted by an older Trump supporter as he tried to leave" Won't post the clip as it's from Xitter, but the MAGA thug attacked the protester from behind. Courageous! 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Donald Trump’s Texas rally rocked by repeated protests
Trump briefly stepped away from the microphone after one protester appeared to approach the stage
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
And: Trump Is Certifiable. The Press Shrugs It Off. A week of alarming, unhinged statements by Trump raises the question of whether the press can still report with clarity and courage statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-is-c...
The pass Trump got on the “shove it up their ass” remark stands in stark contrast to the press’s pearl-clutching over President Biden in 2022, when he called a reporter a son of a bitch on a still-hot mic. At a White House event that January, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy shouted a question about whether inflation was a political liability. Biden, thinking his microphone was turned off, replied, “No, that’s a great asset. More inflation.” He added, “What a stupid son of a bitch.”

No argument there. But within hours, the phrase was in headlines.

CNBC: “Biden calls Fox News reporter Peter Doocy ‘a stupid son of a bitch.’”

The Hill: “Hot mic catches Biden calling Fox News reporter ‘stupid son of a b—-.’”

Variety: “Joe Biden Calls Fox News Reporter a ‘Stupid Son of a Bitch’ After Inflation Question.”

Doocy said Biden later called to apologize.

Biden muttered his remark about a single reporter on a hot mic. Trump delivered his vulgar line from a rally stage and aimed it at the entire opposing party. Only one got headline treatment.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"This is Trump conditioning his base, to paraphrase Voltaire, first to accept absurdities so they can accept atrocities. It is not rambling. It is not a joke. It is how we slide perilously into civil conflict and violence" statuskuo.substack.com/p/trump-is-c...
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Trump Is Certifiable. The Press Shrugs It Off.
A week of alarming, unhinged statements by Trump raises the question of whether the press can still report with clarity and courage.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is combing the bottom of the barrel to fill prosecutor vacancies...the office has resorted to hiring lawyers with criminal records, misconduct allegations, and a love of conspiracy theories to fill the void" JFC: newrepublic.com/post/216315/...
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Justice Department Hired Criminals as Veteran Employees Fled
A new report reveals how the DOJ’s civil rights division has replaced longtime staffers with the worst of the worst.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
MAGA Candidate Brags He Physically Abused His Wife Victor Marx said it was to teach her a lesson, and that she was “fake crying” afterwards For the love of God, #Colorado, please vote blue: newrepublic.com/post/216337/...
Marx has repeatedly claimed that the media has unfairly pegged him as a domestic abuser—but in truth, Marx has been telling variations of this story for years, some much more disturbing than the latest iteration. In 2021, the former Marine turned priest laughed while recalling “grabbing her and slamming” his wife after she suggested that he could protect her.

“It was a decent push,” he said at the time, beaming. “She hit that and started crying, bent over, facing the opposite way.”

Still, that’s not the only abuse allegation facing the Republican gubernatorial hopeful: Marx has also been accused of throwing his toddler across a room and pulling a knife on a psychiatrist attempting to treat him.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"Prosegur has a history of alleged human rights violations, including an incident as recent as 2024 in which the company’s Brazilian subsidiary reportedly prevented indigenous people from accessing food and medical care at a nearby town" JFC: newrepublic.com/post/216331/...
newrepublic.com
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"You just can’t have the president of the United States idly suggesting a war foe could or might bomb a couple of U.S. cities, no big deal. Whether he meant it or not" NARRATOR: The fuckhead meant it: www.contrariannews.org/p/dont-dismi...
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Don’t Dismiss Trump’s Los Angeles-San Diego Comment as a ‘Joke’
No normal American would say those words. A president shouldn’t even think them.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 4h
"Nthe strategic use of protests, strikes, and similar methods—has paralyzed authoritarian regimes and forced despots from power" Get organized Use the dictator’s repression against him Diversify resistance methods Sweep away the dictator’s pillars of support: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
newrepublic.com
If Trump Steals an Election, Here’s What to Do
Nonviolent rebellion has proven again and again to be the most effective way of ousting even a determined autocrat.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 5h
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Cindy Hyde-Smith is costing us and it's personal to Susan and her daughter.
YouTube video by American Bridge 21st Century
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 5h
Congressional Candidate Raped in Arizona While Fixing Campaign Sign "all too often, sexual violence is inescapable for women—from fraternity houses to the campaign trail, and from college students to women who dare to seek political power" 😱🤬😱🤬😱 jessica.substack.com/p/congressio...
Greene-Placentia says she didn’t report her assault for weeks because she was “embarrassed” and just wanted to “forget it happened.” Rape culture—that is, the normalization of sexual violence across society—relies on survivors to internalize shame and self-blame so that they stay silent. In recent weeks, misogynist influencers have obsessively tried to dox, harass, and humiliate the Jane Doe of the Cornell case for precisely this reason.

All while Greene-Placentia faces an uphill battle in her congressional race, our current, two-term president is a legally recognized sexual assailant himself. As you’ll read next, the GOP nominee for governor of Colorado openly boasts about acts of domestic abuse. This is the context in which we are asking women and survivors to run for political office.
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ChristineP, M.S. @christineparini.bsky.social · 5h
They just want you to think it’s Islam.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 6h
I understand Donny 2 Dolls said some crap at some rally. I'll just drop this off... www.trumptrickortreat.com
Trump said he would lower prices. TRICK? OR TREAT?
“I inherited very, very high costs, and they’re all coming down now,” Trump said Aug. 4 on Fox News. “The food, the groceries, it’s all coming down.”
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 6h
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Canadian ice cream brand Chapman switches suppliers amid U.S. trade war | NOW Toronto
The Canadian ice cream maker says it’s moving away from American ingredients while promising not to raise prices until 2028.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 7h
Greetings from the @washoedems.bsky.social Power the Blue Wave dinner. Elissa Slotkin is a badass. 27 days to go. Let’s go get it!
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 10h
Well, let's just cry a river for poor Pete Hegseth--it was so difficult for that incompetent jagoff to send others into harm's way 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hegseth tells USS Lincoln sailors controversial deployment ‘wasn’t easy’
Pentagon chief tries to play down problems onboard carrier as it returns to dock after 260 days at sea without port call
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 10h
GOOD. Go get them, DNC, and let's have more of this: aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
DNC Sues Trump Administration Over Taxpayer-Funded Ads, Calling Them Illegal Propaganda. The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., accusing the Trump administration of using taxpayer money to run illegal government propaganda and alleging Trump personally directed the ads. The spots, which glorify Trump and echo his campaign message as early voting is underway, have already cost more than $12 million to air, with $20 million in Homeland Security funding tapped to pay for them. After bipartisan backlash, Trump said Monday his MAGA Inc. super PAC would cover the ads going forward, but a fifth government-funded ad touting his Venezuela military actions aired the very next day, and he refused to commit to repaying the money already spent, saying only “we’ll decide.” Legal experts say the ads likely violate a federal law barring appropriated funds from being used for “publicity or propaganda,” while the White House insists they are standard public service announcements. DNC Chair Ken Martin called the ads “a last-ditch attempt to save Republicans in November.”
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 11h
Do NOT mail your ballot if at all possible 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
Nearly 1,000 armed private security guards have been deployed to post offices across the country ahead of Election Day. The guards work for Prosegur, a multinational security company with a history of alleged human rights abuses, and have been sent to at least 55 USPS facilities in cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix and Tampa. The head of the Postal Police Officers Association warned that no one from the Postal Service will supervise them, meaning “private contractors in and around ballots without any federal control,” and said it could give Trump “an excuse to call into question the integrity of the election.” Meanwhile, Postmaster General David Steiner told Senate lawmakers Wednesday that USPS will not offer ballot services to states that refuse to hand their voter rolls over to the Trump administration. The Postal Inspection Service says the guards are there to deter criminals and protect workers.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 11h
"I could’ve done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could’ve done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could’ve done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama...they impeached me twice and I certainly, to this moment, I can do whatever I want, if I want" 🤬😱 aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
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NEWS: Trump Threatens ‘Very Bad’ Things for Obama, Armed Guards Deployed to Post Offices for Election, ICE Spies on Voting Groups
Good evening, “I can do whatever I want, if I want.” That’s what Donald Trump said in the Oval Office today, moments after telling reporters he “could’ve done very bad things” to Barack Obama, Hillary...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 11h
"So he’s either joking, or he’s been taken out of context, or he was clear as day and you’re just stupid for not understanding, or his intent was clear but he was just rambling. It’s all so clear that there are multiple explanations floating around" He *meant* it: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Being Trump means never having your words mean anything
MAGA rallied to his the president’s side to explain all the ways he didn’t mean the words he said.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 12h
"Rob Sand debated Zach Lahn for Iowa governor, Wes Moore debated Dan Cox, and Georgia and Michigan governor candidates squared off. Tonight is Shapiro vs. Garrity in Pennsylvania" Meanwhile, MAGA Joe Lombardo is *still* too afraid to debate @aarondfordnv.bsky.social Vote blue, Silver State!
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 17h
Reporter: What do you see as the number one issue for American voters in the midterms? Donald Trump: Well, I don’t know exactly. ...let's help Donny 2 Dolls figure that out on November 3: www.jimacosta.com/p/jamm-trump...
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JAMM: Trump Gets Flayed Over Insane Nuke Rant Edition
Plus Bad Times For Susan Collins And More
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 17h
Vote Democratic on November 3rd. [Me: or earlier if you can vote early] The stakes are too high for you to stay home:
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18h
"administration and its allies have been aggressively seeking data to back up assertions that Democrats could benefit from the support of noncitizens in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, in which Republicans are at risk of losing control" Another MAGA lie by sore losers: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups (Gift Article)
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18h
"also an AI-generated photo posted to social media claiming a progressive lawmaker was on board—except the lawmaker never posed for the photo, and the signs aren’t coming from Democrats at all" Another day, another example of MAGA lying: coppercourier.com/news/electio...
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There’s a problem with these ‘Democrats for Biggs’ signs - Copper Courier
Yard signs reading "Democrats for Biggs" have popped up across Phoenix, Mesa, and Chandler.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18h
"the spike in interest rates is being felt throughout the non-AI economy. In other words, all that money going into construction of datacenters and purchasing foreign produced semiconductors comes at the expense of investment in everything else:" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-versus-...
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AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18h
Very necessary timeline cleanse:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are! Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 19h
The President wants to arrest journalists for doing their jobs. He’s attacking the right of every American to know what their elected leaders are doing. Generations have fought and sacrificed for our freedoms. We must speak out and defend our rights now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 19h
"Insulated from challenge by right-wing media and structural advantages, the GOP has increasingly gotten high on its own fascist supply. Now, suddenly, accountability is here. May Roger Marshall, his party, and his president receive everything they deserve:" open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign
Red state MAGAs aren’t equipped for real competition and accountability.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 19h
Gov. Gavin Newsom told The Hill that Trump is “mentally ill,” declaring “TIME FOR THE 25TH!” and Sen. Alex Padilla echoed him on X: “Three words. 25th AMENDMENT NOW.” ...here, here! aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-calif...
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NEWS: California Leaders Call Trump ‘Mentally Ill,’ Paxton Turns on Trump's War, Gold Star Families Snub Trump, Trump Eyes Golf Club Camp David
Good morning, everyone.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"This is a man suggesting that the deaths of potentially tens of millions of people are an acceptable cost. These are the words of a psychopath, someone so detached from his own humanity and everyone else’s that mass death registers as merely inconvenient:" open.substack.com/pub/marytrum...
open.substack.com
Toddler Logic, Nuclear Consequences
What Donald's Willingness to Sacrifice Cities Really Means
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Flooding the zone with shit is a strategy for producing a shitty country.” No kidding: newrepublic.com/post/216281/...
newrepublic.com
Federal Lawyer Quits, Warns Trump Admin Is Creating “a Shitty Country”
A veteran lawyer at the Department of Interior submitted a resignation letter warning about the complete “assault on the rule of law.”
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Not only did the Department of Defense fail to provide the personnel stationed there with the necessary tools to defend themselves, but multiple service members who were injured in the attack say their government also neglected them in the aftermath" 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 newrepublic.com/post/216274/...
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Are you paying attention Georgia? Listen up. Keisha Lance Bottoms works for you. Vote Blue up and Down Ballot Georgia. #voices4Victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 07/10/2026
Yesterday the President said Iran could “take out Los Angeles or San Diego” and called it a very small price to pay. I don’t know what he meant. I know what he said. And it’s just wrong.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Legacy media’s sanewashing of Trump’s campaign appearances as 'speeches' bears less and less resemblance to the reality of his verbal incontinence...Responsible coverage would highlight his mental unfitness daily, provide ample extracts of rants, and play them back: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Words & Phrases: A Crazy Rant Isn’t a ‘Speech’ or an ‘Interview’
🚨 28 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Is Preznit Fuckwit … joking? Is he serious? Is he so demented that he has no idea what he’s actually saying? Does it even matter why Donny said what he said? Dude is clearly unfit for office, and growing worse by the day:" open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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No biggie, it’s just our shithole president, inviting Iran to ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego
What the fuck is wrong with this guy?
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"David Ellison’s new media empire, Skydance, officially took control of CNN, CBS News and HBO on Tuesday, and he wants to run it like a tech company" Oh God--it's dead: aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
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NEWS: Trump Faces Calls for Removal, Teases "Big Surprises" for the Midterms, Blocks Election Observers Like Russia and Belarus, and More
Good evening, everyone.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Definitely not. Hello #Maine -- please vote for Troy Jackson:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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