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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
MEMPHIS — Here are the 7 city council members who voted to delay a vote for a moratorium on data centers: (The people’s reaction: www.instagram.com/reel/DeLBLMD...)
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 3h
A president can't invoke an emergency to send troops to the polls, writes @brennancenter.org's Joseph Nunn. "The law was designed precisely for emergencies, to ensure that future security crises would not lead to crises for our democracy."
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No Emergency Exception: The Ban on Troops at the Polls Was Built for Crises
Section 592 unmistakably conveys Congress’s intent to bar any kind of military interference in American elections.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” collected money for a memorial to 2 fallen police officers but spent it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her of fraud. Trump pardoned her because he sees himself in her criminal conduct.
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‘Lady Trump’ was convicted for fraud and then pardoned by the president. The White House didn’t say why.
“Justice Interrupted”: The latest installment in MS NOW’s series examining the clemencies and pardons by Donald Trump — and the fallout from them.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Still amazing how few Americans have read key pieces of the Epstein files. Like EFTA01250883.pdf.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
As Trump crisscrossed the country last week trying to help his party avoid a blowout in the midterms, two of his top political advisers — James Blair and Chris LaCivita — were in the Balkans helping a pro-Russian government looking to tighten its grip on power.
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2h
In many of the agencies that were targeted for massive staff reductions, women and people of color made up the majority of the workforce, according to a report from the National Women's Law Center.
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The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE
Trump’s federal workforce cuts dismantled a job pipeline for Washington, DC’s Black community and gutted the well-being of the women who hold up that community.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4h
Yale student Zachary Clifton penned this for @thenation.com this week: Yale’s Protest Tradition Is Back-- For the first time in 50 years, Yale students gathered around an iconic sculpture to protest their university and their government. Boola-boola. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Yale’s Protest Tradition Is Back
For the first time in 50 years, Yale students gathered around an iconic sculpture to protest their university and their government.
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WIRED @wired.com · 2h
Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.
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‘The Social Reckoning’ Already Feels Irrelevant
Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to ‘The Social Network’ attempts to shame a ruling class that has proved itself shameless.
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 1h
Sure seems like Europeans are so much better at protesting than Americans
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 2h
As a new G.A.O. report highlights, the U.S. lacks a strategy and coordinated agency efforts to adapt to an aging global population. HelpAge USA's Jane Buchanan on how the United States can enable coordination across government and provide global leadership to plan for this major demographic shift:
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Why the U.S. Must Prepare for Rapid Global Population Aging – and How
The United States lacks a strategy and coordinated agency efforts to adapt foreign and security policy to rapid global population aging.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23h
In which Texas Republicans refer to Muslims as "infestations" and argue that "we basically have to make it so uncomfortable for them that they want to leave."
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Texas Faith Fest speakers propose plans to make Muslims ‘more uncomfortable’
At Texas Faith Fest this year, speakers suggested policies that would limit Muslim religious practices and reshape the government's relationship with religion.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 2h
Conservatives failed to create a taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma. They're now using a proposed Jewish school to revive the same scheme. And a federal judge just gave them the green light to proceed. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
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Federal judge clears path for taxpayer-funded religious school in Oklahoma
The ruling in favor of Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School could open the floodgates for publicly funded religious indoctrination nationwide.
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 1h
Pretty much sums up MAGA and Trump
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 06/10/2026
Gabe Poirot says he spent 18 days in Heaven and met a Jesus who was six feet tall, made of fire, and overflowing with testosterone. Fox treated this as news. There's no evidence of this. Just a deeply manipulative story and a book to promote. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
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A Christian influencer says he went to Heaven and met a testosterone-fueled Jesus
Gabe Poirot says he met a fiery, muscular, intolerant Jesus. Fox News is helping amplify the story.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h
This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 1h
If you redistributed 90% of Elon’s wealth we could create over 940,000 millionaires leaving Elon with only $104 billion.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 2h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2h
Days after Trump's rally in Alabama, there's a tough front page in the local paper
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h
NEW: Over the past year, ICE investigated — and considered sending undercover agents against — hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, new records revealed. The probes were part of Trump's extensive search for noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms.
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Indivisible Houston ❌ 👑 @indivisiblehouston.bsky.social · 2h
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And while I'm at it: The 21 US states, with a total of 42 senators, whose population *all together* is the same as Calif's, with its two Senators. Big GOP skew among those 42 Senators: 26 R vs 16 Dem/Indep.
Map of the 21 states whose populations all together add up to California's.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Put another way, here are 10 states whose populations *all combined* equal LA County's. And of course they have 20 Senators, or 10x as many as Calif as a whole. (Interestingly, the 20 smallest-state Sens split 10/10, GOP vs Dem+Indep.)
Map listing ten states whose population together is same as LA County. They are: Alaska, both Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
A day after Trump said his super PAC would pay for those propaganda ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did *not* plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 14h
"And from what I understand, this is happening both to Democrats and Republicans when they are traveling to the Middle East."
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Senator Says Hegseth Barred Him From Gulf Base to 'Cover Up the True Cost' of Iran War
"And from what I understand, this is happening both to Democrats and Republicans when they are traveling to the Middle East."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h
Wow. In case you think this is only about the economy, data we obtained shows that in South Texas, Latinos now disapprove of Trump *on immigration and the border* by huge margins. South Texas was locus of the vaunted "realignment." Immigration has helped unravel it. newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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fubar.bsky.social @fubar.bsky.social · 15h
If Mitch McConnell can vote while in a vegetative state then so can Collins
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16h
7/ “The Cerimedo case has taken a… twist as members of the PDC claim a U.S. representative engaged in bribery during a legislative session that resulted in the dismissal of…Roger Mariaca, who was investigating…allegations against a [MAGA-linked] former presidential advisor [Cerimedo].” 10/5/26
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New Developments in the Cerimedo Case: Allegations of US Representative Bribery During Dismissal of Investigating Prosecutor
Original article: Caso Cerimedo suma nuevo capítulo: denuncian sobornos de representante de EE.UU. en sesión que destituyó al fiscal que investigaba al
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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US Maneuvers for Cerimedo's Release. "It Uses Visas for a Coup," Former Presidents Say
Bolivia's attorney general was arrested two days after Washington pulled his visa, just as his office was widening its probes into the MAGA-linked consultant.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2/ This pathetic WaPo headline neglects to mention that the attorney general was investigating a *MAGA-aligned troll farm operator* when he was arrested. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
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Bolivia arrests its attorney general after U.S. accuses him of narco corruption
Authorities arrested 14 people, including four whom they said were sneaking cash out of Attorney General Roger Mariaca’s home and into an ambulance.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👀 In Aug, Fernando Cerimedo—a far right Latin American troll farm operator & ally of Brad Parscale & Roger Stone—was arrested in Bolivia for attempted femicide. But in Sept, the Trump admin accused the *prosecutor* of bribery, triggering his arrest in Bolivia in what some call US interference. 1/
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Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h
www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
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Florida man accused of dressing up as ICE agent to scare Brazilian presidential election voters at Miami-Dade College
Danilo Alves Silva, 46, of Port St. Lucie, faces five charges, including voter intimidation, and told deputies the outfit was a costume he bought on Amazon.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h
Breaking: Man Posing As ICE Agent Arrested Outside Polling Site. Deploying ICE to a polling place is illegal. However, trusting convicted felon Donald Trump to obey the law is a fool’s errand.
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 18h
Trump casually inviting Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego is not funny. It is delusional, demented, and dangerous.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
The U.S. joins only Russia and Belarus in rejecting the OSCE’s election monitoring, and comes as the Trump administration is seeking to deploy 1,000 "monitors" of their own to poll sites this election cycle.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
The OSCE is an international group of 57 states, largely in the global North, most of which are located in Europe. The United States is a member country. The organization is a partner group to the UN, and was established in the 1970s to address issues of human rights and election integrity.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so.
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h
Donald Trump insisted his Ohio event was “packed.” Photos show otherwise. trib.al/cbpMj6P
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Trump Throws Full-Fledged Tantrum Over Reports on His Latest Rally
Donald Trump insisted his Ohio event was “packed.” Photos show otherwise.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is such a sick, evil thing to say. Especially because he’s not saying this as a joke. Just as sick that his supporters are laughing at it
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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