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Linda Martz

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The future is shaped by the choices we make today. Differences will always exist, but empathy, open minds, and a willingness to work together can turn those differences into a source of strength. She/her

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 15/09/2026
New: Donald Trump is worth $7 billion—"an estimated $2.7 billion richer than when he won the 2024 election"—per new Forbes estimate. by @danalexander21.bsky.social
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The Definitive Net Worth Of Donald Trump
What’s Donald Trump really worth? Forbes picks apart the president's balance sheet to uncover the answer.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Firefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say the federal government is failing them when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous. While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters . . .
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‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump is directly responsible for this and honestly, it is beyond impeachable. There should be seriously criminal repercussions for fucking up this badly.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16/09/2026
In Ohio, we have a real opportunity to oust three of Trump’s MAGA yes-men from Congress and replace them with Democrats who will fight for working people. Help us contact Ohio voters and win the midterms!
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Indivisible for Sherrod Brown, Brian Poindexter, Don Leonard for OH 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 Ohio to get people to the polls on or before Nov 3rd and share the exc...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was asked how I would protect Michigan communities from data centers. Here’s my plan:
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
I pushed for independent oversight. Now, for the first time, we have an official glimpse at the damage—and it’s still an underestimate. Resources drained. Munitions depleted. Diplomacy wrecked. Troops exhausted. The American people deserve the full truth. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Iranian strikes have damaged hundreds of structures at U.S. bases, watchdog says
The report by the Pentagon's inspector general also detailed the extent of munitions shortfalls in the first comprehensive public accounting of the cost and military impact of the war with Iran.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) tells CNN that Trump “through a tantrum” during Kennedy Center board meeting today, after judge ruled Trump’s name can’t be re-added to the facility
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you for being here. From today's Politics Chat. Watch now on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/1figRUiJ4ew?si…
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Tina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While I supported making Oregon the first state in the nation to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for cervical cancer screenings, Christine Drazan skipped the vote to meet with business donors. Oregonians deserve a governor who will always show up for their healthcare.
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Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate skips Senate floor session for business event • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Only one of the bills Drazan has sponsored involving business issues survived a Monday deadline to schedule committee votes.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PabloReports: Donald Trump says we’re in a golden age. Do you agree? Frost: Yeah, if you’re a billionaire, you’re in the golden age. They’re taking all of our money and giving it to them.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Michael Issikoff reviews David Corn's new book: "Time and again, at virtually every key juncture, Trump has coddled and appeased Putin while turning a blind eye to, if not cooperating with, the Russian tsar’s relentless campaign to stir discord in the American body politic
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Probing the Trump-Putin Bromance Mystery
A new book reconstructs the curious relationship between the Russian dictator and the American president
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Not only are members of the Trump family heavily invested in AI-related industries, but also it seems administration officials are counting on extraordinary AI-fueled economic growth to address the growing U.S. deficit and debt that Trump has run up.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This keeps happening. www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/l...
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Legacy outlets that bent the knee to Trump haven’t just lost credibility — they’re bleeding readers and viewers
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sending a message to your current audience that you'd prefer to have a different audience results in losing the former without gaining the latter. www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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Refurbished ‘60 Minutes’ Debuts to a 19% Ratings Drop
The “60 Minutes” Season 59 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers, down 19% year over year.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
One nuance: Kremlev was personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his links to Putin. An organization he is associated with, 'Healthy Fatherland', is also sanctiond for helping abduct children from occupied Ukrainian territory and relocate them in Russia
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: After Paul LePage was caught on tape admitting he is a “big fan of data centers,” Matt Dunlap has surged to a TIE in deep-red ME-02. 🟦 Dunlap: 49% 🟥 LePage: 49% Matt is going to hold this seat. Let’s go! #mepolitics
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
WARREN: You and Kennedy are keeping these pharma deals secret. The companies say they are immaterial. You still want the American people to believe they are a great deal? KLOMP: Billions of dollars have been saved in out-of-pocket transactions— WARREN: Then show me the receipts.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 ICYMI THREAD: An investigation by @meidastouch.com exposed Gov. Joe Lombardo’s disturbing pattern of corruption. While he vetoed bills that would've helped everyday Nevadans, he was getting checks from his ultra-wealthy donors before or after doing them favors. #NVGov
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Chris Gooch @chrisdg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Straits of Hormuz are not open www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Two sailors missing after tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz, Oman says
Iran says El Gaia caught fire after hitting mines, but the US says the oil tanker was struck by a missile and then a drone.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/09/2026
South Korean workers challenging Trump administration over Georgia raid, CNN reports reut.rs/4cJZnG5
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South Korean workers challenging Trump administration over Georgia raid, CNN reports
More than 300 South Korean workers who were detained in last year’s immigration raid at a Hyundai ​electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in Georgia are challenging the ‌U.S. government, CNN reported on Tuesday.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fox News devoted a grand total of 1 minute of airtime to the bombshell report that a Russian oligarch had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Trump Jr.'s lavish Bahamas wedding.
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Fox News all but ignores report that a Russian oligarch bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FYI
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I Disagree is out now! I poured my heart out into this book, and I hope that you love reading it as much as I loved writing it. Buy it today, and I hope to see you at one of our many book tour stops! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803493...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Rep. Massie (R-KY) brings forward a resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth for high crimes and misdemeanors
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is pub day for my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Please watch this video and pass it on. It's time to reclaim the Trump-Russia narrative and recognize Putin is continuing his years-long war on America and Trump is complicit. HowRussiaWon.com
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How many possible "victims of bestiality" are applying to the FBI?? BUT DON'T WORRY, THEY STILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DO A PULLUP
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/09/2026
Air pollution in dozens of cities around the world rose after U.S. embassies and consulates stopped monitoring air quality readings last year, according to a new study.
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Pollution spikes after Trump halted global air-monitoring efforts, report says
Air pollution in dozens of cities rose after U.S. embassies stopped providing readings that had previously spurred local government action, a study found.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The utter lack of self-awareness is beyond belief.
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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day for the most consequential election of our lifetime. Show up and VOTE BLUE from the top of the ballot on down. PA residents, check here and please make sure you have a plan to VOTE for democracy and accountability! share.google/DIwjgAQGYZeX...
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How to register in Pennsylvania | Vote.gov
Find out how to register to vote, check your registration, get deadlines, and more for Pennsylvania
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This National Voter Registration Day, think about what can happen if you vote: We can flip the House, win back the Senate, and put a check on Trump’s power. Register to vote or check your registration TODAY at IWillVote.com.
A photo of a bald eagle with wings spread wide against a large, blue star. Bold red text reads, "Get Ready to Vote" above and below the eagle. At the bottom, yellow text displays the website IWillVote.com.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 15, 1845. Women working in the Pittsburgh textile mills met in Market Square to discuss the necessity of fighting to cut their days from 12 to 10 hours without a reduction in pay. The workers struck and a militant confrontation with capital resulted!
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 15/09/2026
Please read this piece from @talkingpointsmemo.com @joshtpm.bsky.social @joshkovensky.bsky.social -- NSPM-7 is one of the scariest government documents we have every seen. Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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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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BB @bbix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Andrew Desiderio: Today of all days, an NHL team is slobbering over their star player who just appeared in a campaign video for Putin’s political party, standing alongside actual war criminals

Ovechkin chose to participate in this video. And the Capitals are cool with it apparently!
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026
There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Corporate Media would have crucified Hunter if he had a Russian oligarch pay for his wedding while Biden was president, but they will bury Donald Jr. doing it. Easy to become inured to absurd asymmetric accountability, but critical to hammer home to US that Corporate Media is biased for Trump.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s wild you’re expected to celebrate SCOTUS not allowing the president to dismantle a voting method used by tens of millions at the 11th hour — and also, at the same time, it absolutely is a big deal and couldn’t be taken for granted.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/09/2026
President Trump nominated the wife of “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
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Trump nominates wife of 'God Bless the USA' singer Lee Greenwood to serve as US ambassador
President Donald Trump has nominated the wife of “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jesse Watters was a furious defender of President Donald Trump’s claims that vandals defaced the Reflecting Pool, then dropped the story completely rather than admit to his Fox audience that those claims were debunked. www.mediamatters.org/jesse-watter...
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Untroubled Watters: Fox host still hasn’t told the truth about Reflecting Pool “vandals”
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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another real winner. Also:
Anne Applebaum• @anneapp... • 32m
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” whaaaaaat
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
attacking your country on foreign territory
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"We now know that there never can be a free humanity until woman is freed from ignorance, & we know, too, that woman can never call herself free until she is mistress of her own body." ~Margaret Sanger, 1918. Birth control advocate/nurse/author Sanger was born OTD in 1879. Image: LA Times/UCLA.
This black and white photo shows a woman, Margaret Sanger, wearing a white hat, white shirt, and dark coat.
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