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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h
You can thank Donald Trump for that.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 01/10/2026
Remember yesterday when Trump announced a massive South Korean investment in Alaska, which the WH said was great news for Dan Sullivan? A day later, South Korea “lodged a strong protest” with the admin, saying Trump’s announcement “went far beyond what was agreed.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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South Korea pushes back against Trump’s claims about Alaska investments
The White House announced a Korean investment in an Alaskan pipeline project. The boast unraveled less than a day later.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 01/10/2026
History in the making: Before launching military strikes abroad, Trump consulted ... a megadonor’s AI chatbot. Of course, Trump didn’t need AI; he needed the patience to sit through a foreign policy meeting without falling asleep. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump reportedly sought input from Musk’s AI chatbot on military strikes
This was almost certainly the first time in U.S. history that a president consulted an AI chatbot about a provocative foreign policy gambit.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 22h
Adam is honored to have the endorsement of another Republican Governor, Mike Hayden! Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree: It's time for something different. 🌻
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18h
Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 18h
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” Bill Gates said, calling for laws, law enforcement, safeguards, & monitoring for AI. Trump wants the industry to regulate itself🙄 We refuse to hand Big Tech a blank check to unleash tools that can put billions of lives at risk.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 19h
This corruption must be investigated.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 19h
‘Tech companies are pursuing a range of strategies to move debt off their balance sheets to preserve their creditworthiness. The approach has obscured the amount of risk that tech giants are taking on.’ www.ft.com/content/97d8...
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Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors
The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet health as AI spending soars
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 18h
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 18h
Forget political parties for 10 seconds- watching Curtis Sliwa tough guy beret and all, sheepishly holding Mayor Mamdani’s hand through a flu shot is the purest thing on the internet today. We really are all just human.💙🥹
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 19h
The attorney general should be able to hold powerful corporations accountable. But what happens when the person in charge has millions invested in those same companies? That's a question Ron Schutz needs to answer.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
Removing a checkbox does not erase your voting rights. Check your state’s requirements, contact your election office, and share this with Americans living abroad. Don’t let confusion keep you from voting.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 17h
Yes but many assumed she would be stupid and he would be smart because of reasons
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17h
Students have a right to a comprehensive education of our nation's history, and Indigenous children deserve to have their culture reflected at school.
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Montanans are demanding better Indian education, setting an example for other Western states - High Country News
Experts say good education is about relationships – and a constitutional amendment doesn’t hurt.
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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...
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What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?
It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 16h
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Trump tried to dismantle Voice of America. Now the government is paying to rebuild it. (Politico)
The Trump administration moved last year to gut the federal agency that oversees Voice o...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17h
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 16h
I never thought I’d see the U.S. government try to whitewash Richard Nixon’s crimes & defend his profound abuse of the presidency. But here we are. Crooks protecting crooks.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h
The renovation of the Reflecting Pool was supposed to cost $1.5 million. The cost now exceeds $16 million.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
Trump is planning to host a third gala for the top investors of his $TRUMP crypto coin. He and his family have raked in $2.2 billion from their crypto ventures, while their investors have lost almost the same amount. They’ll fleece anyone they can — even their own supporters.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At least two dozen countries have launched programmes to swap oil and gas for electricity since the Iran war began. I spoke to ABC's PM about why, alongside António Guterres and Fatih Birol. Crises push countries towards energy they can make at home.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23h
NO KINGS is BACK 10/17 🚫👑 We'll be representing Hampton Bays, NY where Chris _gallantny (on X) is running neck-and-neck to dethrone MAGA incumbent Nick LaLota. Let's make it happen! mobilize.us/s/JM8kUn
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No Kings: Vote Early -HAMPTON BAYS,NEW YORK · Indivisible
NO KINGS/ DEFEND DEMOCRACY: Visibility Rally to Vote early, with Early Voting information(10/24th-11/1) and Election Day/ Nov 3rd information For more than a year, millions of people have come together to reject the idea that power belongs to kings, billionaires, or politicians who believe they are above the people and the law. Now, we are taking the next step, turning people power into voter power. Unlike previous No Kings actions, No Kings: Vote Early, is not purely a protest. Instead, on October 17th, it's a day of nonpartisan voter participation: we are bringing **our community** together to make a plan to vote early and ensuring every eligible voter understands their options for how to vote and has the opportunity to make their voice heard. Because no one person gets to decide our leaders before voters do. On October 17th, join us in local events across the country as we get out the early vote and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. *No Kings: Vote Early events are nonpa
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by ethical rules."
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The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges
Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23h
Abolish the death penalty.
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Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 23h
Idaho Democratic AG candidate Lori Hickman receives endorsement from state’s longest-serving attorney general, Lawrence Wasden, a Republican. #idpol
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Former Republican Idaho attorneys general endorse Democrat in attempt to unseat Raúl Labrador • Idaho Capital Sun
Two former Idaho Republican attorneys general — and many former lawyers — endorsed Lori Hickman, a Democrat, to be the state's top attorney.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23h
Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h
was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Poindexter for Congress! #BrianPoindexter4OH7th 🥾KICK OUT VIOLENT MAX MILLER! Brian Poindexter is a father, union ironworker, and Brook Park city councilman, running for Congress because working people deserve real representation — not empty promises. poindexterforcongress.com
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Brian Poindexter for Congress | Ready to Work for Working Families
Union ironworker Brian Poindexter is running for Congress to stand up for working families and deliver real representation—not empty promises.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 23h
Big Tech companies like Flock Safety have built a mass surveillance system to harvest Americans’ private and personal data without their consent. I’m proud to introduce the Ban Flock Act with @sanders.senate.gov to enforce our constitutional right to privacy.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23h
Yeah, so what happens with our only job growth when a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts begin to kick in?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h
Thread.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on jobs report: “Trump’s economy has only added 33,000 jobs a month on average, far below the 120,000-a-month average in 2024. At the same time, paychecks are growing at their slowest rate in nearly 7 years”
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: Rep. Brian Stewart greased skids for @anduriltech.bsky.social -- turning Ashville into drone manufacturer without discussion or permission. @tkbarnes.bsky.social @inkstickmedia.com: bit.ly/44Q6p7D Ohio GOP's "open for business" model: unsavory, surreptitious. @commoncauseohio.bsky.social
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In Ohio, Who Really Gets a Say in Anduril Weapons Factories?
Residents of a small township in Ohio wanted a vote on a new Anduril weapons factory. Then the state changed the rules.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Putin ordered Russian troops to disregard the rules of war, Zelenskyy tells the FT. ​Ukrainian intelligence intercepted information indicating that in September, Putin ordered the Russian military to intensify strikes on civilian infrastructure. Since then,
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
During a sworn deposition on Monday, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) declined to answer repeated questions from one of his ex-wife’s lawyers about whether he pushed a girl down a staircase during high school.
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In a sworn deposition, Rep. Max Miller was silent on staircase assault allegation
"If the incident never occurred, why are you afraid of answering the question?" asked his ex-wife's lawyer.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How many cases broke bad for Trump in court today? I count a number of them today in this piece, which I hope you’ll take a moment to read. joycevance.substack.com/p/another-ba...
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Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news. This was always a bad idea.
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Poindexter for Congress! #BrianPoindexter4OH7th 🥾KICK OUT VIOLENT MAX MILLER! Brian Poindexter is a father, union ironworker, and Brook Park city councilman, running for Congress because working people deserve real representation — not empty promises. poindexterforcongress.com
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Brian Poindexter for Congress | Ready to Work for Working Families
Union ironworker Brian Poindexter is running for Congress to stand up for working families and deliver real representation—not empty promises.
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