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Citizen, mother, ready to do the work to make things better for everyone. Generally nice, but curses freely.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 21h
A new poll reveals 92% of the Black women surveyed were dissatisfied with the country’s direction. Many are motivated to vote to protect their communities and address systemic inequalities. bit.ly/3Vl4KFP
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Black Women Are Sounding the Alarm About Voting Rights and America’s Future
A new poll reveals their thoughts on whether the nation is delivering on what Black women need to thrive.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23h
The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 23h
Joe Biden’s DOJ literally investigated Joe Biden and his son! The idea that Biden was directing investigations is just nonsense on stilts.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess if you don’t have actual intelligence, the artificial kind would seem super.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP trained Wisconsin election observers to target voting machines in pivotal swing state
The new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He is a co-sponser of yesterday's very important Protect College Sports Act, so he must really care about college sports.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
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Screenshot from the Trump Administration’s new AI Chatbot:

Can the president rename
Artificial Intelligence?

No. Official sources do not show that a president can rename the term "artificial intelligence" itself.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*US LOOKING TO EUROPE TO RELEASE DIESEL FROM RESERVES: POLITICO
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site
A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 29/09/2026
jacobs by marc jacobs for marc by marc jacobs in collaboration with marc jacobs for marc by marc jacobs
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great post, very informative.
The defense secretary will announce the move on Wednesday during a speech to a handpicked group of lower-ranked officers
and enlisted troops repeated three times bracketing a photo of Pete Hegseth.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No and it makes it that much more hilarious.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How is any of this slandering of a totally innocent public servant different from what Joseph McCarthy did? You know, the thing that the DC journos still beat themselves off to as an example of the news media standing up and stopping something evil? bsky.app/profile/awk7...
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop asking people how their day was! It’s too open ended to be actionable. Ask them to describe the top three blockers in their day and proactively create agentic workflows to drive outcomes
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 29/09/2026
Congratulations, you've "invented" the mobile home.
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GregNJ @gregnj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How can we get these to Trump? 😂 😂
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/greg...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/jfs....
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Lullz
Can the president rename the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

No. Not without Congress. I cannot give legal advice.Can the president demolish the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts?

Not on his own. Congress created the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a national memorial. I cannot give legal advice.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Does the president have the unilateral authority to tear down large parts of the White House?

No. Federal law does not give the President unlimited power to demolish or rebuild large parts of the White House on his own. I cannot give legal advice.
Main legal limit
• Congress has plenary authority over federal property and the District of Columbia.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your tax dollars at work
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, if someone was accusing me of perjury because they apparently mixed up the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks, I'd also be a stunned.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quite a home stretch message 😳. If you think things are great, vote GOP😬😬😬
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Enten unpacks how Trump has lost 27 points of net approval among white non-college voters over the last two years, and in fact now is "at the lowest of any previous Republican president at this point in his second term among white non-college voters"
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not what I want for my kids and I doubt it's what most other parents want, either.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holtec. SB Energy. Now, Oura. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/s...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
It's been 155 days since Trump said Iran's oil infrastructure would spontaneously explode in 3 days due to the U.S. blockade
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we pay about the same in premiums. one of us is getting one or both knees replaced. one of us isnt old enough to be getting a colonoscopy and is out with friends. we are not the same
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i mean you should probably go to the doctor for the preventative stuff. but most of us also live in the real world. a lot of people don't use it until they really fucking need it. that's the whole idea of a risk pool. yes you younger workers are "subsidizing" my employer provided health care
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
but those swindles are way more unconscionable when they involve, eg, scaring old ladies into buying unusable identity theft products that don't anything. enrolling people into benefits they don't understand and don't effectively use is less problematic when it's... catastrophic health coverage
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i just assume the reason why the conversation about "Obamacare fraud" is so muddled because the reactionaries want to paint fraud as something individual poor and/or black people do as opposed to the mundane rentseeking swindles engaged in by brokers and insurance carriers
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 29/09/2026
When you hit a certain age you understand that Tom Petty's line "I love you more than the sins of my youth" is possibly the single most romantic lyric ever written.
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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
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William B Hill @wbhwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That reminds me of Jeff Beck talking about Superstition. It was going to be a song for Jeff…but Stevie decided he wanted to do it instead. And then he wrote Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers for Jeff. And that’s one of the best damned songs ever too. youtu.be/xiOPvOBd8IA?...
youtu.be
Cause We've Ended as Lovers
YouTube video by Jeff Beck - Topic
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