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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Read my interview with lawyer and independent journalist @juddlegum.bsky.social who frequently focuses on issues that get passed over elsewhere. This one is incredibly important for protecting both your ability to vote and your privacy. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Five Questions with Judd Legum
American journalist, lawyer, and political writer
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Mets Universe @metsuniverse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey baseball fans and fellow decent humans. I have never asked this before. I have nearly 6,000 followers and would love to see as many of you repost this so we can get major league baseball and the Hall of Fame’s attention. It is beyond overdue that Curt Flood is inducted into the Hall of Fame #MLB
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Sandy @smarsh-s-mart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My open letter to David Ellison has unexpectedly gone viral. Here is the full version for anyone who wants to read and share. If you like it, I would ask you to sign to Democracy Docket at the bottom. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Mets Universe @metsuniverse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Inspiring #STEM @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social @umpireplb.bsky.social #science #health
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Here is what you need to know about DOJ's approval of the Paramount deal: David Ellison gets what he wants-- control over a vast entertainment empire. Donald Trump gets what he wants -- a neutered CBS and CNN. Fight back by supporting pro-democracy, independent media bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/06/2026
⚠️ A major escalation in the DOJ’s attack on voting ahead of the midterm elections took place this week. The FBI raided the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters. Ohio is expected to be a key swing state in the upcoming elections.
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Trump FBI raids Ohio voter registration group in latest bid to suppress voting
The raids also represent a major escalation in the Justice Department's crackdown on pro-voting and progressive groups.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 30/05/2026
According to the latest data, farm bankruptcies in April shot up to their highest level in six years. Former senator Jon Tester ( @groundedpodcast.bsky.social ) of Montana warns that family farms are being "put in a situation where they can't win, and they're doomed to failure.” #Velshi
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Jon Tester warns rising bankruptcies may "lose your next generation of family farmers.”
America’s farms are in trouble, and family-owned farms are the hardest hit. According to the latest data, farm bankruptcies in April shot up to their highest level in six years. Former senator Jon Tester of Montana warns that family farms are being "put in a situation where they can't win and they're doomed to failure.”
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"The global-health backdrop (is) largely the result (of) public-health decisions made by the United States in the past year and a half—among them, dismantling USAID, withdrawing from the WHO, and ousting infectious-disease experts en masse from the CDC." www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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This Ebola Outbreak Will Be Hard to Contain
The world is already playing catch-up to a deadly disease
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23/04/2026
Correction: The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Republicans. And evidently, voters are not happy about it. That's why they turned out to vote "Yes" on Virginia's counter plan — to protect their own voices as Trump tries to drown them out. bit.ly/4mJbgQh
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
2026 is on track to be one of the deadliest years in ICE custody in decades as I discussed with my dear friend @velshi.com. 14 deaths so far this year alone. @austinkocher.com and @lataco.bsky.social have done extraordinarily work documenting this. follow them.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I decided, for a change, to write about a point of bipartisan agreement. At a time when Congress is deeply divided, there is one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on: Ted Cruz just might be the most despised person in the United States Senate. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The most hated man in the Senate
There is one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on: Ted Cruz just might be the most despised person in the United States Senate.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Every senator who has supported the SAVE America Act, condoned Trump’s election lies, and stayed silent while Cruz spread conspiracy theories on the Senate floor is complicit. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The most hated man in the Senate
There is one thing Democrats and Republicans agree on: Ted Cruz just might be the most despised person in the United States Senate.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Democracy dies in lies! We don’t have a voter fraud problem. We have a voter suppression problem. Try to earn our votes rather than trying to make it harder for voters! #votingrights.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/02/2026
With only nine months before the midterms, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress. But contrary to many doomsayers, it isn’t too late to protect the elections. @marcelias.bsky.social shares three voting laws every blue state should enact to do so👇
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We all need to be ready for this -- Lawyers, activists, elected officials, election workers and philanthropists. The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. And it is most squarely before us in the battle for free and fair elections this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
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Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Private fundraising for presidential transitions and inaugural galas is an invitation to patronage and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Donors to Trump’s Transition Revealed a Year Later
A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work. snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
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How to Negotiate with Russia
Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
During my time on Trump's National Security Council, I reviewed a lot of calls between Trump and foreign leaders. One of, of course, was the call with President Zelenskyy. Another was with Trump and Mohammed bin Salman.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
He’s got a point and his team is doing hugely valuable work
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Extraordinary that the Texas government would be so corrupt that it would have to black out more than 80% of its emails with Elon Musk.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We should get serious about sanctions. Russian missiles that kill Ukrainian civilians contain parts made in the West. And this repeated mass murder of civilians by Moscow should bring total boycotts on Russian gas and oil. And the Ukrainians should get everything they need to defend themselves
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Who torched Judge Diane Goodstein's house in South Carolina, and why? Is this the result of her being targeted by the MAGA horde? We need answers. time.com/7323442/sout...
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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down
State law enforcement said Monday that "at this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2025
NEW: Since taking charge of North Carolina elections, Republicans have appointed prominent election deniers to run state elections. As GOP efforts to control elections intensify, who runs our election boards will be crucial in 2026 and 2028, @billycorriher.bsky.social writes.
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Meet the Election Deniers in Charge of North Carolina Elections
Read more here.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.
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Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken
Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
2/2. Everyone using the phrase "land swap" should please specify which Russian territory Ukraine would be getting. So far it’s a euphemism for forcing Ukraine to give things up to Russia.
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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 30/07/2025
In another episode of “we live in the stupidest timeline,” Jen Easterly, a woman I have (1) never met and (2) did not work for, had her appointment at West Point terminated because Laura Loomer lied about both of us in a tweet. cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly...
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Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly
The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued We...
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
‪Pat McAfee, Dave Roberts went full company men when faced with a tough question by @jenramose.online‬ about why the MLB All-Star Game was back in Atlanta despite no change to Georgia's disenfranchising voting laws.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/07/2025
The first in a long list of rural hospitals closing due to Trump's bill. This hospital is in Don Bacon's district. He voted for Trump's bill this week, and he voted for this. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
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Southwest Nebraska hospital announces plans to close, blames uncertainty over funding
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis, winding down its services over the next several months.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
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Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I've ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. I wish all of my colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville and across the Department the best as they seek to do justice on behalf of the American people.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
this is what a ghost town port looks like — Port of Long Beach on Monday afternoon, normally the country’s busiest — and they’re not exhaling there yet in spite of the tarriff deal. thank you @nicollewallace.bsky.social for the air time to show this.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you pay attention to just one thing tonight, make it this
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ice needs to be abolished
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is to the shame of our country
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jimsimkins.bsky.social @jimsimkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelenskyy... a world leader with ethics, integrity, honor and courage who truly loves his country and people. So freshing to see someone to finally stand up to the lies and extortion from Trump!
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