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Clumsy Ninja 📚

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“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy.” ~ Thurgood Marshall Public ed advocate, retired school psychologist, global citizen attitude, crunchy liberal, atheist, pretty sweary.

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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 12h
I've convicted over 350 fraudsters, one every 8 days. Ron knowingly took donations from fraudsters who stole $1.6 million from the government. Who do you think is really serious about fighting fraud?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17h
Today, another American citizen & journalist was brutalized by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank. This repeated violence & brazen impunity for attacks against Americans & Palestinians alike are unacceptable. When will Trump & Rubio DO SOMETHING?
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank
The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12h
This is just flat out racism. No other way to describe it, and if you see someone trying to do otherwise (looking at you NYT editors) then correct them.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
“Judge Reyes has unfairly questioned Trump Administration attorneys’ intelligence” Trump Admin asks for Judge Ana Reyes to recuse herself from case of tree toppling at East Potomac Park in DC She’s ordered tree razing to halt pending further arguments
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13h
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12h
Judge Sarah Davenport in New Mexico wants answers after ICE deported a man to Honduras on Oct. 5 in violation of an injunction. Her issue: The last time ICE did this to her they vowed to implement safeguards. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 21h
I’m sickened and outraged. Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian families harvesting olives, set their groves on fire, and brutally beat Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine, who was clearly marked as press.   Witnesses say Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop it.
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 20h
Hey dems, progressives, leftists, etc. We are all in a big tent right now and we need to win the House and Senate. Support all our candidates and lock in. The goal is to stop Donald Trump and the far right. Let’s go Abdul, James, Mary, Peggy, Troy, Angie, Sherrod, and more!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
it's pretty f'd up that the Trump administration is trying to deport my duly-elected member of Congress
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 20h
Yesterday, a 16-year-old boy brought a gun to Silver Rail Elementary School and shot and killed three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and one teacher. While it's not yet clear how the teen accessed the weapon, early reporting indicates the shooter used a shotgun that was purchased by his mother.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 19h
As much as this triggers my Imposter Syndrome, I've never been hired for a job I'm not capable of doing.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 20h
Hi! Reported on Trump’s finances for a decade! He’s not going to do this!
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 19h
As an undergrad, I took the Anatomy & Physiology course for premed students and got an A both semesters. Never referred to myself as Dr Ninja.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h
Mahoning is where Trump famously told people not to sell their houses, because he'd bring manufacturing back. Then the Lordstown plant closed. It's the place Bruce Springsteen sang about. If Dems can flip it, then it should be a touchstone for Trumpism's demise. newrepublic.com/article/2167...
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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23h
REMINDER: Today by 12 pm ET, Todd Blanche shall submit, in REDACTED form, to the Court for in camera review the FBI interview notes for the South Carolina woman who alleges she was 13 years old when she was sexually and physically abused by Donald Trump. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 19h
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 19h
lmaaoo www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days
The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
President Trump shared his thoughts on Russia's war in Ukraine. In short, he believes that Barack Obama and President Zelenskyy are to blame for the war, Crimea is the best part of Ukraine, Putin wants to settle the war more that Zelenskyy, and the war would have ended very soon had
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CNN @cnn.com · 16/10/2026
New filings with the Federal Election Commission are shedding light on tech billionaire Elon Musk's heavy influence on the 2026 midterm elections, especially the blockbuster Senate race in Texas. cnn.it/4juHdfP
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Oppression Chicken
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16/10/2026
🎉 WIN: Nonprofit groups can continue to help new U.S. citizens register as voters at their naturalization ceremonies, a federal judge ruled. It’s a stinging defeat for the Trump administration’s broad effort to make it harder for naturalized citizens to vote.
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In defeat for Trump, court allows nonprofits to register voters at naturalization ceremonies
In a stinging defeat for the Trump admin's broad effort to make it harder for naturalized citizens to vote, a federal judge reinstated a policy allowing nonprofit groups to help them register their na...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
President Trump claimed that Ukraine had received Tomahawk missiles from the United States, then sold them and other US weapons "on the open market." This is not trur. The United States has not given Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/10/2026
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“More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.

Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.

Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.”
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
JUST FILED: Enormous financial boost for Democrats in some battleground US Senate races An eye-popping early voting number New effort to probe banks that might've bankrolled Epstein The twist in North Carolina Lots of new reporting in DAY AHEAD: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2026
Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Zelenskyy deserves to live a quiet life with his wife and kids after all this.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/10/2026
Zelenskyy: “I told Trump: If you enable Starlink access inside Russia, we can quickly destroy their ballistic missile launchers. Putin would come to negotiating table, and I wouldn’t need to destroy a single energy facility. But instead, they shut down Starlink.” As they say, "from RU, with love"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/10/2026
The federal government tried to turn our public servants into deportation agents and force New York City to carry out ICE’s cruel agenda. Today, a federal court rejected that effort and upheld our laws. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City 'sanctuary' laws
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a Trump administration lawsuit that ​sought to block New York City laws ‌limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, finding the government did not...
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Lisa Schiff @crkrjx.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The messages reportedly included officers competing over who could pull over the most Black drivers, along with racial slurs and derogatory comments about Black residents in discussions involving the use of force and firearms.
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Charlotte police officers face termination after racist texts allegedly discussed pulling over Black drivers
The messages surfaced during a separate state investigation into an officer accused of misusing police surveillance technology. More than half a dozen officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police De...
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
ACAB. Every single time.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Looking for any info/contacts for immigrants’ rights groups or ICE watch groups in Buffalo, NY
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump promised to end Putin's war in Ukraine in a day. Instead, he has made concession after concession to Putin, getting nothing concrete in return. I now think Ukrainians would have been better off if Trump had done absolutely nothing. THREAD. 1/
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Tripling union membership could put $7,700 more a year in the typical worker’s pocket. That’s money for rent, groceries and a little breathing room. Working people don’t need another lecture about budgeting. They need the power to bargain for more.
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Unions Are the Key to America’s Cost of Living Crisis
"As everything gets more and more expensive, we believe there is a powerful solution: unions," write Liz Shuler and Heidi Shierholz.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"The voting guide is from the Gazette’s notoriously conservative editorial board, which includes Anschutz’s son, Christian. The guide recommends voting “yes” on all eight of the initiatives backed by Advance Colorado, the conservative dark money group backed by Anschutz."
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So her father-in-law human trafficked her?
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's about as meaningful as me saying that because I have a Masters degree, I'm a Masturbator.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Campaign for Accountability, a watchdog organization, filed a complaint with the State Bar of California seeking an investigation into whether Katie Zacharia violated state law by presenting herself as a lawyer without a California law license.
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CfA - CA Bar - Katie Zacharia
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"service"
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Colorado AG candidate Jena Griswold speaking up very firmly in support of Colorado trans kids. Somebody has to.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 14/10/2026
Voting rights groups are suing Texas after the state failed to process more than 500,000 voter registration applications submitted through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s web portal.
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Texas sued for failing to process 500,000+ voter registrations
Voting rights groups are asking a judge to enforce a 2021 settlement aimed at providing reliable online registration through DPS.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW(ish): Many of you read and shared our story on the Maryland sheriff who, for twenty years, has targeted immigrants in his county an hour from DC. We have translated and published the article in Spanish to be accessible to more readers: boltsmag.org/frederick-ma...
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Cómo un sheriff de Maryland persiguió inmigrantes mucho antes de que se dispararan las redadas del ICE - Bolts
El sheriff del condado de Frederick, Maryland, quien este año se vuelve a encontrar cara a cara con los votantes, convirtió su oficina en un medio para ampliar la capacidad operativa del ICE.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...
Screenshot from the post listing the four questions Court expansion proponents should have to answer:

1. How do we avoid touching off a race to the bottom, where each time one party controls the House, Senate, and presidency, it expands the Court to ensure an ideologically and politically sympathetic majority?

2. If a race to the bottom is unavoidable, how do we avoid further (and potentially fatal) erosion of public confidence in the Court—which will quite transparently be little more than a lever of power for whichever party last had such a trifecta?

3. If eroding public confidence in the Court is a feature, and not a bug, how do we insulate against the same erosion of public confidence in lower federal courts?

4. What is the case for why expansion is a better way to achieve the desired reforms than alternatives that would (or, at least, should) avoid many of these forward-looking concerns?
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
More about ICE's shooting of Oscar Belgal in Bronx: Agents didn't have proper warrant After they shot Belgal, his son began yelling that masked men killed his dad Belgal is now in solitary The left side of his face is numb He can't hear from one ear www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/14/i...
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ICE Had No Valid Warrant Ahead of Shooting, Attorneys Allege, as Belgal Is Held in Solitary
In a new court filing, Belgal’s attorneys say he’s being denied adequate medical care with a bullet still lodged in his neck.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wow, she graduated from a state university? How rare.
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