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Read all the books. Write everyday. Proud Oma. Proud Minnesotan. Find me in the garden or at the lake.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 52m
NEW: A 26-year-old man has become the de facto advocate of last resort for families who are homeless in Arizona’s most populous county. As ProPublica’s @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social reports, it’s a scene that’s “both heartening and disconcerting.”
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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.
Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 51m
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 39m
PATHETIC: Speaker Johnson and his caucus of cowardly Republicans canceled their last day of work before an eight-week recess to avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth until after the midterms. Make sure to send them a letter in support of Hegseth's impeachment here: bit.ly/4iyfx9o
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h
‘But I got road salt exempted from Trump’s tariffs’ is really the perfect way to sum up Susan Collins during the Trump era. While he does hundreds of things to hurt Mainers, she brags about one small thing she did to help her reelection, while doing nothing on the big things.
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Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social · 18h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24m
Burgum: "You don't the word 'climate change' as much as you did two years ago, because the legs have been knocked out from under that movement"
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23m
Know your voting rights before you head to the polls. Share this with friends so they’re informed as well. Report problems at the polls to @866ourvote.bsky.social #kyvr #HandsOffOurVote
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20m
Rep. Greg Murphy describes people who have lived in America for decades and have families here and are brutally deported by ICE as "collateral damage," and says "thank God we're getting rid of the garbage that's in our country:"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22m
BREAKING: Through our investigation, we obtained 166 pages of documents that show ICE's attempts to silence voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13m
Remember when Republican Tom Kean Jr. was absent from Congress for months (while stock trades were made in his name, including profiting off of companies working on AI data centers)? Now he is running for reelection — and we’re contacting New Jersey voters to flip this battleground district.
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Indivisible for Zack Mullock and Rebecca Bennett in NJ Phone Bank Series · Indivisible
Join Indivisible as we engage voters across the country to get out the vote and take back Congress in 2026. We’ll make calls into New Jersey to get people to the polls on or before Nov 3rd and share t...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13m
🚨 NEW SUFFOLK IOWA POLL — and Democrats have real momentum. U.S. Senate: 🔵 Josh Turek 48% (+7) 🔴 Ashley Hinson 44% (-1) Governor: 🔵 Rob Sand 55% (+7) 🔴 Zach Lahn 43% (-1) Both Democrats have surged 7 points since August. Iowa is absolutely in play. 🌊🌽
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14h
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 12h
Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h
The nation's largest trucking groups said Tuesday that Trump's executive order aimed at easing diesel prices would do little to increase availability of the key transportation fuel. They cast doubt on his claims that the move would help bring down the cost of goods across the economy.
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‘Minimal relief’: Trucking groups pan Trump’s diesel executive order
The trade associations said tax relief on dyed diesel would be complicated to implement and do little to increase availability of the fuel.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h
🚨BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court struck down key GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives. The unanimous ruling is a major win for direct democracy — and a powerful check on the Legislature’s ability to interfere with the people’s lawmaking power.
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Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives
The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Trump and lots of people close to Trump are making a lot of money off wars.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 11h
Trump may have found a “solution” to the taxpayer-funded ad controversy, but shifting the bill to his Super PAC raises a whole new problem.
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Trump’s taxpayer-funded ad ‘solution’ comes with a major catch
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
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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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 11h
Trump’s comments suggesting Iran “take out” U.S. cities are already putting frontline House Republicans on the defensive in some of the country’s toughest races.
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Vulnerable Republicans forced to answer for Trump’s ‘take out’ San Diego, LA jab  
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” The Trump administration's ultimate goal? “To make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.”
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13h
👀 Would you feel free to vote with an FBI agent watching? Newly obtained documents show the DOJ tested that theory in Arizona’s primary, raising concerns that aggressive surveillance will be used to restrict ballot access or intimidate voters nationwide.
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Susan Collins repeatedly refuses to answer as to whether she would campaign with Trump in Maine
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12h
In a normal world, the 26 Republicans up for election in our target districts would condemn Trump for his treasonous comments last night. But they won’t.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h
There's news of a plague outbreak in Russia. Here's what we know and here's who in the White House is staffed to handle any U.S. related work on it (hint: it's RFK Jr. and a gutted CDC...) Russia is trying to cover up the media reports on the outbreak, which now has 200 people in quarantine.
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Indivisible MN03❌👑🇺🇸 @indivisiblemn03.org · 14h
You checked your registration, next: Reach out to 3 friends or family members today and ask them to verify their status. www.usa.gov/confirm-vote... This outreach makes a huge difference. share.indvs.org/s/kHqvB16f
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All it takes is a few clicks!
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 13h
Don't forget to vote for the people who protect the vote...
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Did You Know This?
Don't forget to vote for the people who protect the vote...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15h
The status quo is not enough.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13h
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
"Project Meridian is like so much that characterizes this moment in history: oriented toward a real challenge, but with the worst people given the power to come up with the answers. The best we can hope for may be that their recommendations get ignored and then forgotten." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h
The G7 just agreed to release 100 million barrels of oil, in exchange for the US agreeing not to ban diesel exports.⁣ ⁣ That's not a solution. That's political leaders agreeing to look like they're solving a made-up crisis. youtu.be/I8waaPcvpQA
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 16h
Donald Trump is unfit for office. Full stop. Let’s be clear: pushing for the death of the very people you swore to protect is dangerous, reckless, and a betrayal of your oath. The American people deserve better.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h
About 70 percent, including about half of Republicans, said the president’s cost-of-living policies have been “worse than expected.”
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Trump ran on lowering prices. Now most Americans blame him for them.
An October poll also found that most blame Trump's policies for making affordability struggles worse.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h
Rick Wilson on Trump inviting Iran to "take out" two American cities: "At the lowest boundary, it's political malpractice. At the highest boundary it's bordering on treason"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice tapped criminal prosecutors and an FBI official to watch voters in Arizona’s primary elections earlier this year in a major break from past norms, according to records reviewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h
Everything you’ve been told about lethal injection is a lie. Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike’s failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Poli Alert @polialert.bsky.social · 16h
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Federal Agent Shot Chicago Woman From Behind, Lawsuit Says, Challenging Government’s Original Account
Nearly a year after a Customs and Border Protection agent shot Marimar Martinez during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, the U.S. citizen is suing the federal government — alleging the agent’s account of the shooting was false and that he fired at her vehicle even after moving behind it. Martinez was initially portrayed … The post Federal Agent Shot Chicago Woman From Behind, Lawsuit Says, Challenging Government’s Original Account first appeared on Poli Alert.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h
Alligator Alcatraz is now closed. But buried deep within the DHS report was a warning about possible similar conditions at the other state-operated immigrant detention center in Florida: the Baker Correctional Institution in northern Florida, nicknamed by Gov. Ron DeSantis as “Deportation Depot.”
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Out of sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot
Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz’s worst.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15h
Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - Russia is covering up a deadly plague outbreak - Trump backs down on his taxpayer-funded ads - Tillis says his Hegseth vote was the biggest regret of his career - Trump kicks Politico off Air Force One open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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BREAKING: Deadly Plague Outbreak in Russia, Tillis Regrets Confirming Hegseth, Trump Backs Down on Taxpayer Ads, and more...
Top Stories for October 6, 2026.
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