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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5m
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 9m
"After the meeting ended, tensions escalated further in the parking lot. WPBF observed men wearing swastikas arrive, yelling antisemitic slurs, carrying signs, and using bullhorns." Yeah, that tracks.
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Delray Beach meeting erupts over Islamic center and school approval
A meeting in Delray Beach about the agricultural reserve turned heated as residents protested the approval of an Islamic center and school, with tensions spilling into the parking lot afterward.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For the last four years, I have said that Spencer Cox is the most dangerous aspiring Republican presidential candidate: he is an extremist who hides behind a calm demeanor. The exact pivot I think Republicans will want to make in 2 years. An example of extremism www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 12m
In a normal world this would turn into a campaign to limit the influence of PACs and their ability to collect unlimited money but Republicans pretty much rely on rich people donating to PACs at this point so we'll never see that.
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Betty Cracker of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 35m
DeSantis appointee!
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 15m
No one buys this shit. He's clearly advocating for Republicans in general even if it's not "one specific candidate"
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 46m
Hastert’s death offers one last chance for Republicans to at long last account for his empowerment and reckon with some of their demons; not betting on it happening tho.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1h
This is so unsurprising that the NY Times miscounted the number of Trump press secretaries to join Fox News. Leavitt makes 3, not 2: Kayleigh McEnany is a current host, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a Fox contributor between the end of her WH tenure in 2019 and her 2021 run for Arkansas gov.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 48m
"Jailed for violating banking laws" Yeah, he violated banking laws to pay hush money TO COVER UP HIS SEXUAL ABUSE
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Holy shit, ten minutes in and the Supreme Court appears to be doing... law. Not politics. They're actually trying to figure out laws instead of which side of the culture war to bang on. I don't know how long it's going to last but it's pretty neat. New term smell, yo.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 50m
The Ghost of Democrats Past has come to tell us how to lose another election in 2028.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h
Ken Paxton continuing to lay the groundwork to blame Team Trump is he loses. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Campaign ‘all coming from DC,’ Paxton says
“I don’t control message or what we’re doing,” Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton said during a small fundraising event in September.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3h
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 1h
This is Donald Trump's America. This is what Republican Politicians support when they don't stand up to him and decide to use fear to win elections. There's no way around it.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 2h
May his memory be a blessing to the demons who will devour him for eternity.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2h
People in jail have the right to vote, but it's rarely accessible. I wrote about how Dallas election officials basically mocked the rights of the legally innocent. boltsmag.org/dallas-count...
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Dallas County Jail Adds Election Day Polling Place After Pressure from Activists - Bolts
Last summer, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown sat inside her car to record a video to post on social media talking about voting inside her jail. Progressive activists had been... Read More
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 1h
Missouri's is such a con. Same amendment number as the initiative that legalized abortion, but now a "Yes" vote will ban it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?
CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION
 
Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.
 
The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
 
➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14h
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 3h
This is a community note for the ages.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 3h
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
The most Republican thing ever is to claim you suddenly care about affordability by giving a speech at a yacht club.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 2h
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America. Because why should they do what Voters want them to do?
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‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 2h
Good.
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Daily Wire Filming Temporarily Suspended In Montana
Following protest from locals, the city of Livingston, Montana has temporarily suspended production on Daily Wire's latest film, 'Pawn Shop'.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
"I would say Donald Trump is probably at this point in his term the least popular Republican president since Herbert Hoover" -- Enten details how Trump is down 20 points of approval in Kansas relative to his first term
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
So we needed to start another war in Middle East because of a fictitious claim that a country possessed a weapon of mass destruction? At least we’ve never made that mistake before. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 3h
Don't worry when a Democratic President takes over again they'll be all over every little thing he does because that sort of Media coverage doesn't apply to Republicans.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 3h
Weird it's almost like after Reagan and Republicans decided they were going to go to war on Corporate Taxes our national debt ballooned while corporate profits skyrocketed.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 3h
When will America wake up to how badly Putin has kicked our ass?
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When will America wake up to how badly Putin has kicked our ass?
Kushner and Witkoff want to finish the sellout of Ukraine, our allies, and freedom. We can still stop them.
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 3h
Christ, what an asshole.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
You couldn't have scripted a more fitting endgame for the Republican Party than the cult members desperately trying to distance themselves from the cult leader, with the cult leader being too narcissistic to let them go and dragging them down with his sweaty smothering embrace
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h
I repeat again: I think Lindsey Graham's death removed one guardrail against Trump's total capitulation to Russia. Iran is the one major thing left--and Putin will try to lure him there with a win-win peace plan.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 17h
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14h
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h
jail
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h
Among the more notable documents is a redacted version of a report produced by Cornell’s disciplinary hearing panel. It sheds additional light on the university’s investigation and summarizes the panel’s findings. Here’s a link to the doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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John Doe v Cornell University Hearing Panel Decision and Report
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I feel like we're in an alternative reality where Cobra Kai won 1984's All Valley Karate Tournament
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 5h
Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 5h
I know some folks won't read a Substack, so here's her same coverage at The Addison Independent: www.addisonindependent.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Terror in the Backyard: ICE’s shadow surges in Vermont
Liza Cochran, author of Brave Little Voices, delves deep into the Aug. 8 ICE raid of Mary Richards’s home in Cornwall.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 5h
Been thinking about this all night. I know O'Rourke got close, but I keep thinking about this @ariberman.bsky.social piece from 2016. People need to know how stacked the deck is against a Talarico or Hinojosa win.
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Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Compare them to Oregon’s, which make voting incredibly easy.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 21h
This is a powerful article. Infuriating how every time the trucker was trying to find empathy for Pierre and Haitians in general, his girlfriend and mom kept intervening with some racist logic or conspiracy.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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eugenebelford.bsky.social @eugenebelford.bsky.social · 5h
"We will have a sort of dictator king if we're not careful" says man who refused to stop a sort of dictator king
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Sen. Thom Tillis says that, without checks on power, "we will have a sort of dictator king if we're not careful"
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, retiring soon, says without checks on power, U.S. democracy is at risk. He discusses his fears for the future of U.S. democracy and his relationship with President Trump.
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 22h
They colorized “A Night at The Garden?”
Fascist George Washington in A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN still
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dave doesn’t even care enough to correct him because he honestly forgot whether he's supposed to pretend to live in PA, CT or MN today.😐
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 04/10/2026
Robert De Niro has a message to share. The November is our time to shine at the polls. Fuck those ICE goons and just get there.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every day more instances of disgusting & blatant corruption revealed as our money is being plundered by the Trump Crime Family & their cronies. Do American voters care anymore about corruption? I guess we’ll find out soon because it’s just staggering with this crew of criminals.
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