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Mark C. Walton

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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 6h
#Ukraine 🇺🇦
nytimes.com
Ukraine Claws Back Land in the Donbas, Thwarting a Russian Push (Gift Article)
Moscow says its capture of the region is inevitable. But Kyiv has so far stymied Russian efforts to encircle Ukrainian “fortress belt” cities.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 21h
Actually kind of a bizarre story. The guy first came to vote, then changed into this outfit? But, Florida.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 21h
DHS statement: "America is grateful all the time for our federal law enforcement officers who keep us safe. We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice.” Williams response in an Instagram Story: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”
the-independent.com
Hayley Williams unleashes profanity-filled response to DHS telling her to ‘thank’ ICE
‘We suggest Ms. Williams to thank them for their service, not belittle their sacrifice,’ the DHS said
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow, a great argument for increasing the minimum wage, fantast… <reads more> oh. Oh.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell still doesn't get it. No giant PR act is going to fix it this time. We need substantial and systemic change. apnews.com/article/corn...
apnews.com
Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Damn, is that this month? I forgot!
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah, but not sure I want to hear the answers
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay attention to this: it's a big deal.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An outbreak of the plague is so on-brand for the 21st century
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The President's Truth" is a non sequitur if there ever was one
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
“But a White House official confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, that Trump does not plan to reimburse the money already spent, saying, “The President’s Truth was not referring to reimbursement.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
Trump won’t reimburse government for controversial ads
The White House clarified Tuesday that President Trump will not pay back the federal government for money already spent on controversial political TV ads after he said he would start paying for the…
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Move along people, nothing to see here" 😑
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wtf??
politico.com
Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
John Murdock, an attorney & self-described conservative Christian cites “glaring legal flaws” during the Trump administration, concerns over offshore oil & gas drilling, the aggressive push to expand fossil fuels & the flouting of environmental regulation. “We are headed in the wrong direction”.
theguardian.com
Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
“The American contingent includes William Wolfe, a self-described Christian nationalist who has called for “mass deportations, denaturalizations, and remigration” to preserve a white Christian majority,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US, Israeli and European far-right figures to gather for conference in Israel
Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, I immediately worried they'd take it out on the cat
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Cornell 7 case has forced me to come to terms with something that happened at a party when I was 16 and a junior in high school that I had shoved in a box and tried to forget. There are two things I know: 1) I was drunk, and 2) I do not have any recollection of how I ended up underneath a boy
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/10/2026
13 states have voter registration deadlines TODAY, and 4 others are beginning in-person early voting. Check out our interactive map to see important dates for your state: bit.ly/3UjBBrc
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Already done & dropped! ✅️ 🗳
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One NJ7 ❌️👑 @onenj7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Got your mail ballot? Fill it out and return it as soon as you can! Don't let it get caught in any mailing delays. Better yet, take it to an official election ballot drop box! Find locations near you at www.nj.gov/state/elections/vote-secure-drop-boxes.shtml
nj.gov
NJ Voter Information Portal - Secure Ballot Drop Box Locations
Official State of New Jersey, Division of Elections, NJ Voter Information Portal website.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Winner
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
donmoynihan.substack.com
Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yikes
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👇
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian officials say a lab technician died of an unexplained pneumonia and that no accident occurred. The size of the response suggests otherwise. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and what pneumonic plague can and can't do. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
nytimes.com
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth has gone rogue. GOP senators, blindsided by Hegseth, demand notice, transparency thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
GOP senators, blindsided by Hegseth, demand notice, transparency
Key Republican senators say they were blindsided by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announced 20 percent reduction of the U.S. military’s general and admirals, and they’re voicing concerns a…
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The orange felon says he’s going to withhold federal funds from Ohio if they vote blue in November. I’d love to see Ohio tell him to go fuck himself by overwhelmingly voting blue in the midterms.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wtaf
theguardian.com
‘Defend our men!’: fears for women’s rights in Latin America over plans to counter gender violence laws
Women ‘set back by 50 years’ as Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Peru debate tougher penalties for false reports of sexual assaults, despite such cases being rare
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026
*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a hugely important election for Brazil, and indeed, the entire Western Hemisphere. Much is at stake - among other things: Trump and the far right potentially extending influence in South America, and potentially disastrous consequences for the Amazon rainforest. #Brazil
nytimes.com
Brazil Elections Head to Runoff Between Lula and Bolsonaro Son (Gift Article)
Neither President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nor his top challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, won a majority of votes in the first round, and the race appeared very close.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
I guess it’s just a coincidence that Elon Musk comes out of the woodwork before every major election and gets handed a government position with major consequences for the American people. 🤔
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh look, a Republican picking up a minor.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I effing despise RFK Jr. I had a cancer caused by HPV that had a massive impact on my life. I would have loved to have a vaccine that could have prevented all of that and whatnot. Yet that fool has claimed that HPV vaccines themselves cause cancer and he’s making bank on that lie and others.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These children are absolutely being abused and/or trafficked. Those who support this, openly or tacitly, do so because they're either racist - as in POC are "less than" and therefore don't deserve protection - and/or because they're making money. But no matter the reason, it's horrific and immoral.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the launch of @sarahobolt.bsky.social and James Tilley's excellent book Tribal Politics back in May, this slide prompted me to ask whether it was inevitable that Brexit would be back on the political table sooner than was widely thought...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can't believe this is real, but here we are
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They'd likely allow it if you had an "I voted Republican" sticker
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who would'a thunk it?? 🙄
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Flooding the zone" with this stuff might be in order.
Post from Mark R Elias 

"I think I'm getting the hang of this."

Mark's question to America.gov

Does the president have the authority over the conduct of federal elections,?

Answer:
The Constitution does not give the president the power to run or set the rules for federal elections. States have the main job if administering them. Congress can change most of those rules by statue. The president's role is to enforce existing federal law, not to replace state or congressional election rules.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't even know what to say anymore. The corruption is bottomless.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Are we still debating whether capital punishment is "cruel and inhumane" or not? Just wondering.
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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ouch
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