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Enthusiastic lurker and hella re-poster for democracy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h
Even if you adjust the 2000 POTUS race for inflation, it looks like total spending for Paxton & Talarico combined will end up surpassing it (Gore + GWB combined would be around $292 million adjusted for inflation.).
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 6h
Ukraine peace talks are now tied to a multibillion-dollar Russian oil deal benefiting allies of Trump negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. This arrangement undermines Western sanctions leverage, rewarding the Kremlin with economic relief before it makes any territorial concessions.
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 12h
4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h
Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium brags about Zach Bryan’s attendance for his second show. Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” shirt both nights of his concert.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h
By comparison, the 2024 Presidential election cost a stunning $5.5 billion. I can’t even fathom how much will be spent on the 2028 POTUS race. I could see it surpassing $10 billion. www.pbs.org/newshour/liv...
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The cost of this election
The 2024 presidential election was the second most expensive since at least 1998. In total, $5.5 billion dollars was spent on the race by presidential candidates, political parties and independent int...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4h
President Donald Trump's White House berated CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday after he flagged another political ad supporting Trump that ran during an NFL game.
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Trump's White House berates 'Fake Tapper' for flagging 'political' ad during NFL game
President Donald Trump's White House berated CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday after he flagged another political ad supporting Trump that ran during an NFL game. Tapper was watching the Philadelphia Eagles against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday when a political advertisement for Trump that was "paid...
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 4h
New: Weeks after McClatchy gutted local newsrooms across the country, staffers told Status leadership has gone silent about the future Meanwhile, days after the layoffs, the company touted new execs and hires for its controversial AI innovation lab www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...
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McClatchy Goes Mute
Weeks after gutting local newsrooms, McClatchy leadership has offered staffers virtually no explanation of what comes next, Status has learned, as the company builds out its controversial A.I. operati...
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 5h
Horror as final post of banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein resurfaces www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Horror as final post of banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s ties to Epstein resurfaces
The final online post of a British banker who reportedly died by suicide shortly after outing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein left several critics speechless on Su...
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GOP==CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 18h
Everybody knows! Should be famous quote: "trump has filled his admin with not very smart people" - Peter Thiel Ask MS Copilot: Where do I find the quote from Peter Thiel, "trump has filled his admin with not very smart people"? #usdemocracy
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h
My mom will take the $90, but she’s no fool. Trump can’t buy her vote. $90 doesn’t erase $4+ gas, the ICE abuses, millions of Americans losing healthcare, his tax cut for billionaires, higher everyday costs, the Iran war, or everything else seniors have watched happen this year. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12h
Nuclear reactors on the Moon while health care costs are at unsustainable levels, homelessness is endemic, and we keep cutting our inadequate social safety net. Just insane.
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GOP==CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 16h
YOUR FAILURE TO VOTE IS a HUGE PERSONAL FAILURE AND a FAILURE OF THE NATION! #usdemocracy
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 17h
There is no politician in America delivering more for his constituents than Mamdani. Small and large actions, he is showing people that Government can work for them, if the politician is committed enough. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy youtube.com/shorts/szxH7...
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Mamdani turns vacant storefront into jobs center, connecting NYers with public service opportunities
YouTube video by 1010 WINS
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 12h
Ben Braver for FL HD-65, you say? Donate to him (& other Dems running for FL legislature) here: secure.actblue.com/donate/flblu...
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Chip in!
Show your support with a contribution.
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John Prince @nbpt-john.bsky.social · 14h
donald trump has been bribing American’s with a lot money lately. Futile attempts to buy our votes to win the midterms. trump not only stinks of of piss, shit, and BO, as usual. Now add in the stench of desperation to the mix. It’s potpourri, really… and more repellent than ever #USDemocracy
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John Prince @nbpt-john.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
donald trump took back the White House back under false pretense. He promised stuff that he knew he could not deliver, but his alternative was prison. They fell for his bullshit in droves, so here we are. That’s why the buck stops still stops with Biden. The trump scapegoat #USDemocracy
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GOP==CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 14h
Mitch McConnell is a US Senator in name ONLY! There should be some basic test for cognition to serve in the US Congress! The ability to breathe in and out is not a sufficiently strict requirement! The ability to speak when instructed how to vote is not sufficient! #usdemocracy
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London Reed🫘🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟No Kings🌟🌟🌟 @londonreed.bsky.social · 19h
Jack Smith smiling at a concert. It was said he was congenial and happy to be with the crowd. I have never seen him smile.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14h
Could Not be Said Better….
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 14h
Trump, Vance, Hegseth, RFK, Jr., Oz, Hassett, & other administration figures have degrees from the deeply troubled Ivy League. Neither Biden nor Harris did.
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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 14h
🚨 TODAY is the last day to register to vote online in South Carolina. Don’t let the deadline sneak up on you. Then make your plan to vote blue on November 3. Visit scvotes.gov for more info! 💙
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
BREAM: DOJ plans to send 1k monitors to polls. Sen. Baldwin says 'our democracy depends on ppl being able to have their voices heard, but that's at risk as Trump weighs sending in armed agents.' How do you answer? BLANCHE: She should be saying 'thank God. Thank God we have a govt ready to show up'
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 14h
"He's an investor, not an inventor." Filmmaker @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how Musk, like Trump, built his name on work he didn't do. Watch the full discussion: zeteo.com/p/this-filmm...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14h
"I want to stress this point because one of the most dispiriting aspects of these last two years has been the rapid and utter capitulation by so many who didn’t need to do it."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14h
Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h
Brazilians are headed to the polls today for the first round of their elections. Meanwhile, the Bolsonaro biopic Dark Horse hasn't hit theaters. But it's already part of a federal probe into money laundering and one of the country's biggest bank frauds. We followed the money with @apublica.org.
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How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election
“This movie is going to be a nightmare for the Left.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14h
Just take a look at the Kennedy Center, where Trump got himself named chairman of the board of trustees!
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 15h
PA measles outbreak expected to worsen; ppl on the ground mobilize to save themselves & neighbors 🤡 & RFK? They ignore, lie & hinder what can help (vax) Same for saving ourselves from 🤡& his enablers; it's up to us Check your reg VOTE early Pick ppl who'll fight for you, top to bottom iwillvote.com
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Pennsylvania health officials brace themselves as measles outbreak expected to spread
Most counties don’t have their own health agencies, and some specific population groups have low vaccination rates
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 14h
Men wanted her to play by their rules. She built her own law firm instead. 🩷 Kathleen Martinez, founder of Martinez Immigration in Texas. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Group of women dressed in bright pink suits. Text says a lawyer who was told by male bosses to dress conservatively and make coffee got fired, then built an all-women pink law firm.
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 14h
Larry is right. For republicans the state they represent doesn't matter because they all are really responsive to and only represent their billionaire donors
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Scrappy @scrappy53.bsky.social · 15h
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Scrappy @scrappy53.bsky.social · 15h
THE MIDTERMS ARE COMING -
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SAVE
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DEMOCRACY
MAKE IT
TOO BIG TO RIG
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h
NEW: This week we reported how USPS has slowed down mail pickup/delivery times, boosting risks that ballots could reach election offices too late to be counted. USPS also shrunk the period for "extraordinary measures" to ensure timely election mail delivery from 15 days before election day to 10.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 14h
Then prove it in court. The only reason you were enjoined is because you would not provide basic due process on this question.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 14h
“As soon as the deal is approved and the sanctions are lifted, the result will be a very lucrative payday for Kushner and company.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/wasted-yea...
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‘Wasted Years’
We learned this week that Russia inserted a multibillion dollar bribe into the U.S.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 14h
“We learned this week that Russia inserted a multibillion dollar bribe into the U.S. led negotiations to end the war in Ukraine; a Putin-proposed oil deal that would directly benefit the Trump clan.”
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h
The talking points have been handed down from the White House to paint the bad polling numbers as a psyop.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
Follow "Paper Trail" on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... On Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0zdWwkl...
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Paper Trail
Documentary Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Investigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. That evidence can be on paper — or on thumb drives, in secret ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
For years, Project 2025 architect Russell Vought has set out to erode our system of checks and balances of power and to concentrate power in the hands of one person: President Trump. Now he’s quietly making it all happen. 🔊 Listen to this episode: propub.li/3TzIyaA
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” - Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14h
Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion. No government lawyer showed up to fight him. A judge called it collusion. So he asked three appeals judges for a rescue. One of them was his own pick. All three had the same answer. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 14h
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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@myrna-lee-1959@blsky.com @myrna-lee-59.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I understand that questions asked rarely get answered. WHY IS THE SUPREME COURT NOT ALLOWING THE FULL UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES AND VIDEO'S? give that a thought, will you?
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