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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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I could have refused both on principle and gone hungry. But the pineapple pizza was perfectly edible, filled me up, and I could pick off some of the pineapple. This is not a story about pizza.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was starving earlier and really wanted pizza. The place I stopped only had one slice left, and it had pineapple on it, which I don’t particularly like on my pizza. My other option was a raw chicken breast they’d left sitting on the counter all afternoon.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Last year Amnesty International verified public executions in two countries, Iran and Afghanistan. The US hasn't held one since a hanging in Kentucky in 1936, and no execution here has ever been broadcast. This is truly abhorrent.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pete Hegseth's Pentagon says it will livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An ICE agent fired into a man's car in Marble Hill this afternoon with a 5-year-old in the backseat. DHS released his arrest record and blamed sanctuary politicians, and never said what led an agent to open fire. ICE's own investigators are handling the case. youtu.be/ZhaotE2PuJU

ICE Agent Shoots Man in His Car With His 5-Year-Old in the Backseat

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Send this to anyone you know who lives abroad.

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Only verified U.S. citizens clear that check, and contributions from foreign nationals are still blocked. Service members and Foreign Service officers have been mailing ballots home from the other side of the world this whole time and still couldn't chip in to the races they care about.

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When you pick a country other than the U.S. on the donation page, you now upload a photo of your U.S. passport and a selfie for third-party verification, which confirms the passport is real and belongs to you.

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How Americans Living Abroad Can Donate on ActBlue Again

If you're an American living overseas, you haven't been able to give on ActBlue since 2025, and that just ended. youtube.com/shorts/UkDML...

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Antifa H.R. Manager on Blueskee @starfinder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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I guess you didn't get the memo... bsky.app/profile/eliz...

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I asked Senator Mark Kelly to choose between food poisoning and a day with RFK Jr. He chose RFK Jr. and offered to cancel his whole schedule for it. We also talked about his new AI bill. Full conversation here: youtu.be/NPtRLFXmg0w

Senator Mark Kelly's New Bill Would Pay You 75% of Your Wages If AI Takes Your Job

jhalp2.bsky.social @jhalp2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Boosting this!!

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I spent 15 years in Manhattan doing the job she started out in, defending people the government had decided to go after. Now the government is going after her, and she's still the one New York calls when a case needs to be handled right. Thank you, Tish. ♡

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Thursday, NY Governor Kathy Hochul named her special prosecutor in the Cornell sexual assault case, after the Tompkins County DA decided not to bring charges.

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There are now new criminal referrals against her in Miami and Chicago, and federal prosecutors are looking into money she exchanged with her hairdresser. She has kept working through all of it.

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She also beat Wayne LaPierre and the NRA at trial. Trump's DOJ responded by indicting her for mortgage fraud. A federal judge threw the case out because the prosecutor who brought it had been illegally appointed, and when DOJ tried again, two grand juries refused to indict her.

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Since taking office, she has sued Donald Trump for fraud and gotten a court to rule that he lied about his wealth. Her office's investigation into Andrew Cuomo's harassment of women on his staff led to his resignation.

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Andrew Sweet @andrewsweet.net · 01/10/2026

This is a Tish James appreciation post. Before she was NY Attorney General, she was a public defender at the Legal Aid Society.

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I guess that answers the question of whether he would have approved Christie Gnome's ad spend...

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M @flyohmymary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Haven’t said this in a minute - but fuck this evil administration. This shit is blatantly illegal and a gross misuse of tax payer money. Trash.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congress bans taxpayer-funded publicity and propaganda in its spending bills every year, and the federal employees who made these ads aren't exempt from the Hatch Act the way Trump is. Full legal case from Painter, Canter, Swartz, and Eisen in The Contrarian: go.shopmy.us/p-90860605

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Trump Goes Full-Orwell

The administration’s propaganda hype-ads are an abuse of power.

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The federal government has spent more than $2.5 million airing Trump ads, including a near-copy of his 2024 campaign spot with "Paid for by the U.S. Government" tacked on the end. Homeland Security is paying for them with $20 million Congress gave Customs and Border Protection. youtu.be/gwD_J6Xwsjc

Trump Is Using $20 Million in Border Money to Run Ads About Himself

Kira Secura 🔱 Goddess of...? @kirasecura.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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This is dark indeed.. all the while the public's focus is being distracted with a made up culture war against sexuality leading to censorship and banking discrimination We got prediction market GAMBLING apps getting free pass to cause immense harm both to individuals and on societal level

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

huh ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"Kalshi adds new Dem firepower
By DANIEL BARNES 07/17/2026 06:00 PM EDT
With help from Daniel Lippman

Kalshi has hired a formidable team of Democratic lobbyists with FTP, adding to the prediction market’s Washington roster as it works to keep a sports contract ban out of a digital asset market structure bill and prepares for potential Democratic control of the House in 2027.

— FTP partners Libby Greer, Cindy Brown, Michael Williams, Kelley Williams and Trevor Hanger started representing Kalshi on July 1, according to a disclosure report filed yesterday. The team, which includes two former House chiefs of staff, will lobby on “issues related to legislation governing regulation of prediction markets.”

— Kalshi has been steadily building a bipartisan presence in Washington. In the first half of 2026, the company hired Biden administration alum John Bivona as head of federal government relations, Obama alum Stephanie Cutter of Precision Strategies as a policy adviser and Senate Republican Cloakroom veteran Tony Hanagan as head of congressional affairs. Kalshi has been a frequent customer on K Street as well, hiring six new lobbyists from Squire Patton Boggs and Resolution Public Affairs just this year."

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Mittie Paul @mittiepaul.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pay off your losing bet in 5 easy installments! (This is so evil and is going to put so many more people deeper in debt)

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Chuck Grassley's goat @chuckgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LMAO. Betting on Kalshi is like playing poker against an opponent who gets to look at the cards in your hand. Now people will have the privilege of losing money they don't have.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm going to start a company called Wealth Extraction Services, LLC. At WES, we don't claim to provide a useful product or service. In fact, we skip that step entirely and simply use all available legal means to quickly and efficiently transfer funds from your bank account to ours.

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's like they saw the 1929 stock market crash and said, "eh, that's not big enough in terms of scale. let's try for a mass audience."

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RM @rmx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Guess the 2020s will end exactly the same as the 1920s then.

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Nightmare Before “Chris”tmas @justokonline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t know much about the 1929 stock market crash, but I think buying stock on margin was a big part of it.

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Dennis O'Brien @obiedalawyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The bankruptcy lawyers full employment act

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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is so fucking dark. Kalshi filed with the CFTC today asking for permission to let traders bet on margin, which means placing prediction market bets with borrowed money.

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Sitting for a long national TV interview with both cases still open is a choice I genuinely don't understand.

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If there's a retrial, the defense has it. And the providers he's suing have it for the civil case.

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But as a career public defender for 15 years, all I can think about is the fact that everything he said on camera is now another recorded statement that can be scrutinized against his prior testimony—and anything he might say under oath in the future.

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I get wanting to push back on the truly unhinged conspiracy theories about him, and wanting people to remember Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Talking about perinatal mental health matters too.

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The criminal case isn't over. Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial 16 days ago, prosecutors still haven't said whether they'll retry her, and Patrick has his own wrongful death lawsuit pending against her medical providers, with a hearing set for Oct. 28.

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I'm genuinely curious what people think: why would Patrick Clancy agree to a 60 Minutes interview right now? 🧵

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You can check your own representative on the Clerk's site. Make sure you’re following for updates.

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Victims would have a right to their own files, including FD-302s. Blanche could no longer invoke deliberative process, attorney-client, work product or law enforcement privilege to withhold or redact anything the Act covers.

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What the bill would do is let any member of Congress ask the Attorney General in writing for any Epstein record and get it, unredacted, within 7 calendar days.

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218 still doesn't get you a vote. Under clause 2 of Rule XV the motion sits on the discharge calendar for 7 legislative days, then a signer has to announce an intention to offer it, and the Speaker picks the time.

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Ro Khanna says the last 2 Democrats were out sick and will sign the day he calls them back.

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The House is on the Epstein recess. It went home September 16 with Discharge Petition 27 sitting at 216 signatures, 2 short of the 218 it takes to force a floor vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, and Mike Johnson isn't bringing anyone back until November 9, after the midterms.

The Epstein Recess: The House Left 2 Signatures Short