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Dawn Johnson

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
5 October 1891 | A Czech Jewish woman, Olga Žáková, was born in Lažany. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stob a' Ghrianain #Scotland #SpeanBridge #FortWilliam #Highlands www.damianshields.com
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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Re-post along with me.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473.
… NYT: “One month until Election Day, voter dissatisfaction with the economy, concerns about political extremism and frustration with Trump have Democrats within reach of flipping 4 Republican-held go...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
After Roe, blue state laws have continued to enable tens of thousands of abortions every year across state lines since 2022. This suit calls that effort “one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history.”
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Shield laws are working. Now red states want the Supreme Court to end them.
The long-expected constitutional showdown over states’ rights and abortion rights is here.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 October 1933 | Italian Jewish girl Rina Di Veroli was born in Rome. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 October 1943 in a transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome. She was among 839 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection. --- Children at Auschwitz: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More confirmation that the Trump Administration is staying underground with its anti-abortion plans until after the midterms. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 471. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 471. 10/1/26
… Renee Good’s partner and family have filed two lawsuits stemming from her death - one against at the ICE agent who shot her and a several senior Trump admin officials, the other against the federal ...
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: In a loss for voters, three South Carolina restrictions on voter assistance will remain in effect for the midterms. The decision could affect the nearly 15% of South Carolinians who identify as having a disability: demdock.com/4xTu5Ef
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding federal inquiries into the amount of taxpayer money used on Trump's propaganda ads — asking the GAO to investigate the "source, accounts, and total amount of taxpayer funds used by the Executive Office of the President to produce and distribute."
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Raskin leads calls for federal investigation into Trump PSA’s
The Maryland Democrat could lead the House Judiciary Committee in the next Congress.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has reportedly fired 20% of the military's generals, claiming, "No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors." This toxically masculine ethos sounds straight out of the handbook of Doug Wilson, Hegseth's Christian nationalist spiritual advisor.
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Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 September 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Daniel Serge Szuster, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 727 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
Vintage black and white photo of a baby with a slightly surprised expression.
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AbiGezunt @abigezunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meidas is doing something unusual. To ensure all have access to news, they've taken down their pay wall until election. Quite impressive, putting voters before profits.
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Wednesday Updates: Record Diesel, Rigged Inflation Math, and Meta's AI Tax Scheme – 9/30/26
Important news. Paywall free.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Patel, month after month, has been mostly failing at his original mission to weaponize the FBI against Trump’s political enemies, but he is certainly succeeding at turning the FBI into a laughingstock, which in some ways will likely prove even more damaging to our country over the long term.
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The disgrace and danger of Kash Patel
Here's the latest on the FBI director's raft of scandals—including, of course, the bestiality.
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An Grianan from Fasnacloich, Glen Creran #Scotland #Invercreran #Appin #Argyll www.damianshields.com
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30 September 1887 | Jewish man, Bernhardt Meier Freidmann, was born in Russian Empire (territory of todays Latvia). He emigrated to Norway in 1912. A sausage merchant. In #Auschwitz from 1 December 1942. He perished in the camp on 20 January 1943.
Black and white portrait of a mature man with short hair and moustache.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 470. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 470. 9/29/26
… Sen.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please read this piece from @lyz.bsky.social.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 27/09/2026
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
 Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Republican members of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) adopted a resolution Monday seeking the Trump administration to intervene in a vague crusade against the state’s voting system just weeks before the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia election board asks for Trump admin to help go after state’s voting machines
“I think this is federal overreach," the board's lone Democrat warned.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I know you think you don't, but it's not all bad" is exactly what I would expect a rapist to say.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What a record for the MAHA Leader RFK Jr! -strips money from the Office of Minority Health -receives >$250k of free flights to Fiji & Greece -headlines the most notorious anti-vaxx conference, where he announces he’ll study…CHEMTRAILS -uses military planes to campaign for GOP -lies to Congress
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Correct
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“I am so devastated that Christians like Tim Tebow made me trust in something that has taken so much money from me. This is evil, especially because I’m disabled on a limited income.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
27 September 1903 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Rebecca van der Hoek-van West, was born in Amsterdam. In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Women at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en Podcast: youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Black-and-white photo of  a woman seated comfortably, beside a table stacked with books and other items,.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: This week SCOTUS greenlit a flawed database for the Trump administration to purge voters from the rolls. While some claim the impacts will be minimal, it’s a good bet some red states will work with Trump to purge as aggressively as they can get away with.
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My wife and I spend a surprising amount of time worrying about how to protect our children from rich kids
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photos of the aftermath of a horrible Russian attack on a specialized children’s home in Sumy, where two people died: a 16-year-old girl and an elderly woman.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Sumy two people were killed in russian attacks including a 16-year-old girl. This is just one day of russian terrorism, just one day of almost 5 years where every day is like this or worse. Russia must be stopped.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Donetsk region, four Russian airstrikes hit a residential neighborhood in Shabelkivka, Kramatorsk district. An 85-year-old woman was killed; rescuers pulled her body from under the rubble of her home. Sixteen other houses were damaged in the attack.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In Kyiv Region russian strike on Vyshneve, in the Bucha district, killed one person and injured three others.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is illegal. For this reason alone, he should be impeached and removed and convicted. There is no justification under law or the Constitution for a president to "cancel" funding appropriated by the Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People in Oleshky have no food and are surviving on grass and weeds, a desperate measure that won't even be an option in the winter. Real pressure must be applied to Russia to allow people to evacuate!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” How ChatGPT fueled the violent fantasies of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter, according to our new investigation.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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