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@circlelady.bsky.social
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Political junkie. Coffee addict. #MeltICE 🩷 🇺🇦. To face 🍊🤡 I hope I have half the courage of Alexei Navalny. #NolanWells 🚫MAGA, DM, crypto, porn. No bio/posts=block. NO LISTS PLEASE!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide
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Grab Them By The Revenue @gtbtr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I fully support a #TruckerStrike. The port of Los Angeles alone controls 31% of America's imports by sea. Blue cities need to use their leverage! We can force empty shelves in stores during their holiday revenue season. We can demand anything with that kind of power. #LivingWage #UBI #MFA
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This blackout is not silence. It is remembrance. It is solidarity. It is a community standing together and saying that Nolan Wells will not simply become another name we scroll past and forget. #BlackoutForNolan #NolanWells #SayHisName
A photo of Nolan smiling is shown. 

BLACKOUT FOR NOLAN
One Community. One Voice. One Name.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 - Tonight, we are asking our community to go BLACK for Nolan Wells.
Change your profile picture. Share his name. Let his face fill our timelines.
This blackout is not silence.
It is remembrance.
It is solidarity.
It is a community standing together and saying that Nolan Wells will not simply become another name we scroll past and forget.
Behind the darkness is his face.
Behind his name is a life.
Behind this movement is a community that cares.
For Nolan.
For his family.
For everyone whose heart has been touched by his life.
BLACKOUT FOR NOLAN WELLS
Change your profile picture and pass it on.
#BlackoutForNolan
#NolanWells
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#SayHisName
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You scared? You sound scared.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DOJ used the indictment of a former Utah postal worker accused of throwing away hundreds of mail ballots to attack court rulings blocking Trump’s anti-mail voting efforts and promote a broader slate of restrictive voting policies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ seizes on Utah ballot dumping case to attack USPS court rulings, push Trump’s anti-voting agenda
It's unclear how exactly the proposed USPS rules would have prevented the conduct alleged in Utah. The ballots had already entered the Postal Service system when the employee allegedly set them aside ...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Hope Himars 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪 @hopehimars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is even worse. Belarus is out of potash fertilizer. The USA will be buying rUSSIAN potash, with Belarus acting as a middle man, to circumvent sanctions. The money will go to ruSSia to continue it's European Invasion. PEDOtRUmp KNOWS THIS.
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Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦 @srboisvert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The secondary effects of fuel prices are going to drive a lot of inflation. I don't drive so the primary effects on gas prices don't really concern me that much but I do know it will make everything else more expensive as well.
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On the outside looking in @pauline001.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He ran elections in one Missouri county for 14 years. Then the Secretary of State brought him to the capital to guard against fraud statewide. Now he's the one under oath, and it's his own boss he's testifying about.
dworkinsubstack.com
He Was Hired To Catch Election Fraud. Then He Reported His Republican Boss.
Also: a search-history ban, an insurance industry forced to pay, and 151 vetoes in one session
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excellent Pete Buttigieg interview. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
Buttigieg: Democrats Need to Get Serious About Amending the Constitution
The former transportation secretary spoke with The Atlantic’s editor in chief about what comes next for Democrats should they win big in November.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
FBI director Kash Patel faced lawmakers during Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. His answers to questions—from why the agency lowered its hiring standards to why he “barged” in on the USA men’s hockey team’s celebrations earlier this year—were…perplexing, to say the least.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/09/2026
🎉 It’s National Voter Registration Day! As the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on voting, it’s time to check your registration status and encourage loved ones to do the same: demdock.com/4gRtE8P
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
According to the whistleblower: - Agents have to investigate 40 voter records a day, leaving just 11.25 minutes per investigation. - Agents are using state voter registration in a way that may be illegal. - Agents are using source data that many think is completely unreliable.
The identity of the whistle-blower is not known to The Times. Democracy Defenders Fund said in its report that the whistle-blower requested anonymity because of “an extreme fear of retaliation but they feel an obligation to speak up about the misconduct and gross mismanagement they have witnessed.”

According to the whistle-blower, agents are expected to complete at least 40 reviews in each eight-hour day, giving them scant time to determine each voter’s citizenship and voting history. The consequence of the investigation is potentially vast, according to the account, because each review is recorded in a database that could affect individuals’ immigration status or legal permanent residency.The agents plugged those names and personal data into public-facing state websites to find a subject’s voter history. Some states, such as Virginia, declare explicitly that only individual voters may use the search tool to look up their own records. Others, such as California, require specific information such as a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number in an effort to limit the use of the tool to individuals. Worried about the potential legal ramifications of such actions, the whistle-blower “expressed concerns” to those leading the investigation within Homeland Security’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, according to the account.

The office of the chief counsel at D.H.S. said it was permissible for agents to use the state databases for operations such as the Unlawful Voter Initiative. Yet leadership appeared to acknowledge the potential for legal liability, responding to internal questions that agents “are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented.”Core to the operation is a compilation of data on hundreds of thousands of voters from across the country, described to agents as “source data,” according to previous reporting by The Times. Agents were given little to no information about where the source data originated; at one point, D.H.S. officials said some immigration information had been added to their source data using “supplemental magic,” according to the whistle-blower account. The mysterious origins of the “source data” comes as voting rights groups and election officials have condemned the Trump administration’s many efforts to compile a national voter file and citizenship list.

The whistle-blower report, however, indicates that the data is likely filled with errors. According to a transcript of a training video included in the account, the investigation has relied on data from multiple sources, including public voter files obtained from states, Department of Justice data and queries of records compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The data also includes what are known as alien identification numbers, the training video says, which are numbers assigned to a noncitizen that stay in their Homeland Security files permanently, even if they subsequently become citizens who are eligible to vote. If the investigation is using the existence of an alien number to flag that a voter is ineligible, many legal citizens are likely to be improperly ensnared as unlawful voters.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Susan 🌻💙🌊🌎🌳🐄🐖🐑🐓 @susancr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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I Posted Several Videos Reminding Soldiers to Disobey Unlawful Orders. I Now Know My Punishment.
The military plans to Withdraw my Federal Recognition and remove me with a General Discharge, stripping me of several veterans benefits after 14 years of service.
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expatintheuk.bsky.social @expatintheuk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Deport this illegal South African racist back to South Africa.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“of all the tragic consequences of reelecting a narcissistic criminal obsessed with wealth and power, one strikes me as the most corrosive: The nation’s inability to focus on the real and profound problems that beset our world.” www.americaamerica.news/p/will-futur...
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Will Future Generations Blame Us All?
Or will they recognize that most of us were mad as hell and refused to take it?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/08/2026
Damning new report: Hegseth's own top brass is warning him privately that the Iran War is unsustainable and costing America the ability to protect itself. Trump's six months of a “very complete, pretty much" campaign is straining resources and putting commanders at odds with the Commander-in-Chief.
motherjones.com
New report: Hegseth's own military brass warn the Iran war is unsustainable.
The private assessment, described to the Washington Post, paints a bleak picture of military readiness.
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Here's an article for a source. www.alternet.org/trump-dc-gol...
alternet.org
Trump cuts down oldest cherry blossoms in DC for his golf course
A few years ago the cherry blossoms given to the U.S. from Japan in 1912 had to be removed to rebuild the flood wall on the Tidal Basin in Washington D.C. The oldest trees left remained within East Po...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Also epiplophilia
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Russia has struck another shopping center in Kharkiv with a jet-powered drone. The strike comes amid Russia’s intensified targeting of commercial sites across Ukraine, including shopping centers, hypermarkets and warehouses. 📹Ukraine’s State Emergency Service
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
❗️In the next 3 days, Russia may strike a massive blow: intelligence has recorded space reconnaissance of energy, industrial and logistics facilities of Ukraine, — monitoring channels
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧊✈️ SEATTLE SURGE ‼️ ⚠️ 2nd ICE flight to Boeing Field Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N454AW – ETA 11:25am 👀
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026...
foodnavigator.com
Trump purge at FDA and USDA triggers food safety ‘brain drain’
Nearly 250,000 federal jobs have been cut under Trump, stripping staff from FDA, USDA and HHS and raising concerns about food safety, inspections and oversight.
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Good Riddance! apple.news/ALWFkW3Q6Qhu...
apple.news
Leavitt to depart the White House — POLITICO
The president said his press secretary was departing to spend more time with her family.
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Jackie has passed away. 🥲 apple.news/A5mHYhCo5ROK...
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Beloved bald eagle Jackie dies after health battle and 'critical' illness — USA TODAY
Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle of Big Bear Valley, has died after a weekslong health battle.
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Putin is a murderous monster. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson
Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Jon Husted gave $2.5 billion in out-of-control tax breaks to giant corporations to bring 226 data centers to our state. Now, he’s blaming Ohioans for their higher utility bills.
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ann calling out the propaganda re: Ceuta "invasion". www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/08/2026
MSG’s new lawsuit against @wired.com isn’t just about defamation. It’s an attack on the newsgathering process itself. If journalists can be sued for talking to sources with NDAs, powerful institutions have another way to keep their secrets.
freedom.press
MSG revives legal theory that once haunted ‘60 Minutes’
Journalists don’t lose First Amendment protections just because a source signed an NDA
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
vox.com
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Chistina @lacgfy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social No question at all regarding any dairy from the US. We have standards and the US under this sham administration, does not. I am Liberal but I am not happy about all the environmental concessions. I am not a one issue voter and I know we are in a real transition period.
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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is Trump handing over America to the oligarchs and CEOs. This is the deregulation that Republicans love in action, people getting sick and dying. If you like getting sick and dying, vote Republican.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Sing it with me peeps - you know the tune! 🎶 He's a super callous narcissistic convict felon rapist, even tho the sound of it is really quite ungracious, Republican support from everywhere is really quite audacious, for this super callous narcissistic convict felon rapist 🎶
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Matt Orlando: retired Air Force colonel, six terms on the Chandler city council, registered independent who votes with Democrats. He just beat a sitting Republican state legislator by sixteen points in Maricopa County and almost nobody noticed.
dworkinsubstack.com
Fifteen People Just Walked Out Of ICE Detention and More Great News That’s Terrible For Trump
Two people sued and a judge made it stick. Plus a fired prosecutor takes Trump to court, a Republican loses big in Maricopa County, and my read on the Senate race others wrote off.
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The last sentence is a real gotcha. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
A Planeload of Informants
The United States is intensifying its hunt for narcos within the Mexican government. Is this all prelude to an attack?
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For your contemplation. As usual the comments are good. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Abolishing the Senate Might Be the DSA’s Best Idea
A teardown of the upper chamber would be good for American democracy.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of unfounded claims in his prime-time speech Thursday. But since then, election officials across the country have rushed to refute the lies and defend their states’ election systems. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Election officials of both parties rush to denounce Trump’s lies, defend voting systems
Officials and administrators from at least 30 states debunked the president’s claims over the weekend.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
1/ Over the weekend, the FDA announced that a lettuce sample from Taylor Farms tested positive for Cyclospora. Within 24 hours, the FDA backtracked, calling the result a false positive. Taylor Farms quickly deleted its own posts about its bagged lettuce and boasted the FDA had apologized to them.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Every State should be doing this. We know he's going to interfere in the election because he knows if we win, it's the end of his regime.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
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Kevin BOObacha (he/him) @choubacha.com · 17/07/2026
Don’t blame Taco Bell for cyclospora, blame the Republican donating Taylor Farms. Don’t blame Canada for the wild fire smoke, blame the Republican donating fossil fuel industry.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Jessica Tarlov: This has to stop. They’re just laughing and counting money and we’re letting them get away with it.
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