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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 11h
The topic is threatening the press, not lying about crowd size. Obama threatened Visa and Mastercard to prevent donations to Wikileaks. That’s FASCISM. Lying about crowd size is easily dismissed by the press or not even something that has to be reported. Why does the press report crowd size? 🤔
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 15h
They all do it. Obama was heavily criticized for threatening leakers and the press. With over 50 yrs of modern precedent, why has Congress not built up more protections? That could be an election promise.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 15h
So it’s a shutdown? #Democrats, some, are again threatening a shutdown when no one asked. Something that Democrats have never successfully accomplished. So this announcement is for us, not a message to the administration. Otherwise it would be a negotiation.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19h
New: Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump BLUMENTHAL: "I think it is slim to none that we would support a nominee from this administration." GALLEGO: "No, we’ve got to do exactly what McConnell did to us." Big 2026 court stakes: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Some Democrats don’t expect to fill a Supreme Court vacancy under Trump
Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture the Senate. If so, they’d control what happens in a vacancy, as Justice Samuel Alito admits he’s thought about retirement.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Meg Dowell @megdowell.com · 16h
On Patreon this week, we couldn’t help ourselves and recorded another MCU hour (Doomsday approacheth!) www.patreon.com/posts/171523...
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Making the MCU Good Again | Now This Is Lit: A Star Wars Podcast
Making the MCU Good Again by Now This Is Lit: A Star Wars Podcast on Patreon. Join Now This Is Lit: A Star Wars Podcast's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 17h
Also Amazon raises prices before they offer the special prime price. If we still had a consumer protection bureau this would be caught.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 17h
For Israel’s E1 settlement plan to become a reality, it must address a persistent thorn in its side: Khan al-Ahmar, a village of roughly 200 members of the Jahalin Bedouin community and home to the area’s only elementary school serving Bedouin children.
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This Village Has Been Fighting Israel’s Demolition Orders for Years. It May Be on Its Last Stand.
A new order for Khan al-Ahmar’s destruction failed to attract the international attention that had protected it in the past, and residents fear they can no longer stop the bulldozers.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h
CALL ARIZONA U.S. Senators! Let them know they are attacking community members who are protecting their land. Demand federal agents leave tribal land.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 22h
The civilian police oversight board, #Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, are losing their access to the police officer Body Worn Camera footage. This hinders their ability to fulfill their duty of investigating complaints against the police department. Support restoring their access.
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Sign the Petition
Restore Access to Detroit Civilian Oversight
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it that #socialism can mean a few different things, sometimes to different people, but #DefundthePolice always only means one thing? Ditto for things like #woke Socialism will change our economic; Black Americans need a series of cultural changes to make this country a better place.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tim Disney’s new satire graphic novel, The A.R.C., is a darkly humorous novel set in a world where if you lie, you die. Tim joins me to reflect on our current pandemic of lies that have infected our politics, our culture, our lives: youtu.be/aBM6ZUHmpWQ?...
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SHOCKING NEW Book REVEALS The DEADLY Cost OF LYING!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It really bothers me that Democrats in Congress or at the DNC did not lead this and other legal battles. They are not even giving credit nor championing the potential outcome.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
TODAY: Could Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt investigation into the DOJ resume after being stalled for a year? Andy McCabe and I discuss on today's episode of Unjustified. Free where you get em! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Facetious and Fanciful
Podcast Episode · UnJustified · October 4 · 1h 2m
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Correct!
Angela Van Der Pluym
@anjewla90

Failed congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh sits on top of a sign with her friends in Bridgeview, Illinois that calls Jake Lang a pedophile.


@DRSABHAFIERCE video depicting me, her, and Demi sitting atop her truck with a screen showing Jake lang’s texts to minors and the words JAKE LANG IS A PEDO
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And #Democrats kicked him out and stabbed him in the back. If we r in an affordability crisis why is this not spoken about for these elections? Is there fear that ppl will remember the betrayal? Do some fear it helps Harris if she again runs for president? #Biden/Harris ❤️❤️❤️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: The Trump administration knows that their policies are unpopular. They’re not stupid. Well, okay. They are very fucking stupid. I mean, really stupid. They’re stupider than I ever thought. But they recognize what they’re doing is turning away people.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes the machine shops just build tools used in manufacturing.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The post u r quoting is not correct. The small business in the defense industry do not directly manufacture products but supply parts. These parts are stored in advance of the production schedule. This schedule is set by the government months or even years in advance and is tied to Congress $$$.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Underfunded staffing is a deliberate method of withholding services, benefits and our rights. This is actually a Jim Crow tactic. But both sides do it. This is also done with voter registration. Hail #Democracy
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AfroLA @afrolanews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
West Adams restaurant owner Jaime Alfaro says some customers leave after circling for parking. Residents want relief, too. But LADOT says new residential parking district applications are on hold because of limited staffing. Read the full story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social  bit.ly/4i306nN
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sometimes the states wave the taxes, “tax breaks”, like they do here in #Michigan.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No such thing as too big to rig. It’s rigged if you count the gerrymandering and voting rights abuses. It’s not rigged if u measure ballot tampering. (But if u believe in ballot tampering then we are in an unconstitutional society. ) Either way this language discourages voting.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Absentee ballot voters in Montana won’t have to comply with an onerous birthdate verification requirement after a state court blocked the measure Friday night, ruling that it violates the state constitution. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Montana court blocks onerous mail voting law that caused thousands of rejected absentee ballots last year
The mail voting measure led to nearly 3,000 mail ballots getting rejected in the Nov. 2025 election, in a state where 80% of voters vote absentee.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Adam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 03/10/2026
Pretty shocking how #Michigan Governor Whitmer has just gone AWOL for the last 6 months or so while I keep getting *bombarded* with news of huge wins happening in #Illinois under the leadership of JB. Really not a mystery why we keep losing folks to #Chicago.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some say they haven't signed up for Democracy Docket because they don't want spam or endless solicitations. Democracy Docket doesn't sell its list. It doesn't solicit products or services. It sends you the news/information you sign-up for. Try it and see! demdock.com/4w6emld
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Detroit's mayor Sheffield is solely in office to ensure that our local oligarch, Dan Gilbert, gets his public funding for his projects, continues his existing tax dodges and doesn't get competition in the downtown real estate business.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the #Detroit #Michigan readers; How does a Marvin Walker ever get a city contract or a city adjacent contract? He doesn't appear intelligent enough to run a business. Our local media is corrupt, but this would be a great investigation. But it might implicate the mayor, his former girlfriend.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is this left up to a political appointee to take the blame? Why not fire the entire lethal injection team? Why do we allow the death penalty team to remain anonymous? Why are the condemned not given pain relief? What has been described in the process is the same as torture.
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Nikki @varivergirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Governor says Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Governor says Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike
Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How many books can Amazon sell without a data center vs with a data center? What we don't get to know is why other countries are not building data centers? Who are we competing against?
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We didn't learn about Kavanaugh's crimes until he sought a position for the Supreme Court. How many women are living their lives without ever having the opportunity to be heard?
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For every instance we learn about, how many go unreported? How many campus police cover up the incidents? How many presidents and boards hide these from donors? How many prosecutors fail the victims? This data is not missing, but ignored.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is no academic benefit. Its social. When they are in trouble it always seems to involved substance abuse, drugs and alcohol. Victims are often young women, sometimes they are underage. Sometimes the men are too young to legally consume alcohol.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every few years a fraternity gets in trouble because its part of the American culture. No one is talking about changing the culture. There should be a conversation about why fraternities exist and what value do they bring to college when its a small fraction of students.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tom Cotton's campaign took a billionaire's money two years after the Times exposed his payments to Jeffrey Epstein. The House just held that billionaire in contempt. Cotton has had four years to give it back. He hasn't. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So are the polls wrong? are Republicans going to be defeated by the largest margin in history? What does this say about the local media around the country that shows these contests as close or even? Its not making sense.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Psaki: Even in ruby red Alabama, enthusiasm for Trump and his gimmick seems to be waning. Here was the scene from inside the venue at Trump's big Alabama rally tonight. Trump couldn't even fill half the seats in the arena
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This used to be debated, now our politicians ignore the death penalty. This is cruel punishment. Also, why are teenagers still allowed the death penalty or even life in prison? We as a society should hold states responsible for supporting these types of policies. We can #BDS right here in the US.
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Christa Pike unconscious and on a ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say
Pike survived a lethal injection execution Wednesday. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 02/10/2026
New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
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New York governor vows to close legal loophole after Cornell gang rape allegations
Following public outcry over an alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul called for closing a loophole in state law that allows offenders to avoid rape charges if their victims were willingly intoxicated.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Companies like #Dell should also be investigated. If they cannot intervene on the sale of their stock, which they can, they know that they are committing a conflict of interest by seeking the contract. It’s corruption by Dell’s executives who must review OCI, etc. Dell violated the FAR.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Captain Fantastic @grubert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What Hochul did not say was that she would conduct an inquiry as to whether the police or local prosecutor followed the rules. James is just examining the original case.
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