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Candace Smith

@candigirlatl68.bsky.social
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Lawyer, ATLien, Politics and Pop Culture Junkie, Voter Protection Advocate, Fan of the Oxford comma. She/her. The thoughts are mine; the typos are Siri’s.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On the one hand, I follow legal victories against this administration with some relief. On the other hand, I know that litigating every aspect of the social contract means there isn’t one anymore. And so it’s hard for me to get out of bed these days, is what I’m saying.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
60 presidential elections. Two lost by women. That’s not the most damning statistic when you consider that a man lost the other 58. Gender matters but it’s not fatalistic. It’s important to hold the gravity of things without thinking they are all-powerful.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 17/06/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. The Trump Administration is scrambling to spend more than $1 billion in emergency funding to fix a crisis its own recklessness helped create.
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Candace Smith @candigirlatl68.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Early voting period ends Friday. The runoff is June 16th. Dems and Republicans have runoff races!
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Atlanta News First @atlantanewsfirst.com · 08/06/2026
Early voting starts in Georgia runoffs that will decide fall matchups for governor, U.S. Senate
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Early voting starts in Georgia runoffs that will decide fall matchups for governor, U.S. Senate
June 16 vote will lock in November’s marquee contests and settle key statewide nominations.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/05/2026
if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 05/05/2026
My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Introducing: Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend. Sports. Hospitality. Entertainment. July 16–19. Park MGM. Las Vegas. It started with a tweet. Now its a movement. We’re focused on real impact. For women’s sports. For women athletes. For what comes next.
Flyer for Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend. Las Vegas. July 16-19.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2026
Yes, I was redistricted twice. Yes, I hate it. And yes, I cut commercials for Virginia's redistricting effort and I'm proud of it. Here's why the GOP meltdown today is pure hypocrisy: open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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I Was Redistricted Twice. I Still Stood With Virginia.
Texas broke the rules. Virginia answered. Everything else is noise.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/04/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a reminder that most of the bench has never seen the inside of a trial court or a public defender’s office. She’s schooling folks how this actually works.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I don’t know how anybody can see how the records of Bush II and Reagan have been whitewashed and think Trump won’t get the same treatment in the future. America does this constantly and it won’t stop because Trump. Right now in real time Trump is being mainstreamed by the media and Dems.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/04/2026
Democrats and a coalition of voter-rights groups filed separate lawsuits in an effort to block an executive order that President Trump signed Tuesday that would limit mail ballots, arguing the president’s order violates the Constitution.
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Democrats, voter rights groups file lawsuits on Trump order on mail ballots
The plaintiffs in both cases argue that the president’s order violates the Constitution, which directly gives states and Congress the power to regulate federal elections and voter rolls.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
NEW: Fulton County officials fighting for the return of 2020 election materials seized by the FBI asked a federal judge Tuesday to order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose details about its repeated attempts to obtain the county’s election records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Fulton County alleges DOJ used  FBI raid to circumvent lawsuit, seize 2020 ballots
Before the FBI seized the county's 2020 election records, the DOJ sought them through demand letters and a lawsuit.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/03/2026
Democrats introduced bills to end the TSA shutdown on: March 5 March 11 March 12 March 18 March 19 (x2) March 21 March 23 Republicans blocked TSA funding every single time.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for Georgia voters, the Georgia Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that required the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to appoint two election deniers to the local Board of Elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 Fulton County Republican Party v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners
Learn more.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/12/2025
“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
People who are saying that Trump's new National Security Strategy should not be taken seriously should ask themselves this: Was it right or wrong not to take Project 2025 seriously?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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Candace Smith @candigirlatl68.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Wrong. It is having GOP governor’s mansions taking orders from Trump, both houses of Congress doing almost anything Trump wants and a Supreme Court co-signing - and fast tracking - nearly all of it. Plus it’s MSM print and tv sanewashing the admin.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Cassie Creswell @cassiecreswell.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“I think the most important lesson from Chicago right now is that anyone can do this and everyone should do this. The distributed nature of the movement is key.” organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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📣 Outside Voice @outsidevoice.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
lol Nate Silver? The dude who hasn’t been right on anything since… Sorry should have just ended on a period after “hasn’t been right on anything.” Y’all are on quite the kick scraping mold off of leftovers and just reheating them in the microwave.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 07/11/2025
Theresa Gillespie Isom, a North Mississippi Democrat, won a special election for Mississippi Senate District 2, flipping a Republican-held seat. Her victory helped Democrats break the Republican Party’s supermajority for the first time in 13 years.
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Democrat Theresa Gillespie Isom Flips GOP-Held Mississippi Senate Seat in North Mississippi
Theresa Gillespie Isom, a North Mississippi Democrat, has won a special election for Mississippi Senate District 2, flipping a GOP-held seat.
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audebm.bsky.social @audebm.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats! 💙💙💙 www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 05/11/2025
Last year after the election, I reflected: "When we fight, we win—but sometimes the fight takes awhile." Last night, we saw Democratic victories across our nation. I am so proud of these enthusiastic, principled, inspirational leaders who will continue to fight for our nation, ideals, and progress.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/11/2025
my article is good, actually 🙂 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/learn...
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Trump’s Plan to Nuke the Global Economy Prompts Conservative Justices to Remember That the Constitution Exists
The Court has no problem facilitating the disappearance of civil rights. Shareholder value is a different story.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good morning. Today would be a good day to give money to Democratic senate candidates like @drannieandrews.com drannieandrews.com secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_website
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Dr. Annie Andrews for Senate
Dr. Annie Andrews is a pediatrician and mom who has dedicated her career to fighting for a brighter future for all children...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 31/10/2025
SCOOP: Months late, the DHS quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database that now allows it to be used as a “voter verification” tool that sidesteps federal privacy protections and makes it easier to remove voters from the rolls.
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In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections
Read more here.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My favorite thing as a writer is when I start ranting about something on Bluesky, get it all out of my system, and then turn it into a real piece of writing. On that note: hey, it’s me, heckling centrist Dems in the New Republic! newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections
A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Even when the moments aren’t going viral and therefore recede a bit from national headlines, it’s worth remembering again that the trump administration is still raining a lot of terror down on the chicago area. All the love to the great American city and its surrounding neighborhoods
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The White House State dining room was absolutely lovely and plenty big enough -seating for 140 guests. Of course the Obamas gave it extra class & elegance
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/10/2025
Every dollar for Trump’s ego is a dollar stolen from working families. #TrumpHatesOurHealthCare
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The most upsetting part of this story to me is the line where the Times says it is “unclear” where the money came from. Under our constitution, it is either extremely clear where money comes from - a congressional appropriation - or an illegal channel. So so, @nytimes.com
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