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Dark Fright 🎃 (Mark Wright)

@jmarkwrite.bsky.social
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Mark Wright, marketing writer. Former journalist. A blue dot in red Texas. I believe in democracy and separation of church and state. Shameless left of center champion of rights.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 19h
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Hold The Line @holdthelinepac.bsky.social · 2h
A good November isn’t the finish line, it’s the starting gun. Winning a majority doesn’t fix a party’s strategy problems; it just gives you the room to actually go fix them, if anyone still bothers to.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h
Talarico is at an all time high! TEXAS IS TURNING BLUE!💙
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h
The president promised to conduct a whirlwind tour for the 32 days before the midterms, even a long haul to Alaska, and I for one can't wait to see how his fragile 80-year-old body holds up from the strain.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 10h
If Zuckerberg isn't comfortable giving personal information out,why should we be expected to? #USDemocracy youtube.com/shorts/L5hRr...
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His Body Language Changed IMMEDIATELY
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 8h
The president’s scandal-ridden Texas Senate candidate has been caught up in another embarrassing audio leak trashing Trump’s administration.
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Trump’s Rally for Flailing MAGA Candidate Hit by Embarrassing Leak
New leaked audio captures him trashing Trump’s administration.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h
What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 8h
It would be wild if Lindsey Graham’s prophecy about Republicans picking Trump and getting crushed came true in his sister’s senate bid in South Carolina
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Democracy Matters @jmal52.bsky.social · 9h
This seems important enough to be reported on. Why can't members of Congress get access to military bases?
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 20h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22h
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Activists Target What They Call a Major “Spy Center” for ICE in Rural Vermont
As ICE widens its surveillance dragnet, activists plan a week of action to disrupt a major data network.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 11h
The state of Alabama imposed a state law that requires pubic schools and universities to use the term “Gulf of America.” And obvious and flagrant authoritarian move and textbook example of what Barrett Taylor and I call postliberal governance. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
Same insanity “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” — Lord Farquaad “Let them take out Los Angeles.” — Donald Trump
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 15h
and-lang, adj: (indicating duration, of a period of time) entire, continuous; (indicating position, of a person) being or standing at (someone’s) side. (AHND-lahng / ˈand-laŋg) #OldEnglish #WOTD
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Christa Pike - who survived two botched executions in Tennessee - is AWAKE and able to speak. apnews.com/article/chri...
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
Attorneys for Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, say she is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital.
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KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · 23h
Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
The lawsuit argues that the jail’s visitation policy prevents Catholic detainees from practicing important parts of their faith.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The “worst of the worst” are those who are earning profits, getting paid with taxpayer dollars in the ICE supply chain.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White House officials are going to regret taking this ridiculous sh*tshow on the road. He's going to do more to hurt the Rs than help them as he stumbles into key battlegrounds in the coming weeks.
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 06/10/2026
Today, The Cook Political Report is moving three Senate races, all towards Democrats. • Kansas from Lean R -> Toss Up • North Carolina from Lean D -> Likely D • New Hampshire from Toss Up -> Lean D Read @jessicataylor.bsky.social's full analysis:
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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Steven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fucking shits. BBC: White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego
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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: The early weeks of the college football season have gotten dangerously hot, and the heat is lasting longer. Shortened games, a band member dead, hundreds of medical calls. With the season moving up, it's a huge problem. And there's not an easy fix www.al.com/sec/2026/10/...
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College football has a heat problem. There’s no easy solution
The early weeks of college football season are hotter than ever. Can anything be done to help players and fans?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
This prize was awarded because the Ice Cube observatory has been fantastically successful at detecting neutrinos from the cosmos (especially really intriguing high-energy ones) and also because “instead of building a big tank of water, why don’t we just kit out a whole ice cap” is a really neat idea
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
As the reflectivity (albedo) of Earth continues to set new record lows, more of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth system, increasing the amount of energy available to heat the oceans, atmosphere, and land, and to melt ice.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
From Physics Today (physicsworld.com/a/francis-ha...): ‘When asked what he will do for the rest of today, Halzen replied “I’m working on a proposal. I hope this prize will help get it approved.”’
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"There’s so much hypocrisy in this society. And if we want America to be a free society we have to stop telling lies. Because we’re not free & you know we’re not free." ~Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964. Civil rights activist/organizer Hamer was born in Mississippi OTD in 1917. Image: Library of Congress.
This black and white photo shows a Black women in a dress, Fannie Lou Hamer, seated at a table. She has a microphone clipped to the front of her dress.
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chitowndane.bsky.social @chitowndane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👇This has always been a key component of his allure: he makes it "ok" for racist/sexist haters to hate openly again. And they've longed to do so for years. But those people are still wrong, and we should still stand up to them and call them out on it. And don't forget who they are. ✊
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ge-tinge, adj: skilful with the tongue, eloquent. (yeh-TING-guh / jɛ-ˈtɪŋ-gə) #OldEnglish #WOTD
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: During a rally just now, Trump invited Iran to “take out Los Angeles and San Diego,” saying it would be a “small price to pay.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remind me again why Democrats can't say a word about red rural America being anything but God's country.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can you imagine any other...ah, nevermind. Should be leading news for a week, a month, a day? But, nah, nothing. The President of the United States openly talking about taking out major American cities and the millions that live in them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Openly bragging about ethnic cleansing. That's how you know they're the Good Guys.
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Timothy Sullivan @timsull413.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Obviously, @jamellebouie.net can only do so much, but he's one person who writes for @nytimes.com that does get it. Not polarization, but radicalization of one side.
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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
TODAY: Hochul appoints Letitia James special prosecutor in the Cornell 7 case, I get FBI Epstein redaction training video descriptions, and resignations over the botched execution of Christa Pike. Free to listen and subscribe! www.muellershewrote.com/p/headlines-...
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Headlines for October 5, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 03/10/2026
Featured story: We identified 20 episodes of Joe Rogan's podcast where he referred to James Talarico or Ken Paxton, since Talarico's original appearance. The result is a portrait of confusion & ignorance in one of the most powerful voices in politics.
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Does Joe Rogan Care Who Wins the Texas Senate Race?
An exhaustive accounting of the Austin podcast giant's thoughts (and lack thereof) on James Talarico, Ken Paxton, and the electoral contest between them
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
I remember when Obama criticized Fox News and all of DC's Very Important People spent *weeks* taking to their fainting couches at the horror of it.
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