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Paula R.

@horsechops.bsky.social
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Mother of three. Live in the beautiful NW. Happy to be here.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h
If for no other reason, vote against every Republican in November because they never stop blaming Biden, and now Obama, for all their fuck ups. They never take responsibility for anything.👇
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
the only thing worse than a dumbass is an unrepentant one
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Eric Schmitt booked this show as a victory lap for his "gotcha" moment revealing "proof" that Jack Smith was at an Atlanta Hawks game. 2. That "proof" blew up in Schmitt's face. 3. Instead of cancelling this appearance, he dishonestly colludes with the hosts to pretend he did have that proof.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The way people will just blithely state that the world is collapsing and you're supposed to, like, accept it as this conventional wisdom that all right-thinking people agree with
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/09/2026
After forcing us to pay $120 BILLION more for fuel because of his idiotic war with Iran, Donald Trump is now rolling back fuel standards so new cars get even fewer miles per gallon. This is a massive wealth transfer from working Americans to oil companies.
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Paula R. @horsechops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith hearing an excellent example of the ineptness and stupidity of GOP.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Network solidarity against Trump's attack on the 1st Amendment lasted less than one week. Pathetic. On the bright side for CNN, moving forward Bari Weiss can make changes to ensure there is no more friction with the White House. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LOL: Flock sent a letter to the mayor of Lowell complaining about comments he made during a city council meeting about how Flock sells data. Flock claimed that it does not sell data, but the mayor responded by pointing out that Flock advertised this feature to Lowell.
lowellsun.com
Flock vs. Lowell: Surveillance company defends product
LOWELL — Flock Group, Inc. is not only watching license plates in Lowell, but it is also watching the City Council meetings.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They'll tell you there's no money for teachers, veterans or to bring your costs down. Then a corporation needs a tax break and the money turns up quickly. A budget is a moral document. A budget tells you what a government actually values, line by line. #AngieforFlorida
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OHIO!!!! Double check your registration now. You have until October 5 to register.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 27/09/2026
Ohio's voter registration deadline is October 5th. Make sure you're registered! olvr.ohiosos.gov
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
vote.nyc
Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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Paula R. @horsechops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So Netanyahu knew.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 27/09/2026
You surely know this but in case others don’t: Nationwide, about 80% of Black Democrats identify as religious, with 76% identifying as Christian. It’s wild to assert that appeals to faith are new territory for Dems. www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we want to clean up Trump's mess — and prevent it from happening again — here are 10 reforms every midterm candidate should support. Call them the “10 Commandments for a Better Government.”
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The 10 Commandments (for Cleaning Up After Trump)
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha
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Norby36 @norby36.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The links to Betsy DeVos’ dismantling of Title IX protections and red states blocking of ERA ratifications are straight lines. Between Cornell, Epstein and this literal fukkkery, the true goals of earlier ‘seemingly’ unrelated actions become quite clear.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the SECOND ad that YOU are paying Trump and Fox News to run within the last 3 days. This will not stop. This is your money. 2-1/2 years to go.
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The Trump Admin Is Airing Yet Another Taxpayer-Funded Political Ad
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Paula R. @horsechops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Breaking point?
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cursed af
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Paula R. @horsechops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He is right on. VOTE!!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'University students have raised concerns over the software used to submit assignments and check them for plagiarism, amid fears their work could be used to train tools which use artificial intelligence.'
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York Uni students' fears over Turnitin essay-checker AI plan
Students are "scared" about proposals which could see their work used to train AI, their union says.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚-𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐳 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦.🚨 Edgar is yet another 28 year old victim of ICE along with Wilber Rafael Garces Perez who was shot on Sunday. Here's a thread of #ICELawlessness, actions you can take to push back & some good news as well.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 24/09/2026
Good news: people in Texas are registering to vote. 🗳 🤠 Bad news: the Republicans are not processing them. An "unidentified problem" created a massive backlog in tens of thousands of registrations. In one county, 45,000 registrations have been backlogged. Hopeful. But suspicious. ☹️
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections
The problem, which officials in the
Republican-controlled state have not publicly defined. This also could have disenfranchised people who wanted to vote in the state's March primary but whose registration applications were never processed, local election officials said during a news conference Wednesday
'This is really out of left field. Knowing that this one element of (state) applications didn't come through, and we had no insight on it," said Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Election Officials
The size of the backlog statewide hasn't been determined. but the association said it is in the tens of thousands for some of the state's most populous counties. In Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, the election office received about 45,000 backlogged voter registratior applications.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Paul Krugman says it'll raise prices because most of the country gets its diesel from outside the US.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
on this day in 1923, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, is first published. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The reason we are running out of money is because the police wouldn't let us steal it." This is basically Miller's reason why GOP is going to lose.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/09/2026
Katie Phang on Trump’s latest attack on the press: “He’s not trying to win a legal argument. He’s just trying to make a point, and the point is: ‘I can do this to you, and you can’t stop me fast enough to make it matter.’” More 👇
katiephang.substack.com
Trump’s War on Words
Like a petulant child, Trump pulls the welcome mat from the People’s House
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We go through the indictment of a defense contractor that helped ProPublica come up with a story that looks really bad for Maine Senator Susan Collins & assess the evidnece joycevance.substack.com/p/a-bad-tues...
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A Bad Tuesday in Maine if Your Name is Susan Collins
And a new order in Katie Phang’s Epstein Files case
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More on this FBI hack: A criminal hacking group said it stole “a large tranche of sensitive personnel information belonging to thousands of F.B.I. officials in what would amount to a stunning breach of private data for the nation’s top law enforcement agency.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records
The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sounds guilty to me.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern level raised to offended. Highest its ever been
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "Our lives are more important than the price on energy and between us, I mean, this doesn't depend on us. I'll be honest everyone it's the war in Hormuz has influence [on energy prices] not the war in Russia."
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
America is very big and spread out and if ICE is capable of learning anything, they should learn that they cannot safely suppress a population this size across a space this large...but I suspect they'll try...
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Friends, we need to talk. Measles - a completely preventable disease - has now been found in 6 WI counties with almost 170 individual cases. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to vaccinate your children, vaccinate yourself, and help protect your community.
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Paula R. @horsechops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SAD.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Clarke: It’s hard to take Justice Thomas and Justice Alito seriously. They are not engaged in independent interpretation of the law or our Constitution. They are solely focused on putting their thumb on the scale of Donald Trump’s agenda each and every time.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The USG crusade to destroy the ICC seems primarily motivated by a desire to shield Israeli officials like Netanyahu and Gallant from accountability. Worth recalling that those two face charges related to using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
See, I will look at it differently. I want someone whose superpower is getting to 271 electoral votes.
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