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Repealing Citizens United needs to be a much bigger conversation. #WeThePeopleAmendment 🐝 #BeHuman 🐝 #NoKings 🐝 #TeamPete Banner quote from @johnsipher.bsky.social

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2h
The Senate must be flipped — or else.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3h
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 10h
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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804ThePeople @804thepeople.bsky.social · 6h
I told you not to sleep on @bethmacy.bsky.social & #VA-06. Looks like @electdemocrats.bsky.social agrees. Good job & let’s go! @rockdemsva.bsky.social @staunton-democrats.org @hburgdems.bsky.social @shencodems.bsky.social @pagecodems.bsky.social cardinalnews.org/2026/10/02/n...
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National Democrats say Virginia’s 6th District is now ‘in play’ for the midterm elections
The last Democrat to be elected to the seat was Rep. Jim Olin of Roanoke, who retired in 1993. This year, Democratic challenger Beth Macy faces incumbent Rep. Ben Cline.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
If you live in the Princeton area, they're planning on building a massive data center near us. Register your complaints here: dep.nj.gov/boss/permit-...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 13h
There's no hate like Christian love.. Texas Faith Fest attendees reveal how they plan to make life as 'uncomfortable' as possible for Muslims living in Lone Star State www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas Faith Fest speakers propose plans to make Muslims ‘more uncomfortable’
At Texas Faith Fest this year, speakers suggested policies that would limit Muslim religious practices and reshape the government's relationship with religion.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12h
Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h
NEW: A new USPS policy will eliminate evening mail pickups from select post offices across the country — a change that will eventually slow pick-up and delivery times for around 70% of zip codes in the U.S. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected👇
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h
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Jay Wolman @wolmanj.bsky.social · 14h
Raise your hand if you found out yesterday, you were sued for treason www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mmc6w...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15h
Gotta be about the kinda of jobs, right? Health aides etc. Lower paying…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h
“As the US mainland hasn’t been invaded since 1812 and there is no prospect of any country invading such a large land mass with (relatively) friendly neighbours, the only logical conclusion is that the implied threat will come from within.”
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The War At Home
The Pentagon identifies a new enemy…in America
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19h
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe has agreed on how to respond to Trump's demand to open diesel reserves, - Politico Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Ireland, together with the European Commission, have agreed on a joint response to the American demand - otherwise the US may ban fuel exports to Europe.
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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 19h
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 19h
Mike Lee isn’t worth a damn. Do better, Utah. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Lone GOP senator blocks bipartisan effort to prevent Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center | CNN Politics
A bipartisan effort aimed at protecting the Kennedy Center from demolition was blocked on the Senate floor Monday night by a lone Republican senator.
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JeanneRussell.bsky.social @jeannerussell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today I was honored to join the patriots in Harrisonburg for the Thursday Lunch without Spineless Cline. These folks gather each Thursday to protest the failures of Rep Ben Cline & his failure to represent the best interests of his constituents. Vote for Beth Macy! #goodtrouble #declinethe6th
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Surprise. Surprise. Some countries and people do not want to be controlled or allow their information to be controlled by billionaire backed tech bros with an agenda.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A private equity firm wants its own road into Yosemite. We're 115 letters from 18,000 telling Congress no way. Be one of the last 115: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE’s ‘Enforced Disappearances’ of Noncitizens | “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance.”
buckscountybeacon.com
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE's 'Enforced Disappearances' of Noncitizens - Bucks County Beacon
The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the President attacks the Kennedy Center, the free press, & the Smithsonian, his intentions are clear: He wants to rewrite our history, & control how it’s told. That’s why I joined Rep. Jackson and Rep. Mfume to introduce our Smithsonian Integrity Act: To keep our museums & history in OUR hands.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Ugh. Something else nobody asked for. Most folks just want their passports as quickly as possible, at a reasonable cost, and without Trump’s image soiling it for the next 10 years.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great story
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Jon Lewis @jonlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Civility is when John Roberts says states can disenfranchise whomever they want, unchecked aggression is when I say 'you sure about that, John?'
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📌NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon is eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals. 📌NOTE: Authoritarian regimes eliminate military leaders who they believe aren't loyal to the regime. 📌UPSHOT: This is a very concerning development in the GOP's ongoing attack on America and her Democracy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on ICE detention centers, where at least 58 people have died: "We're not providing Holiday Inns."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the same speech he announced that these three guys would set strategic direction for future warfare capabilities
elon muskpalmer luckeynewt gingrich with a lot of face tune
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And the fact that, by all accounts, none of the 57 young men in that group chat had the elemental human decency to speak up is an indictment of them, their parents, and a culture that has allowed the young men in our collective care to devolve into such mindless barbarism.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
"Only 28 percent of Americans believe that AI technology should move full speed ahead. Everyone else wants it slowed down or stopped, temporarily or permanently." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/one-more-r...
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One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them
Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 30/09/2026
By raking in $2.2 billion last year, President Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours. And he made the median American's annual income about every 10 minutes.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday Never let an opportunity pass to tell someone they matter. You never know how much they might need to hear it that day. A little appreciation can brighten someone’s whole day.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Expand the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
El Salvador is still imprisoning ICE deportees from the U.S., even after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case sparked a backlash. Some are disappearing.
theatlantic.com
ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
motherjones.com
Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEWS: Trump just launched an AI website for your Medicare, passports and student loans. It's powered by Elon Musk's Grok, the chatbot that called itself "MechaHitler," and built by the same administration whose DOGE team leaked Americans' Social Security data. What the hell are we doing?
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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