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Bob Field

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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 8h
It’s National ❤️Love❤️ People Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 National Love People Day tasks us to understand that unconditional love requires a dedication most human beings aren't given. When we wholeheartedly love our neighbors with steadfast devotion, the world is a better place. We Will Be Okay ❤️🦊❤️
1919 Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 Black people in response to sharecroppers attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder lead to Supreme Court-enacted judicial reforms
1935 The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1941 Approximately 33,771 Jews are shot to death or buried alive at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev, Ukraine, by Nazi troops over two days
1944 German Nazi occupiers in Denmark begin arresting local police officers, eventually deporting almost 2,000 to Buchenwald and other concentration and prisoner-of-war camps
1954 USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the US Navy
1955 American actor and cultural icon James Dean is killed in a car crash at age
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1962 John F. Kennedy sends 3,000 federal troops to the University of Mississippi to quell riots protesting desegregation
1985 Howard Stern is fired from New York City radio station WNBC-AM
1991 Jerry Springer's tabloid talk show "Jerry Springer" debuts on TV in syndication
2012 Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
2022 In defiance of international law, Vladimir Putin announces Russia's illegal annexation of four Ukrainian provinces: Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia, despite Russia occupying only part of each region
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s National Good Neighbor Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood A beautiful day for a neighbor Would you be mine? Could you be mine? “It is a blessing to have a good neighbor, but it is an even greater thing to BE a good neighbor.” We will be okay Love Foxy
1901 American businessman King C. Gillette establishes the American Safety Razor Company
1904 Woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City
1919 In the fastest Major League game (51 minutes), the Giants beat the Phillies 6-1
1928 Prussia lifts its ban on Adolf Hitler speaking in public
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings
1956 RCA Records reports Elvis Presleysells over 10 million records
1968 The Beatles' single "Hey Jude" hits #1 and stays at #1 for nine weeks
1974 John Lennon appears as a guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1974 US first Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1980 Jaromir Wagner is the first to fly across the Atlantic while standing on an airplane's wing
1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
1982 First reports appear of deaths from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart, debuts on syndicated TV
1995 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in a gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed
2008 SpaceX launches the first privately developed spacecraft, Falcon 1, into orbit
2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars
2020 COVID-19 records a global death toll surpassing 1 million with over 33 million known cases
2021 James Bond film "No Time To Die," the last starring Daniel Craig, premieres after an
18-month delay due to the pandemic
2022 Hurricane lan makes landfall as a high-end Category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida, with winds at 150 mph (National Hurricane Center), and goes on to kill at least 148 people in Florida
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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @liberalwarrior.eu @dovewoman.bsky.social @keeprising.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @peaceful1.bsky.social @jfordemocracy.bsky.social @misskitty.art @mary1kathy.bsky.social @srosnato.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=nQp3...
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It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird (1969)
YouTube video by DJ MEMIX
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Leslie Potter 🦋🫘🇺🇸🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴🇺🇦 @mudlady64.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👏🏼👏🏼
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Cathrine Wengaard @cwengaard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Such a beautiful bond they have 🥺🥰♥️
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Continued annual support is the backbone of what makes EFF's work possible. Set a recurring donation today to make sure your membership never expires, get new gear every year, and make sure EFF can continue the work that we do! eff.org/join-r
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Fight Surveillance and Protect Free Speech
Protect digital privacy and free expression. EFF's public interest legal work, activism, and software development preserve fundamental rights. EFF is a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax ID #04-3091431.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms
Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was asked about by a pro-life student why he should support me…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Washington State to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is 0-25. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...
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🚨 United States of America v. Hobbs
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz: "CMS is announcing a temporary national moratorium. There will be no new brokers for Obamacare in this country for the next months."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration violated a court order when it failed to provide updates on its efforts to compile lists of voting-age citizens in each state, Democrats* said in a court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS ignored court by continuing work on voter citizenship lists without notice, Democrats allege
The Trump administration violated a court order when it failed to provide updates on its efforts to compile lists of voting-age citizens in each state, Democrats say.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The same judge who ruled in favor of CNN/Acosta when Trump White House tried to strip credentials in 2018 has been assigned the MSNow, CNN, Politico case. The same judge with this quote below:⬇️
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This made my night
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files.
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Todd Blanche Fights Judge’s Order for Unredacted FBI Notes as Deadline Looms
Attorney General Todd Blanche is appealing a federal judge’s latest order in journalist and attorney Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Justice Department’s
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Damn !!!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Elections Alert for September 15, 2026 Arkansas-Special primary runoff State Senate D-1 Delaware-Statewide Primary Florida-Local Elections lowa-Local Elections Nebraska-Local Elections South Carolina-Special primary runoff election State Senate D-15 Get Out The Vote!🗳💙 www.vote.org/polling-plac...
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Polling Place Locator - Vote.org
Wondering where you vote on Election Day? Use our polling place locator to find out.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Its National Day of Encouragement 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 This day is dedicated to uplifting people around us and making a positive impact. It is free and it never costs us anything Even a reassuring word to a stranger may make a difference in their lives. We will be ok Love Foxy
1857 423 die when steamship SS Central America, the "Ship of Gold," sinks in a hurricane off Cape Romain, South Carolina, carrying tons of gold coins and bricks from the California Gold Rush (rediscovered in 1988)
1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his self-designed H-1 racer plane at a record speed of 352.46 mph (567 km/h) in Santa Ana, California
1944 US Army troops enter Germany for the first time
1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay, Kentucky, elementary school
1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate
1960 John F. Kennedy states he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him
1970 US LSD advocate Timothy Leary escapes from a California jail
1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama, killing 5 people and causing $23 million of damage
1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs a West Hartford company of $7 million
1990 US, United Kingdom, France, USSR, and East and West Germany sign agreements allowing the two Germanys to merge
1992 Mae Jemison is the first African American woman to go into space (aboard Endeavour STS-47)
1994 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the South Lawn of the White House, killing himself
2005 The bodies of more than 40 patients are discovered in a flooded hospital in New Orleans
2022 Modern slavery, including forced labor and forced marriages, increases by 10 million to 50 million people in the last five years according to the UN's International Labour Organization
2023 US House Speaker Kevin McCarthyopens an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, without a formal House vote, amid some Republican calls to remove McCarthy from leadership
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He honors his father who died on 9/11 with his speech—and with his decency.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Canada will never forget.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
President Donald Trump is playing the long game in his efforts to gerrymander Republicans into power by any means necessary, even when he’s no longer in office. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump’s latest plan to rig the congressional map for Republicans long after he’s gone
The Trump administration is proposing changes to the 2030 census that, if they take effect, would siphon seats from blue states with larger populations of undocumented immigrants, handing more power t...
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good Morning, have a great weekend! 🥰
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Welcome to the race, Governor Abbott. To catch you up to speed, I've spent the last year talking to Texans about the issues that matter to them: saving Texas schools and putting money in their pockets. Texans are ready for change this November.
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Taryn @thayden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Greg Abbott 🧵 He has had 11.5 YEARS to make Texas better for Texans. He’s had the office. He’s had the power. He’s had the money. He’s had ELEVEN AND A HALF DAMN YEARS. And yet some folks are still standing around going, “Maybe THIS time he’ll do something.”
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Made this 9/11 post 2 years ago. Sentiment still stands.
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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
James Talarico
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I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they're closing public schools across this nation. I wish they would fund our healthcare like they fund new forever wars in the Middle East.
-James Talarico Speaks Out on Government
Priorities
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward
The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our government has awarded a $158M contract for the care and feeding of unaccompanied migrant children to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Much more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.
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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Editor-in-Chief "Slavin said he and Korte were fired for participating in a CBS News interview, during which he said any hypothetical censorship of the military newspaper would cross a red line."
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders who criticized DOD’s interference
The Defense Department earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial independence, as “woke.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/08/2026
Five-time major champion Sinner, who won the US Open in 2024, will not be competing at Flushing Meadows this year.
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Jannik Sinner to miss US Open tennis major due to knee injury
Five-time major champion Sinner, who won the US Open in 2024, will not be competing at Flushing Meadows this year.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Inciting a coup against your own country is the very definition of TREASON, full stop. There should be a law that prevents traitors from running for office.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: 9th circuit DISMISSES Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada's ballot receipt deadline. As a result of our SCOTUS victory in Watson we've now also won cases in Nevada, California, Illinois and Kansas. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...
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🚨 Republican National Committee v. Burgess Appealed
Read more.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What about the Constitution bad lawyer Blanche? #Voices4victory #UsDemocracy #DV1
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/08/2026
EFF’s Lena Cohen joined Tunnel Vision’s Christophe Haubursin to explain how your personal data is being shared, recorded, and used in the milliseconds before you see an online ad.
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Why we're so sure our phones are listening
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s National Senior Citizens Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 According to the 2017 census, 47 million seniors live in the United States. By 2060, that number will nearly double. Their wealth of knowledge, skill, and experience offer so much to the next generation. We will be okay Love Foxy
1897 Oldsmobile is first manufactured by Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan
1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre Museum by Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia, recovered in 1913
1931 Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the first MLB player to hit
600 career home runs as NY defeats the St. Louis Browns 11-7 at
Sportsman's Park
1949 Canada's largest earthquake since 1700 strikes the Queen Charlotte Fault below Haida Gwaii at 8.1 magnitude, knocking cows off their feet
1955 Chicago teenager Emmett Till arrives in Money, Mississippi, to visit relatives, a week before he is murdered
1967 China reports the downing of two US bombers
1987 "Dirty Dancing," a film directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, opens in the US
2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges, including making illegal payments at the direction of Trump to women with whom Trump had affairs
2018 Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, is convicted on eight counts of fraud in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In every case decided on a U.S. plaintiff's claim, courts have ruled against the Trump administration or the administration has abandoned its defense. From article: "New International Criminal Court Sanctions and the Threat to U.S. Democracy" by Professor Lisa Davis #FirstAmendment matters 1/🧵
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Larry Hochman @larryhochman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I used to think they would react differently if it was their daughters or granddaughters. Now I’m not sure if their moral compass or sense of empathy is functioning at all, and they’re just drunk on power and attention. For some I honestly don’t think it matters…including this guy.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Donald Trump is pushing a statistically dodgy U.S. Census Bureau report that claims thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election as part of an attempt to revive false claims that he won the long-settled race and argue for new voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump attempts to use U.S. Census Bureau to revive 2020 election lies, advance attack on voting
Voting experts and former Census Bureau employees raised serious concerns about the accuracy of the report Trump cited.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 19/08/2026
Today @repsuhas.bsky.social and I hosted Northern Virginian Carolina Molina and her husband for a meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss her encounter with ICE agents who threatened her with a gun. 1/
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Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦 @itistherealjas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Timeline cleanse. I so love kindness. It is so easy to do. Enjoy the story! #PaperAirplane #BackyardFence #MadelineGlynn #TaylorSwift #Swifties #DefendersOfDemocracy #RisingBlue #SheShed #SheShedAlly
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Justice Department has yet to convince a single court it is entitled to states’ unredacted voter rolls, but now the Trump administration hopes to spin those losses into a win at the U.S. Supreme Court. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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With nothing but losses, here’s how Trump’s DOJ could try to sell its voter roll crusade to the Supreme Court
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made the strategy unusually explicit while announcing DOJ’s plans to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors for the November midterms.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: 7th Circuit REJECTS lawsuit by right wing group — Public Interest Legal Foundation —challenging Wisconsin’s exception from the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) Public Disclosure Provision. www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
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🚨 Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Wolfe
Learn more.
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