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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
A south Florida political journalist explains why GOPers are beginning to worry that Angie Nixon can beat Ashley Moody.
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And like Alex Vindman, Moody is proving to be a terrible campaigner.
Moody runs and hides from the press and her campaign for the Senate is calling her opponent "Socialist Angie" over and over again. With gas prices high, the economy weak, an unpopular war, is that enough?
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Talking to Republican consultants, they are worried about the Senate race in Florida. They still think Ashley Moody will win, but their confidence has waned in recent weeks. Moody does not generate any excitement and Vance's recent comments only energize the opposition.
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As Republicans demonize 
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, and JD Vance tells her "you don't belong in America," they run the risk of having it backfire. Nixon can be a compelling figure. Here she is getting emotional when I asked her to tell voters something personal about herself. 
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h
Trump has stopped using the Flying Bribery Palace. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Stops Using Luxurious But Defenseless Jet He Solicited From Qatar
The president has for his five most recent trips, including Friday’s, used the real Air Force One built for that purpose. The White House refuses to explain the switch.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING: The U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September, missing expectations. The unemployment rate grew to 4.2%, up slightly from the previous month. Economists had expected 4.1%.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16h
Garnet is absolutely right here. More than that, #SCOTUS has made it clear, over and over again, that it is not going to let states use its "original" jurisdiction to sue other states in contexts in which the underlying question *can* be litigated in the lower federal courts. This is one of those.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 12h
New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
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New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
Following public outcry over an alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for closing a loophole in state law that allows offenders to avoid rape charges if their victims were willingly intoxicated.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
"No Jewish person in NYC is responsible for actions of Israel... critique of genocide is not antisemitic... we need a politics of humanity, not just at home but for people we're bombing." @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social tells Theo Von the genocide must stop & Bibi should be arrested
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 9h
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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h
A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.
politico.com
Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9h
🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 12h
All forms of torture are acceptable to John Yoo. He literally wrote the book on how to make torture legal in the Bush administration (derogatory).
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 12h
Awkward.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling: "We're seeing people staying in their jobs longer now ... we're seeing people very happy where they are in their jobs because employers are doing better."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison on his Republican opponent Ron Schutz: "Ron is a movement Republican ... I would think that a movement Republican, at a time when our state is being persecuted by a Republican administration, would stand up and be a little more vocal than just sending out a presser."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Ellison nails Schutz after he admits he's never taken a case for a client who didn't align w/ his personal views: "It is the job of the AG to defend laws sometimes you don't agree w/ if those laws are constitutional" (Note that Schutz then initially stammers about if abortion access is settled law)
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 10h
Forget political parties for 10 seconds- watching Curtis Sliwa tough guy beret and all, sheepishly holding Mayor Mamdani’s hand through a flu shot is the purest thing on the internet today. We really are all just human.💙🥹
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump on getting impeached: "I'm getting good at it ... I could've done that with Hillary Clinton, as you know, I had the chance to do it if I wanted, and I said that would be inappropriate"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump on South Korea saying they haven't signed off on an Alaska pipeline despite Trump saying they did: "If they don't want to do it, that's okay with me. I'll just charge them more. Tell them if they don't sign shortly, I'm gonna double it up."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
The name of the investigation into the fraudulent elector scheme was "Arctic Frost." Arctic Frost is a type of orange. Senator Blackburn accuses Smith of mocking Trump's orange complexion. lol
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
For clarity, the judge here is saying that a STATE can criminalize non-citizen voting, but the federal government can't.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
Whoa. A Biden-appointed judge in the southern district of Florida just ruled that the 1996 federal law criminalizing voting by non-citizens is unconstitutional. 👀
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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 8h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Trump “feels badly” for the Cornell alleged gang rapists
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 9h
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4h
JUST IN: Judge Marc Scarsi (Trump/CACD) allows Trump administration to proceed with challenge to Calif. egg regs. Sees likely intrusion on federal prerogatives and legislation. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
North Carolina mailboxes overflow with voter registration warnings after state cut a deal with Trump’s DOJ
“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: A top Department of Defense official says the military has “no plan” to deploy troops to election sites this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOD tells senator it has ‘no plan’ for troops at polls. But she has ‘no idea what Trump will do’
“I take that as a positive sign,” Slotkin said. “[I] still have no idea what Trump will do."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
NEW EPISODE: Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked Trump's DOJ to intervene. I break down the excuses in the letter and why it fits Trump's long obsession with controlling how Georgia's votes are counted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwoR...
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Trump is Coming for Georgia's Vote Count
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
The presumptions of good faith and of regularity are made up court creations that fly in the face of commonsense and the structure of the Constitution. It should be a priority for Democrats and progressives to undo both. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Court upholds Tennessee’s GOP gerrymander, saying lawmakers deserve ‘presumption of good faith’
A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gerrymandered map adopted by Tennessee Republicans that eliminated what was the state’s one Black-majority congressional district, based in Memphis.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again
The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
If you value independent media, do me a favor and subscribe to Democracy Docket. It isn’t on Substack or ActBlue and will never sell your information or send spam. If you are already signed-up, thank you and please recommend it to others. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h
Somebody is scared.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 14h
Trump wants his beautiful room. Hegseth needs his makeup mirror. The country needs serious people doing serious work. President Norma Desmond awaits his close-up. Today’s Warning: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/trumps-las...
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Trump’s last close-up
The gold, the mirror and the men who mistake a stage set for power
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 10h
JD Vance is campaigning for Byron Donalds despite the fact Donalds scrubbed Trump from his website. One month before the midterms, I break down Trump's historic low approval rating and why retribution for MAGA is imminent. youtu.be/zb_9JYGRePM
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Why MAGA Is on the Brink of Disaster | Steve Schmidt
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 18h
Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. This is a baby flamingo. Original post
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 11h
This corruption must be investigated.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10h
Medicare should be able to negotiate every single prescription drug price in this country.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Melber: You’re saying the VP has low T. You’ve called Mike Rogers a beta. El-Sayed: I'm just saying that they like to lead on strength. Strength is about being able to stand up to the problem. The problem is Donald Trump, and you don't see much standing up to Donald Trump
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
El-Sayed responds to JD Vance clip: Low T JD. It's always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.
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