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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 3h
“Let them eat salt"… The latest debate disaster from Susan Collin’s… In one debate exchange that went viral on social media… Collins argued that she had successfully lobbied for an exemption on Trump’s tariffs for road salt imports from Canada… www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Susan Collins’ debate disaster highlights GOP’s midterms crisis
During a debate on Tuesday night, the Maine senator demonstrated why she and other Republicans are facing the prospect of losing power this year.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 4h
Donald Trump’s Texas rally rocked by repeated protests Trump briefly stepped away from the microphone after one protester appeared to approach the stage ...
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Donald Trump’s Texas rally rocked by repeated protests
Trump briefly stepped away from the microphone after one protester appeared to approach the stage
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 4h
Trump Bans International Election Observers From Monitoring the Upcoming Midterms... But, but, but you would think Trump would want more election monitors... www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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RIGGED! Trump Bans International Election Observers From Monitoring the Upcoming Midterms
For six years Donald Trump has been whining about his humiliating loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. He has been babbling about it relentlessly with wholly unfounded…
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 5h
Former aide says Trump knows a reckoning is coming
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Former aide says Trump knows a reckoning is coming
It appears to be finally dawning on President Donald Trump that he will be catching more scrutiny after November if Democrats take the House and possibly the Senate, according to a former Trump media worker speaking with CNN.On Wednesday Trump distanced himself from two of his top political advisers...
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 5h
H.I.V. Research Networks Face Uncertain Future Amid Funding Delays: Last year, the N.I.H. ended $258 million multisite program whose work was instrumental to the search for an H.I.V. vaccine. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been heavily critical of the hunt for a vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/h...
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Trump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research (Gift Article)
The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 5h
Donald Trump posted a meme on Truth Social featuring his face looking at a globe from above with the words "His Hemisphere" featured prominently. Plus Eric Trump posted a map saying --- "We now have Canada surrounded." www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Donald Trump posted a meme on Truth Social, Sunday featuring his face looking at a globe from above with the words "His Hemisphere" featured prominently.Donald Trump posted a meme on Truth Social, Sunday featuring his face looking at a globe from above with the words "His Hemisphere" featured prominently.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 6h
Trump unloads wild 'filthy' insults at San Antonio Paxton rally
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Trump unloads wild 'filthy' insults at San Antonio Paxton rally
Campaigning alongside Ken Paxton, the former president warned that Democratic rival James Talarico would turn Texas into a "crime-riddled Third World dumping ground."
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 6h
Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back... Iranians forcing Americans to flee their bases, farther and farther from Iran. Americans were evacuated from bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar (Free gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (Gift Article)
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 6h
Thanks Donald Trump... Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made... Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 6h
Centrist Democrats are afraid of expanding the Supreme Court Oh boy, here we go with this nonsense.
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Centrist Democrats are afraid of expanding the Supreme Court
Oh boy, here we go with this nonsense.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 6h
Beardos! A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
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Beardos!
A cartoon by Jack Ohman.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Not just a game: The dark reality behind the White House’s new ‘arcade’
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Not just a game: The dark reality behind the White House’s new ‘arcade’
These games use simple, clear messaging to deliver political messages under the guise of light-hearted entertainment.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Democrats sue to stop Trump from using taxpayer funds for self-promoting ads Ads promoting the president have cost more than $12m so far and Trump’s Super Pac has refused to reimburse taxpayers ...
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Democrats sue to stop Trump from using taxpayer funds for self-promoting ads
Ads promoting the president have cost more than $12m so far and Trump’s Super Pac has refused to reimburse taxpayers
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Whistleblower report alleges Trump ordered FBI investigation on LA anti-ICE protesters... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Whistleblower report alleges Trump ordered FBI investigation on LA anti-ICE protesters
White House denies the allegations as ‘false’ and says ‘first amendment does not protect violent rioting’
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Nervous GOP Senate hopeful abruptly bails on Trump’s tariffs
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Nervous GOP Senate hopeful abruptly bails on Trump’s tariffs
Michigan’s GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers has denounced Trump’s tariffs.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links ...
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 8h
Trump declares he ‘can do whatever I want’—and dozes off Trump held a very sleepy press conference Wednesday.
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Trump declares he ‘can do whatever I want’—and dozes off
Trump held a very sleepy press conference Wednesday.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 8h
Paxton jokes about Trump renaming the Pacific Ocean Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running as the Republican nominee for US Senate in that state, praised President Donald Trump with a joke on Wednesday that appeared to kid on the square about him changing the name of the Pacific Ocean — m
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Paxton jokes about Trump renaming the Pacific Ocean
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running as the Republican nominee for US Senate in that state, praised President Donald Trump with a joke on Wednesday that appeared to kid on the square about him changing the name of the Pacific Ocean — much as he tried to change Lake Ontario's name to Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 8h
Now Trump is trying to make Camp Donald happen
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Now Trump is trying to make Camp Donald happen
His latest proposition: a new Camp David-inspired presidential retreat on his Florida golf course.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 8h
Trump's own website tears apart his '21 trillion' claim President Donald Trump frequently touts trillion-dollar figures as evidence that his “America First” economic agenda is working, but those numbers are far from reality,
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Trump's own website tears apart his '21 trillion' claim
President Donald Trump frequently touts trillion-dollar figures as evidence that his “America First” economic agenda is working, but those numbers are far from reality,
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 9h
Why are Trump’s ICE goons targeting a shopping mall staple? Zumiez clothing chain stores were flagged by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part of the Trump administration’s witch hunt for purported noncitizen voters…
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Why are Trump’s ICE goons targeting a shopping mall staple?
Zumiez clothing chain stores were flagged by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part of the Trump administration’s witch hunt for purported noncitizen voters…
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 9h
Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to repair campaign sign Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she is sharing her story in order to fight for victims of sexual assault ...
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Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to repair campaign sign
Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she is sharing her story in order to fight for victims of sexual assault
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 9h
Paxton Audio Reveals He Thinks Trump’s Policies Are “Dragging” Down His Campaign “I don’t know what’s behind some of the decisions” Trump is making, Paxton says in the audio recording. ...
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New Audio Features Ken Paxton Saying Trump’s Policies Are “Dragging” Down His Campaign
“I don’t know what’s behind some of the decisions” Trump is making, Paxton says in the audio recording.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 9h
Republicans 'diving out of windows' to avoid Trump: family member
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Republicans 'diving out of windows' to avoid Trump: family member
According to President Donald Trump’s niece, psychologist Mary L. Trump, Republicans in tight races are diving out of windows to avoid appearing onstage with her uncle at a time when they would normally be hugging him tight.“There are 27 days until the midterms and … [Texas] gubernatorial incumbent ...
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska ...
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Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
How ‘$50′ blew up Kansas’ Senate race “Bro is literally robbing poor women.”…
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How ‘$50′ blew up Kansas’ Senate race
“Bro is literally robbing poor women.”…
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
Hegseth tells USS Lincoln sailors controversial deployment ‘wasn’t easy’ Pentagon chief seeks to play down problems onboard carrier as it returns to dock after 260 days at sea ...
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Hegseth tells USS Lincoln sailors controversial deployment ‘wasn’t easy’
Pentagon chief tries to play down problems onboard carrier as it returns to dock after 260 days at sea without port call
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
Trump is ‘shrieking behind his own eyes’ as MAGA crumbles: insider “It is hard to truly express how bad things are for Donald Trump at this point."
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Trump is ‘shrieking behind his own eyes’ as MAGA crumbles: insider
“It is hard to truly express how bad things are for Donald Trump at this point."
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
ICE Has Obtained Over 50 Million Voter Roll Records From DOJ Ahead of Midterms The agency’s investigative branch mulled sending undercover agents into nonprofits involved in voter registration. ...
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ICE Has Obtained Over 50 Million Voter Roll Records From DOJ Ahead of Midterms
The agency’s investigative branch mulled sending undercover agents into nonprofits involved in voter registration.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 10h
The naked truth: European leaders unveil humiliating Trump statue The European Parliament unveiled a new statue depicting Trump naked on the shoulders of a smaller man.
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The naked truth: European leaders unveil humiliating Trump statue
The European Parliament unveiled a new statue depicting Trump naked on the shoulders of a smaller man.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11h
Trump is 'playing roulette with our lives' with new threat: former aide The Republican leader is leaving America vulnerable to a biological terrorist attack — and is therefore "playing roulette with our lives."
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Trump is 'playing roulette with our lives' with new threat: former aide
The Republican leader is leaving America vulnerable to a biological terrorist attack — and is therefore "playing roulette with our lives."
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11h
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request ...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11h
Trump issues new threat on Social Security — after promising not to touch it
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Trump issues new threat on Social Security — after promising not to touch it
President Donald Trump repeatedly promised during his three campaigns that he would not touch Social Security. As a conservative commentator pointed out on Wednesday, however, he seems prepared to break that pledge.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11h
Trump Won’t Reimburse Taxpayers for Ads Promoting Himself Paid for by Government Trump has spent at least $10 million in taxpayer funds on TV ads ahead of the midterm elections. ...
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Trump Won’t Reimburse Taxpayers for Ads Promoting Himself Paid for by Government
Trump has spent at least $10 million in taxpayer funds on TV ads ahead of the midterm elections.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 11h
Trump rushes to help Russia—and screws over everyone else Russia reported one possible pneumonic plague death, and Trump jumped to offer assistance.
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Trump rushes to help Russia—and screws over everyone else
Russia reported one possible pneumonic plague death, and Trump jumped to offer assistance.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
'Lost his mind': Alarm sounded over Trump's grotesque remarks
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'Lost his mind': Alarm sounded over Trump's grotesque remarks
Critics erupt over shocking remarks as the White House scrambles to defend the stunning outburst.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
The Guardian view on the US midterms: the cost of living is on the ballot, but this is about democracy too | Editorial Editorial: Donald Trump’s unpopularity and the economic struggles of voters have boosted Democrats. But with less than a month to go, there is no complacency ...
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The Guardian view on the US midterms: the cost of living is on the ballot, but this is about democracy too | Editorial
Editorial: Donald Trump’s unpopularity and the economic struggles of voters have boosted Democrats. But with less than a month to go, there is no complacency
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
Trump makes stunning Nobel claim after boasting he saved the world BREADING
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Trump makes stunning Nobel claim after boasting he saved the world
BREADING
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
Progressives and Republicans Introduce Competing Bills to Rein In Flock Cameras ...
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Progressives and Republicans Introduce Competing Bills to Rein In Flock Cameras
The Ban Flock Act aims to slow the rise of Flock-style cameras amid rising fears about AI mass surveillance.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
Republican strategist tears Darline Graham apart: 'Nowhere to be found' A veteran Republican strategist unleashed on the failures of the Senate race in South Carolina.
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Republican strategist tears Darline Graham apart: 'Nowhere to be found'
A veteran Republican strategist unleashed on the failures of the Senate race in South Carolina.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12h
Being Trump means never having your words mean anything
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Being Trump means never having your words mean anything
MAGA rallied to his the president’s side to explain all the ways he didn’t mean the words he said.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous ...
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The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us
Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
Federal judge greenlights taxpayer-funded religious Oklahoma charter school A federal judge’s recent ruling on a religious charter school in Oklahoma could make way for a precedent that is a direct contrast to the separation of church and state — and a new wave of taxpayer-funded religious schools.P
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Federal judge greenlights taxpayer-funded religious Oklahoma charter school
A federal judge’s recent ruling on a religious charter school in Oklahoma could make way for a precedent that is a direct contrast to the separation of church and state — and a new wave of taxpayer-funded religious schools.Per Friendly Atheist, Western District Judge David L. Russell of Oklahoma rec...
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
'Wild' Trump effort to deny links to MAGA 'inner circle' quickly unravels President Donald Trump attempted to distance himself from two of his long-time political advisers, who cashed in by working for a Russia-aligned government got instant pushback.
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'Wild' Trump effort to deny links to MAGA 'inner circle' quickly unravels
President Donald Trump attempted to distance himself from two of his long-time political advisers, who cashed in by working for a Russia-aligned government got instant pushback.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
The US has backed Libya’s Haftar clan. The UK should not make the same mistake | Letters Letter: Steven Kay says Britain should act independently and in a role consistent with its status as a member of the UN security council ...
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The US has backed Libya’s Haftar clan. The UK should not make the same mistake | Letters
Letter: Steven Kay says Britain should act independently and in a role consistent with its status as a member of the UN security council
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
'Nightmare' hurricane heads right for Trump’s weekend campaign plans President Donald Trump is headed to Alabama for the big Georgia-Bama game this weekend, but he's now right in the path of a hurricane.
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'Nightmare' hurricane heads right for Trump’s weekend campaign plans
President Donald Trump is headed to Alabama for the big Georgia-Bama game this weekend, but he's now right in the path of a hurricane.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections ...
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Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 13h
Want to understand the midterms? Watch Cait Conley.
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Want to understand the midterms? Watch Cait Conley.
There is a congressional election underway. You might miss that if you spend too much time following the discourse online.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 14h
GOP losing patience with Paxton as leaked audio puts 'rescue effort' on ice Reactions are starting to roll in from Republicans who have heard the leaked audio of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton complaining about the GOP taking over his campaign, raising money and deciding his messaging. “We warned
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GOP losing patience with Paxton as leaked audio puts 'rescue effort' on ice
Reactions are starting to roll in from Republicans who have heard the leaked audio of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton complaining about the GOP taking over his campaign, raising money and deciding his messaging. “We warned them about this,” one GOP operative said.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 14h
Paxton admits Trump’s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio Texas attorney general acknowledged affordability was his party’s ‘biggest problem’ heading into the midterms ...
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Paxton admits Trump’s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio
Texas attorney general acknowledged affordability was his party’s ‘biggest problem’ heading into the midterms
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