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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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New Hampshire Bulletin @newhampshirebulletin.com · 26/09/2026
"Taken as a whole, New Hampshire’s current camera statute is 'fairly narrow' and 'far more restrictive' than in any other state, said Caitlin Fennessy, chief knowledge officer at IAPP, based in Portsmouth. From @ethandewitt.bsky.social #NHPolitics
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As states seek to rein in Flock license plate cameras, New Hampshire is considered a model • New Hampshire Bulletin
As backlash to Flock and other license plate-tracking cameras grows, some states are exploring limiting the technology. New Hampshire is already a decade ahead.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the 2022 cycle Rs dropped around 45 polls into the Senate races after Labor Day. We are up to 26 and it's September 17th. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democrats better not confuse gas price fury with thinking they figured out how to defeat Trumpism.
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The Information Void Doesn’t Care What’s True
Democrats better not confuse gas price fury with thinking they figured out how to defeat Trumpism.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Jeff Bezos and I are very different people. For one thing, he is a sociopathic billionaire who built his fortune by monopolizing bookselling while I am a penniless author of books. He was born in 1964 and is 62; I was born in 1971 and am 55.
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My kid and trans people across America are about to see $100 million worth of ads in the next two months about how they are what’s wrong with everything. Would it fucking kill a politician who’s supposed to be on their side to just be on their fucking side?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Star MAGA streamer Matt Tardio allegedly tried to force a fan back to his hotel room for sex. Cops wanted a kidnapping charge. But Tardio had an explanation: antifa gave him a laced joint that made him act crazy. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-influ...
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MAGA Influencer’s Defense: Antifa Got Me High
When a pro-Trump streamer was caught on camera coercing and harassing a woman, he blamed a suspicious joint.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
you know, seems a way to handle musk spending tens of millions on anti trans shit is to make his money worth nothing by saying “medical care is between patients & doctors & people are sick of you talking about children’s genitals. let’s move on—here are 10 ways you freaks made american lives worse.”
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump claiming he was at Ground Zero on 9/11, rescuing people from the rubble until the second tower fell? That's just him "adding to a disputed account." But Mamdani checking a box on a college application? THAT SON OF A BITCH WILL PAY
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/09/2026
I am sharing this because I do think it's important for people to actually see the nature of this violence, and specifically the intentional, misogynistic degradation.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"An Air Force major who flew search-and-rescue helicopters was supposed to receive $340,000 and now relies on food banks for groceries. And at least 17 other Air Force members were promised early retirement, only to have the government claw back the agreement before the payments arrived"
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A trans veteran became homeless after the military didn’t pay her severance
Chloe Shapiro is one of a dozen former service members identified by The Washington Post who have waited months for full payments.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War — leading to a $93B windfall for the eight biggest oil companies in Q2 2026 alone. Meanwhile, Trump himself has raked in up to $15.5M from his fossil fuel investments since January. Don't forget what this was really all about.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana.
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Kanye Exec Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana
Milo Yiannopoulos has been apprehended by ICE in Louisiana ... TMZ has learned.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Angie Nixon Again Calls on Sen. Ashley Moody To Resign Following Bombshell Grand Jury Report on Hope Florida (Statement below) www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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A meme that has been sitting on my phone since 2022 apparently. Das Kapital and 9 to 5 represented by torches. 9 to 5 glowing significantly brighter and with far less pointless heft than DK.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/08/2026
This is a government of, by, and for the ultrarich. It is the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class, ruling our country. They are the elites they pretend to hate. trib.al/xZIvxLh
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What Jon Ossoff Gets That Far Too Many Democrats Don’t
The Georgia senator is showing his colleagues that in the attention era, conflict is king.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
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s. baum @transvestigations.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I have more information and will publish shortly with what I can. In the meantime, Aurora Rush is asking for your help. You can donate to Aurora and her partner (legal fees, commissary, etc) here. www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
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Donate to Help Trans Couple Recover from Hate Crime, organized by S B
Raising funds to help Aurora Rush and Shae Sanders pay their medical and legal bills, re… S B needs your support for Help Trans Couple Recover from Hate Crime
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I wrote about MAHA: How it’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, how it channels vague grievances into a radical project – and why we must stop it. The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation:
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The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I, too, would be enraged to discover that the President had left me to die on AF1 while pregnant as he escaped to another jet on a catering truck.
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I cannot stress this enough - the side claiming to “protect children” are now posting the names of children they claim to be trans, photos of those children to help people identify them, and the name of the school they attend. It is impossible to overstate the level of danger for these children.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Republican Sen. Murkowski says she will oppose Trump’s corrupt personal attorney Todd Blanche for AG: “The weaponization of the DOJ has accelerated… the $2 BILLION slush fund is only off the table because we have leverage… no confidence he’ll check Trump’s worst impulses…”
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Hillary Nelson @coldgarden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I love how bumble bees rest on flowers. #gardens
A close-up top view of a fuzzy mostly black with a bit of pale yellow bumble bee resting on the petals of a soft yellow, many-petaled zinnia.
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Hillary Nelson @coldgarden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Dudley was our neighbor and we once hosted his Christmas Ride and I thought the dancers were going to go through the floor in our old house. Very fun.
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Dudley Laufman, Eminent Folk Dance Caller, Dies at 95
A farmer, poet and musician, he revitalized contra dancing in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing the tradition to a new generation.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/07/2026
So many of the claims about trans athletes by the anti trans side are simply made up. This woman got caught lying about two trans athletes and was forced to pay out because of it. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
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An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. - LGBTQ Nation
Kirralie Smith admitted in court she didn't have any evidence to back up her claim about a trans woman injuring two cis women.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: 

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”
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Anne @anneb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
And on The Tube in London... the people speak out.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.
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Hillary Nelson @coldgarden.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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After Trans Athlete Bans, Heritage Foundation Sets Its Sights On Dismantling Title IX
The Heritage Foundation report argues Title IX rollbacks are needed to preserve girls’ “fertility.”
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Laura Loomer saying she’s sorry for downplaying the struggles of Ukrainians
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/07/2026
The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a *fantastic* video that explains exactly WTF is going on with Taylor Farms and how tracing works TLDR: - they are responsible - the false positive was only on one of several samples - it’s difficult to test parasites - there may still be other sources - Taylor Farms is being shady AF
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nathaniel @nathanbased.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stellar first season for the women in Green! I did a little write-up of last night's final for Vermont Public. @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social is back at it tonight in the USL2 round of 32. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
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Vermont Green women finish inaugural season as national runners up
Vermont Green FC's women's team fell to Salmon Bay FC 5-4 on penalty kicks following a 1-1 tie through overtime in the USL W League National Final on Saturday. Waterbury Center's Lousia Thomsen scored...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/07/2026
1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Ohio Dem Party Has Banned Criticism Of Gov. Candidate Amy Acton Calling Trans Girls “Boys”
The Progressive Caucus says it was forced to take down its post.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 14/07/2026
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EJ Carroll has now been paid on her successful civil suit against Donald Trump.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"ICE has been involved in 10 shootings this year alone, two fatal." Read @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on Texas ICE killing horror and how Trump/Miller white nationalist recruitment tropes lead straight to violence (cites my reporting on the shooting): www.salon.com/2026/07/13/n...
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New ICE boss, same old lies
A fatal ICE shooting in Houston shows Markwayne Mullin is just a male Kristi Noem
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