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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h
I was telling college students this week that the most important trend in Southern states to watch will be what older Black voters and HBCUs will do in a post-Callais world.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The only difference between this & the many many other settler pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank for years, intensifying since 10/7 is that a white western journalist—and Bezos employee —was caught in this particular crossfire. Will US media use this difference to have an impact?
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Paul Docherty @readwritecity.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Wow. Prescient, and painful to read.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
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The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Guess who was one of the biggest spreaders of that bogus claim about Talarico supposedly disappearing to Ohio? As @annamerlan.bsky.social reports, "The biggest election disinformation risk in the next few weeks is Elon Musk." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk
The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Really perfect economic combo where interest rates are increasing fast enough that homeowners are facing declining home values *and* homebuyers are facing increasing monthly payments. Just pure pain for everyone involved in buying or selling a home right now.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"U.S. Budget Deficit Jumps to Nearly $2 Trillion" www.wsj.com/politics/pol... "budget experts expect the deficit to surpass 6% of GDP, compared with 5.8% in fiscal 2025." Silver lining from @djheakin: "They could have blown it up worse, and they wanted to, some of them" 😭
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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All the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.
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foolstruth @hpsauter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“DOJ has gone 0-26” on this issue
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.
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Memorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don’t stop being mad about our rapacious health care system. It doesn’t have to be this way. It is not this way in any other wealthy or even middle tier country www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLdxJ3gC/
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This is a summation of the U.S. healthcare system. #healthcare #finance
TikTok video by The LA Globe
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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foolstruth @hpsauter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oopsies
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Satirical clip from a top Denver investigative journalist. Great classroom case study for how journalistic framing and production choices (music, tempo, vocal tone) can influence audience interpretation of underlying data.
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Michael Adams-Hurta @adams-hurta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
!!! A 5-4 vote from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (supreme court for crimes) that the petition appealing the reversal of her conviction was improvidently granted. Big deal, and I'm so happy for Crystal Mason and voting rights generally.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21/09/2026
Seck is by far the best player on the Kentucky State team; third-team all-SIAC last season; led her team in FG, FG%, points, rebounds, and blocks in 25-26.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
Brendan Carr is the guy who spent 5 years hyperventilating on cable news about the FAINTEST POSSIBILITY that China had undue influence over TikTok China, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar having a near 50% investment stake in a major U.S. media conglomerate: no problem
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FCC Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Foreign Investment
The agency approved a request for foreign investors to indirectly hold a non-voting stake in excess of 25% in the aggregate
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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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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The 51st @51st.news · 14/09/2026
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/09/2026
this crooked, bigoted old pervert had the nerve to come here and say "good job" after saying THE SITTING MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY should not attend a memorial ceremony b/c he is Muslim. I just—
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those not on the other site: the Kansas Jayhawks made a rivalry hype video that repeatedly references John Brown. x.com/ku_football/...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In country after country the story is remarkably similar. The ascendant far right has succeeded in getting center-right and center-left parties to accept their issue frames, and no one to the left of the far right is making a compelling case for an alternative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
The fact that this guy who quit anthropic “for ethical reasons” had an exclusive about it in the Wall Street journal should have been the big warning. Instead it was the sign to take it seriously! Good stuff everyone
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026
I am serious that today’s journalism ecosystem would be fooled if they played war of the worlds on the radio. It would be on CNN within hours
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Everyone who was against the PATRIOT Act 20 years ago was called a terrorist sympathizer. Many don’t remember the world before it. Background checks didnt even exist the way they do now prior to it. The surveillance state became normal. Just like they said it would All in the name of “anti-terror”
After 9/11, the U.S. built an anti-terror apparatus. Trump is using it at home.
Waning attention to international terrorism and other threats has former officials worried.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!
18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
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foolstruth @hpsauter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“There are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.” — Bill Bryson
A portrait of Bill Bryson, a smiling older man with a white beard and glasses in a dark fleece, standing among sunlit green trees.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’d encourage everyone to read @rickhasen.bsky.social’s explanation of the USPS case. No one knows what this SCOTUS will do, but a ruling for the administration would essentially be a declaration of war against elections electionlawblog.org/2026/distric...
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District Court, as Expected, Issues Preliminary Injunction in Trump/USPS Mail-In Ballot Case: Why This Should Be an Easy Case for the Supreme Court to Deny a Stay #ELB
As expected, the federal district court in Massachusetts that had enjoined the Trump executive order directing USPS to limit mail in voting and then issued a temporary restraining order against the US...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk." Time to explore the seizure of Musk's assets abroad where he is undermining democracy and promoting fascism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘We cannot forget our history’
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We're seeing a Great Recession-level loss of health insurance despite record stock market and corporate profits. Or perhaps because of..
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Setting aside all the civil liberties, privacy, and free expression concerns, online ID checks / “age verification” laws are just a massive massive security risk. Every time I read one of these bills I ask “did an identity thief write this?!”
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