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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we want to clean up Trump's mess — and prevent it from happening again — here are 10 reforms every midterm candidate should support. Call them the “10 Commandments for a Better Government.”
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The 10 Commandments (for Cleaning Up After Trump)
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 28/09/2026
We don’t need more data centers and surveillance cameras. We need clean water, affordable homes, living wages, healthcare, and communities that actually serve the people who live in them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
TODAY: Andy McCabe and I discuss the Judge Aileen Cannon dilemma that could result in either her violating her own court order or releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. All ahead of Smith's testimony on the Hill Tuesday. Always free. Occasional swearing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
In April 2026, the Supreme Court effectively ended the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to an all-white Congressional delegation from the South. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal.”
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on September 30. Christa has spent nearly three decades in solitary confinement after committing her crime as an 18-year-old girl with severe, untreated mental illness stemming from childhood abuse. Tell Governor Lee to stop her execution now.
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Petition | Christa Pike
Sign the petition to support Christa Pike's clemency campaign in Tennessee.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 27/09/2026
The GOP has had control of the House, Senate, and presidency for 2 years now. What exactly have they done with that power?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
Universal child care is the best investment we can make for our families.
The impact of universal, affordable child care for all families would be seismic. It would mean a single mother could go back to school to become a nurse.It would mean a young family could actually save enough to buy a house. It would mean a couple could start that small business they’d been dreaming of.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
Automatic license plate reader technology has no place in our neighborhoods. Join this month’s action call on Tuesday, September 29 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT to discuss the dangers of surveillance technology and how you can take action in your community to fight against this tech.
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ACLU People Power September Action Call: Get the Flock Out
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The SCOTUS decision increases the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as noncitizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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MAWriterGirl 🇸🇪🇸🇯🇮🇸🇫🇮🇩🇰🇫🇴🇦🇽🌍 @mawritergirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
UPDATE: British Columbia’s attorney general is seeking Criminal Code changes to strengthen accountability for artificial intelligence companies in response to @markfollman.bsky.social 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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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/09/2026
Trump is using our taxpayer dollars to create Trump TV and cut ads for himself ahead of November when he’s not even a candidate. And, to him, everyone else is a communist or socialist? Give me a break.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/09/2026
These men have a right to a hearing, like everyone in the United States. We're in federal court today and next week demanding a course correction for the sake of all of our civil liberties.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit seeking information about ICE's use of the WRAP, a full-body restraint used during deportation flights. We're demanding records describing how ICE is using this dangerous device and how the WRAP has harmed individuals.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/09/2026
So far, Trump has spent $1.8+ billion on his vanity projects since coming back into office.   Have you ever thought about what else we could have gotten for that money?   Try it out for yourself: www.hassan.senate.gov/trumpvanitycalculator
Since he came back into office, Trump has spent $1.8+ billion on his vanity projects. What else could the American people have gotten with that money?

1,000,000 tanks of gas for a sedan
100,000 months of childcare
100,000 people whose previous annual out-of-pocket ACA marketplace premiums could be restored following GOP cuts 10,000 additional school teachers hired
10,000 people whose Medicaid coverage could be restored following GOP cuts 10,000 veterans whose medical expenditures could be covered for a year 1,000 new houses built

And we'd still have $37 million left over!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
“Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The U.S. strike on the Iranian elementary school was the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century in terms of child casualties.   Horrific.   This war needs to end – now.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Fire stations are paying more and waiting longer for new trucks. Why? A few big corporations bought up the fire truck industry and jacked up costs. That's not right. Corporate greed can't come before public safety.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/09/2026
Taxpayers are footing the bill for President Trump's radical anti-immigrant agenda. Our government must prioritize investing in working families over ICE raids and more militarization of our communities.
Brown graphic reading "Instead of spending $268,999,966,016 or $2,358 per taxpayer, the U.S. could fund:..." with a list of things that could be funded instead, including school teachers, firefighters, and people on medicaid
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm excited to announce the relaunch of my UC Berkeley class “Wealth and Poverty.” Starting today (and every Monday), you’ll be able to take a new lesson in the course. Join me and Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse for a live “watch-along” of the first class! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE NOW: LIVE “Wealth and Poverty” first class watch-a-long!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/09/2026
ICE is purposefully trying to make it harder for lawyers and loved ones to contact people held in detention, making it nearly impossible for some people to challenge their removals. ICE must let the outside world know where they are detaining people.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ohio’s only national forest is being opened back up to fracking. The federal government just leased oil and gas rights beneath nearly 2,800 acres of Wayne National Forest for about $11 million, the first competitive lease sale there since 2017.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone else just tired? It’s constant shenanigans from this administration, and our mental health has taken such a beating. We just wanted to say that if you’re feeling the same way, we understand. We’re here with you and for you. It’s a lot.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Fox wants to buy Roku — yes, the same Fox as Fox News. This could let Fox steer their content to 80 MILLION U.S. households. We can’t let this happen.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
No shit, 100% agree here.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/09/2026
National Voter Registration Day is right around the corner, so we’re making sure people know their voting rights. The iconic @wkamaubell.bsky.social is kicking it off and @blackvotersmatterfund.org is joining us to talk through how to protect, defend, and exercise your right to vote.
Black graphic with text "Know your rights training - election safeguarding
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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The New York Times did not blink. The Times: “We won’t be issuing a retraction." But they didn't stop there. "This is another all too common example of the president lashing out at coverage he doesn’t like and belittling journalists who report the facts.”
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 12/09/2026
I never thought I would see the President of the United States get a convention hall to swear allegiance to him - not to the country or some higher ideal. All of us must speak out against this unbelievably disgusting rhetoric.
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