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Sacred earth. Ancient wisdom. Nature's magic. Inborn freedom. Democracy not fascism. Still looking for the Entwives.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21h
He’s so close to getting it
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21h
In important decision for separation of powers, court rules Trump cannot fire court-appointed US Attorney, which would circumvent Senate’s role of advice and consent. If Trump wants to replace him, Trump must nominate a confirmable candidate. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors
The ruling is a major loss for Trump’s effort to install loyalists in key positions.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h
Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for calling on the legal profession to step up to protect elections Our democracy needs you! If you are a lawyer with some time to give, join the good fight w/ @wetheaction.bsky.social👇
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h
Delusional.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h
There is no insurrection -- there's a Nov. election, & Trump doesn't like his odds What he's really afraid of is voters. If he reaches for the Insurrection Act to get around them, @democracydefendersaction.org & our partners will meet him in court More on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h
Trump took over a solvent Kennedy Center, drove away donors & audiences, & now won't rule out tearing it down @democracydefendersaction.org & @washlitgroup.bsky.social fight on w/ Rep. Beatty to stop him I'll get into that & more w/ @ms.now at 1:35 ET 👇 -TN
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 19h
“… And then the creatures yanked him out of the ground, skinned him alive, boiled him, and ate him. The end. Now go to sleep!”
“… And then the creatures yanked him out of the ground, skinned him alive, boiled him, and ate him. The end. Now go to sleep!”
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Indivisible Oregon ❌👑‬ @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 19h
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13h
friendly annual October reminder for journalists: if you're pulling quotes for an article from social media please do remember to double check the speaker's name
Quote from The Hill article in 2019: "“There is no reason Democrats should be making any deals with Mitch McConnell to make it easier to confirm more radical conservatives to the courts. Especially not after Kavanaugh,” tweeted Leah Ghostberg, the co-executive director of the advocacy group Indivisible.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 13h
“So! You’ve been fighting again! … And in your new suit, too!”
“So! You’ve been fighting again! … And in your new suit, too!”
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h
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Spotted at the library, an accidental description of the US court system: “Bro Law (Science Fiction)”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h
“Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he is considering retirement, leaving open the possibility that he could leave after next year’s term and hand another nomination to President Donald Trump.” www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10h
Is an Iowa miracle possible? joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Five Questions with Iowa’s Democratic Senate Candidate, Josh Turek
Two recent polls show him in the lead
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 18h
Maybe after a nice glass of warm (local cooperatively pressed) oat milk, they close their treasured journal in which they record their inner journeys to heal their frozen and wounded parts. And on the hills coyotes howl. That's how I see it.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 18h
And, I feel sure, all those men who in this current world would have been awake restlessly counting their billions and clambering for that sensation of enoughness that has been unatainable to them will sleep well too.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 18h
Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?
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Josh @hobbesjosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And arguably if Jack Smith was allowed to begin his investigation in 2021, and not 2 years later, we might have had a trial.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 29/09/2026
The evidence was on point. The rule of law doesn't bend for political convenience. As national security professionals, we know institutions only hold if accountability applies equally, regardless of who is in power. #holdfast
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When @anandwrites.bsky.social writes an anything, you know it will make you see it & possibly yourself in a new light. Today, you have the chance to get his latest book: Man in the Mirror, a deep, unflinching dive into the lives of Jordan Neely & Daniel Penny. bookshop.org/p/books/man-...
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Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City
From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation “A tour de force ...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Artists have told Trump to stop using their songs for years -- He never learns! Now it's JMSN's "Love Me," in an ad paid for by YOU @democracydefendersaction.org & @ballard have told WH to take it down. The artist said no, so the answer is NO Full story @nytimes.com👇 -TN
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‘Love Me’ Artist Demands Trump Stop Using Song (Gift Article)
President Trump used JMSN’s song in a recent self-promotional video that was paid for with public money.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A far right French politician said a bunch of antisemitic things to his far right friends when he was young. Well, you don't say. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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French hard-right leader Bardella accuses opponents of 'total war' after claims of antisemitism
National Rally President Jordan Bardella says he will sue for libel over comments he is accused of making as a young activist.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Idiocracy.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg. Schmitt is such a scumbag! And an incompetent one too.
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Indivisible Oregon ❌👑‬ @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨TAKE ACTION 🚨 MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE PUTTING AI IN CHARGE OF MEDICARE. Cash incentives are offered based on the dollar amounts of the denied claims. Republicans are profiting off human suffering! ☎️ Call your representatives. Our scripts make it easy! www.indivisibleor.org/take-action/...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
They aren’t sending their best
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone who dislikes Trump knows why, but it's important to know what made people who gave him a second chance after the insurrection regret it. We don't want to talk ourselves into the idea that it's always bad to move fast, unilaterally, unless that's true. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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Democrats Are About To Learn The Wrong Lesson From Trump’s Failure
He was done in by malice, incompetence, corruption, and pathological vanity, not by his willingness to act before he could be stopped.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 29/09/2026
WIN: Today, a judge issued a final ruling to block Trump-Vance admin’s efforts to add unlawful conditions to federal grants that support state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and providers. This win invalidates multiple attempts to weaponize this crucial violence prevention funding.
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Court Rules in Favor of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors, Protecting Crucial Grants to Support Victims of Violence Nationwide
Final Ruling Follows Series of Court Orders Blocking Unlawful Administration Attempt to Weaponize Violence Prevention Funding
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am reading @stevebrusatte.bsky.social’s new book on birds and dinosaurs and it’s a blast—and more evidence today right here! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​​​From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the ...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
average man harasses 0 women per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & harasses over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Lawmakers accepting “gratuities” for official actions is corruption, plain and simple. My Stop Corrupt Gratuities Act is a straightforward fix to strengthen federal anti-corruption laws. Let’s get this done!
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Merkley Renews Push to Crack Down on State and Local Corruption  - Merkley
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley pushed to strengthen federal anti-corruption laws after the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for state and local officials to accept gratuities f...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is the SECOND DoorDash driver shot by ICE, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. Delete DoorDash until they speak up against ICE violence and push for Wilber’s release. Learn how to delete it so it counts at deletedoordash.com.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & Jacobson Lawyers Group just sued HUD for 10 housing nonprofits Trump's HUD delayed their grants for months while they kept helping families facing foreclosure. Then it canceled $56M outright Unlawful & unkind in equal measure -- See you in court👇 -TN
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
HUGE: The Senate just passed my bipartisan bill with Senator John Curtis to give our communities the resources they need to face increasingly hotter and more dangerous wildfires while planning for hazardous smoke.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He should make a quick phone call to Don Jr. and make this very point.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“She’d been told grim things about Jews when she was a kid, by her Hungarian grandfather, but never like this, from someone her age.” Family “wisdom” like this is one of the key ways fascistic ideas transfer from generation to generation like a rhizome. Fuentes’s message fell on fertile ground.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
If Saudi Arabia had given up on a nuclear weapon, then it would give up domestic enrichment and reprocessing power and agree to inspections. It hasn't. Trump's deal is dangerous. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Saudis have not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence assesses
The sobering outlook has compounded concerns from some U.S. lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s agreement to assist the kingdom with establishing a civilian nuclear program.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To those keeping tabs on when the GIUK gap is mentioned: it’s mentioned here.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday scaries: On how US allies’ nightmares of abandonment and entrapment are currently coming true, and what a challenge the enforcement of a beneficial world order poses to the small and middle powers that currently try to reconfigure their relations to the US and among themselves.
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“You Will Miss US When We’re Gone”
The weakening of the global US alliance structure is the most significant change in the international order since World War II.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/09/2026
Illinois leads the nation in climate action while attracting businesses and creating jobs for a green economy. From 2018 to 2024, we more than doubled the amount of clean energy in the state.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 27/09/2026
This federal election agency is supposed to be nonpartisan. But emails we obtained show one of its commissioners was in contact with an anti-voting group while it lobbied for a proof-of-citizenship rule.
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Exclusive: EAC commissioner communicated with Cleta Mitchell's group on proof of citizenship, emails show
Former vice chair Christy McCormick coordinated with Mitchell's Election Integrity Network to try to boost President Donald Trump’s plan to require proof of citizenship for voter registration.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
My father died six months ago today. I wrote this while he was dying. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-stage
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated with Analysis) electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
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Breaking: Supreme Court, over the Dissent of at Least the Three Democratic Appointed Justices, Allows States to Use Unreliable SAVE Database to Bulk Check Voter Citizenship Information (Now Updated wi...
You can find the opinion and dissent here. The Supreme Court, with at least the three liberal Justices dissenting, has allowed states to do queries to the federal “SAVE” database that contains informa...
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please stop posting AI garbage.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My father, routinely, saw and treated patients who could not pay, performed cardiovascular, open heart, and other surgeries free of charge. He would not have had it any other way. This behavior is aberrant and abhorrent. You write off such debt losses on your taxes, ffs.
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