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Jane Tate

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Recovering attorney. Mediator. Beatles fan.

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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
October 8, 2026 On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest. The Peshtigo Fire in northeastern Wisconsin and parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula burned more than 1.2 million acres (4,860 square kilometers) and 17 towns, claiming between 1,500 and...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Funny how Marco Rubio tries to differentiate himself from all the other children of recent immigrants who are now getting removed from the country by the master he now serves. Rubio, you see, is a descendent of *the West*
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know what I don't see on the agent who shot a dad with a military assault rifle? THE BODY-CAM THAT THE TRUMP ADMIN HAS PROMISED TO PUT ON ALL ICE AGENTS.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IMO, This is the whole ballgame. Money corrupts absolutely. Josh Turek: "We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
"Because his two terms were non-consecutive and he remained in the political spotlight throughout Biden’s term, Trump has polluted the national discourse for *more than 11 years*. His act is profoundly old." — @schaller67.bsky.social
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Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet
His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Should November 3 be the disaster for Republicans that analysts are predicting, Trump will morph overnight into something less than a lame duck president with a ticking, two-year expiration clock: he will become politically bankrupt in ways all-too-familiar to him as a businessman." Excellent read:
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kevin James in King of Queens
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
iPad baby presidency. Literally putting on a cartoon about his family to keep him quiet in his seat.🤦🏻‍♀️
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
October 7, 2026 On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy Bush about his approach to women. “I don’t even wait” to start kissing them, he said.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For Trump, laws are things to ignore: Trump Mobile failed to make required regulatory filings, senator claims The Washington Post could not find filings for the Trump-branded service that are required by the Federal Communications Commission. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump Mobile failed to make required regulatory filings, senator claims
The Washington Post could not find filings for the Trump-branded service that are required by the Federal Communications Commission under rules designed to prevent fraud.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026
Wall Street and corporations have schemed for decades to stack the bench with judges who rule against consumers and workers. Result? Federal courts have distorted the law to further rig the economy—and you're paying the price. Democrats must be clear-eyed about this challenge.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can you post this on Threads? There's no preview when sharing from BlueSky to Threads & I'd really like to share this post there.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Virus that can cause rare polio-like illness rising in Bay Area share.google/ksuW8Di52LE6...
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EV-D68, virus that can cause rare polio-like illness, rising in Bay Area
Enterovirus D68 is circulating in the Bay Area yet again.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October 6, 2026 Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking. Shortly after noon yesterday, he posted that it was “no longer the Strait of Hormuz” driving up gasoline prices, but Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s refineries. In fact, some oil tankers have indeed been passing through the...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
New in PN: “Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire "Leading this project of ruthless mapping will be 'three of our nation’s best minds:' Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. In other words — at the risk of being unkind — a weirdo, a beardo, and a fatty."
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Paxton on leaked audio: "I've never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign and what issues are going to matter because it's all coming -- you know -- from DC, and I don't control message or what we're doing, and I don't have ability to change anything."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "FoxNews spends more time covering Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum. She never interviews me like that"
Trump: "FoxNews spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum, and the like. She never interviews me like that. They don’t show my record breaking Rallies the morning after, but others do, and that’s what MAGA is watching. Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA. They have totally lost their way! President DJT"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate running against Tom Cotton, on Morning Joe: "I'll tell you -- over the 450 days that I've been on the campaign trail, not once have I been asked about daylight savings time. Arkansas are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and healthcare."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
October 5, 2026 Last night, on October 4, U.S. Southern Command posted that it had struck another small boat in the Caribbean, killing another four people it called “narco-terrorists.” This brings the number of strikes to more than 70, and the number of people killed in the strikes that began a...
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 05/10/2026
This week’s main story is about the Secret Service, why they’ve had so many close calls in recent years, and why some are privately calling 2028 “Armageddon.” Which we’re sure is just an arbitrary code name and nothing to worry about. Link to full segment in bio!
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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. propub.li/4dftl5a
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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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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84
The Illinois Republican, the longest-serving GOP speaker in U.S. history, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after leaving Congress for scheming to cover up child molestation accusations.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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 Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts….”
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank Leonard Leo and his blood thirsty Supremes for expanding gun rights. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels (Gift Article)
Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All B-1 bombers returning to U.S. from U.K. base over suspected terror threat - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/ALPu-VROmT0e...
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All B-1 Bombers Returning to U.S. From U.K. Base — The Wall Street Journal
Withdrawal comes amid security concerns around base where several suspects were arrested last week in connection to suspected terror plot
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies - The Banker share.google/TeGnahPpFx06...
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026 On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. On two stages were rock, alternative, and...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
New in PN: Diesel Don is tanking the GOP "Making matters even worse for Republicans, the bitter yet deserved irony is that key constituencies across Red America that elected Trump are particularly hard-hit: men, whites, farmers, rural citizens, and those from the South and West."
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Diesel Don is tanking the GOP
Record high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump wants the Supreme Court to rule that DHS can imprison-indefinitely-immigrants who enter the US illegally He wants ICE to arrest millions of migrants and keep them incarcerated-maybe for years-until they can be deported Even if they have legal status In violation of their due process rights
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 2, 2026 Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people showed up at a football stadium to hear the television personality turned….
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
John is completely correct: The Schmitt hearing debacle is not a one-off. It's part of an on-going MAGA scheme to help Trump seek revenge against his enemies. Schmitt won't stop here- neither will the rest of the GOP.
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Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CSPAN: “We should mention that Senator Schmitt was supposed to appear on this program with Sen. Coons but he pulled out the day after that hearing.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Today I joined veterans, preservationists, and concerned citizens demanding that the Administration stop construction of Trump's vanity arch. No one but Trump wants this, so I will not stop fighting against this selfish, dangerous, and illegal proposal until it's gone. youtube.com/shorts/0bx0D...
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Beyer Joins Call to Stop Trump’s Vanity Arch
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 1, 2026 John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Middle Eastern countries hurt by Russia’s war on Ukraine and diverting it to...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social with another scoop filled report AND a brutal reality check on how Bari Weiss' terrible year at CBS News cost likely her the CNN job...at least for now. www.status.news/p/paramount-...
To be clear, Ellison not tapping Weiss to lead CNN at the deal's close is a brutal indictment of her tenure at CBS News, which has been defined by record-low ratings, serious accusations of editorial interference, trouble recruiting high-profile names to the network, a series of self-inflicted wounds, and a mountain of bad pressto go along with it. Had Weiss performed well, she would likely be on the cusp of adding CNN to her remit as soon as next week. That she will have to wait at least a while longer indicates that even the Ellisons, at the very least, have reservations about her leadership. 
Until recently, the plan had always been to give Weiss editorial oversight of CNN. But after a summer of disastrous headlines triggered by the anti-"woke" opinionator's radical overhaul of "60 Minutes," Ellison cooled on his enthusiasm for her, as Statuspreviously reported. That doesn't mean, however, that she is out forever. It's very possible that Ellison—who is closely aligned with The Free Press founder on editorial matters—still believes Weiss is the person he ultimately wants overseeing his news division. It could simply mean he believes she needs to find her sea legs and mature as an operator. Putting at least another year between her and CNN could, in his eyes, give her the time to grow into the role.
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jane Tate @janetate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
5 million people, including an estimated 1 million children, have lost access to food because of Trump. Instead of a ballroom, an arch, or a war, we could be making sure people don’t go hungry. 

This President’s priorities are shameful.
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Changes to SNAP benefits begin Oct. 1 for millions of Americans: What to know
Major changes are coming on Oct. 1 for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food assistance.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Ahead of a pivotal midterm election defined by concerns around surging rent and gas prices, student debt is emerging as an affordability issue some voters say is being overlooked.
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Soaring Student Loan Bills Add to Voters’ Affordability Squeeze
More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.
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