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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 18h
@mainedems.bsky.social Elon Musk is trying to buy Susan Collins a sixth Senate term. Pass it on vote.org #GOTV4Democrats
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Raging Grannies SF Bay Area @raginggrannies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#palantir #protest #paloalto Tuesday Sept 29 from 5:30pm 100 Hamilton Ave. #stopice
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i pledge my sword to the politician who just says: let’s leave trans people alone, i don’t know or care what a hasan piker is, and i condemn the genocide in gaza. stop hiring consultants that make you say weird stuff that nobody likes.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just participated in the FUNNEST phonebank for Jon Ossoff with @indivisibleeb.bsky.social and the hosts of the @fatedmates.net podcast! Great hosts, bingo, giveaways and inspiring success stories. Sign up to PB with them any Saturday a.m. for Ossoff, Talarico, El-Sayed or Pearson below. 🌊💪🌊
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FATED STATES — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
again we hanged a guy at nuremburg for doing exactly this, for publishing depictions of jews in the same grotesque, inflammatory, malicious, and morbidly cartoonish way as these regime memelords routinely depict immigrants in their official posts
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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our music and our memories are being wiped out. AMERICA built this city. Not a president. Join us!
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As #Dreamforce continues in SF, please join me in urging #Salesforce to sign the Democracy Pledge and end its contract with #ICE! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/sale...
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Salesforce Sign the Democracy Pledge and End ICE Contract!
We’re calling on Salesforce and Marc Benioff to use their influence to defend democracy and immigrant communities and to live up to their image as a values driven company. As Salesforce hosts one of ...
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don't give AI any data you wouldn't want to see in The New York Times 👀
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We are ‘carrying’ almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer." - Trump Actually other countries are carrying the US thanks to its incredible level of government debt www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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Fed defies Trump, raises US interest rates for first time in three years
The move was widely expected amid persistently high inflation driven by the Iran war and rising oil prices – but the decision risks enraging the US president, who has demanded rates be lowered.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
.@haiyun-jiang.bsky.social has captured a lot in this photo; we are all Mark Carney. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/u... #TrumpIsNotWell
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Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union. (Gift Article)
The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of Mr. Trump’s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America’s closest friends.
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Kathryn Womble @kswomble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He violently raped her in that incident. He was mad that the scalp reduction procedure, conducted by a surgeon recommended by Ivana, didn't turn out like he'd expected (or was more painful than his wimpy ass could handle, I don't remember which).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(1/5) If you normally vote by mail, don’t wait for your ballot to get mailed to you. A lot of people think the issue is what will happen after you get your ballot, but a very big issue is not getting it mailed to you in time at all.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/09/2026
Early voting is a crucial tool for stopping election sabotage. Join your local No Kings event on October 17 to promote unprecedented early voting in the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 13/09/2026
Help I can’t stop watching this
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
HANDS OFF OUR VOTE! Trump is trying to sabotage the midterms and we can't let him succeed. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. Use this link to join us. share.indvs.org/s/e3LoHqqa
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We are democracy's strongest line of defense.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Brilliant!
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...
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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal
Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tell MO Gov Kehoe & AG Hanaway to follow the damn law! Their own state Supreme Court has blocked their attempt to steal Dem @cleaver.house.gov's seat. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u... #GOPchaos
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Dueling Court Rulings Leave Missouri’s Congressional Races in Chaos
After losing in two courts and winning in another, Missouri officials said they planned to forge ahead with using a congressional map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hitler was a megalomaniac, too.
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Peter the Saint @railrider-56.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 22/08/2026
The fact is that Trump added more debt than Biden, and Republican presidents have added more debt than Democrats. By lots.
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JD Vance Says $40 Trillion U.S. 'Debt Bomb' Is Biden’s Fault, And Critics Are Tired Of The Blame Game
“Blaming Biden for everything that Trump does is getting really tired,” one X user wrote.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A reasonable policy response to an entirely preventable disaster. We're like the Easter Islanders who cut all their trees down & then had to leave, but with technocracy.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They are trying to steal the election but they will fail, because we will stop them. @indivisible.org
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New top ten list of Trump wasting your money 👇🏻
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@awinston.bsky.social @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social I've just finished reading The Riders Come Out at Night, and it has greatly deepened my understanding of my city and its actors. Thank you for your outstanding local journalism! #Oakland 
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump is bankrupting U.S. Who'd have thunk it? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/b...
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U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues
President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been undercut by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'll never steal your pen.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
80 days until voters decide whether the economy gets fixed for workers or for billionaires. Organize your family. Register voters. Make calls. Knock doors. Bring ten people with you to the polls. Show up. #BlueWaveIn80Days
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
They begin with acknowledgment. Dōgen understood atonement not as self-condemnation but as awakening itself. The moment we stop defending ourselves, we become available to transformation.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New Republic: In recent weeks, Elon Musk has said that he’s going back to being a GOP bankroller, to the tune of $120 million. And the first beneficiary of his dirty money is slated to be Susan Collins. She should suffer for it. Yes, please!💙 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Trump is running the economy just like he ran his businesses — straight into the ground.
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How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich
Let’s set the record straight: Trump is not a “successful businessman.” He is, objectively, a business failure.
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Senate REPUBLICANS - all Democrats voted against. Why do reporters who know better continue to blur this reality?
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is 572 5 year biomedical research grants to study cancer, heart disease, blindness, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, diabetes, infectious disease, etc…
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Luttig: As a candidate for attorney general of the United States of America, Blanche is an embarrassment to America itself. If the Republican Senate confirms this man, based on his record, to be the next attorney general, it will mark the end of the rule of law in America.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
People should be prepared for this to be technically true. States audit their own “voter rolls” (registrant database) and find a few hundred ineligible registrants The sleight of hand is that when they check how many ineligible voters cast ballots that were accepted, it’s single digit numbers
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’
Tom Homan’s comments come after two men were fatally shot this week at the hands of ICE agents in separate incidents
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Lorenzo and Johan were beloved members of their communities who were killed by ICE. Join a MASS CALL to learn how you can take action over the coming weeks to demand justice and accountability for Lorenzo, Johan, and all the families impacted by state violence. share.indvs.org/s/rwKs7Wtw
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RSVP for the mass call Wed 8pm ET
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It’s not just “the far left”
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Sparky @jesseroth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Don't give him ideas! 😱
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 11/07/2026
Regardless of how much time you have or where you stand in your community, there is a role for you in ensuring free and fair midterms. Our Community Resilience guide is designed for all of us to spot intimidation and know how to push back. Get the guide: protdem.org/community-resilience
A guide titled "Community Resilience in the 2026 Elections" with a subtitle about supporting neighbors against federal interference. A banner at the top reads "Get the Guide," and a footer says "Protecting Free and Fair Elections in 2026.
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