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#DoNotObeyInAdvance #UnionStrong @ICGLocal600 @IATSE🇫🇷🇺🇸 💪this account blocks sunshine stealers 👉follow my followings, not me 🪷ANY PERSON means ANY PERSON🪷

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11h
Actually reviewing the checks that Chuck Grassley released yesterday to gauge how many people clearly asked Trump to do something other than pay Melania's dress designer with the money. Someone in the The Villages was using "Stop the Steal" by 11/20/20.
A $100 check made out to Trump for President, dated Nov. 20, 2020. The memo line reads "Stop the Steal" 

The address is mostly redacted but shows it was from The Villages in Florida.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 5h
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 6h
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Totoro @nigelsq.bsky.social · 17h
Let me draw you a line from Facebook, illegal enrichment and the collapse of journalism. The cost of data centers is my wheelhouse, and I also worked in ad tech, the industry that used to pay for online journalism. I know the week that online journalism started to collapse
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my new book about #SCOTUS, "The Court We Need: What's Really Wrong With the Supreme Court—and How to Fix It," is now available for pre-orders: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812983... The book is set to be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on May 4, 2027.
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The Court We Need by Stephen Vladeck: 9798217061815 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A brilliant and bracing account of the Supreme Court’s rise, its unraveling, and what it will take to save it, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Docket Richard Nixon turned...
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 17h
CENTCOM said Wednesday that the US has completed the orderly departure of its forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq.
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 17h
ahhh yes, the choice of worse or no coverage 🧐 maybe all citizens should enjoy the same coverage he has
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 17h
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen is surrounding herself with family and longtime loyalists as her party president, Jordan Bardella, faces a damaging new controversy. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/mari...
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 17h
#DirtySCOTUS
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay. I’m out of jokes. John Kennedy talking about throwing up in his mouth made me throw up in mine. Eric Schmitt is a moron. Katie Britt is the Stepford wife we never asked for, and the GOP should stop wasting everyone’s time with performative bullshit when people are scared and suffering.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How is it possible that we’re still here twelve years later
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU emptywheel.net/2026/09/29/a...
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After Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU - emptywheel
HSI Agent Ryan Ribner has been lying again.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I sat down with @terrymoranabc.bsky.social an to talk about how Fox News is starting to openly criticize President Trump. youtu.be/MYoMbE-rMBQ?...
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Decoding Fox News — Is Trump's Spell Breaking
YouTube video by Terry Moran
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨Exclusive🚨: I have exculpatory evidence in what is easily the dumbest congressional oversight episode of the year...maybe the decade. I was at the Iowa v. MD game & just looked at my pics & sure enough, someone who looks like Jack Smith is sitting in Sec 109, Row 1. Complete & total vindication!
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David Frank DeLuca @davidfrankdeluca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I called Sen. Eric Schmitt's office and asked the staffer who answered if the senator was a war hawk or a chicken hawk, or both. I told her I would hold until she got an answer from the senator. I encourage you to do it too. Here's his number in Washington DC: (202) 224-5721.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
incredible work by these reporters & editors. yes, “student journalists.” seems they can teach us a lot… www.thecut.com/article/corn...
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kate Manne is an incredible writer and thinker. I forgot she was at Cornell. Please read this as well as her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. On here at: @katemanne.bsky.social
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
exactly 👇...we are in the season of demonizing POC. incumbent upon us to question everything !
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
85 percent of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. In 2025, two immigrants died in MVPC, including 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, found hanging by his neck in a shower stall. Inside Trump's mass detention machine in Pennsylvania.
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Trump's mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wait, they don't have all the $$$ that made their offer better than the one Netflix put on the table?! 🤦‍♀️
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
because america's supreme court is above reproach 🙄 #DirtySCOTUS
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 28/09/2026
My take on Trump using taxpayer money to repost a political ad www.instagram.com/reel/Dd13z-p...
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MS NOW on Instagram: "The Trump administration has aired a new ad that appears to be a regurgitation of a 2024 Trump campaign ad, despite a disclaimer at the end saying it was “paid for by the U.S. Go...
314 likes, 39 comments - msnownews on September 28, 2026: "The Trump administration has aired a new ad that appears to be a regurgitation of a 2024 Trump campaign ad, despite a disclaimer at the end s...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about that here. emptywheel.net/2025/10/30/f...
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Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right - emptywheel
In an attempt to do a Twitter Files dump on Jack Smith's January 6 investigation, Chuck Grassley exposed very personal details of the far right political establishment, in the process identifying peop...
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After a week delay, Jack Smith will be appearing tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the majority no doubt lies in wait w/ obtuse, counterfactual questions designed to convert his 100% righteous prosecutions into the pursuit of political vendettas. Expect Smith to keep his cool.
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Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Estimates are the lifetime economic burden in the US of a single victim of rape is $120,000 per victim in 2014 USD. That's about $170,000 today. www.ajpmonline.org/article/S074...
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Lifetime Economic Burden of Rape Among U.S. Adults
This study estimated the per-victim U.S. lifetime cost of rape.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No explosives were found in the three white vans, Bloomberg reports. The investigation continues.
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
how effective is SEO in the era of AI search summaries
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
very interested to see if this is your classic terrorist group or an extreme example of the way the Iranians have been subcontracting out to (mostly quite dumb) criminals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
Officers say they have secured extension to continue to hold men, all in their 20s, on suspicion of terror offences
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Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To update Jean-Paul Sartre, hell is other people + AI. "These contractors are then asked to review whether the generated image successfully fulfilled the prompt — such as, did the image generator make the woman’s AI-enlarged breasts big enough." www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google Maps has just updated its satellite view of the Gaza Strip, revealing the massive scale of destruction. It looks much like the aftermath of the scorched-earth policy the Nazis carried out after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is about as upset as a NYT reporter is allowed to get:”An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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EsmeWrites @esmewrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who are the suspects? Five men were initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act. They were then further arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act. ?? that last sentence, further arrested? 🤦‍♀️
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What we know about RAF Fairford incident and counter-terror probe
Five men have been arrested as counter-terror police lead an investigation into a major incident near the airbase.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The past tells you a lot about the future: Larry Ellison and his nepo-mogul son have a long record of making promises they don't keep.
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The Ellisons Have Made This Movie Before
With Paramount, you don’t need a catalog of failed consent decrees to understand what is to come. You only need the record of the family making the promises.
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seranine @seranine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"At Cornell University, it turns out that protesting genocide is a removable offense. But meanwhile, drugging, trafficking, and raping a woman is a writing assignment."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's fine if people don't want to have liberal arts education. Go ahead, have large gaps in understanding the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Live your life ignorant, incomplete, undeveloped, inadequate. You have the right to be a worse citizen, a shallow dullard, a lesser person.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA is re-opening the criminal investigation into the Cornell 7. abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyways, if you want to donate to the campaign, you can head to www.kluweoc.com , but honestly at this point I just love how much they’re flailing because my MAGA opponent sucks that much and everyone knows it.
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Chris Kluwe for Assembly
Chris Kluwe for Assembly's campaign
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