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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Before Citizens United, the top 15 political contributors spent just $15 million on the midterm election. Now, the top 15 have spent $962 MILLION. That's up 6,400%. THIS is why our system is so rigged. We really, really have to end Citizens United and tax the rich.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Trump’s wealth has increased by as much as $15.5 million since January thanks to his investments in oil and gas stocks, according to one recent estimate. Understand who he's really talking about. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil…
commondreams.org
'We're Making a Fortune,' Trump Says of High Oil Prices as Working Class Pays | Common Dreams
"Workers are losing the race between wages and prices," said one economist. "It's no wonder workers feel left behind in
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
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European News @eunews.social · 23h
Asked by Sky News at the EU summit in Brussels whether he is being made a scapegoat for Trump's problems at home, Zelensky stood silent at the podium for about ten seconds, then said: "This is my answer. Thank you so much." Then he left.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/10/2026
NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Sam Stone, chief of staff for Maricopa Recorder Justin Heap, is coordinating with disinfo group We the People AZ Alliance & contacted the FBI over election workers doing their job during election season. No wrongdoing was found but goes to show how election workers are still targeted by this crowd.
Sam Stone / SamThePol

1. Do I think anything nefarious was at play in this situation?

No

2. Did I recommend and contact the FBI and
MCAO immediately to pass what we had been given on?

Absolutely did. Would do it again. Every time. Because when questions about potentially fraudulent activity in an election come to light the proper reaction is not for the organization at hand to clear themselves, but to bring in an appropriate outside investigative agency to do it.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
ISRAELI SETTLERS SET FIRE TO THIS LITTLE BOY IN THE WEST BANK FUCK THIS ZIONIST ENTITY 🤬
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Mike Rogers’ wife is handing out $10 gas cards in Michigan while asking people to vote for her husband. Republicans made gas unaffordable. Now they’re offering $10 to keep them in power. #BlueWaveIn20Days
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
But giving water to voters waiting in long lines to vote is illegal
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 15/10/2026
Thousands of South Dakotans can only vote in federal elections because of the state’s new law requiring proof of citizenship, South Dakota Searchlight reports:
southdakotasearchlight.com
South Dakota’s federal-only voter list grows to nearly 6,000, surprising some who are on it • South Dakota Searchlight
The number of South Dakotans restricted to voting only in federal races has nearly quadrupled to 5,735 since May, driven by two recent laws.
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Boss Files $12 Theft Charge After Worker Quits Over Unwanted Advances. ICE Arrests Her Inside Maryland Courthouse. #Blues open.substack.com/pub/eyesonic...
open.substack.com
Boss Files $12 Theft Charge After Worker Quits Over Unwanted Advances. ICE Arrests Her Inside Maryland Courthouse.
Nayeli walked into the Carroll County District Court in Westminster on September 29, 2026, holding a green folder.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 14/10/2026
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
young men (18-29) who spend >5 hours a day on social media are more likely to agree that advancing women’s and girls’ rights has gone too far than those who don’t use social media as much. no difference detected among young women. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social
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naugtynonnie.bsky.social @naugtynonnie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
jessica.substack.com
Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
10.13.26
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Sharon Clark 🦋 @sharonclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
According to Aaron Parnas: Musk is trying to trick everyone by sending them to his own phony site when they go to check their registration. DO NOT go to votesafe.org When you enter your information, Elon Musk will steal it. DO NOT go to that website! Pass it on...
votesafe.org
VOTE SAFE | Home
We provide you with the information you need to vote with confidence. Sign up for election reminders and get help with voter registration and voting by mail.
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New: AI data centers’ indirect water use - water consumed by power plants to generate electricity for power-hungry server farms - is magnitudes larger than the facilities’ onsite water consumption and is largely undisclosed. Free link. With @mchediak.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
AI's Water Strain Includes Surging Demand From Electricity Use
It takes a lot of water to generate the power consumed by server farms.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#ELB: “Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans” electionlawblog.org/2026/inside-elo…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Give them hell, Adam 🗣️
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Imagine a politician insulting his own followers' IQ to their faces with "I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap" and having them prove him right in real time by cheering for it. Comedy writers couldn’t script a better cult parody. #momsky #sheshed
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These border livestreamers were pivotal to producing propaganda during the Biden admin, working with local law enforcement, and are closely tied to Tom Homan. They were operated as copaganda.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shit! 😳 Let’s make this nationwide.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More GOP dishonesty. Huge "Democrats for Biggs" signs have popped up all around Phoenix. Who are the “Democrats for Biggs”? Surprise. Behind the signs is not a Democrat-led organization, but Turning Point. Biggs campaign claims to not be involved. We know what to do. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
azmirror.com
No, there isn't a 'Democrats for Biggs' movement, despite what new signs claim
Who, exactly, are the “Democrats for Biggs”? That’s the question behind a wave of blue campaign signs popping up around Greater Phoenix.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
nytimes.com
Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
nyc.gov
Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Katie Zacharia served as a senior communications adviser for Trump Media & Technology Group and the Truth Social platform beginning in June 2026 She is an election denier & claimed mifepristone abortion medication was connected to the lethal gas used by the Nazi regime.🙄
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
US Big Tech putting its thumb on the scale for Flávio Bolsonaro.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is Brenden Cuni of New Rochelle, NY, an ICE agent who was seen earlier brutalizing a pregnant woman in Minneapolis, MN. As reported by I_May_Have_Weed I hope his family is proud of him. #FuckICE #FucktRump #Pinks #ProudBlue
ICEICE
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos. Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.
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CNN @cnn.com · 09/10/2026
Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. cnn.it/4rRrZU0
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
DOJ “has hastily hired a new crop of 130 people -- some w/ criminal records, minimal experience, tarnished work histories, hyperpartisanship and downright bizarre public statements.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
newrepublic.com
“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
sure is cool dems are attacking trans people cause there's nothing else to campaign on
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In case you hadn't been following this disturbing sequence of events, here's a recap: RFK Jr wanted to fund a randomized trial, run by Danes, involving newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau Ethicists across the world, including in Nigeria, Cameroon, & Ethiopia, were horrified: it's an unethical study
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 08/10/2026
This was basically the entire point of conservatives' Master Plan that legalized corruption and bribery. masterplanpodcast.com - pass it on
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
An investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal has found that "across the country, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities after they or their newborns test positive for those very SAME substances on subsequent drug tests."
themarshallproject.org
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026
🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the latest: bsky.app/profile/hugo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Ron Johnson, still relitigating covid all these years later, pimps ivermectin, but then immediately acknowledges "I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical researcher"
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Dan Fejes @df1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This 3 minute story is probably more informative and substantive than any comparable length segment on the network news broadcasts over the last month. It's not sensationalized but still conveys the gravity of the situation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯
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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Police violently drag Hispanic grandmother across rough ground-injuring both arms. Witnesses yell she has a serious heart condition & was just released from hospital. Cops kneel on her chest anyway. "They dragged her like a doll," brother said. Incident occurred in Batesville, Texas
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