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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 7h
Markwayne Mullin once challenged a union boss to a fight in a Senate hearing. About 200 people rallied in Dodge City, and within an hour ICE was on its way out. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 7h
Cruel, sadistic, and predictable from the partisan hacks on the Roberts Court.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7h
I blame the media in this country, and I blame my former Republican colleagues, and I blame his voters for allowing him to lie every time he opens his mouth.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 7h
How is this text chain supposed to prove Smith was in Atlanta in the first place? All it talks about is a seat reservation at an unnamed game.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 7h
BREAKING: We just sued DHS and USCIS to compel it to respond to our records request seeking evidence behind the Trump admin's claims about noncitizen voting. Given the upcoming midterms, the public needs answers immediately.
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CREW sues for records on noncitizen voting numbers  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The federal government must respond to CREW’s requests seeking records underlying the Trump administration’s claims about noncitizen voting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Husted to the woman asking him questions he refuses to answer: "I love you. You're awesome."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lmaooo💤💤💤
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
🎉 WIN: States and local governments won’t have to run voter rolls through a flawed DHS database — or adopt other anti-voting measures — to get funding meant to prevent terrorist attacks. A judge found the Trump administration likely violated federal law: demdock.com/4dFytQ2
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m not sure that’s helpful. bsky.app/profile/head...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not difficult to see that Chris Rufo is laundering white identity politics/white nationalism while proclaiming his supposed color blindness. Here’s a screenshot of the thumbnail for an episode of his podcast - the “great replacement” conspiracy theory is a racist trope.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not the first time Trump has forced a woman to do something she didn’t want to do.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BIG TECH: This thing is going to kill everyone TRUMP: I want to be the one to name it
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans correctly deduced that having Trump campaign in Maine for Susan Collins was a terrible idea given how unpopular he is here but then they inexplicably sent Vance twice, who may be even less popular. Who’s next, Stephen Miller in Portland?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gasoline hits a seasonal record. Naturally, the thing to do is gut fuel efficiency standards
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw Wilber in ICE detention yesterday, in a wheelchair with a bullet still in his body. Here’s what’s next: He needs surgery. And ICE needs to cooperate with the independent investigation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That a Musk-owned X is incompatible with democracy should really go without saying
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
Ron DeSantis had Florida’s congressional map redrawn to help Republicans. One of those new districts is already giving the GOP a problem.
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DeSantis’ Redrawn Florida Seat Leaves Trump Ally Askar Two Points Behind
A Democratic-backed survey puts educator Pia Dandiya ahead in a South Florida district Republicans redrew this year to expand their House advantage — with no incumbent to save either party.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. Medicare for more can eventually become Medicare for all.
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DOJ defending press ban: “it’s national security.” Trump: “It’s viewpoint based! I don’t like their viewpoints! They have bad viewpoints!”
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They can't all be this stupid. It's obviously a tactic to send the ACA into a death spiral.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026
I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
NEWS: Trump just turned on Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar after she warned his deportation crackdown had “gone too far” and Hispanic voters “feel betrayed. What followed was a dozen-plus-post meltdown on Truth Social.
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“Nothing But a Back Stabber”— Trump Sours on Salazar
Trump shares call for removing his endorsement from Republican candidate.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Too many in the US take a strange pride in inadequacy—low literacy, cultural decay, even refusing to join the ICC or become party to the Rome Statute. These aren’t badges of strength or superiority. They’re symptoms of deeper weakness and moral decay, corrosive to democracy. You can fix it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One for a Saturday trip to Knoxville, according to two people familiar with the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details.
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
Mike Rogers spent months backing Trump’s Iran war. Now, with energy prices soaring, he suddenly wants it to "end and end quickly." @timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner tear into the Republican Senate candidate’s abrupt change in tune.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not all the work makes the big headlines, but that doesn't mean it isn't important. Last week, I secured a win against a debt collection company that was taking people's cars to coerce them into paying. Now, that company can't work in Massachusetts, and consumers are getting $52 million in relief.
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Riverboat Chris @riverboatchris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's really funny to say "we are likely to receive a resounding election defeat largely driven by this war and once the election is over and there is a mandate to end it, I am tripling down."
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Forbes @forbes.com · 25/09/2026
A Senate Democrat will present legislation as early as next week that would prohibit potential demolition of the Kennedy Center, which President Donald Trump has threatened.
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Senator Will Introduce Bill To Block Kennedy Center Demolition
A Senate Democrat will present legislation as early as next week that would prohibit potential demolition of the Kennedy Center, which President Donald Trump has threatened.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The US and the EU rejected a declaration by member countries of the UN that pledged international collaboration and solidarity in preparing for and responding to pandemics. Yes, you read that right. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May with @azluminaria.org)
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This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW and CNN journalists have just been denied access to covering Xi Jinping's arrival back at the White House for tonight's state dinner.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's already pretty obvious what Xi thinks of the Orange Chicken here
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 Even the possibility of federal agents at polling sites could scare people away from voting and sway the midterms, Democrats argue. Now they're suing the Trump administration to stop it: demdock.com/4yi49Dw
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Jim Snowden @snowdenwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
From Reichsführer DHS Markwayne Mullin, no doubt.
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