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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h
‼️ Some of ICE’s election day plans are documented in a new Democracy Forward report, shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. DF says Americans are being left in the dark about what ICE plans to do as voters begin casting ballots. Here’s how they’re fighting back: demdock.com/4zhkjx0
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h
Putin is playing Trump…again.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h
October 8, 2026
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October 8, 2026
On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
Republicans gave corporations a huge tax cut. The deficit exploded again. Now they want to blow another massive hole by borrowing billions more for weapons to feed the endless series of Republican wars. The national credit card is maxed out while Republicans enrich themselves.
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 15h
You think 🤔💭 things are bad for Medicaid and Medicare now? Wait until that Big Ugly-@$$ Bill REALLY kicks in. Here’s what’s coming up:
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NPR @npr.org · 14h
The Trump administration says it has deported more than 25,000 people to countries to which they have no ties. NPR spoke to three men who say it feels like they've lost control over their own lives. n.pr/3WhaK2E
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In Central African Republic, deported immigrants find themselves in limbo
The Trump administration says it has deported more than 25,000 people to countries to which they have no ties. NPR spoke to three men who say it feels like they've lost control over their own lives.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h
Remember when Jared Kushner tried to set up a secret backchannel with the Kremlin in 2016? And then left off over 100 foreign calls/meetings from over 20 countries on his background investigation for his top secret security clearance? Now he’s walking right through the front door at the Kremlin.
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Jared Kushner’s SECRET INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 11h
Hundreds of people remain trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where food has run out and mined roads make any escape attempt a gamble with death. Meduza spoke to people who have managed to stay in touch with those inside. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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‘The smell of death is everywhere’: Inside the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where hundreds are trapped without food, electricity, or medicine — Meduza
Since 2022, residents of Oleshky in Ukraine’s Kherson region have lived under occupation. In 2023, the city was flooded after the Kakhovka dam was blown up: the flooding destroyed dozens…
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Sheila Kennedy @sheilablog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An Uncivil Conclusion sheilakennedy.net/2026/10/an-u...
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An Uncivil Conclusion
Well, this is sort of disquieting. A commitment to civility requires citizens to conduct public debates in a manner that avoids name-calling–that we respond to what we perceive to be wronghea…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration broke federal law by withholding more than $78 million Congress had approved for healthcare research, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The watchdog found that HHS violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just another normal day for an admin that proposed to slash NSF's FY27 budget in half & diverted more than $1.4B in research funds last year and is now hosting a New Golden Age of Science Summit at the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace (formerly, the United States Institute for Peace).
White House OSTP 47 Live Science: A New Golden Age Summit at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can someone give me a logical explanation why the U.S. is funding Russia’s bioweapons facilities?
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Russian plague lab reportedly received research funding from RFK's HHS
The death of a worker from the lab last week caused concern worldwide and is said to have killed at least one other person since and has many curious about the Siberian lab.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
People around Ken Paxton anytime he’s about to say something damaging to his campaign
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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026
Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine have killed 30 people and injured at least 18, according to authorities. The attacks included a strike on a public bus and have worsened power outages in Kyiv. n.pr/4rSitQL
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Strike on Ukrainian public bus leaves 30 dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv
Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine have killed 30 people and injured at least 18, according to authorities. The attacks included a strike on a public bus and have worsened power outages in Kyiv.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon"
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There was an incident on Latvia’s border where armed, masked men tried to push migrants through & threatened Latvian soldiers. Meanwhile, on the same day, a Moscow court declared 13 people/5 organizations from Baltic states “Nazi” collaborators. My latest… olgalautman.substack.com/p/masked-men...
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Masked Men at Latvia’s Border as Moscow Builds a “Nazi” Narrative Around the Baltics
Monday was another one of those days when individual events may not seem particularly unusual, but putting several things together paints a much more concerning picture.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🇱🇹 Lithuanian Prime Minister: There was a time when Putin was saying that they would not invade Ukraine. So you can never predict what’s on their mind and how they will actually proceed. They’re talking one thing, but acting very much differently.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis says he expects there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to not seat the new Congress if Democrats win
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October 6, 2026
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October 6, 2026
Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
Utah combed its voter rolls and found only 27 confirmed noncitizens out of more than 2 million registered voters. Of those 27 noncitizens, only 13 had cast a ballot since 2018. But as the state’s Republican elections chief said, that’s not what Trump wanted to hear: demdock.com/4ejGo5Q
A quote text graphic with a red state outline. The quote says, "They don’t want to know that things are going well, because it goes against a narrative that is being pounded relentlessly of mass fraud or ineligible people voting." The attribution reads, "Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R).
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🇺🇦 In 8 months of 2026, Russia killed and injured more civilians than in all of 2025, — Lubinets In July alone, Russian attacks claimed the lives of 437 civilians and injured another 2,610 people. This is the highest monthly figure since May 2022, the ombudsman said.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I read Project 2025 and this basically was written down in it by the authors.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😕 🌎 🔥
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The GOP once had principled leaders. Now it just has revisionist simps. Video: buff.ly/rfYfhTT
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.
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Inside Trump Donor Konstantin Sokolov’s Business Ties to Russia
This investigation is part of an ongoing examination of Konstantin Sokolov’s network.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
October 4, 2026
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 05/10/2026
The sale of Lukoil’s foreign assets to Trump allies has become part of U.S.–Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine, sources told The New York Times. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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Lukoil’s foreign asset sale becomes part of U.S.–Russia talks on ending Ukraine war, NYT reports — Meduza
The sale of Lukoil’s foreign assets has become part of Russia–U.S. talks on ending the Russia–Ukraine war, sources told The New York Times.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 04/10/2026
Russia has started targeting Kyiv's bridges over the Dnipro, a shift after the crossings had not previously been attacked. The South Bridge remains closed after strikes on Oct. 1–2. The North Bridge was hit on Oct. 3. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Russia has begun striking Kyiv’s bridges across the Dnipro for the first time since invading Ukraine — Meduza
In recent days, Russian forces have begun attacking some of Kyiv’s most important transport links: the bridges across the Dnipro River, which had not previously come under attack.
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From the end of the Great Depression until the late 1970s, wages went up with productivity. The working and middle classes had real purchasing power. Then the “Reagan Revolution” happened. It wasn’t a revolution. It was America’s devolution.
"THE RAND CORPORATION DID THE MATH AND FOUND THAT THE RESULT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR UNIONS AND FREEZING OF OUR MINIMUM WAGE, COMBINED WITH MASSIVE TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES FROM REAGAN, BUSH, AND TRUMP, HAVE TRANSFERRED A MIND-BOGGLING $79 TRILLION FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS INTO THE MONEY BINS OF THE MORBIDLY RICH SINCE THE REAGAN ERA."

THOM HARTMANNBernie Sanders @BernieSanders

Total Wealth of Bottom 50% of U.S. households
1989: $317.8 billion
2026: $313 billion

Total Wealth of Top 0.00001% (20 households)
1989: $88.6 billion
2026: $4 trillion

This is insane!NEVER FORGET THAT RONALD REAGAN TRIPLED THE NATIONAL DEBT FROM $738 BILLION TO $2.1 TRILLION, DROPPED THE INCOME TAX RATE ON THE TOP 1% FROM 70% TO 28%, SOLD 500 MISSILES TO IRAN, LET 90,000 AMERICANS DIE OF AIDS, AND SET INTO MOTION THE END OF MENTAL INSTITUTIONS, CREATING A MASSIVE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Timothy Snyder: One thing that I do worry about... is that the way we fought the Iran war was obviously out of date. We haven’t learned how to fight a modern war. With Hegseth and Trump… and their just fantastic vision of testosterone plus battleships, I just don’t think we’re going to get there.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Correct 🎯
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s reported measles cases are almost at 1,000 for the year.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
Trump weaponized his administration to chase 2020 election lies — hiring election deniers to find evidence. And despite wasting enormous federal resources to prove his conspiracies, the effort has come up empty: demdock.com/4hCWvw9
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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