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Christy Marx

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Writer of words & stuff. Owned by 5 cats.

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
10/4/2026- The Off-Ramp www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/oc...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
US senators expect vote before December 13 on Trump's nuclear power pact with Saudi Arabia reut.rs/4AKs7IX
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US senators expect vote before December 13 on Trump's nuclear power pact with Saudi Arabia
Democratic US senators said on ​Friday they expect a ‌vote before December 13 on the Trump administration's ​pact to share nuclear power technology ​with Saudi Arabia.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 01/10/2026
RACE RATING CHANGE: Alaska Senate Tilt D → Lean D Mary Peltola’s chances of defeating Sen. Dan Sullivan have climbed above 65% in our forecast. Alaska is a critical piece of Democrats’ path to a Senate majority and a potential 🔴→🔵 flip.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump on Iran: "Now I have to make a decision. They'll either sign a very fair deal, or they won't exist any longer"
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Patric Reynolds @patricjreynolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, our biggest national security threat is our demented President.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
gramps is posting crazy stuff on social media again
I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The ships, jet fighters, Marines and sailors will arrive in the region by the end of November, the officials said. Trump recently told aides that he expects to resume bombing Iran that same month ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft-carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials on.wsj.com/4AKFU2n
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The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft-carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration used an emergency measure to change the language of the federal voter-registration form used by U.S. service members abroad and citizens residing outside the country. Advocates argue the changes disenfranchise some voters.
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Pentagon used emergency measure to change voter forms for Americans abroad
Advocates for U.S. citizens overseas say the changes may spark confusion among eligible voters abroad and local election offices.
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
James Talarico remains the favorite in Texas's Senate race. The DDHQ Forecast gives him a 55% chance of defeating Republican Ken Paxton, and he leads by 2.4% in our polling average. Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas since 1994.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration’s abandonment of climate rules at the nation’s most polluting power plants is being challenged by 21 states, D.C. and three major cities in a federal lawsuit that accuses the EPA of brazenly shirking a legal obligation.
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States sue to stop Trump’s retreat on power plant emissions
The Trump administration’s abandonment of climate rules at the nation’s most polluting power plants is being challenged in federal court by 21 states, the District of Columbia and three major cities i...
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BOO-lie @MCM G-05 @bailierosenlund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a LOT of fun designing these Ivy and Harley costumes for Poison Ivy in Briarwood (coming out this November of DC Go!) #art 🌹✨
Costume designs for Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, in the upcoming Poison Ivy in Briarwood DC Go webcomic. 
Ivy: Dressed a 'medieval' green witch dress, with flowing long skirt layers and billowing half-sleeves. She wears an off the shoulder blouse below a corset top. Her red hair is long and partially tied back with braids.
Harley: Wearing a venetian jester outfit reminiscent of her classic suit, with long hat jangles, a ruffled collar and skirt, and puffy sleeves. the outfit is patterned with stripes and checkerboard all in black, red, and white. she has a small black diamond painted underneath each eye.
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh FFS, haven't we got more pressing things to worry about? The man was a crook, he resigned in disgrace, he's *dead*, MOVE ON!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
Florida Democrats have notched their first monthly voter registration lead Since 2021. In September 2026, Democrats added 29,633 active registrations compared to 29,140 for Republicans and 24,751 for others.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Voters shouldn’t have to walk past armed ICE agents to cast a ballot. Trump’s DHS says it can put them at polling places despite a 150-year-old law meant to stop this kind of intimidation. Elections aren’t pay-to-play, and they aren’t armed checkpoints. #PayToPlayPresident
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Maddow’s right about broken priorities. Trump is at war with Iran, yet two FBI counterterrorism officials were reportedly demoted over calls to Stephen Miller’s wife. Bending the FBI to a White House insider is corruption, and we’re the ones left exposed. #PayToPlayPresident
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hilarious
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026
Available now at #Ebooks Direct as part of our #Autumn #Reading #Sale: Our Whole Store package, including all non-new release works in our inventory—37 award-winning novels and shorter works. Grab this fabulous bargain before the price changes! 🙂 ebooks.direct/products/ebo... #ebooksky
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Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works.   All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement g...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two counterterrorism agents were pushed out after questioning a terrorism probe tied to Stephen Miller’s wife. A top FBI official then resigned over the demotions. In Trump’s FBI, insiders don’t need cash to collect. Someone else’s job will do. #PayToPlayPresident
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
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‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump banned CNN, MSNBC, & Politico from the White House over coverage he disliked. A judge restored their access, but he keeps trying to make “because I said so” enough. Due process exists because government power doesn’t get to make up the rules mid-game. #PayToPlayPresident
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MS NOW: Three times, Republicans have summoned Jack Smith to Capitol Hill. Three times, they had time to prepare for their showdowns. Three times, the hearings ended with GOP members looking worse and the former special counsel looking better. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026
A gerrymandering tactic known as “cracking” splits congressional districts—in one case dividing a church from its parking lot, causing some voters in northeast Kansas City to feel “disenfranchised,” @maddiecarlisle2.bsky.social tells Adam Harris on Radio Atlantic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "We have the highest level of individual wealth -- meaning a person's wealth, individually, for the entire country -- the highest level that we've ever had"
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sweden, while subject to the same climate shifts as the rest of the planet, has some relative advantages in the near term. Mobility and freedom are assets, and the more things deteriorate the more consequential those class privileges become. Or he could need a murderbot training ground, who knows.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property | Fortune
Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The legendary defenders of women's sports don't know the difference between Caitlin Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks. Just putting that one out there.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If this goes ahead it is Trump overtly taking Russia's side in the war against Ukraine and Europe, aligning the United States with China, Iran, and North Korea. Like the Putin G20 visit, it cannot be allowed to happen. We must fight.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
This is my favorite thing today. In second place is Senator Schmitt hoisting himself with his own petard during the Jack Smith hearing.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote about just how bad the surge in gas prices is promising to be for Republicans in November. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW my read is that the rw media reaction to the Schmitt-Smith thing is a result of them being lazy and stupid rather than deliberately lying to create a false narrative for their audience -- the hosts here literally don't seem to know what actually happened. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Tuesday allowed a pro-voting challenge to Louisiana’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law to move forward, including claims that the law discriminates against voters based on national origin. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge greenlights challenge to Louisiana anti-voting law, citing discrimination claims
The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now, if that “come on, it was just a joke, don’t ruin the mood!” pressure only came from the Unsafe Man (singular), it would be easy to defeat. But what *very* often happens (& what makes so many people reluctant to speak up), is that bystanders intervene, but on the completely wrong side.
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So if Schrödinger’s Jokester (who up until this point may or may not be an Unsafe Man) says something awful, gets called on it, and takes absolutely none of these paths to smooth things over? Like doubling down on what they said? Like making your reaction the problem?
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Keegan Michael Key: That's a Safety Violation
Alt: Keegan Michael Key: That's a Safety Violation
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The community in Alexandria, Louisiana, is calling for the cancelation of the new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids at England Airpark. Get loud for the kids. bsky.app/profile/anat...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/09/2026
This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.
From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Listen to the full episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 9/29/26
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · September 29 · 1h 21m
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our latest Texas Senate polling average shows Democrat James Talarico with a lead of 4.1% over Republican Ken Paxton. In the DDHQ Forecast, Talarico is a 57% favorite to win. Democrats have not won a Senate race in Texas since 1988.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Axios Reporter on X: I think the US wants to see Iran inviting IAEA inspectors back as it committed to in the talks in Switzerland
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