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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨 NEW MAINE SENATE POLL: Troy Jackson (D) 50% Susan Collins (R) 42% Jackson leads Collins by 8 points among likely voters. And it’s not an outlier in direction: Jackson has led Collins in nearly every recent poll. Donate. Volunteer. Organize. Vote. Help Troy Jackson flip this Senate seat BLUE. 🔵
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Statement from Troy Jackson responding to ProPublica’s report on the FBI’s probe into alleged corruption by Maine Senator Susan Collins
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Maine outlets have strong 2nd day of the Susan Collins corruption story. This from the @bangordailynews.bsky.social
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@sjpete.bsky.social @sjpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Attention Maine voters: Jess Craven fills us in about the Susan Collins corruption scandal that needs to get more attention: www.threads.com/share/BAaDnN...
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Jessica Craven (@jesscraven101) on Threads
The Susan Collins corruption scandal is bigger than you think. Thanks to @propublica’s William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Berg for the incredible reporting!
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Tom Paine’s Driver @dlasamuse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've lost 30 pounds in 4 months with this one simple trick. Living in a country which prioritizes people and health. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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I’ve lost 30 pounds in 4 months with this one simple trick. Living in a country which prioritizes people and health.
In March of this year (2026) I was finally able to join my wife and kids in the Netherlands. They had moved here earlier but I needed to stay in the US for work purposes. We moved because of the…
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Tom Paine’s Driver @dlasamuse.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/pfas-pe... A sad birthday for the US when a chief executive ignores the constitutional stricture for promoting the general well-fare of its citizens. The health of millions will suffer as a result of putting profit above science.
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'This Is the PFAS Presidency': Trump EPA Approves Another Forever Chemical Pesticide | Common Dreams
Environmental and public health advocates criticize the Trump EPA's approval of "forever chemical" pesticides.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/06/2026
Italy still has vibrant newspapers and they are in an uproar this morning over Trump lashing out at Meloni. (Some are mocking Meloni but everyone mocks Trump.) TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE "Italy Doesn't Beg" The War of the Kneepads Trump Insults Italy "The USA turns backwards as the world moves forward"
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Angela Marx | Angie in WA State @angelakmarx.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Long time speaker of Truth to Power, @thomhartmann.skystack.xyz lays out HOW 3 GOP candidates for POTUS committed crimes (including Treason) & skewed the future of all of us, since 1968. THIS TIME, we know what they're up to and can fight back to win on #Nov3rd! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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For Decades, Americans Learned the Treasonous Truth After the Votes Were Counted. This Time Is Different.
Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn’t realize — until it was too late — the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to…
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Tom Paine’s Driver @dlasamuse.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026.... “…The larger question is why one party treats ethical failures as disqualifying while the other treats them as obstacles to be managed. Platner is a threat, and that’s why the GOP is so desperate to stop him. I urge my fellow Dems to stop helping them.”
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The real Platner and Paxton scandal everyone is missing
For months, Fox News seemed determined to turn Platner into a national scandal. Every week brought a new story. At one point, they resorted to using old Reddit posts containing immature “dick” jokes…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/05/2026
MAKE IT SO. No screwing around. We're up against anti-democratic, fascist white supremacy. Use every legislative tool possible.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
😢😢😢 if only we were warned ☹️ www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'One of the most rapid transitions that I've seen': NOAA forecaster on how this year's El Niño could shatter records
Nathaniel Johnson, a member of NOAA's El Niño forecasting team, says that this year's transition to El Niño could be the fastest on record.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Gutting the VRA puts enormous pressure on Dems to redraw House maps wherever they can. Dems may be able to redraw maps by 2028 in 9 states targeting 19 seats currently held by the GOP. I'll share example maps below. Longer-term, a future Dem Congress & president MUST ban gerrymandering nationwide
Map of states where Democrats may have the opportunity to redraw congressional maps by 2028. Democrats could target seats currently held by Republicans in:
Colorado: 3
Illinois: 1
Maryland: 1
Minnesota: 2
New Jersey: 2
New York: 4
Oregon: 1
Washington: 2
Wisconsin: 2-3 (note, Wisconsin's Supreme Court could replace a pro-GOP map with a fairer one where 2-3 districts become much bluer, otherwise Democrats may be able to draw their own map to similar effect).
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/04/2026
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.
NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
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Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
When @gregsargent.bsky.social writes that Trump's arguments are "based on lawyerly hocus pocus," I'm honored he links to our amicus, providing history, not MAGA magical thinking. @evanbernick.bsky.social @brendanbenedict.bsky.social @mike-altebrando.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2084...
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Trump’s Crazed New Eruptions of Fury at SCOTUS Already Set to Backfire
It’s a good thing that he showed up in court for the birthright citizenship arguments. It helps ensure that he’ll own this morally repugnant effort to gut the constitutional promise of equality.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If you can’t see that Putin benefits from all this, and that it likely is no coincidence, we’re not even sure what to tell you at this point
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The scientific consensus is that surface warming is linear in cumulative carbon emissions--there is no evidence of any "tipping point" behavior in global surface temperature (though some climate subsystems e.g. ice sheet may exhibit threshold behavior): www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Michael Mann: Yes, we can still stop the worst effects of climate change. Here's why.
Opinion: State-of-the-art climate models show warming stops once we stop emitting carbon. That means there's still time to stop the worst impacts of climate change.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Senator Bernie Moreno was met with quite the resistance!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Follow the money: The Ellison bid for Warner Bros may be backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE The European Commission wants answers So does Los Angeles — which is staring down massive layoffs if this goes through This merger has nowhere left to hide I discuss on @contrariannews.org -TN
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No Kings of America — Or of Media Either
Why the Paramount-Warner merger is not a done deal: Publisher's Roundup 60
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Trump told a lengthy story last week about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation. "We don't have any information about the conversation described."
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Trump imagines negotiation with Sharpie maker for $5 signature pens
Trump told a lengthy story about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation.
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Michael DiTullo @d2lo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
It was great to get out there again today for #nokings and be with people. It’s official, we beat the record from the last No Kings to be the single largest day of protest. We were more than 8 million people out there today. Video via @92percentnews.bsky.social
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/03/2026
The Atlantic hurricane season is expected to produce 11 to 15 named storms with the highest risks along the northern and eastern portions of the US Gulf Coast and the Carolinas, AccuWeather said
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Atlantic to See Up to 15 Storms This Year, AccuWeather Says
The Atlantic hurricane season is expected to produce 11 to 16 named storms, near the long-term average, with the highest risks along the northern and eastern portions of the US Gulf Coast and the Carolinas, AccuWeather Inc. said.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 24/03/2026
Donald Trump is handing nearly a billion dollars in taxpayer money to stop a job-creating, clean power-generating wind farm from being built off the East Coast. He is putting America in reverse and selling us out to his Big Oil donors.
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Tom Paine’s Driver @dlasamuse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trumpworld to remove bicycle lanes from National Mall
The Trump Republican party, those wonderful folks who brought us the Iran War and soaring gasoline prices, has firmly and irrevocably bought into the proposition that wasting energy is a GOOD thing. W...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "This is nonsensical. This is what happens when you put real estate developers and talk show hosts in charge of American national security."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"I always thought he was weak on security and didn't know him well, which is why I appointed him for such an important position." We are living in the stupidest time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/03/2026
Buttigieg: "We lived through a war that was sold to us on false pretenses when I was younger. This war has not been sold on any pretense. The president just went ahead and did it."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Trump officials privately pessimistic there's a strategy to end war, but they fear telling this to Trump, NYT reports. On the pod, @profsaunders.bsky.social brilliantly explains how this shows perils of "personalist" rule and the total absence of constraints on him: newrepublic.com/article/2076...
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Trump’s Iran Blunders Suddenly Look Darker after Damning New Leaks Hit
As brutal revelations emerge about Trump’s handling of the war, a foreign policy expert explains why he won’t be able to extricate us from this debacle anytime soon—and provides a roadmap to what’s ne...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Asking random locals in Tehran to hang out. These are the friendly, social people we are bombing for no reason.
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Pat Ryan @pkryan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Elise Stefanik hasn’t held an in-person town hall in 6 years. So my friend @aoc.bsky.social and I decided to hop in the car to Glens Falls and hold one ourselves. Showing up everywhere. Listening to everyone. Fighting for our future. That’s what democracy looks like.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“Investors now expect inflation to rise to around 4.5 percent over the next 12 months, from a forecast of 2.3 percent at the start of the year.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/b...
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Oil Prices Surge Above $100 a Barrel for the First Time in Almost Four Years
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 03/03/2026
I need to remind people. The midterms have never been so important. Don't let people use scare tactics or make you think it won't happen. also if voting didn't matter gerrymandering wouldn't exist.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm trying to imagine the American who watches this and feels comforted
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test... McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy Tells America A Deadly Secret About Trump's Iran War
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Sen. Chris Murphy Tells America A Deadly Secret About Trump's Iran War
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
These are sick, weird, twisted people. All of them.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
He was talking about his ballroom drapes after they were killed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Here's the background on that operation: Iranian agents obtained voter registration data, impersonated Proud Boys and sent intimidating letters to Dem voters. It was discovered (1st by academic researchers, I believe), voters informed, & likely had no effect on election. www.cisa.gov/news-events/...
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Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration Data | CISA
CISA and the FBI are aware of an Iranian advanced persistent threat actor targeting US state websites, including election websites. CISA and the FBI assess this actor disseminated voter intimidation e...
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
VA Gov. Spangerber will deliver the rebuttal to Trump's State of the Union: "We are facing rising costs, communities in chaos & a fear of what each day might bring. I look forward to laying out what Americans expect & deserve - leaders working hard to deliver for them." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This actually happened. Donald Trump just called into C-SPAN claiming to be “John Barron” the same fake name he used in the 1980s to call reporters and hype himself up. Decades later, same stunt. Different decade. Same ego. #USDemocracy #Pinks www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Democrats Call for Refunds for Americans After SCOTUS Strikes Down Tariffs
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Warren Says Americans Should Get a Refund After Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Critics trash 'psychopath' Trump’s threat to 'destroy the country'
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Critics trash 'psychopath' Trump’s threat to 'destroy the country'
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BetsyWTH? @betsywth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
HELLO?!? We’ve only been saying this for 16 months now!!!!
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 19/02/2026
Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him
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State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international
The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport
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