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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 9h
A reminder for Maine voters that the sister of GOP nominee for Governor Bobby Charles (Anita Charles) wrote an op-ed last month saying he was unfit for office & that a part of that was his refusal to ever publicly renounce his association with Dennis Hastert. www.pressherald.com/2026/09/09/i...
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I'm Bobby Charles' sister. I'm voting for Hannah Pingree.
Maine deserves leadership rooted in empathy, dignity, intellectual honesty and respect for every person who calls this state home.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 8h
Ever find yourself tongue tied in bed when asked to "talk dirty"? Try this quick and simple tip! All you dirty talking pros, sound off in the comments with more tips!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8h
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h
Of course. The Supreme Court kicked off its new term today by hearing oil companies’ attempt to throw out a lawsuit seeking to make them pay for climate damage they caused. The outcome could determine whether similar lawsuits brought by cities and counties across the country can move forward.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 9h
Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 13h
RFK Jr. wants more AI in health care, so we fed Claude, Grok etc. some of his vaccine statements Here's how one of them responded: False/inaccurate False Mostly false/highly misleading False Read here to see which one it was -- and what the others said www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-wan...
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RFK Jr. Wants to AI-ify Health Care. Claude Says He’s Full of Sh*t.
Kennedy is suddenly bullish on artificial intelligence—so we asked some AI assistants to rate his vaccine claims.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If Ballot Measure 2 passes it will repeal: 1) open primaries - gone 2) ranked choice voting - gone 3) requirement to report campaign contributions over $2,000 - gone Vote NO on Ballot Measure 2 #akelect
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Holy shit...this is incredibly accurate!!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18h
Trump's deportation push forces dozens of LGBT migrants onto hostile terrain reut.rs/4ANO9un
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Trump's deportation push forces dozens of LGBT migrants onto hostile terrain
Two years ago, a mob assaulted Abdou Latifou and threatened to kill him after he was seen kissing the man he loved.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 18h
Ukraine’s robotic gun turrets have already downed Russian jet-powered drones, including the Geran-5, Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat says. The systems use machine vision and AI for targeting and are now also being installed to protect bridges. #Ukraine
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 18h
Mike Peters on the Gun Lobby, February 1981. This was just two months after John Lennon was murdered.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17h
Elder Chavez Carranza, 18, was “granted Special Immigrant Juvenile classification when he was a minor, a designation for certain immigrant children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected that provides humanitarian protection.” ICE has held him for more than 200 days.
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h
Republican House members Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson have called for all transgender people to be rounded up and forcibly institutionalized. trib.al/J4bzitr
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The Fascists Want Trans People to Leave. I Left. But Should We All?
I moved north. Polls show many trans Americans would leave if they could. Should Canada make us an offer we can’t refuse?
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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · 17h
This new rule leaves Michigan families more exposed than ever to the swings of global oil prices and I stand firmly with my colleagues in telling NHTSA it's time to follow the Congressional mandate.
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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · 17h
The government should be encouraging automotive innovation that our workers, manufacturers and communities have helped drive for generations. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
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Michigan joins suit seeking to block weaker vehicle fuel economy rules
A separate lawsuit was also filed challenging the new rules by a coalition of environmental and consumer groups.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473.
… NYT: “One month until Election Day, voter dissatisfaction with the economy, concerns about political extremism and frustration with Trump have Democrats within reach of flipping 4 Republican-held go...
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 23h
@amandacarpenter.bsky.social with a great article explaining why the ballroom is just sitting there as an Apportionment Black Hole, no-one has any idea of how it is being funded. It has a great link to: openomb.org, which @protectdemocracy.org is using to track apportionments.
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OpenOMB | Tracking apportionments just got easier
OpenOMB is the easiest way to find and track apportionments. Apportionments are legally binding plans issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget that set the pace at which federal agenc...
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22h
"Longwell highlights the party of George H. W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, which certainly existed. But the GOP, and the conservative movement as a whole, was also the realm of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Rush Limbaugh, and Jerry Falwell." www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-bui...
You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History

Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16h
TODAY: Early voting begins in Maine and California, and the process has already started in many other states across the U.S. Are YOU registered to vote? As the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on voting, it’s time to check your registration status: demdock.com/4gRtE8P
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings, linked to Konstantin Sokolov, RU-US businessman who was a private donor to Trump’s $350M WH ballroom, received authorization from the Treasury Dep to complete an acquisition of Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, involving sanctioned Russian bank.
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Jason Woodrow @jasonwoodrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This morning's message from Indivisible
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the last hours of Noem’s tenure, her agency delivered a windfall to a political donor by buying five airplanes from his firm at a substantial markup. @haleaziz.bsky.social @fahrenthold.bsky.social @nicknehamas.bsky.social @tylerpager.bsky.social @nirajc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 04/10/2026
Eight crew members were killed when a Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in Amur region on September 29. The crew included two lieutenant colonels and two majors, with at least three linked to planning, organizing or executing missile strikes on Ukraine. #Russia
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Nobody knows more about demonstrating the Dunning–Kruger effect than me.” —Donald Trump
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Jon Boeckenstedt @jonboeckenstedt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love how he keeps trolling the White House like this. It reminds me of how I'd keep staring at my sister after she'd complain, "Mom, he's looking at me."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Poindexter: "Both R senators from Ohio have said Max Miller is unfit to serve and should resign. But his billionaire donors are still supporting him. They just declared they're going to spend $5m on his negative attack ads to make sure that they protect him bc he votes w/ them every step of the way"
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 04/10/2026
U.S. Treasuries have now suffered their worst 10-year period in history 🚨
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This kind of talk has always seemed to impress certain segments of the political class, but now that he’s imploding, they look like gullible suckers. He’s just a lout, nothing more. He insults people because he isn’t smart enough for anything else. He’ll become more loutish as he circles the drain.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because my Chicago White Sox are playing the Cleveland Guardians in the playoffs, I was subjected to a dishonest anti-trans TV ad that Republicans are running in Ohio to distract from their vandalism of the economy. There are no limits to what Republicans will do for money and power.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 02/10/2026
Strategic Petroleum Reserve falls to lowest level since 1982 🚨
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
First the wedding, now the ballroom — “Trump/Russia” gets smellier and smellier.
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your sons and daughters are
10000x safer with drag queens than frat boys btw
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Comments from Disney's president has some industry insiders spectating Jimmy Kimmel's show is DOA. “‘We have to make it make sense for the business’ means it’s a money-loser no matter what we do. So it’s a diplomatic answer, but it’s curtains.” More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...
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‘Curtains’ for Kimmel?
Disney's president said Jimmy Kimmel is doing a “phenomenal job,” but offered an ominous explanation for why that may not be enough to keep his late-night show on ABC.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 02/10/2026
MAGA Woman Says Trump Is a Saint Compared to JFK
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