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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ouch. @ossoff.bsky.social not holding back. #Georgia
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/10/2026
Never in recorded history have corporations made more than they do today.   Never in recorded history have workers taken home less of those profits than they do today.   That's Trump's economy in a nutshell. www.axios.com/2026/10/13/e...
axios.com
A golden age of corporate profits
The bonanza is bolstering the stock market, but it may also be playing a role in the sour mood of the electorate.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is, what, the third constitutional crisis today? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
washingtonpost.com
Trump blew past deadline to halt running taxpayer-funded campaign-style ads
A coalition of nonprofits had sued, calling the ads “propaganda.” The president has said campaign funds would be used to pay for the commercials going forward.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
Trump’s destruction of parts of a DC public park in violation of a federal judge’s order cannot go unpunished. This land, like the Kennedy Center & Yosemite belongs to the people, not him. The perpetrators need to be held in contempt.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The commercials are just the latest effort by the Trump administration to unlawfully use federal government resources to unfairly influence elections this year. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads draw third lawsuit
It’s the third lawsuit filed in response to the campaign-style ads, seemingly created to boost GOP candidates as the party registers historically low ratings.
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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is why pardoning criminals is bad. TINA PETERS plan for the midterms that she shared with TRUMP. SIEZE election machines and discuss the possibility of a civil war. THIS WOMAN NEEEDS TO BE ARRESTED TODAY
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aksotar.bsky.social @aksotar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Anne Shuttee @texmolly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not good news! The US won’t have international observers for the mid-terms, and is cooking up a pretext for seizing voting machines. youtube.com/shorts/gD3D6...
youtube.com
Two Reported Issues to Keep On Your Radar
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"[DNC Chair Ken] Martin added that the main issue for Democrats was failing to put more resources into abandoning all their principles."
theonion.com
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i...
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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This should alarm every American. Trump is shutting out independent election observers while preparing to send his own DOJ monitors to polling places. That's a page out of Putin's playbook. Our elections belong to the people — not Donald Trump.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
white supremacists took over the US government and in two years the country has become a laughingstock no one wants to work in or come to and planted a bomb in the global economy that can not be undone all because women asked not to be r*ped and Black people asked to not be shot by cops.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reposting this to save it for later!!
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 06/10/2026
They sent it with all of his weird Germanic capitalizations and grunting sentence fragments. It’s a Truth Social post.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
nytimes.com
Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vance has learned one thing from Trump: the art of unembarrassed, extravagant, effortless, conscienceless lying, no matter how big and how obviously absurd. I don’t know if conservatives will take it, from him, but he’s gonna give it to them in big slop buckets. Almost as big as Trump’s.
“JD Vance defends Trump's taxpayer-funded propaganda videos: "If you look at the message of those advertisements, they are not partisan, it's not like we're advocating for a particular candidate"”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 24/09/2026
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
irishtimes.com
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank
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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I tinkered with this poem for years. Thin Places Journal just published "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" and it turns out today is his feast day, and the 800th anniversary of his death. thin-places.org/2026/09/29/i... #StFrancis #SaintFrancis #birds #poetry
Photo of "Dinosaur" by Iván Argote, a sculpture of a giant pigeon, New York City High Line.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.
lawfaremedia.org
The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am grateful to Thin Places Journal for including my poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in their latest issue 🐦‍⬛ thin-places.org/2026/09/29/i... #birds #poetry #poetsofbluesky
Text "My avian brethren, my ornithary sisters" from the poem "St. Francis Gives a Sermon to the Birds" in dark text, superimposed over a color photograph of 85 pigeons perched across three telephone wires against white clouds in a blue sky
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Russia bombed another bridge in Kyiv today that connects left and right banks . It’s the 5th attack on bridges in Kyiv in these 4 days . People left stranded , can’t get to work or get back home . Nothing military about it . only Russia trying to terrorise us into submission .
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.
time.com
Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
House Rep. Sarah McBride asks that we please make room in the democratic tent for cops and prosecutors that feel uncomfortable investigating rape and would rather just not, and for university presidents who insist that their motto of "radical openness" applies not just to ideas...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
A federal judge ruled that the Trump admin violated her order prohibiting overcrowding at ICE's Baltimore holding room — the very facility I've been sounding the alarm on after we saw this terrible footage last year. The judge is right to threaten contempt — the abuses must end.
‘Spectacular failure’: Baltimore ICE facility violated overcrowding order, judge finds
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The hilarious truth from Denmark about the new Greenland deal with Trump! 😂 🇩🇰 🇬🇱
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm in tech on the east coast. "Hey, you know, breakdowns come and breakdowns go, so What are you going to do about it? That's what I'd like to know" --Gumboots, Paul Simon
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump & Vought are politicizing critical medical research and make no mistake: in the long run, this will cost lives. Their continued attacks will put future cures and treatments at risk in service of their own political agenda.   Shameful.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Off-season vibes: breakfast burrito, beachwalking, pinball, skeeball, practiced trumpet, ... nap time, or a bike ride? Gusts up to 12-20mph tho.
A skee ball machine, looking 100 years old, with a score of 340.A beach and horizon, with tiny little people, some sitting under umbrellas.
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump thinks AI is better than humans. I don't think it's even better than his senile brain.
truthsocial.com
Truth Social
Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we stop for JUST ONE FUCKING SECOND to acknowledge that even with how unhappy at Dems trans folks have been the last few years, we're still voting for them at 84%-86% rates, depending upon your preferred exit poll. Cis men < 45% cis women < 55% Are you sure you're yelling at the right demo?
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The federal government spends more money than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That difference is the federal deficit. Because America has developed this very large structural deficit, the cost of carrying its debt has become one of the government’s largest expenses.
U.S. Treasury has borrowed $155 billion every month of this fiscal year-and is now paying $24 billion a week in interest on its debts
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blue data muse @bluedx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How very Taurus of you said the cat #poem #poetry #photography #micropoetry #astrology #pseudoscience #haiku #haiga #poetsofbluesky
Text “How very Taurus of you / said the cat” superimposed over a color photograph of a tortie cat staring directly into the camera against a background of colorful concentric circles.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In a recent declaration, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) told a federal judge that, during the week of Sept. 6, it expected to launch an online portal that’s crucial to enforcing and complying with its new mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue
Read more here.
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fajjie's drift @fajjie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So he really meant it when he told the GOP to cheat on these midterms.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/09/2026
Normal, healthy political party.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 06/09/2026
CENTCOM: “Thanks to the precision and professionalism of American service members, the M/T Kylo sank in the Gulf of Oman today and joined Iran’s navy at the bottom of the sea” It is the first commercial merchant vessel that the US has deliberately targeted and completely sunk in combat since WWII.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 06/09/2026
Mississippi goddamn
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Laura Follansbee, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C., predicted that the fence would limit Americans’ First Amendment rights. Lafayette Square has traditionally been a rallying point for protesters, given its proximity to the White House. ...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.
Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.
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