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Childless Dog Lady

@donotsurrender.bsky.social
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Blue dot in a red state. Voted straight Dem 2024. Hope we can survive the dumpster fire coming up.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 12h
Excellent coverage of this 3 1/2 hour hearing. One thing that Chris didn't mention though, that I'm going to point out. During the rebuttal, the question was asked, doesn't separation of powers run both ways? And shumate never explicitly acknowledged it.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12h
We don’t leave it to aircraft manufacturers to investigate plane crashes. Likewise, lawmakers should step in to thoroughly investigate the recent hacks involving rogue AI agents. bit.ly/4xLckHb
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How Congress Should Investigate Threat from Rogue AI Agents
The government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation.
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🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 12h
Yep
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
When you *wildly* overestimate your own charm.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Thom Tillis: “I may be a bit of an odd duck here. But talking about weaponization, 8647 is probably not a reasonable case. One day maybe we can find someone accountable for this building being surrounded by thugs on January 6th.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Millions of dollars that Trump is using to support Republican candidates was donated to his PAC by wealthy fraudsters and their family members before they were pardoned for their crimes. Instead of crime victims getting restitution, Republicans got campaign cash from the felons.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h
Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Ted Cruz: “Do you have any regrets?” Jack Smith: “I regret that the people I worked with have been unfairly fired and vilified for doing their job.” Ted Cruz: “Congratulations, because you have succeeded…[in] weaponizing the DOJ and the federal government to go after your political opponents.”
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Ted McConnell @tedmcc.bsky.social · 12h
It's a randyrainbow Sing along, y’all! 🎶🌽🤠 'Oh, What A Beautiful MORON!' Enjoy!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 18h
It violates federal appropriations laws that prohibit government funds from being used on “propaganda,” as well as the Hatch Act, which bars government employees from engaging in political activities while on the job. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Ricketts: "This year we're on track to have record trade with Canad-- er, ah, South Korea"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
Sen. Booker: “This is an 8-year attempt to lie to the American people, and this is their closing argument, everybody. Right before an election, this is what they want to spend their time on, perpetrating a lie. This committee’s Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth.”
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Childless Dog Lady @donotsurrender.bsky.social · 11h
Guess she didn’t stop to think Lindsay’s stress might have been due to always being in fear of Trump cutting off his free golf.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
So it turns out that when Eric Schmitt thought Jack Smith snuck off for a secret meeting to conspire with Fani Willis he was actually in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark play basketball.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12h
The act of Darline Graham, in the context of a senate hearing, referring to her brother as "Lindsey" further underscores the level of nepotism and corruption by which she acquired her office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 12h
As of May 2026, the CDC had 30% fewer employees than it did before the Trump admin's layoffs and the agency is now tightly controlled by RFK Jr., making it harder to respond to outbreaks and issue health guidance to Americans.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/health/cdc-staff-cuts-rfk-jr.html
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
"Vance has made himself the great hope of what we might think of as the interlinked 'five families' of the New Right."
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 12h
Epic backfire!🔥
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 12h
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco fled violence in Venezuela. Violence found him in Nebraska in the form of an ICE agent. ICE LIED and got caught!
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12h
Translation: Although I'm a sitting U.S. Senator, I feign to be as informed as a 3rd grader at recess – and my constituents feign to believe me.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 12h
Eric Schmitt. The next thing you know, he’ll be asking someone “So, what would you say if I told you I had text messages showing that you were in Kansas City, watching the NY Yankees play the Kansas City Chiefs?” It’s looking like he concocted that BS about Jack Smith after a case of Michelob Ultra.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h
If you haven't been keeping up, Sen Schmitt tried to play gotcha with Jack Smith and it blew up in his face.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h
NEW: Kurt Olsen, a prominent election denier with no prosecutorial experience, has resigned from the DOJ after failing to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. The conspiracy theorist was hired last year to aid in Trump's efforts to relitigate the results of the 2020 contest.
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12h
While foreign influence has become a constant concern for U.S. elections, there’s still no evidence that any cyberattack has ever altered vote counts, impacted vote-counting systems, or otherwise affected the accuracy of elections. bit.ly/4AzddFy
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AI Is Changing Foreign Election Influence
Threat reports from tech firms and independent monitors offer a glimpse of how foreign adversaries are changing tactics.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 11h
NEW: The safeguards that Citizens United assumed would check corporate election spending have failed—and Hawaii is fighting back. We filed an amicus brief, alongside @campaignlegal.org, supporting Hawaii's new law, which seeks to address these failures.
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The problems Citizens United created support Hawaii’s innovative solution - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The safeguards that Citizens United assumed would check corporate election spending have failed, and Hawaii is fighting back.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Childless Dog Lady @donotsurrender.bsky.social · 12h
That won’t last long. Musk and Zuck will make sure the algorithm says no, Trump was falsely convicted.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments
Screenshot of America.gov answering, “Has a president ever been criminally indicted? If so, who?” The response says former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted and that no sitting president is shown in the cited sources as having been indicted. It cites Trump’s August 1, 2023 federal indictment on four counts related to conduct after the 2020 election, as well as Congressional Research Service information noting additional New York and Florida indictments.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13h
Mayor Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov has created a “whole-of-government approach” to fight antisemitism. It looks promising. Security for all & honoring the Jewish experience. Guarantee that every child is safe in school. Learning our rich history. bsky.app/profile/mayo...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 13h
It’s insanity that Special Counsel Jack Smith is once again having to confirm the orange felon’s seditious crimes to the Senate when half of the despicable scumbags who are questioning him are the same MAGA seditionists/insurrectionists who participated in those crimes.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h
1. NEWS Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces a municipal strategy to combat antisemitism. “Antisemitism is real, and it is growing. Here in NYC, while our Jewish neighbors make up only 12% of the pop, NYPD statistics show antisemitic hate crimes account for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes..
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 13h
Donald Trump, in our case, in the elections case, later suggested that a witness, General Mark Milley, should be put to death. He said, 'if you come after me, I'm coming after you.' Election workers in Georgia, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, faced vile, racist death threats..
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith: "Our nondisclosure orders were not predicated on the idea that members of Congress or members of this committee would commit acts of obstruction. It was based on a real concern that Donald Trump and his associates would do that because they had done it and they did it again
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Jack Smith: "Our nondisclosure orders were not predicated on the idea that members of Congress or members of this committee would commit acts of obstruction. It was based on a real concern that Donald Trump and his associates would do that because they had done it and they did it again. Donald Trum…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
In addition to having 16 of the wealthiest billionaires in America pouring money into Republican PACs to buy the midterms, Democrats now have to deal with media companies accepting stolen taxpayer money to run illegal government ads for Republicans.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h
Dear god... GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt clearly loses his shit after it's revealed by Sen. Klobuchar that Schmitt confused the Iowa Hawkeyes college basketball team with the Atlanta Hawks NBA team in his attempt to claim Jack Smith was in Atlanta and colluded with Fani Willis. I'm gobsmacked. Holy shit.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13h
Artists have told Trump to stop using their songs for years -- He never learns! Now it's JMSN's "Love Me," in an ad paid for by YOU @democracydefendersaction.org & @ballard have told WH to take it down. The artist said no, so the answer is NO Full story @nytimes.com👇 -TN
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‘Love Me’ Artist Demands Trump Stop Using Song (Gift Article)
President Trump used JMSN’s song in a recent self-promotional video that was paid for with public money.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Published today!
AXIOS: "SCHMITT IS DRAWING BUZZ AS A POSSIBLE VANCE VP IN 2028"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Kash Patel’s phony manufactured stats that he uses to cover up his gross incompetence.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 13h
Jack Smith is professional, admirable and unflappable. His motivations are unimpeachable. His adherence to the Rule of Law is steadfast and refreshing. He has zero political rhetoric. He shows no personal or professional sensitivity. He communicates accurately. He would be an ideal attorney general.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 13h
Walmart, Amazon, and McDonald's are some of the most profitable companies on Earth — and they pay poverty wages to workers, then let taxpayers subsidize their labor through Medicaid and SNAP. That's not the free market. That's corporate welfare. #UnionsForAll #RaiseTheWage
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"The first video shows him standing in front of the words 'PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.' That picture was taken last October, four months before he launched the current war in Iran." Mission not accomplished.
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Republicans don’t care about the people who beat Capitol police and threatened officials on January 6. They only care about their toll records. Even though none of them were charged. Why a bunch of assholes.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12h
how fucking nutso is it that Donny considers the revenue that our government takes in to be 'profits' for his personal use? and it's insane that the press just goes along with it. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I explain just how insane it all is. link is here: bit.ly/4AC7UFc
And it’s just fucking weird that Donny considers money taken in via taxes and tariffs to be profits. they’re not — they’re revenues.

This is a fundamental mistake that all these shit-gibbons who insist that ‘government should be run like a business’ make. Governments are not businesses. The revenues that a government takes in are — in any sane country — used to provide for the public well-being of its people. They’re not profits, for some tinpot fucksnoot like Donny to hoard for his own personal use.

And what’s all this nonsense about ‘Democrats don’t have any income’? There aren’t two treasuries, one for each major political party. There isn’t Republican money and Democratic money. It’s just money money.

Not only is it fucking insane that Donny believes this, it’s insane that every worthless scribbler of the corporate-controlled press just sits there and nods their head and goes, ‘well, I guess if Donny says so.’

None of this shit is normal. Is it really too much to ask of our media to stop treating it as if it were?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Naturally, when Amy Klobuchar tries to politely point out to Eric Schmitt that the entire premise of his grand conspiracy on Jack Smith might be mistaken because he was confusing the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Schmitt interrupts and starts yelling at Klobuchar. MAGA!
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