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Missouri Democrats @missouridemocrats.bsky.social · 27m
Your health care decisions belong to you and your doctor! Not out-of-touch politicians. Vote NO on Amendment 3 by November 3.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h
From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.
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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions
LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
The saving grace is, in many of these backsliding countries, only a minority want the most fascist parts. Appears to be about 30-something % into it, with another 20-30% that doesn't really object to the fascism (or necessarily care) and will swing to it if, say, prices went up. Which isn't great.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
Fascism, neo- or otherwise, isn't like an oppressive hereditary monarch. We're dealing with a mass movement. Anti-democracy, anti-rights, anti-liberal. In numerous countries, with considerable transnational solidarity. For example, this crowd wasn't reluctantly forced into it. They're ecstatic.
Trump 2024 rally with the crowd waving "Mass Deportation Now!" signs and smiling.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
Netanyahu has been re-elected multiple times. Brexit was a national referendum. AfD’s recent gains came in a free and fair vote. National Front/Rally gets its support freely too. Putin rigged the system, but independent measures have consistently shown him popular. Many want this stuff.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h
Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 2h
On this week's episode of Missouri on the Record, Jason Hancock talks with Missouri Independent Deputy Editor Rudi Keller about how the redistricting fight spiraled into contempt proceedings, dueling state and federal court rulings and confusion for local election officials. #moleg #mogov
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After a year of redistricting chaos, Missouri is back where it started • Missouri Independent
After a year of lawsuits and three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri will use its 2024 congressional map in the Nov. 3 election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h
Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former speaker of the House who eventually went to prison for concealing hush money payments to children he molested, dies at age 84. cbsnews.com/news/dennis-hastert-dies-former-house-speaker-illinois/
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Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h
A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-... By the incomparable @eggerdc.bsky.social
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 2h
If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Go to IWillVote.com for more info.
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Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 3h
#Colorado: Family of #EpsteinVictim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against #RepresentativeJeffCrank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Family of Epstein Victim Appears in Ad Targeting Republican (Gift Article)
In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Quite an image. Along the lines of "dog leaves fight, tail between its legs."
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 3h
Foreclosure activity in the U.S. rose at the start of the year to its highest level in six years, according to property data firm Attom, reflecting mounting financial pressure on homeowners from rising costs beyond their mortgage payments. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/foreclosur...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h
Trump approval over last three months dropped ~5% (from ~ 45% to ~40%) in AK, IA, OH, & TX, states with Senate races with lots of paid and earned media. Nationally Trump approval dropped ~ 2-3 points then. Does more attention lead to more disapproval? Lesson going forward for KS, NE, SC etc.?
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 3h
Russia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
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Russia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
According to local media reports, as many as 189 people have also been placed under medical observation in Irkutsk in Eastern Russia.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 3h
Missouri will not use optional federal exemptions designed to help low-income people keep Medicaid coverage when they are hospitalized, travel for medical care or live in areas affected by disasters or high unemployment. #moleg #mogov
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Missouri rejects optional hardship exceptions to Medicaid work requirements • Missouri Independent
The Department of Social Services says people who have acute medical events or travel for care can maintain coverage using other exemptions
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5h
"DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say."
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 4h
Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉 Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He seems very happy with the news!
Karl Deisseroth on the phone looking happy
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Ross Murray @inlayterms.bsky.social · 4h
I remember being frustrated that Dems voted for nominees based on trust. A move like this, blocking unqualified nominees, is one of MANY levers that a Dem controlled Senate (and House) need to do. Be ready to do more than just go along with the system.
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Exclusive: Democratic-controlled Senate would confirm ‘very few’ Trump nominees
If Democrats are in charge, don’t expect many of the president’s picks to move at all.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h
New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, who tragically lost his 58-year-old mum and several family members to COVID-19 complications, continues advocating for vaccination. “I have asthma,” Towns said, highlighting his “high-risk status” while raising awareness of the non-mRNA NUVAXOVID vaccine.
A screenshot of a Forbes article titled "Karl-Anthony Towns Who Lost Mom To COVID-19 Talks Of Value Of Vaccine." The article is written by Bruce Y. Lee and shows a publication date from early October 2026. Below the headline, a photograph captures NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns sitting at a press conference microphone wearing a white New York Knicks jersey. He is looking forward with a serious expression against a blue backdrop covered in repeating logos for Chase and the New York Knicks. A caption below the photo identifies him as the Knicks center speaking at a recent Media Day.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 5h
“The painful reality is that any semblance of a responsible GOP is dead and buried, and Democrats cannot succeed if they focus on rehabilitating this cadaver. MAGA, or some form of nationalist-populist politics, is driven by deep structural forces, and so MAGA is going to define the GOP for decades”
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You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Innis Blue @innisblue.bsky.social · 3h
After his stellar performance this week, why not? 🤡
Senators Kennedy and Schmitt at the Jack Smith hearing, but modified to look like they are part of the 3 Stooges.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
“.. Whatever the reasons were for going in, from an economic point of view the war in the Middle East has been a disaster. .. It’s been disastrous from a cost-of-living point of view, for Australians and indeed for people right around the world.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 15h
"unlike my main competitor I specifically believe our products justify some suffering" is not very good marketing
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h
KREMLIN DECLINES COMMENTS ON NEW YORK TIMES REPORT ABOUT MULTI-BILLION OIL DEAL INCLUSION IN UKRAINIAN PEACE TALKS
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 03/10/2026
The global bond sell-off sparked by the Iran war entered a decidedly antsy stage as this week progressed, with some wild moves in the Eurozone. Some of our coverage from the past few days…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
“.. 2,000 trucks x $20,000 in fuel savings per year x 20 years. That works out to $800 million in total savings, for a whopping ~166% ROI.” @electrek.com electrek.co/2026/10/03/f...
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 5h
Saudi Aramco chief says replenishing global oil stockpiles could take two years
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Saudi Aramco chief says replenishing global oil stockpiles could take two years
Saudi Aramco's CEO warned it could take up to two years to rebuild global oil inventories, saying the squeeze could worsen as the U.S.-Iran war continues.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. seven strikes on vessels around the waterway since Sept. 28.” @wsj.com ⛽️ www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social · 18h
Marco ordered to dress in Atlanta Hawks uniform
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 15h
Old Joe didn't get credit for a frick'n thing:
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10h
October 4, 2026
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14h
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 17h
Cindy Hyde-Smith is supported by fertilizer companies ripping off farmers, millions from a pro-AI super PAC pushing for costly data center development and everything in between. It's pretty clear who she answers to. As senator, the only people I'll owe anything to are the people of Mississippi.
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Change is coming to Texas this November.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14h
If in the next three years we don’t substantially reform the Court and throw Alito’s entire jurisprudence in the trash (and I mean all of it)… we will have allowed this rightwing politician to have made the US substantially more fascist, against the popular will.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20h
i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h
NEW: Kansas hasn't elected a Democratic senator since 1932. But Adam Hamilton is tied with GOP incumbent Roger Marshall at 45 percent. Republicans are responding with millions in attack ads. Our @lauren-egan.bsky.social, reporting from Kansas: www.thebulwark.com/p/kansas-is-...
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Trumpism in Trouble on the Prairie
Democrats have found an opening in one of America’s reddest states. Now comes the Republican money.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h
NEW OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world should accept “some bad things happening,” in exchange for the enormous benefits of AI. Via Decoded from Politico
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 20h
FUN FACT: Your daughter is safer with the gay boy you refused to accept than around the straight boys you proudly approved of.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h
The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20h
⚡️Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia. The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia
The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 14h
The people who can't even keep lettuce and eggs safe are 'actively monitoring' the plague outbreak in Russia.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22h
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 14h
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h
Brazil election moves to runoff after Lula and Bolsonaro fail to garner majority vote, electoral court says.
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Brazil heads to runoff election after Bolsonaro, Lula fail to garner majority vote
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.
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