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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Turns out that everything Trump is doing in the lead up to the midterms to try to boost Republican turnout is only producing the opposite effect while also boosting Democratic and independent turnout of people enraged at what he’s doing and saying.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What intimate and embarrassing conversations could the Governor of Texas be legitimately having with Elon Musk? Every voter in Texas should want to know.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay. I’m out of jokes. John Kennedy talking about throwing up in his mouth made me throw up in mine. Eric Schmitt is a moron. Katie Britt is the Stepford wife we never asked for, and the GOP should stop wasting everyone’s time with performative bullshit when people are scared and suffering.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In many red states, it's simply a question of whether you can get Trump's endorsement. So we wind up with idiots like Eric Schmitt, Tuberville and Darline Graham, if she wins I mean, Georgia Republicans nominated Herschel Walker because Trump told them to, for G-d's sake. And he almost beat Ossoff
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
"I have asked the White House exactly which department is paying for it, and they have not given us that information," says Tamara Keith. "What I can tell from looking at AdImpact... the U.S. government has already spent more than a million dollars to air these ads." to.pbs.org/4iUewZo
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on taxpayer funds used for TV ads promoting Trump
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the U.S. government paying for TV advertisements promo...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They tell us a million bullshit things we can do to avoid being raped without telling predators to just not rape us.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 41 states.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz claims "the primary thing" affecting diesel prices is "the war between Russia and Ukraine" (diesel prices only spiked after Trump attacked Iran ... )
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
President Trump opposes deal that would open the Strait of Hormuz immediately. Holding out for diesel at $10 a gallon.
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted has now voted 14 times to continue the Iran war. That’s 14 votes causing record high gas and grocery prices, and Ohioans are paying the price.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fox News hosts spend their day telling their audience that Democrats are communists and communists are evil people, then in the evening they all got dressed up to attend a state dinner honoring a communist.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Jocelyn Fox @jfoxtales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Fascism is suffocating. These two amazing women help me remember to breathe. I love spending some weekend regrouping time with them and think you will too. Historians rock. @jbf1755.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/8fTE4vR...
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What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I want white folks to understand is when you let your friends, business partners, elected officials, consultants talk about us this way, we don’t trust you either. So ask Walmart & Hewlett Packard about the ppl they pay as lobbyists.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The United States is preparing to sell Israel 40,000 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds (nearly a ton) each in a $2.8 billion sale. IT’S FUNDED BY U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY. The Trump administration has approved the sale, making it among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Report: Trump approves $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 one-ton bombs to Israel
In 2023, Israel reportedly used MK-84 bombs, which reportedly make up half of the sale, in areas of the Gaza Strip designated as safe for civilians, with each strike creating a crater measuring at lea...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The experiment visited upon us by too many of our fellow citizens to put the dumbest American who also thinks he’s an expert on every subject in charge of our govt is not going well. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Given how much the FCC is concerned about Disney-owned channels giving unequal time to politicians, I'm sure ESPN Game Day will have Texas alum James Talarico on next to counterbalance Ted Cruz
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sure seems like we should revisit that whole "lying president tried to have his goons put an Olympic athlete in prison for his own incompetence" thing
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
Breaking News: A federal court struck down a Trump administration order to keep an aging coal plant in Michigan running — dealing a blow to President Trump’s efforts to promote the coal industry.
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Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running
The aging Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every time I hear a Missouri Republican complain about “the Democrats,” I have the same question: who has been in charge of the state for over two decades? I’ll wait…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We’ve been studying Trump’s EO on mail voting & the way he’s weaponizing USPS to suppress the vote. It’s complicated & the new whistleblower revelations make it more urgent. Tonight, I explain what you should be doing now to protect your right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/i-doubt-yo...
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I Doubt You’re Surprised
There’s a whistleblower addressing the USPS plan to implement Trump’s EO on mail ballots
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Medical freedom” isn’t stripping health coverage from millions, gutting the protections that keep our air and water safe, or abruptly ending hundreds of clinical trials for future cures. That isn’t freedom. It is cruelty disguised as principle. @aliciamenendez.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hook this right into my veins.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This was written by Thomas Anderson, a retired colonel and attorney who posts under the online moniker "CynicalPublius” on Elon’s toxic waste site. He is one of Pete Hegseth’s influencers hired to spread propaganda. Just a coincidence that he’s covering up for Donald Trump’s pedophilia . . .
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Lt. Boohura @ltuhura.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There are new breakthroughs in women's health EVERY DAY, because we spent so long ignoring it, and are still catching up. Yet, one of the first things TFG cut, was all research and study of women's health. We're the majority of the population, and we're still a literal medical mystery. Globally.
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 29/08/2026
Surveillance is not safety, and safety is not surveillance. When one officer can allegedly search his ex-girlfriend’s license plate more than 10,000 times, the danger of unchecked surveillance is clear. Texans shouldn’t have to surrender our privacy and freedom just to feel safe.
Graphic from FOX51/KETK reporting that an East Texas officer was arrested after allegedly searching his ex-girlfriend’s license plate more than 10,000 times using Flock cameras. The graphic shows the officer’s mugshot alongside a Flock license plate reader camera.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Costco runs it's own rigorous food inspection program. And they didn't bend the knee on DEI. Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women. And they are refusing to carry trump meat. So that's where I'll be shopping.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After a donation, Trump intervened to let Live Nation-Ticketmaster off the hook in its monopoly trial. After Bezos buttered him up, Amazon got a slap on the wrist for allegedly tricking people into Prime accounts. After cutting business deals with them, he pardoned crypto felons. See a pattern?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Voting rights groups supplement their original complaint against Trump’s unconstitutional executive order on mail voting and seek an emergency court order to block the United States Postal Service from implementing its mail ballot rule for the November election. 1/2
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Voting Rights Groups Move to Block Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule
Plaintiffs in League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump supplement original complaint and seek emergency court order to block USPS from implementing mail ballot rule for November election
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Dr. Implorable @drimplorable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Want to keep her memory alive? Do a lot of kind things, for a lot of people, no matter who they are. And do it with a happy and humble heart.
Mural portrait of Dolly Parton
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Let’s be honest. MAGA doesn’t want women to play in the WNBA or do anything that isn’t sex or child rearing. There aren’t any trans people in the WNBA so a big part of this is just to intimidate and harass women.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
we are PROTECTING WOMEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS by having MEN show up to WOMEN'S SPORTS to YELL at the WOMEN PLAYING SPORTS
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