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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20h
Part of me secretly hopes that members of the 11th Circuit were cool to have arguments for releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report in January, but watching Schmitt's colossal fuck up made them move the arguments up to Nov 2.
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Jon G @jongar.bsky.social · 16h
Vance is total scum. The worst of the worst. A couch fucker to the end.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 16h
Someone just unsubscribed from my Substack - not because of the main topic of my article, but bc I talked about having Covid and they said they had to unfollow me as they believe viruses are not real. I am so worried about the scientific literacy crisis in our country. It makes us so vulnerable.
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America has a major pseudoscience problem
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18h
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this morning the 11th Circuit has moved up oral argument in the case arguing for release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report to Nov 3. What’s in the water in Atlanta?
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 16h
Imagine being a member of a political party where you aren’t able to condemn a rogue president who incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol so that he could overturn a fair and free election to stay in power, and then having the nerve to scream that you’re a patriot all day long.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 17h
The Trump administration's new AI service gave users conflicting responses to politically sensitive questions Tuesday and Wednesday: sometimes answering them and sometimes refusing. www.axios.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Ask Trump's AI chatbot who won in 2020. You might not get an answer.
Some users got answers. Others got refusals.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Maryann - Revealing Light @revealinglight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, they’ve been doing such a good job to date. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to 'self-police' AI development
President Donald Trump says that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews of the technology du...
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Maryann - Revealing Light @revealinglight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republicans Senators failed time and time again to slander and lie about Jack Smith. Really vulgar display of trying and failing to assassinate Jack Smith’s character, integrity and professionalism. They came off looking like the dickheads they are…https://youtu.be/W12aV7PFit0?si=A5fLVnHokRoqb6n2
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h
Want to know where Hegseth got this hypermasculine and toxic ethos? Look no further than Doug Wilson, the self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and spiritual advisor to the Secretary of Defense.
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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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bennythesnitch.bsky.social @bennythesnitch.bsky.social · 20h
Poor guy it ain't easy being a F-UP From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle.
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20h
To be clear, Congress isn’t in recess, it has been completely nullified by MAGA terrorists to aid and abet the orange felon. That to me is what I’d call treason.
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hsow.bsky.social @hsow.bsky.social · 20h
❌👑Defend the vote by voting early! Oct. 17 march & vote to protect our democracy. Have a plan, know your options, join local efforts to safeguard our rights. Find an event near you. #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/DdgVlIBi
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Find a No KIngs protest near you
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22h
They took away Medicaid from my 82 year old mom. They don't answer the phone and when she showed up in person, they refused to talk to her and told her to go home and call them. She got her low income senior housing because she qualified for Medicaid.
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22h
Just a reminder that the last time DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against a district judge, it was dismissed in a ruling by Chief Judge Sutton that was all but dripping with contempt (for the government): www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/internet/jud...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h
I’m spitballing here, but: “Petrol thieves” sent to scout base and get information on surveillance/response times. Trump’s “they wanted to do big damage” comment could be a lie, but could be a leak of a classified assessment referring to the actual would-be attackers, not the recon element.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21h
I’m betting Trump revealed some shit that wasn’t supposed to be public knowledge there.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 20h
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 21h
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property fortune.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Palantir CEO Alex Karl quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property | Fortune
Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”
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newtometoo.bsky.social @newtometoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I encourage all of you to vocalize the following: 1. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) 2. The International Court of Arbitration 3. The International Criminal Court (ICC). These courts must be allowed to conduct legitimate work without acts of terrorism by a few lowly state dept imps.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Carolyn Rogers @carolyn5724.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These Republican senators are incompetent, unqualified, and insincere. Their claims lack credibility and are mostly bluster and fabricated lies.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Despite Trump’s best efforts, former Special Counsel Jack Smith is confident the rule of law will endure.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: We just sued DHS and USCIS to compel it to respond to our records request seeking evidence behind the Trump admin's claims about noncitizen voting. Given the upcoming midterms, the public needs answers immediately.
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CREW sues for records on noncitizen voting numbers  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The federal government must respond to CREW’s requests seeking records underlying the Trump administration’s claims about noncitizen voting.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
During the 29 September US Senate judiciary committee hearing, the Republican senator Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith, the former special counsel, of attending an Atlanta Hawks basketball game in Atlanta.
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Republican senator appears to mix up basketball teams during heated attack
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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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I don't think it's a good idea to let the wildly unqualified former host of Fox & Friends' weekend edition cull the military's leadership and insert cronies. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
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Hegseth’s Purge of Top Generals Leaves the Army Rudderless
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 29/09/2026
Last week: We previously reported on homes and a school built atop a former drilling waste site. Homeowners still want to know whether developers had an obligation to inform them of the land's filthy past.
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Did These North Texas Developers Have a Duty to Disclose Oil and Gas Waste History?
A housing development and school was built atop an old drilling waste site in Johnson County. New test results came back safe, but it’s unclear what the homebuyers had a legal right to know.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best part is that Schmitt was so proud of accusing Smith of being in Atlanta based on his attendance at a University of Maryland that he planted this story about how he's a RED HOT VEEP CANDIDATE with Jim Vandehei in advance of the hearing:
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Eric Schmitt booked this show as a victory lap for his "gotcha" moment revealing "proof" that Jack Smith was at an Atlanta Hawks game. 2. That "proof" blew up in Schmitt's face. 3. Instead of cancelling this appearance, he dishonestly colludes with the hosts to pretend he did have that proof.
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a fucking embarrassment
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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The response by the authorities to the seven Cornell rapists should help people understand why the Epstein files will never be released in full. The rich and privileged will always protect other members of the club, not matter what their political beliefs are.
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