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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 15h
Collins "decried the 'gutter-level political campaign' waged against Kavanaugh by 'dark money' and 'special-interest groups' (groups that presumably included Planned Parenthood, the organization that had last given her an award just the previous year), portraying Kavanaugh as the real victim."
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 10h
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 13h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10h
In the spirit of unity and moving past our divisions as a people, I would very much like the Democrats, should they gain power a month from now, to break the back of this Presidency over its knee.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 20h
Donald Trump is going around the country telling a weird madeup story about James Talarico fake-eating meat and then throwing up… My report from the POTUS red-state panic tour: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Dumocrats Are Coming for Trump, and All He Can Do Is Call Them Names
A report from the President’s campaign tour through the formerly safe precincts of red America.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Disgusting www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Decisions over what happens to your body shouldn't depend on who wins the next election. That's why David Crowley supports a constitutional amendment to guarantee reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It can't happen here...until it happens here.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jon Ossoff:
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Stand By Me: Want to See a Dead Body?
Alt: Stand By Me: Want to See a Dead Body?
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Get 'em, Z
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth got the job not because of his clown antics on Fox News but because during the first term he made it his personal crusade to get Trump to pardon war criminals who had murdered civilians and desecrated corpses. That’s who he is and it’s what Trump hired him to be.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An absolute master of the casual shiv.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These people are morons.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pay to play, baby...
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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 07/10/2026
Katie Phang on Alito CBS interview: the most gratuitous, ass-kissing thing I have seen.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ELB: “‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account” electionlawblog.org/2026/honey-plea…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Haha wow is this comically corrupt. /he didn't end up paying her the money because he said he'd get in trouble with his wife.
By 
Dana Mattioli
, 
Drew Hinshaw
, 
Rebecca Ballhaus
 and 
Joe Parkinson
Oct. 7, 2026 4:53 pm ET

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. 

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”

Underneath is a screenshot of a text. First text is a link to an American Express instructions PDF. Next text says: "You can just send it here. It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that's all that will show." Final text: "Please."
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I thought Mamdani's statement today about Oct. 7 was fine. Just saying that because man, a lot of people today apparently feel very free to announce to journalists how upset and angry "Jews in New York City" are, and I'm one, and I'm not.
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Lilith’s Karmic Revenge @happyluddite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I heard on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social that there were #Kayactivists visiting his vacation island this summer to shout “shame” at him. 🥰
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Happy Kayaking Adventure
ALT: Happy Kayaking Adventure
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Marc Airhart ❌👑 @marcairhart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh look, rich, antisocial carpet bagger tries to buy Texas Senate seat. Let's help him set that money on fire, folks!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Read the whole thread. "A Nazi trillionaire is trying to buy a seat" seems like it should be a pretty easy Democratic campaign line in just about every race in the country.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Btw: Tom Tiffany, running for Governor of Wisconsin, is chairman of subcommittee on federal lands. He wants to destroy this rule. He's also got a 100% pro-Trump voting record in Congress. So, after you weigh in against this rule, chip in to help David Crowley beat him, and sign to volunteer.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
!!! Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/10/2026
Exclusive: The Trump administration is quietly trying to use an obscure funding power to threaten $190 million of the Smithsonian’s budget, @kelseyables.bsky.social reports:
bit.ly
The White House Revives a Pressure Tactic Against the Smithsonian
The Trump administration is threatening $190 million in museum funding.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
schrodinger’s reflecting pool
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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The New York Times reports Kristi Noem bought five airplanes from a company chaired by one of her donors just hours before leaving her role at DHS. Stephanie Ruhle breaks it down. #dhs #kristinoem #nyt
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Money Power Politics with Stephanie Ruhle @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Patagonia has launched a voter mobilization campaign to help "remove the guesswork for voters." #patagonia #vote #midterms #election #GoodNewsRuhles
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know that some of you NYers think your vote doesn't matter in this election but A) of course it does and B) I think Governor will be closer than it looks, and if we let Bruce Blakeman beat Kathy Hochul, Debra Messing wins.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump might believe he’s going to overcome his historic unpopularity by sabotaging the midterms. On October 17, millions of Americans are taking to the streets again to make it clear that’s not happening. Please join us for the next No Kings Day.
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 05/10/2026
If you live in… Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Today is the last day you can register to vote! Text your friends and family. Check on your co-workers. Make sure the people in your life are registered to vote: BetterInAUnion.org/check
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Check Your Voter Registration Status
Have you moved, changed your name, or you're just not sure of the status of your voter registration? Fill out the form below to check your status.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
His Ls have gotten even more peculiar than usual. By the way, some odd trivia: This is the President of the United States.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Having done the chaos of NYC Halloween for years when my kids were little, the idea of 160 car free streets for Halloween fills me with joy.
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP promised us Mamdani would usher in sharia law. Instead, we got line dancing in Bryant Park and free opera tickets. Pretty cool.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For all of the Mamdani team's brilliance with social media, this is the most basic thing in the political playbook: Do good things for your constituents, then tell them about it. It shouldn't be as startling as it is! It's the job!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI is an unregulated emergency on every level--academia, art, national security, privacy, the environment, faith in journalism, and on and on and on--and deriding those who are desperately trying to pull the handbrake as we go over the cliff as alarmists will not age well (if we get to age at all).
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics
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