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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heads up TN voters! Important dates to know!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026

THIS SHOULD BE NATIONAL NEWS This has been public for more than a week, and I can’t find a single national TV report. Just local. Why? REPORT: A female Cornell student alleges she was pressured into taking ketamine, then sexually assaulted for hours by multiple Chi Phi fraternity members in 2024.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump's approval rating just hit an all-time low. Polling for Republicans ahead of the midterms is tanking too. Good news. But do not let the unpopularity of Trump and the GOP result in you becoming complacent. We need to show up this November in numbers so huge that victory cannot be denied.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long!

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026

Thou shalt not demolish the Kennedy Center.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Word! Hell yes I support this💙💛

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The national average for diesel is currently $6.40 a gallon, and analysts expect it to get worse. This is not sustainable.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026

Bad day for anyone whose election strategy begins with “What if fewer people voted?”

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When my son was 5 he had a sartorial flair To go to arts delicatessen he wore a midnight blue cape, top hat &monocle As we were leaving an older gent stopped him saying “young man, i like your style” Meant the world to our son that man was Bob Mackie RIP

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)

ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Missouri’s Supreme Court held the state’s top election official in contempt Thursday for defying its order not to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Missouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander order

The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….

diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.

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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Washington Sun rises today. I hope you’ll join our orbit. The Sun aims to do nothing less than reinvent the newspaper for the digital age — and to prove that there is a market in the capital region for local news and sports coverage. washingtonsun.com/perspectives...

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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.

My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watched this multiple times now and...sports, nothing quite like it.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Huge WSJ report on Noem's DHS corruption. She made Corey Lewandowski a “special government employee,” where he had sign-off power over big contracts. While in that position, he pitched Qatar & UAE on hiring him on the side for help with DHS matters, including visas. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Chasing Side Deals, Flexing Influence: Lewandowski’s Power Moves at DHS

Kristi Noem’s close adviser effectively controlled billions in spending at Homeland Security; Lewandowski denies seeking business or playing any role in agency’s contracts.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026

feels like Alcaraz-Shelton is shaping up to be a classic, but how are humans who need to function tomorrow supposed to stay up until 3am on a school night?

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures

Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*Kenny Rogers, plaintively* You picked a fine time to leave me loose eels

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

United States Spaceballs Force

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok look The Odyssey is very much a sequel

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't think the news has made it here: bluesky political scientist Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social 's _Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History_ (Princeton) was recognized with the Richard Neustadt award for best book published on the presidency!

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Lreinhar @lreinh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Beautiful end of day on Lake Ontario!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is an astonishing statistic, and one which will only get worse next year.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇

Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

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20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine

Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Danielle Reed-Baty @danibaty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So far, Google Maps has not caved the way they did on the Gulf of Mexico

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton is the rare celebrity where every new revelation makes you admire her more, not less

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I understand the confidence about how this will all end, but I'm still livid at the Postmaster General for having the gall to say the USPS has the right to decide who gets to vote, when the USPS's actual job is to DELIVER THE GODDAMN MAIL, including every ballot, whether Donald Trump likes it or not

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Craig Dodge @craigdodge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We’re invading the bond market?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/08/2026

Waiting for the other shoe to drop in the catering cart Natalie Harp story.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A Chilean copper giant spent a decade trying to dig above America’s most visited wilderness. The Senate cleared the way in April. On Tuesday a governor with five months left in office shut the state’s door in their face.

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Republicans Sold It By One Vote. Walz Took It Back.

Plus: 16 former DOJ lawyers turned on their old department, and a town of 7,500 beat Big Tech

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Mike Sager @mikesager.net · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry. The Denver Republican party is run by a dude named Hugo Chavez and he's in trouble because he won't back a candidate named Marx?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them

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