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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 13h
Fascism. Who knew? #fascism
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jkarber.bsky.social @jkarber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter Protection Volunteer Survey ak.democrats.org/signup/voter...
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Voter Protection Volunteer Survey
Voter Protection Volunteer Survey Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the DNC's Civic Engagement and Voter Protection Department. Please fill out this form to tell us which volunteer oppo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Hassett: "Real relief on gas prices is coming virtually immediately" ("Virtually" is doing heavy lifting there!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
🚨 The last jobs report before the midterms is a disaster. Just 29,000 jobs added in September. Unemployment rose to 4.2%. July was revised down to a LOSS of 10,000 jobs, while August was revised down by 29,000 jobs, from 162,000 to 133,000. 1/
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
"Was Trump’s call for MAGA voters to cheat in the midterms another mere trigger-the-libs comment? Maybe. But this is the same Trump who in an infamous call in January 2, 2021, asked Brad Raffensberger to 'find' 11,780 votes — one more than his deficit to Joe Biden in the state’s popular vote."
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“Cheat like hell”
Trump is proof that cheaters often win.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/09/2026
ICE’s ERO ONE is official. The agency is looking for 140+ intel analysts to work nationwide to locate immigrants, map their social networks, and help plan arrest operations.
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr emptywheel.net/2026/09/19/p...
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Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr - emptywheel
At the same time Don Jr was hitting it off with his benefactor Umar Kremlev. DOD was awarding a company partially owned by him a big natsec critical contract.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@lolgop.bsky.social and I are reissuing our podcast on how the 2016 Russian attack led to fascism. www.youtube.com/shorts/8piSZ...
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How Putin grabbed Trump by his balls
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
Amazing. A Cuban dance instructor living in Russia recruits random people to carry out acts of arson and terror in Europe, on behalf of the Russian state www.dw.com/en/cuban-dan...
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Cuban dance teacher ordered EU sabotage attacks from Russia
In 2024, a Cuban man coordinated a series of arson attacks in four EU countries while operating on behalf of Russian intelligence services. DW Investigations tracked him back to a Latin dance studio i...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
One nuance: Kremlev was personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his links to Putin. An organization he is associated with, 'Healthy Fatherland', is also sanctiond for helping abduct children from occupied Ukrainian territory and relocate them in Russia
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The impact of the alternate reality bubbles which are fully entrenched on the right, even among those whose job it is to evaluate things from all sides, are not good!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
Here’s what’s happened to food safety under Trump and RFK Jr.
TRUMP AND RFK JR.’S FOOD SAFETY DISASTER

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Project 2025 calls for rolling back food regulations, including baby formula rules
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Food and Drug Administration workforce cut by about 20%
CDC loses 25% of its workforce, including staff from a key food-safety program
USDA eliminates two food-safety advisory committees
FDA suspends critical food-safety lab quality checks after staffing cuts
Foreign food safety inspections fall nearly 30%
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12,000+ sick, 500+ hospitalizations and 2 deaths from contaminated lettuce
160+ foods recalled so far, including baby formula
37.2 MILLION pounds of food recalled in the first half of 2026 – up 2,432% from last year
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Andrew Desiderio: Today of all days, an NHL team is slobbering over their star player who just appeared in a campaign video for Putin’s political party, standing alongside actual war criminals

Ovechkin chose to participate in this video. And the Capitals are cool with it apparently!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/09/2026
If Ukraine would just surrender we could get on with making business deals
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Ting Barrow @tingb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The whole #Trumpstein administration has to GO!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Remember that Enrique Tarrio has recently invaded the North. His date even had to sneak across the open border.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Regime Change confirms what I long believed: Stephen Miller wanted ICE snatches to be spectacle (they use theater or something) This (which was basically given Stephen as consolation prize) is spectacle that can be controlled. Plus, it's a way to weed out law-abiding officers and service members.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In honor of Trump nominating Hung Cao to be Navy Secretary, reupping this post abt early warnings that he and Whiskey Pete let Iran destroy the US Navy base in Bahrain which would eventually lead sailors getting so desperate they tried jumping off an aircraft carrier. emptywheel.net/2026/09/01/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard Warned Pete Hegseth; Iran Destroyed the US Base in Bahrain Anyway - emptywheel
Tulsi Gabbard specifically warned Trump that Iran would strike at American troops and its allies if he started a war. And yet, Whiskey Pete Hegseth failed to secure Bahrain to prevent its destruction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
Lutnick: "The way the president is playing Iran -- there haven't been American deaths, it's really just an economic choke-out ... " (There have been 18 American deaths!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
Van Orden: "There's a lot of people that are complaining about the the missile strikes against these drug boats. Well, guess what? Those are saving Americans' lives."
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT: Donald trump is responsible for about 29% of the total national debt ($11.6 trillion added across both of his terms). Stop saying this f*cker is "good at business." He bankrupted casinos, FFS.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has filed a whistleblower report alleging the agency is pushing ahead with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement Trump’s order giving the federal government more control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking the plan.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
According to the whistleblower, USPS is moving forward anyway. A court said stop. They apparently heard, “keep going, just don’t tell anyone.”
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 01/09/2026
I spent years working at DHS. ICE's HSI is supposed to hunt terrorists, traffickers & cartels. DHS recently claimed it found 16,000 potential voter fraud cases in Nevada. The real number is 185. Today, ICE HSI launches a “voter fraud surge” ahead of the midterms. This should raise serious questions.
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ICE Is Coming for the Voter Rolls
A voter-fraud surge starts this week across nine states. The numbers behind it don't add up.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The direct tie between Brooke Rollins and Republicans in Congress and explosive shit. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations
The shuttering of three projects is expected to hinder vital research at a time when consumers are increasingly worried about the safety of the food supply.

The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is seen in Beltsville, Maryland.
The Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, which includes the Agriculture Department's agricultural research center and library, is seen Aug. 30, 2016, in Beltsville, Maryland. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP

By Marcia Brown and Rachel Shin
08/30/2026 10:00 AM EDT


The Trump administration is shuttering research projects key to the federal government’s fight against cyclospora, the foodborne parasite sickening thousands of Americans this summer.

Two of the three projects that represent nearly all of the Agriculture Department’s study of the parasite were defunded by Congress earlier this year, according to the agency. The third is slated to move from Maryland to Iowa this fall as part of a sweeping USDA reorganization. Even though that project still has money, every scientist working on the parasite has declined to relocate, according to three people familiar with the plans and documents shared with POLITICO, granted anonymity to discuss personnel issues.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump Administration intends to hire Guantanamo contractor to build ICE jail in Batavia, New York: www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-to-sol...
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ICE to sole-source 100-bed Batavia detention structure to Guantánamo contractor
A notice of intent names Akima Infrastructure Protection as the only company that can build a 100-bed "temporary detention structure" at the Buffalo Service Processing Center.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Even by MAGA standards, this seems exceptionally dodgy...” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donor
The Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
civilizational collapse, anyone? "Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training, and destroying them in the process. "It’s possible to scan these rare books without destroying them, but cutting the spine makes it cheaper and faster..." www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The sick notion of forcing surgeries on transgender children against their will and their families’ decisions because he can’t accept or respect that they are simply different from him evokes Nazi level authoritarianism Which, regrettably, is not the first time someone has said this about Trump
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"FOR THE FIRST TIME" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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FDA travels to Mexico a month after linking Taylor Farms to cyclospora outbreak
Senior FDA official confirms that inspectors were on-site at the Taylor Farms processing facility and plan to be in the fields next.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Andrew Ferguson and Joe Simonson Squeal about Their $277 Fraud Charges emptywheel.net/2026/08/15/a...
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Andrew Ferguson and Joe Simonson Squeal about Their $277 Fraud Charges - emptywheel
Taxpayers are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Free Beacon propagandist to distract you from how counterproductive Trump's "Fraud Task Force" is.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here's the AI Ivanka lifted her book report about On Mice and Men from...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Boris was fired in the first term, reportedly bc of his too-close RU ties. He was deemed unemployable in the second term bc of his pay-to-play shenanigans. This is a bid to give him insider status w/o requiring him to pass background check or adhere to basic ethics.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bove, the F the courts guy who is now a 3rd Circuit Judge, swore in his pal Todd Blanche to be AG. Barr was sworn in by the chief Justice. Holder, Lynch, Sessions& Garland by the VPs in their adminstrations.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Don't lose track of the Spokane case here, which hasn't gotten as much attention as Broadview.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every court victory matters, but some are sweeter than others. Congrats to the Elias Law Group team and our client Senate Majority PAC for this well earned victory for free speech and the 1st Amendment.
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