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@fubar.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, Grandpa. Californian, Boomer. Navy Veteran. Atheist. Independent in a 2 party system. Love the outdoors, camping, cycling, hiking. Card carrying member ANTIFA

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 8m
There are NEW updates in the case of the Cornell 7 as more details are revealed, including how the alleged victim stated “with 100% confidence [she] was raped”. So why did the local DA only present certain parts of her written statement? I've got the latest reporting: youtu.be/tcsZBeeJk9k?...
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New DETAILS In Cornell ASSAULT CASE Revealed In BOMBSHELL Transcript!!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
Tonight in BRENTWOOD… www.instagram.com/p/Dd4JBL3l8E...
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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23h
Another prominent Trump loyalist working on the 'grand conspiracy' investigation into Trump's perceived political foes has abruptly left the probe. Election denier Kurt Olsen's departure follows the abrupt quitting of Trump ally Joe diGenova earlier this month.
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DOJ probe into Trump foes sees another prominent departure
Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation Monday.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 3h
They apparently saw internal Republican polling and would like to avoid jail time after the midterms.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 6h
In court filing, man accused of setting Jan 6 Capitol Hill pipe bombs asks court to suppress his "confession" Defense says agents conducted a "methodical dismantling of a man whose autism spectrum disorder left him unable to withstand the psychologically coercive tactics deployed against him"
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 5h
The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h
Is anybody else curious as to how Senator Shitt got Jack’s private text messages? Shitt was awfully smug about it, and said something like “I bet you didn’t know we had this.” Well if Jack didn’t produce them, how did Senator Shitt get them?
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 5h
Hegseth, for example, can get a separate murder indictment for each boat strike. We should also encourage other countries to charge them as well where justified, and be open to extradition.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h
They are both repulsive creatures who deserved each other. I guess her affair with Corey Lewandowski put a strain on Bryon’s cross-dressing freedoms.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 5h
accord @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The Supreme Court has really let our Country down!” Trump complained on social media after the voting-by-mail decision. “It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history.”

This is the Supreme Court that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, sanctioned Trump’s overt racial discrimination toward Haitians in Mullin v. Doe, fabricated a right to presidential immunity that appears nowhere in the Constitution in Trump v. United States, and gave Trump unfettered control over agencies that are supposed to be independent. Considering that record, few could disagree that the justices have “rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history.” Trump’s real complaint is they haven’t done that enough.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Out-of-context broken clock: “It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country's history.”
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h
It’s not a war. It’s a genocide with mass ethnic cleansing and land theft. A war implies at least two combatants. Israel is just slaughtering civilians. There is no other combatant. Hamas was never an actual army, and is no longer even a fighting force.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h
Trump is going to try to normalize the deployment of armed federal agents at and around the polls. Let us be clear: this is completely abnormal. “The risk here is that they are going to try to wage a campaign of fear,” Marc Elias says. This isn’t over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
⚠️ Trump’s DOJ has not denied that the administration has considered plans to seize ballots during the midterms. It has also not produced any records about such plans — despite a lawsuit requiring the department to do so.
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Trump DOJ responds to DNC lawsuit, offers no records on ballot seizure plans
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 13-page answer did not deny whether the Trump administration has considered such plans, identify whether responsive records exist or offer a timeline for producing th...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump Organization filed for trademark protection of "Trump TV" so that the government would have to PAY him to use the channel he just created… Miraculously, Trump has found yet another way to steal even more money from the American people. Trump. Is. A. Charlatan. And. A. Fraud. 😎✨
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 6h
After claiming “I will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid,” Republican Mike Lawler was the deciding vote for Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that will end Medicaid coverage for 34,000 of his constituents. Help us get out the vote for Cait Conley in this crucial New York district!
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Indivisible for Cait Conley for NY-17 Phone Bank Series · Indivisible
Join Indivisible as we engage voters across the country to get out the vote and take back Congress in 2026. We’ll make calls into New York's 17th Congressional District to get people to the polls on o...
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 4h
Also in TN a 6 or 7 y/o autistic child was arrested and charged with felony assault. What is wrong with our systems? No compassion or willingness to help. Instead it’s a lock them up mentality.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
“Most Americans are pro-immigrant,” Talarico says. “Throughout US history, immigrants have always made us richer and stronger.” Trump's barbarities have opened the way to a new consensus. Talarico is giving voice to it in moral language that Dems can learn from. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Reed F. Richardson @reedfrich.bsky.social · 5h
Why "follow the money" cross-border investigative journalism is more important than ever: "The US formally notified [The Council of Europe] a day earlier that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — Russia and Belarus."
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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Indivisible Vancouver @indivisiblevan.bsky.social · 6h
But when Meta files its taxes, it tells the Internal Revenue Service a different story. It claims that its A.I. data centers are a giant experiment that could fail, according to four people with knowledge of the company’s operations. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Senate Majority PAC @majoritypac.bsky.social · 22h
Adam Hoffman was charged with sexually abusing a child and was facing life in prison. Ken Paxton tried to give him a sweetheart deal with only one day served in prison. Ken Paxton is a danger to our kids and belongs nowhere near the Senate.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When you've been a nurse since the 70s, you've seen decades of change, and not all of it good. But as CNA/NNOC President Cokie Giles, RN reminds us: "Enough people carrying torches can light up even the darkest future." 🔥 Keep passing the torch.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
NEWS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils what his administration calls the nation’s first municipal strategy to combat antisemitism, including major new investments in hate-crime prevention, synagogue security, Holocaust education and Jewish institutions.
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Mamdani Unveils First-of-Its-Kind Plan to Fight Antisemitism in NYC
The mayor is pouring millions into hate-crime prevention, synagogue security and Jewish institutions.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pete Hegseth prepares for general purge of all women, Blacks and Hispanics from the general officer ranks of the military service branches. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know this is shocking, but it never seems to work out for them when Republicans bring right-wing internet conspiracies into courtrooms or committee hearings where the opposition actually gets to see their “evidence” and respond to it. They fare much better with the cultists on X.
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don’t forget Newsom was against prop 40
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Kimmel to Mamdani: "I live in Los Angeles and that is not the reception our mayor would get"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
The podcast is based on former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s book, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” (@mitpress.bsky.social). Pick up a copy – proceeds benefit EFF!
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Privacy's Defender
Former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn's Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today's InternetFormer EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights....
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story.
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Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You don’t have to have a law degree to know that Trump's recent taxpayer funded ads are illegal. But why is he running them? Some thoughts... ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/why-is-t…
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blueturnbannering.bsky.social @blueturnbannering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Get Ready, Vote Early! Vote While You Still Can vote411.org @blueturnindivisible.org @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social #vote #voteearly
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Indivisible Palo Alto Plus @indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org · 29/09/2026
Voting early (prefer drop box over mail) is the single easiest thing you can do to protect our elections from sabotage. Make a plan to vote today. voteearlyca.com
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026
Read this story for free for a limited time on the new WIRED app: www.wired.com/story/introd...
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Introducing the WIRED App
The app is the best way to read, watch, and listen to WIRED’s journalism.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026
Hegseth’s Pentagon, which Schlichter worked with, has prioritized Christian nationalist ideology and a “warrior ethos” while calling for an end of wokeness by attacking diversity and inclusion initiatives, halting promotions for Black and female officers.
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026
A retired Army colonel who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Pete Hegseth’s agenda has a history of praising dictators, denigrating women and minorities, and suggesting that only people with children should be allowed to vote.
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump pardoned Abramoff’s partner. Weeks later his money shows up in eight Republican Senate races. One House Republican already gave his check back. The Senate crowd still hasn’t answered.
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Trump Pardoned Abramoff’s Partner. We Found His Money In Eight Republican Senate Campaigns.
Also: a congressman on his way out files 26 impeachment charges against Trump, a carpenter beats ICE in Manhattan, and farm country picks a side.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Calling Scott Reed and Susan Collins husband Tom Daffron 'former business partners' is highly misleading. As the next sentence makes clear, Reed paid Daffron (for what?!) quite recently. And last week Collins's campaign manager said "they're still working together"! tinyurl.com/2pja4fhj #MEpolitics
Press Herald article: The super PAC, called the 1820 PAC, was controlled by Scott Reed, a friend and former business partner of Collins’ husband, Tom Daffron. Financial disclosures from Collins show Daffron was paid at least $1,000 for consulting work last year at Chesapeake Enterprises.
This cycle, Reed is chairman of Pine Tree Results, a super PAC spending millions to reelect Collins.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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