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Stacy Fitz

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Arizonan focused on democracy. Music, traveling, cooking and hiking for balance.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When Trump’s broke brain muses about Iran destroying San Diego does he think that reads as a woke city to a Nebraska crowd or does he really fantasize about losing 100,000 active duty military on his watch?
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Menin asks the AI execs to "raise your hand if your company has insurance for catastrophic risks." No one does. "Okay, I'm going to take that as a no... So then the public, I assume, will be asked to absorb the costs." Each of the execs then scramble to clarify that they actually don't know.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After recapping yet another busy week of #SCOTUS news, today’s “One First” officially closes the book on the Court’s October 2025 Term with some final (and pretty mind-boggling) data about just how busy—and just how ideologically charged and divided—the emergency docket was:
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255. Closing the Book on OT2025
As the October 2026 Term begins, it's worth taking a moment to highlight the *real* final statistics for the Court’s output during the October 2025 Term.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fascism, yes, patriarchy, monstrosity, all that. But good god tho Trump has literally caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands or more, this may be jumping that damn shark.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
The family of Renee Good, the Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by a federal immigration enforcement agent near her home in January, filed two federal lawsuits Thursday alleging wrongful death, among other contentions.
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Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As promised, I wrote about what really bothers me about Tuesday's unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for the resumption of third-country removals with minimal (if any) process. Turns out, it's a lot: www.stevevladeck.com/p/254-four-t...
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254. Four Things That (Really) Bother Me About “D.V.D. III”
“Third-country removals” raise a host of difficult procedural and substantive questions. The Supreme Court should have answered those questions *before* greenlighting deportations to torture.
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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. girlshealth.gov Action taken by the nan (Department of Health and Human Services) at or around 2026-09-30 12:09:17.
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Politico @politico.com · 18/09/2026
Urgent motion filed to stop carving of Trump’s name into US Institute of Peace building
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Urgent motion filed to stop carving of Trump’s name into US Institute of Peace building
Ousted board members say a contractor has already been selected for the project.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the thing is we...softly had that coup after J6 & before Biden's inauguration, with Mark Milley telling Pelosi he'd taken Trump out of the nuclear chain of command. The all the institutions of democracy & those in power failed to jail Trump & prevent Trump 2. Whoops! www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...
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Milley acted to prevent Trump from misusing nuclear weapons, war with China, book says
The book also revealed a previously unreported call between then-Vice President Mike Pence and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Arguably Leonard Leo has been the most successful convertor of money to political outcomes in recent decades. He also is unethical and a bit corrupt, and seems to bet mostly on ideological allies and I doubt asks for metrics on ROI. www.propublica.org/article/we-d...
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: GOP leaders are sending the House home early, to stop an impeachment vote against Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war, per CNN
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Again, no one in this administration follows laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders. We should stop pretending otherwise: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm just glad Article I isn't alive to see this
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, all his businesses failed. But I do wonder how someone this stupid continued to be in a position to have new businesses to drive into the ground. Now he's just selling his power. But who was having conversations with a guy this dumb in the 80s and 90s and then writing him a check?
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 16/09/2026
FOMC sees highest upside for real growth relative to current baseline *since at least October 2007*!!!!
Diffusion indices for uncertainty of real GDP, UER, and core PCE inflation and risk weighting of real GDP, UER, and core PCE inflation
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
* U.S. TREASURY'S BESSENT: AT DEFICT-TO-GDP RATIO OF 3%, WE CAN START TO PAY DOWN DEBT [current ratio: 5.3%] @reuters.com
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15/09/2026
Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Really can’t get over the fact that in the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballots case, Sam Alito’s official position is “I know this rule would disenfranchise millions, and I know the law says I’m supposed to consider that fact, but I don’t care and won’t do it”
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Samuel Alito: Disenfranchising Millions of Voters Is No Big Deal If Mister Trump Wants It
For Alito and Thomas, there is no greater injustice than Donald Trump not getting what he wants, when he wants it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Feeling the law and order
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bribery, the corrupt use of public funds for private benefit, is so obvious here... but NYT struggles to observe what is right under their nose. It's a sign of the times. And another indicator of the US transition from democracy into kleptocracy.
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Trump Floats $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ Checks if Republicans Win the Midterms
In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026
It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.
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Peer Warmlines and Specialized Support
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Because NSF has eliminated its directorate for the social, behavioral and economic sciences, it’s unlikely there will be any training funding for economists, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
The principal guiding light of this administration is that every single societal advance in the last 60 years that has made life more livable was a mistake.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Who needs Canada anyway, right? Right? "US Oil Refiners Face Import Squeeze From Biggest Foreign Seller" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration is withholding funds for first responders in Nashville unless the city adopts its preferred election and ballot-counting procedures.
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Nashville sues feds over election-linked FEMA grant cuts - Nashville Banner
Nashville is part of a lawsuit against the federal government that alleges DHS grant conditions tied to election administration rules is unconstitutional.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 20/08/2026
Some WILD points from Acadian’s Owen Lamont on how volatile markets are these days.
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Helene Meisler @hmeisler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I know Grassly is old but do you think he knows who is in charge in the 3 branches of government now?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/08/2026
The government is looking for a contractor to hold 3,000 unaccompanied children on a single campus, eight to a room, eight sharing one toilet, shower, and sink. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Exclusive: Trump admin plans to hold 3,000 migrant children in new detention facility
Officials have outlined plans for ‘emergency influx facility’ campuses that can hold hundreds of unaccompanied minors
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
David Rohde says that the major logistics problems for the Navy largely come from the fact that the Navy's chief resupply station in the Gulf of Oman was completely destroyed in an Iranian attack, and Hegseth decided to keep it secret, from the public, Congress and the White House.
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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.
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Homeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Nevada
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Frank Bowman @frank-bowman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Incredible. The head of DOJ Civil Rights Division hugging up to a felon rightfully convicted of breaking into election systems and lying about it, who is now making a living promoting the "stolen elections" lie. As a DOJ alum, I'm speechless with incredulity and white-hot fury.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The corruption and grift is endless — at the expense of American taxpayers. The stain this family is leaving on our nation will be everlasting. www.wsj.com/finance/trum...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/08/2026
Capital One says Trump Organization account closures in 2021 followed review by anti-money-laundering team.
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Capital One cites anti-money laundering concerns in Trump Organization case
Capital One says Trump Organization account closures in 2021 followed review by anti-money-laundering team.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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