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VoteVets @votevets.org · 5h
Yesterday, Pete Hegseth gave an unhinged State Of The Force speech at Quantico. He called service members slurs, bragged about testosterone tests, and attacked the media for "Trump Derangement Syndrome." One thing is clear: Hegseth is more focused on winning culture wars than real ones.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 5h
Susan Collins to the now convicted felon she sent taxpayer dollars to while pocketing his campaign contributions: "You've seen me deliver." Vote her out.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Whether he is watching too much Fox News or acting for other reasons, Justice Alito seems to be emotionally unable to rationally examine the actual evidence in the cases before him to see if they support his voter fraud arguments." democracyproject.org/posts/exorci...
democracyproject.org
Exorcising Justice Alito’s Voter Fraud Boogeyman
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h
Trump administration accused of pushing ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote president
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Trump administration accused of pushing ‘plainly illegal’ taxpayer-funded ads to promote president
House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for Trump’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 5h
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in |The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits
Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 4h
Powerful statement. Definitely worth your time.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Samuel Alito has recused himself from a Supreme Court climate case, after ethics watchdogs uncovered his fossil fuel stockholdings. Instead of relying on the justices to occasionally do the right thing, we need Congress to enact real SCOTUS reform.
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How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 22h
I’m on the Senate floor to force a vote to block Trump’s illegal line item veto of funding already authorized by Congress. He’s violating the Constitution—we need to stop it!
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h
Well put and worth reading.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 4h
Republicans’ OBBBA specifically targeted New York by stripping 450,000 New Yorkers of their health insurance. I'm proud to introduce the Restoring Essential Plan Coverage Act with @schumer.senate.gov to reinstate federal funding for the Essential Plan and protect our communities.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 4h
Mamdani turned a question about luxury-home taxes right back into a conversation about public housing. That's discipline. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Mamdani invests in public housing and calls out rich crybabies
The New York City mayor once again reminded Americans that the wealthy need to pay their fair share.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doubt...
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Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, I’ve mainly focused on...
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🦋Debra Laurie Surman🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ☮️ 🐈‍⬛ @debfromillinois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2159... 👇🏼💯It's nice to have a filter when being inundated with political donation requests. Having a stance of "i buck my party" or "I'm against men in girls' sports" makes it easy to have a hard NO reaction to politicians like @ginafortexas.bsky.social
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.kolotv.com/2026/09/25/f... Flippo is a piker compared with Paxton, but he is the best chance the Dems have of taking this seat for the first time on history. I look forward to voting for Teresa Benitez-Thompson next month.
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Flippo made mistake claiming he earned Bronze Star with Valor
Washington Post reports Nevada CD 2 Republican Candidate David Flippo never earned the Bronze Star with Valor as claimed in campaign material.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...
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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And as their voters cry out for help affording basic necessities, Tom Tiffany, Derrick Van Orden, Bryan Steil and the other Republicans running Congress are doing nothing about it.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He should make a quick phone call to Don Jr. and make this very point.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Again, one thing that's not making much of the coverage on DOJ's move to intervene in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the EU is that it puts DOJ on the side of Elon's ONGOING Blue Check fraud. emptywheel.net/2026/09/27/d...
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DOJ Intervenes in EU to Help Elon Musk Defraud Users - emptywheel
DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abbott is not only contributing to the deaths of pregnant women, he’s hiding maternal death data. Texans who think women should live will vote for a new governor. #GinaForTexas #AbbottFailsTexas
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RepubliKKKans Are Bad For America, Vote Accordingly.......💙
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 27/09/2026
“I was doing 100 times better under Biden,” a former MAGA trucker says, recalling plentiful jobs and better pay. Quite the customer review for making America great again. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Watch these Trump voters regret their choices in real time
Former Trump loyalists are now openly talking about plans to vote against Republicans.
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Ben Ross @benrosstransit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"'The day will come when you cry out because of the king whom you yourselves have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you on that day.' But the people would not listen to Samuel's warning." - 1 Samuel 8:18-19 With the previous verses of warning full of relevant detail.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 👇🏻💯
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Love me, flatter me, tell me dangerous lies
Thursday’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly putting an end to Trump’s White House media ban was lamentable for the speed with which it was issued. An exhausted nation was enjoying a break...
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... To the eternal shame of @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com etc.
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Why Trump’s battle with the mainstream media is smoke and mirrors
Despite Trump’s constant complaining about “fake news,” the true nature of the relationship is a little more complicated.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ImpeachableOffenses Hope House Dems are drafting articles of impeachment for Vought.
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jkw71.bsky.social @jkw71.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonder how people in Wyoming will feel about this. When they vote this fall.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🇺🇦💛💙💛💙
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What is Trump even doing going to all these college football games?. He only pretends to like sports, so it's not really even fun for him. Even SEC crowds can't stand him now. And it yet again it reminds the nation that he has no interest in actually working
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