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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 22h
It’s stupid little things like this that can take outlier races like #MN01 and bring them the attention they need to make them flippable in a wave. Finstad’s team thought they’d get away with a little AI. Now it’s a story. Via @jbendery.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-re...
huffpost.com
GOP Rep. Brad Finstad Runs Attack Ad That Erases Critical Voter From Photo
“What a poor decision,” Beth Benike said of her congressman altering her photo with Democrat Jake Johnson to make a fake image of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember the Uihleins, the billionaire couple who helped fund the January 6th rally? They’re back and are pouring more than $35 million into keeping Republicans in power.
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Darth Tugmutton @sheeparecheaper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
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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Impeach Trump ❤️🤍💙🌊 @potusvpotus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Kennedy & Eric Schmitt with their big “gotcha” of Jack Smith. These fuckwits confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks, fabricated a scandal, called Smith a “dirtbag” and then got publicly humiliated. Who’s the dirtbag now, bitches? #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mark today as the first time Trump's approval rating dropped into the 20s.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ossoff: Did you see this business about Don Jr.‘s wedding in the Bahamas? Where he received, apparently, a cash gift from a Russian oligarch connected to the Kremlin? This man, Kremlev, was apparently in China with Putin two days before he flew to the Bahamas for Don Jr.’s wedding…
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/09/2026
Mike Johnson sent the House home until after the mid terms. They are getting their asses handed to them SO HARD by the court of public opinion they are just giving up.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JB Pritzker: I’m done pretending that these self-dealing racist, misogynist grifters are an aberration of the Republican Party. They are the mainstream of the Republican Party now.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The fact that the website for the upcoming RNC convention in Dallas redirects to the Trump DOJ's Epstein Files website is...AMAZING.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An ICE officer has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI as it investigated a shooting in Minneapolis in January that left a Venezuelan man wounded. Christian Castro was indicted Wednesday on six counts for making false statements to federal officials.
politico.com
ICE agent indicted for lying about Minnesota shooting
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance can rage at Abdul El-Sayed for invoking Usha all he wants, but AES's larger point is 100% correct: JD really has made craven compromises with vicious MAGA racists. For JD to submerge all that to his personal ambition really is disgraceful. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
newrepublic.com
What JD Vance’s Eruption of Rage over Usha and El-Sayed Really Reveals
Vance is posing as a chivalrous defender of his wife. What he’s hiding is the craven compromises he’s made with the racist and white nationalist elements within the MAGA coalition.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/09/2026
This "surge" by DHS' investigative arm gets ICE one step closer to investigating the midterms, as conservative activists agitate for Trump to deploy ICE agents to polling places.
talkingpointsmemo.com
DHS ‘Voter Fraud Surge’ Reportedly Begins Today
DHS Wades Into the Midterms CNN reported Monday that, starting Tuesday, the...
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There you have it. They will try their best to cheat. Truml gave you the playbook. Here it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms (Gift Article)
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just expel him, Canada.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: A Florida grand jury finds the DeSantis Administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer funds when it diverted the money to the Casey DeSantis’-related nonprofit, Hope Florida Foundation. I track the money flow in this outrageous corruption and grift! youtu.be/JDOh1GUZrfs?...
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DeSantis CAUGHT By Grand Jury FUNNELING MILLIONS Away From Floridians!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/08/2026
USPS says its new rule to implement Trump’s anti-mail voting EO will “enhance the efficiency of postal operations.” Marc Elias is calling bullshit. “This has nothing to do with efficiency. [USPS is] just doing the bidding of the White House.” Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer
notus.org
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline’s vision: Because her own parents worked so hard, couldn’t take sick days, and died untimely deaths, others shouldn’t expect better. This is an actual worldview. “Her plan is, work hard even when you’re sick until you die," her Dem opponent tells me. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hat tip to the League of Women Voters, who have successfully sued Trump to block his efforts to use US Postal Service to manipulate state voting rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026
DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:
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The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You gotta appreciate @ag.state.mn.us and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty for being the only state-level lawyers to criminally prosecute federal immigration agents who are terrorizing our streets
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🇺🇲🧡 god bless america 🧡🇺🇲
A president who refuses to send Aid to states that didn't vote for him, is literally an enemy of the state, and the nation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The U.S. Navy unveils the latest class of aircraft carriers.
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McSpocky™ @mcspocky.substack.com · 19/08/2026
Wow! Hegseth covered up that Iran wiped out our main resupply base in Bahrain. That's why the Lincoln couldn't get what it needed. Sailors dealing with shortages and breaking mentally after 9 months. And tRump? "Fake news." Anyone surprised? www.ms.now/money-power-...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent charged in nonfatal shooting.
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