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Childless Dog Lady

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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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Childless Dog Lady @donotsurrender.bsky.social · 3h
Leave it to Pentagon Pete to mess up something else. app.ekkow.com/147821392454...
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Pentagon Begins Alerting Possibly Millions of Service Members About Personnel Database Breach | Gizmodo
Just days after news broke of a massive breach at the FBI, the Pentagon is issuing warnings about a similar breach that resulted in hackers stealing data on millions of current and former service memb...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22h
Senate Republicans have voted 14 times to continue Trump's war with Iran. They could lower your prices by ending his war—but they won't.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h
PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h
"There are clear signs that Republicans know that Libertarian candidates could pose a particular threat this November." ICYMI, Lauren Egan on the GOP's third-party problem: lnk.thebulwark.com/4AHGfmf
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How Some TOTAL Unknowns Could F*ck Up Republicans’ Midterms
Libertarian candidates are polling surprisingly well. In close races, a few points could be all Democrats need.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 22h
Brandon Herrera’s ‘Cum Trophy’ Comment Takes Center Stage in New Attack Ad Katy Padilla Stout’s ad exposes opponent’s remarks about women and children. meidasnews.com/news/brandon...
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Brandon Herrera’s ‘Cum Trophy’ Comment Takes Center Stage in New Attack Ad
Katy Padilla Stout’s ad exposes opponent’s remarks about women and children.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22h
Empathy + Action = A Better World
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
Trump just amplified a JFK Jr.-themed account to his millions of followers. One problem: that same account has repeatedly accused Trump of being a “pedophile” and made even more bizarre allegations about him and Melania.
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Oops! Trump Amplified Account That Called Him a Pedophile.
The JFK Jr. themed account also alleged Trump and Melania were present for “cannibalistic” child abuse.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 23h
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
NEW: The criminal investigation into the "grand conspiracy" fell apart with everyone resigning because they failed to indict anyone, so now they're just going to make up a report about it. Pathetic. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’
Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their families to cast ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22h
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed leaders in his department to give military voters time to cast a ballot, saying voting for many service members has been "time consuming and complex." But the push comes as the Trump administration pursues measures that would make the process harder.
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Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not as much as we do (Keep yappin' Trump)
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Trump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett
The president’s latest comments come after he criticized the three justices for voting with the majority of the court to block his mail-in voting plan last month.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You know I’m a teacher by trade, but I can’t stand for women to have to share their most intimate horrors to try to educate men on abortion or rape. The men already know…they either don’t care, or they are already actively working on our side. 
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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The Only Race We Can’t Win...
Is the one we don’t run
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you missed the botched gotcha of Jack Smith by Sen. Schmitt this week, here’s a recap of that moment. Video: buff.ly/yhSmHuI
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 01/10/2026
The chaos of the news cycle can make it hard to see the big picture. Our new Authoritarianism Action Watch tool provides expert analysis on threats to American democracy as they happen—so you can distinguish signal from noise. Explore the tracker: actionwatch.org
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Authoritarian Action Watch Threat Tracker
How's American democracy doing? This tool gives us a way to understand how authoritarian actions and pushback against them add up.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Schmitt appeared on the popular Turning Point USA podcast still called the Charlie Kirk Show. The exchanges on the subject are surreal: The interviewers themselves don’t acknowledge that Schmitt’s original gotcha was factually wrong.
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Eric Schmitts the Bed
Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is Josh Hawley nervous about being dethroned as "Missouri's Most Incompetent Senator"?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
Trump is now running pro-Iran War propaganda commercials on Fox News paid by for taxpayer dollars
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you want to see a witch hunt, watch Sen. Erik Schmitt attack Jack Smith. Schmitt makes false accusations, suggests being in Atlanta proves conspiracy, and when it becomes clear Smith was not in Atlanta at all, persists in name-calling. And no, he has no shame. www.nbcnews.com/video/republ...
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‘A total dirtbag’: GOP senator mistakenly accuses Smith of perjury over NBA game
Former special counsel Jack Smith’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing became tense after Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., presented a text message to Smith that he suggested showed he was in Atlanta for a b...
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump has made America so much weaker and alone in the world. It’s time to give the world some hope with a Democratic house and Senate!
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FACT: A core tenet of fascism is to claim that all of society's problems are actually caused by a minority group, thus requiring the state to use its full power to attack that group. #ResistTrump
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A win! A federal judge in Georgia today dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking unredacted copies of the state’s voter registration list.
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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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Voters have begun to wake to the fact that America has a genuine maniac at the helm, and one who has bogged down the economy to boot. Spotlighting his criminal and authoritarian behavior today intensifies these concerns. This time really might be the time:
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lot is riding on Michigan voters this election.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One reason Trump gets away with selling the free world out to Russia is that after he was exposed as seeking and receiving Putin's help in 2016, he succeeded in making the Russia investigation all about the dossier. That's when reality split.
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The Dossier that broke America
YouTube video by emptywheel
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.
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Hegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’
At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Libertarians could be the spoiler Republicans didn’t see coming. @lauren-egan.bsky.social reports on third-party candidates threatening to siphon off just enough disaffected GOP voters to scramble key midterm races. lnk.thebulwark.com/3U1jqJV?utm_...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 FACT: Deploying ICE agents to the polls is illegal. And a new survey says it’s deeply unpopular among voters. However, there’s a significant partisan divide. More participating Republicans than Democrats support ICE and National Guardsmen at polling places this fall: demdock.com/4hAX89A
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What's funny about the Paxton comments about Trump is that Paxton is already trying to lay the groundwork to blame Trump for him losing…These are guys who think they're going to lose and they're already starting to place blame."
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Childless Dog Lady @donotsurrender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This country has given Musk enough money. We don’t need to give him more via whatever solution he comes up with here.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
trump's big 'constitution' with AI leaders refers to him as 'President of the Unites States'
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Republicans want Jack Smith to go to jail for investigating trump crimes instead of trump going to jail for committing those crimes???!!!?!?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hegseth out here talking about "no fatties" in the military when the commander-in-chief looks like this:
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Josh Hawley is asking for clarification after Hegseth calls for getting rid of beards.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of Trump’s favorite fundraising emails right now asks for prayer then hits supporters up for money.
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