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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
President Donald Trump is playing the long game in his efforts to gerrymander Republicans into power by any means necessary, even when he’s no longer in office. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump’s latest plan to rig the congressional map for Republicans long after he’s gone
The Trump administration is proposing changes to the 2030 census that, if they take effect, would siphon seats from blue states with larger populations of undocumented immigrants, handing more power t...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Raúl" was picking grapes in Tipton CA. "I harvest the fruit, put it in the wheelbarrow & wheel it to the packing station. Four 30lb boxes fit on a wheelbarrow at once. It's hard work as it's very heavy. It rained yesterday, so the wheelbarrow get stuck in the mud." #WeFeedYou
Cubs filled with grapes on top of the wheelbarrow that will be used to bring them to the packing area
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A THIRD poll this week shows our campaign leading this race! It’s clear: Iowans are ready for change. We need a fighter for the people — not for the billionaires and large corporations. This November, we can change this state and change this country.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you want to know why gas prices will surge, spend 5 minutes reading this. Huge escalation in this unwinnable war. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
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Saudi Arabia’s shutdown of key pipeline limits oil flow as Yemen hits back against Houthis
An Iraqi military commander was dismissed after investigations confirmed the drone attacks originated from the country, Iraq’s prime minister’s office said.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
TIL from the @connectwithjacob.bsky.social team that mail-by-mule is still a thing, as Trump tries to restrict mail-in-voting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X65P...
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The USPS is more tied to American democracy than you think
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Listen in and catch up on 3 major cases: Meta, the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger, and the challenge to Trump’s EO on mail voting. joycevance.substack.com/p/catching-u...
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Catching up on Three Important Cases from this Week: Meta, Paramount/Warner Bros., and the challenge to Trump’s EO on mail voting
This has been one of those weeks when it's been difficult to cover all the important developments at the intersection of law and politics.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security privately confessed that it lacked “high confidence” in its claim that more than 14,000 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to a letter from the state’s top election official. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS lacks ‘high confidence’ in its Pennsylvania noncitizen voter roll claims
The disclosure is the latest indication that sweeping noncitizen-voting claims promoted publicly by the Trump administration were based entirely on preliminary or unverified federal data.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: we just filed to STOP the new USPS rule on mail ballots The Court only held that the injunction came too early. Now we HAVE a final rule & we are litigating it @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org are proud to represent LULAC, Madison WI & Travis County TX
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reflecting Pool renovation looks almost dystopian. A mess And another court challenge is coming Just filed ===> youtu.be/R2e9Hb1x5AI?...
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Trump PANICS as Reflecting Pool Renovation GOES WRONG
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Katie Straka @katiespn411.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reduce these magnificent monuments by more than 90 percent by a fucking executive order! There has to be a way to legally challenge this ! I have never been to Bears Ears but Grand Staircase is magnificent and this sucks!!
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
These murders of innocent people MUST STOP!! Wake up America - our rights, our freedoms, our country's moral compass are under attack! Do something! Join an Indivisible group near you www.indivisible.org. Join a Visibility Brigade near you www.visibilitybrigade.org #CourageIsContagious #SheShed
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Angry Stop
ALT: Angry Stop
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
👇. Two men dead in 6 days shot by ICE #AbolishIce #Blues
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Wake. Up. America. The family of a man shot by the Tennessee National Guard demands release of video. | AP apnews.com/article/memp...
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The family of a man shot by the Tennessee National Guard demands release of video
The grandfather of a man shot and killed by two members of the Tennessee National Guard in Memphis says he wants answers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
NEW: Friday night’s ruling marked the department’s 12th straight loss in lower courts in its legal crusade to force all 50 states and the District of Columbia to forfeit their voter rolls to the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ hit with 12th straight loss in voter roll crusade after court dismisses its New York demand
The ruling deals another blow to Trump’s effort to seize sensitive voter registration data.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in: California Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Two American newspapers close every week. 213 counties now have no local news at all, and 1,524 have exactly one source left. That means more than half of all U.S. counties have nobody covering the, city council, county commission, the sheriff, or the school board.
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NOBODY IS WATCHING
YOUR CITY HALL
Local news sources in America's 3,143 counties
1,524
1,406
ZERO
news outlets
ONLY ONE news source left, usually a weekly paper
Two or more news sources
More than half of all U.S. counties have one source or none.
50 million Americans.
3,500
newspapers gone
since 2005
2
closing every week, still
75%
of newspaper jobs wiped out
Nearly 80% of news deserts are rural. When the paper dies, no one covers the county commission, the sheriff, or the school board.
In nine counties, public radio was the last source. Congress just defunded it.
LAGUNA BEACH DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Source: Medill State of Local News Report 2025, Northwestern University
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The NEWS should be all over these stories Another way trump is hurting/destroying our Country It's called the "BRAIN DRAIN" Exodus of our scientists, researchers, and educators Please share (ty @drdind.bsky.social )
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"For now, the question of when an election would be held is not in her hands. It is in Mr. Rubio’s." Elections, oil production, military & police matters, govt personnel. Viceroy Rubio is in charge of it all plus he also oversees the Venezuelan govt's press interviews & social media posts. Wow.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Todd Blanche helped engineer a $1.8B taxpayer slush fund—payouts for Jan 6 rioters who attacked cops & a backdoor blanket pardon for Trump Now he wants to be AG 100+ former judges just filed a bar complaint & I lay it out in my new @contrariannews.org publisher’s note 👇 -TN
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Over 100 Judges Can’t be Wrong: Why Todd Blanche is Unfit to be Attorney General
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Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus @dmansini.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Why isn’t Schumer standing in front of the hospital demanding to know WTAF is going on with McConnell
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Call your 2 Senators & your Congressional rep at 202-224-3121 and demand accountability for #ICELawlessness This is a thread with case after case of #ICELawlessness. Please watch & share these videos because while it's scary & depressing, imagine how it is for our immigrant neighbors & friends.
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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fascist bullshit that'll be tossed right out of court... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
nytimes.com
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trumps latest threats to election officials. #Blues
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
Law enforcement’s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rules
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The death rate inside ICE immigrant detention centers has more than doubled under Trump, according to a Reuters analysis. At the same time, ICE announced it will no longer investigate or report the deaths of those recently released from detention centers. Unimaginable cruelty.
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Woman’s hypothermia death after her release by ICE is ruled a homicide
Daphy Michel, a vulnerable asylum seeker from Haiti, died at Pittsburgh bus shelter days after leaving federal custody
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
BREAKING: President Trump has signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran while in France for the G7 meetings. He signed the agreement in the presence of President Macron of France. The MOU is now in effect.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
For more information on the Rule made by the Trump Administration & to see if your state is on the list of approved waivers (or in the process of doing so) please visit this site: frac.org/snap-restric...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This @samtabachnik.bsky.social piece on Rep Scott Bottoms' run for Colorado Gov is a great example of how to cover extremism and claims made without evidence. Papering over that stuff actively misleads voters. www.denverpost.com/2026/06/15/s...
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Scott Bottoms says God called him to politics. As he runs for Colorado governor, will Republican voters come with him?
The two-term Republican state representative from Colorado Springs said he hates going to the Capitol every day, “but I know this is what God called me to do.” Now he’s running for governor.
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CaptRuss @captruss.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Every accusation is a confession. Because they pay their provocateurs, they think Dems must be paying too. Exhibit A: www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/06...
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Tax records reveal more contributions from Publix heiress to “dark money” groups sponsoring Jan. 6 rally - OpenSecrets News
A new OpenSecrets investigation reveals details about the funding behind “dark money” groups sponsoring the rally questioning the legitimacy of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss that ...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government. Dems say it's clear evidence the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
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Postal Service Seeks to Block Mail Ballots in States Resisting Trump Demands
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The weaponizer in chief is now in charge of all the information and intelligence that can be weaponized www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bill Pulte lacks intelligence qualifications. He’s perfect for the job Trump just gave him.
The new DNI has plenty of experience pursuing the president's enemies.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#MorningVibe Big Brother is always watching, monitoring every move & turn. They want us compliant & afraid, but government overreach won't slow us down. Stay sharp, stay driven, & fight for your freedom. #AllGasNoBrakes 📹 iampaulafontana (IG)
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17/05/2026
BREAKING The World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency over a rare strain of Ebola that has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has stopped short of calling the outbreak a pandemic
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 13/05/2026
Trump swore his new gilded ballroom would cost $200M and not one dime of taxpayer money. It’s now $400M, with Senate Republicans quietly tucking $1 billion of your money into a reconciliation bill for “security.”
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Sending Trump to negotiate with Xi is as terrifying as sending a 5yo to negotiate “snack time” with Hannibal Lecter.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1
fortune.com
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
MADDOW: “Williamson County still has a Confederate flag on their county seal — but they’ll have JUST the right size of a slice of Black voters in MEMPHIS to make sure they can never elect a member of Congress of their choosing again… this really is Jim Crow 2.0.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Georgia's Kremlin-loyal rulers have a big gift for Trump as he arrives in Beijing.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 06/05/2026
On top of this, there are expected to be efforts in the Tennessee legislature this week to redistrict Ogles’ seat to insulate him from what was expected to be stiff Democratic opposition.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SCOTUS in a 6-3 ruling on Louisiana V Callais, just killed a majority Black district in Louisiana. All 6 Republican leaning Justices, Led by Justice Samuel Alito — So please 🙏🏼 Vote! Vote in numbers that can’t be disputed and preferably for candidates that support expanding the Supreme Court.
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NEW: we caught 🇨🇳Chinese hackers... again. Twist: they're hacking journalists & activists, but we suspect they're private contractors. State repression... with a profit margin. Thread + how to protect yourself 1/ By my colleagues @citizenlab.ca + @icij.org citizenlab.ca/research/how...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
".. OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year, according to people familiar .. The company has also struggled with defection rates among subscribers .." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
The company’s CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth.
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Texas: SCOTUS just upheld a racially gerrymandered map a Trump-appointed judge struck down. Florida: DeSantis dropped a map his voters never saw. California and Virginia: voters approved theirs at the ballot box. Republicans only call it fair when they win.
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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
One of the best American political writers out with another cogent, relevant, accurate piece. Always read @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Ron DeSantis will face legal action! #StopIllegalFloridaMaps #USDemocracy #MomSky
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