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@catpersist.bsky.social
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Librarian. Leguminati. Ally. Resist. Persist.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 17h
MAGA insider brutally trashes Stephen Miller’s wife in private: report #AlterNet
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MAGA insider brutally trashes Stephen Miller’s wife in private: report
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 19h
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h
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Terminator John Connor: Want Some Fries?
ALT: Terminator John Connor: Want Some Fries?
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
He means your Social Security benefits, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's what Republicans want to cut instead of simply asking billionaires and giant corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wonder what the number 1 answer is??
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The golden age of public humiliation continues 😂
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Artist Brutally Rips Trump With Naked 'Orange Plague' Sculpture In European Parliament
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Sarah Trone Garriott @sarahforiowa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the corruption I’m taking about. Trump Super PACs and Corporate PACs pay for Zach Nunn’s elections, and then he rewards them in office. Iowans deserve better representation and Trump’s $1M shows exactly why.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TN Farmers are barely getting by because Trump & folks like Brent Taylor are turning a blind eye to their struggles and those of everyday Americans. I sat down with farmers in Bolivar Tn to learn about their challenges and hear their ideas for bipartisan solutions I can bring to Congress.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reminder: Early voting starts Oct. 14th to the 29th. Vote early and bring your friends and family with you!
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Justin J. Pearson for U.S. Congress
Vote to elect Justin J. Pearson for U.S. Congress to fight for our families, our values, our present & our future. This campaign isn’t about me. It’s about us!
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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mike Lawler opposes a data center moratorium, has voted for $80 billion in tax breaks for data centers AND voted to make it easier to build them, and has allowed five data centers to open in Rockland County on his watch (with three more on the way).
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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration has spent nearly fifty billion taxpayer dollars on a senseless war that is raising your costs. Meanwhile, Trump’s sons could be potentially profiting from the war, as defense companies they’ve invested in receive new government contracts.
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/10/2026
Project Meridian will be led by a weirdo, a beardo, & a fatty.
Hegseth on Project Meridian.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Blanche wants @katiephang.bsky.social Epstein suit tossed as a "generalized grievance" Too many Americans want the files, so nobody gets them? Katie's job is to share things with the public, that's the opposite of a generalized grievance Release the files!
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Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the e
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and now she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws...a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book. @smencimer.bsky.social reports: bit.ly/3TEJcnd
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/10/2026
There's news of a plague outbreak in Russia. Here's what we know and here's who in the White House is staffed to handle any U.S. related work on it (hint: it's RFK Jr. and a gutted CDC...) Russia is trying to cover up the media reports on the outbreak, which now has 200 people in quarantine.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I thought he had the best mind.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ICYMI, the Trump administration has reportedly awarded $3.3 Billion in government awards to companies tied to Trump’s sons -August 2026 … 1/ share.google/L4SDaeibhonY...
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Warren, Garcia, Blumenthal, Duckworth Urge DoD Watchdog to Investigate $3.2 Billion in Government Awards to Companies Tied to Trump Sons
Warren, Garcia, Blumenthal, Duckworth Urge DoD Watchdog to Investigate $3.2 Billion in Government Awards to Companies Tied to Trump Sons - Senator Elizabeth Warren
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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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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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every time Trump rejiggers his political ad scheme, he adds a new violation! First he broke the law, including illegally using a song written by one of our @democracydefendersaction.org clients Now he says his super PAC will pay for the ads--but he can't legally do that! More @ms.now👇
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Vox @vox.com · 06/10/2026
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger puts Hollywood in the hands of just five massive companies. www.vox.com/today-explai...
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Movies may soon get more boring
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger puts Hollywood in the hands of just five massive companies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations. n.pr/4yzNjA7
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Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case
Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
"Whatever conclusions reached by the commission of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires, they'll be handed off to Hegseth, who believes wars are won by whichever side can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military is dragging DoD down by the day."
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SCOOP @wired.com: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Insurers are making billions while Floridians struggle to afford coverage. Byron Donalds is running false ads about my plan to lower costs. Thank you, Sean Shaw, for setting the record straight in the Tampa Bay Times. I’ll fight for the people paying the premiums.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
If Joe Biden got one word out of place, Jake Tapper would write a book about it. If you’re tired of the double standard- try independent media. It’s free. It’s award-winning. It has swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...
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Headlines for October 6, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Byron Donalds has spent $100 million, but we're in a position to win this race - because voters are rejecting the politics of division and embracing a campaign focused on housing, healthcare, education, and no data centers. Thank you for being a part of this historic campaign.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hours before Kristi Noem left her job as DHS secretary, her agency bought five planes from a donor at a huge markup. They were supposed to fly deportees but have sat idle. Another symbol of waste and fraud under Trump. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
It's like joining a cult where the Kool-Aid costs $6.99 and comes with a side of celibacy.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the deadline to register to vote in the following states: Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Please don't miss out. ✍🏾🗳️
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Register for Next Steps Conference
ALT: Register for Next Steps Conference
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Insanity 😡
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sadly, there are many stories of campus sex abuse and rape, so why did the shocking allegations at Cornell become a front-page story? Elite impunity for Ivy League boys felt like the last straw in a nation where presidents and QBs strut untouchable My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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