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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 24/08/2026
In our spring survey, 35% of Canadians said the United States is a reliable partner to their country, down from 83% in 2022, the last time we asked this question.
Chart showing decreasing shares see the U.S. as a reliable partner.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026
Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬
middleeasteye.net
Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death
Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/08/2026
Meet Eric Neff. At the LA DAs, a True the Vote conspiracy theory led him to prosecute an election-software CEO. The charges were dropped. He was placed on leave. LA paid $5M to settle the wrongful prosecution. He's now chief of the DOJ's Voting Section. 3/ www.justice.gov/crt/media/14...
of birth, residential address, their state driver’s license number, and the last four digits of
their Social Security number as required by 52 U.S.C. § 20703; and
F. Order such additional relief as the interests of justice may require.
Dated: September 25, 2025 Respectfully,
HARMEET K. DHILLON
Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
__/S/ ________
MICHAEL E. GATES
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Civil Rights Division
MAUREEN S. RIORDAN
Acting Chief, Voting Section
Civil Rights Division
TIMOTHY F. MELLETT
ERIC V. NEFF (admitted pro hac
vice)
Attorneys, Voting Section
Civil Rights Division
150 M St. NE, Ste 8-139
Washington, DC 20009
Maureen.Riordan2@usdoj.gov
Timothy.F.Mellett@usdoj.gov
Eric.Neff@usdoj.gov
Tel. (202) 307-2767
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/08/2026
If you’re just waking up: the U.S. Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at around 4:30am ET in a 50–49 vote.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⚠️ GREENLAND GAMBIT UNDERWAY? “An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.”
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump just paid RWE over $1 BILLION in taxpayer money to walk away from offshore wind projects – including a project off Humboldt in my district – and invest in fossil fuels instead. www.times-standard.com/2026/08/06/r...
times-standard.com
‘Gift to the fossil fuel industry’: RWE relinquishes North Coast offshore wind lease, part of $1.22B Trump admin deal
“The winners today are the fossil fuel industry and the losers are Humboldt County and the planet. But tomorrow is a new day.”
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/08/2026
A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...
erininthemorning.com
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: the Judge in the bogus Trump v IRS case that resulted in the $1.7b slush fund has SANCTIONED the attorneys, referred Blanche, Woodward, & Brito to the Bar, nullified the “settlement”, and awarded monetary sanctions! More to come… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026
This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We uncovered how he hijacked America 250 – watch to see how. youtu.be/-ydXJ3HhXy0?...
youtu.be
How Trump Hijacked America's 250th Birthday | Natural Resources Democrats
YouTube video by House Natural Resources Committee Democrats
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Erin Burnett on Trump's crypto scam: Take a look at this chart. In blue, how much money Trump's family has gained. In red, how much investors have lost. The same amount. More than $2 billion.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 29/06/2026
Susan Collins is uniquely responsible for the fall of Roe | Opinion
pressherald.com
Susan Collins is uniquely responsible for the fall of Roe | Opinion
The impact of the senator's vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court continues to be devastating for American women.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.
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Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was "constant" and "relentless" pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure
U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.
Clinton recalled hours-long phone calls where Israeli officials used leverage tactics, frequently telling her their "planes are on the tarmac" to imply an imminent, unilateral strike.
Clinton says she would respond to pressure like that with: "Well, good luck."
The New Yorker's David Remnick asks if she felt the U.S. was being manipulated or "played" by a foreign ally that receives an enormous amount of American aid, Clinton agreed and said it happened "all the time" due to Netanyahu's intense focus on the issue.

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@RogerGalligan
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Marco Rubio: "We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
mississippifreepress.org
Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It's been 100 days since the US reportedly bombed a girls school in Iran, killing 100+ kids. I pressed members of Congress on what they're doing in response to one of the most horrific war crimes in modern US history. Some didn't even know about it. And some just didn't care:
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
theredoubt.net
Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists?
Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it's not getting the coverage.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Last-place CBS Evening News has been embarrassed they couldn't crack 4 million average weekly viewers for 6 weeks. A few days ago, they announced they finally climbed back. Only problem? They didn't. Scoop in @status.news explains slimy PR trick (they point out other networks have done similar):
But a closer look at the numbers tells a different story. According to Nielsen data obtained by Status, Dokoupil actually averaged 3.985 million viewers during the five-day period ending Friday, May 22—just below the 4 million mark. In other words, the streak wasn’t broken at all. So how did CBS get him over the line? By employing a too-often-abused ratings maneuver. The network coded Friday’s broadcast, typically the week’s lowest-rated edition, as “CBS-EVENING-NWS” instead of “CBS-EVENING-NEWS.” That omission of the letter “e” excluded Friday’s audience from the program’s weekly average, allowing CBS News to report a figure above 4 million viewers.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2026
GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.
ajc.com
Brian Kemp signs law making many metro Atlanta races nonpartisan
The law applies to most local government races in Democratic-dominated areas. A court challenge is expected.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yesterday morning, I wrote about how #SCOTUS keeps *choosing* to inject itself into politics. Then, the Court did it again last night—clearing the way for Alabama to re-draw its maps *this* cycle, even though it allowed Alabama to use old, unlawful maps in 2022: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
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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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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
MEMPHIS: Despite Elon Musk’s xAI breaking its promise to build a water recycling plant, they’re still getting new permits approved. 🤔 wreg.com/news/local/x...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Anti-War President prepares to invade his third country and/or bomb his eleventh. In 15 months. www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
usatoday.com
Exclusive: Pentagon ramps up planning of possible military ops in Cuba
Pentagon plans for a possible Cuba operation have accelerated as officials prepare for a potential order from Donald Trump, USA TODAY has learned.
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Vivienne (formerly BillThePony) @billthepony.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Well that was easy
A graph that is very old at this point but it's a prediction every year for the uptake of solar panels... And each prediction is basically flat and then you check the reality and its logarithmic up.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
Washington Post
Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago
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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
got to share this @bencollins.bsky.social banger with some colleagues today and am now sharing it here because he really did nail it
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