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Joe Sabol

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Chemical polymer semiconductor metal/oxide consultant; organic vegetable farmer; skiing, foodie, jazz & blues; rule of law, duty of care; solar capture PV & hot water; coal+oil+gas=0. Have fun, smile, learn something new each day. Wisc & Mich joesabol.com

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14h
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 1h
#BlueWaveIn30Days 🚨 SHOUT OUT TEXAS 🚨 TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE TEXAS PLEASE CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION LISTEN TO WILLIE Y'ALL VOTE GINA HINOJOSA FOR GOVERNOR VOTE JAMES TALARICO FOR SENATE VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN BALLOT GO TO Iwillvote.com @ginafortexas.bsky.social
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 9h
My note: No Justice No Peace! From Josh Helfgott The cop who shot and KILLED a Black airman in his own apartment was ACQUITTED of manslaughter by a Florida jury. Roger Fortson was 23, home alone, playing video games and
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h
Poindexter: Every allegation has been met with defamation lawsuits and all these different silencing tactics that he uses. And we’re not going to be silenced because people need to know who Max Miller is and who they’re voting for come November 3rd.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 4h
"It's up to all of us to ensure that the illuminating power of the written word is not under malicious control." We're proud to have Honorary Chair Tony Weaver, Jr. leading #BannedBooksWeek! #LetBooksBe ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 9h
“No president can arbitrarily assassinate people from the sky based on their sole say-so,” said Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Court Rejects Bulk of Trump Administration's Rationale for Keeping Boat Strikes Memo Secret | American Civil Liberties Union
As the government continues to bomb civilians in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, this decision ordering in camera review of the memo is a crucial win...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10h
Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 10h
As a Ukrainian, I’m tired of explaining why we hate the people who keep trying to kill us at night.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13h
Discussed here
sciencebasedmedicine.org
“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians
"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots."
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Republicans love to accuse Jack Smith of a coordinated takedown of Trump, while completely ignoring evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump continues a coordinated a destruction of American democracy. I want a blue wave for Christmas, damn it!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11h
About two-thirds of the world's potash reserves are in Canada, Belarus, and Russia. The US has rolled back sanctions that will allow for Belarusian potash imports, but major logistical challenges remain. #chemsky 🧪
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US hopes Belarus will force Canadian firms to lower prices
Belarus hadn't sold potash to the US for years because of economic sanctions
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h
⚡️ Germany announces $1.46 billion in aid for Ukraine, including interceptor drones. The package was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Kyiv.
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Germany announces $1.46 billion in aid for Ukraine, including interceptor drones
The package was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Kyiv.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 13h
100 degrees plus in Southern California possible Sunday again and this heat will be sustained. My thoughts on this Fall heatwave and when it may break. Mentioned Braves and Dodgers too as getting close to heat record at Dodgers stadium www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h
Thanks to our fossil fuel overlords, the weather we’re used to no longer exists.
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Showers and storms across Spain this weekend, floods kill 102-year-old woman
A 102-year-old woman has died and about 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, after floods dumped 142 l/m². Rain will persist, with a new storm possible in the west on Sunday. #EuropeNews
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 13h
All Trump had to do was keep the economic train moving. Joe Biden had fixed inflation after stimulus & jobs coming out of Covid. But, as usual, he had grifting in mind. He imposed tariffs, indulged in crypto & made his money to the detriment of others. He screwed you on purpose.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 13h
Last year Alberta no longer offered Covid vaccinations free in violation of the Canada Health Act. MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social contacted the Prime Minister who ignored her about the violation. Now Québec is following suit. As Alberta privatizes healthcare Québec will follow. This has to stop.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23h
Despite having having far more people, Russia also has about an equivalent GDP to California minus Los Angeles and Santa Clara County. Seems pretty low T and beta!
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 13h
Interested in a career with UNEP? We regularly seek qualified individuals from around the world with skills to help safeguard the environment for future generations. See current vacancies here: unep.org/work-with-us
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Its sort of the ballgame. Bush, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Trilateral Commission, Epstein, Lansky syndicate, JFK assassination, Israel and Russian mob. @vanhollen.senate.gov and US intel knows. People at the top must be held accountable. Nobody is supposed to be above the law, right?!
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The US Small Business Administration on Tuesday asked the US Environmental Protection Agency to stop its ongoing assessment of whether styrene should be designated a “high priority” chemical under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). #chemsky 🧪
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Policy Watch: SBA presses case on styrene, citing dichloromethane ruling
A weekly roundup of policy news in the chemical arena and beyond
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA (BurgartBioethix) @alyssaburgart.com · 03/10/2026
Darius Paduch was Jeffrey Epstein’s urologist. Paduch is also a sexually abusive physician who worked at Cornell for years. In 2024, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes. Paduch abused at least 50 identified victims, many of whom were minors.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Future history books will note that the quest to repeal Obamacare is when the Republican Party became hell bent on destroying the country out of pure spite. The horror of Obamacare giving people access to healthcare, doctors & medicine is the stuff of GOP nightmares. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Blue-Patriot 🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖤🇺🇦 🇪🇺🌍 @blue-patriot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have said this for years, and the response is “then nothing would ever get passed.” But each bill, one item, up-down vote. Boom. Make them shorter where the lawmakers can actually read them. And the lawmakers should have study groups where they go over this stuff together. Best practices, y’all.
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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree. Republicans also attached their voter suppression Bill, the SAVE Act, into the Stop Insider Trading Bill.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
This Lukoil pending deal has a tie-in to the billionaire Syrian-born Qatari brothers that I wrote about earlier this year-- who have teamed up with Ivanka and Jared on a real estate project in Albania. Yes, it's an intricate web. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (Gift Article)
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Witkoff and Kushner discussed the deal last month during a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin. Here is a shorter overview of our investigation. With my NYT Washington Bureau colleague Anton Troianovski www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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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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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 03/10/2026
“You start to really see how serious of a threat these technologies can be to our privacy rights, especially when they’re working together,” said Ellie Menlove of the Utah ACLU. “It just amplifies our Fourth Amendment concerns.”
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Police drones buzzing across SLC feed a new high-tech crime center. The picture threatens to ‘flip’ civil liberties, a key group says.
As Salt Lake City police develop a real-time crime center at downtown headquarters, civil rights advocates are warning of its threats to privacy.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tom Cotton's campaign took a billionaire's money two years after the Times exposed his payments to Jeffrey Epstein. The House just held that billionaire in contempt. Cotton has had four years to give it back. He hasn't. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This should be on the front of every news cycle. This is a "volunteer" who can't be impeached. This is an unregistered foreign agent, negotiating business deals using lives as pawns. Arrest this asshole for treason. Seize everything. Lock up the entire family.
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A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And unlike the GOP, the Democrats have two fairly well-remembered past presidents in Obama and Clinton, that haven't even begun to barnstorm into districts where they could help swing the outcome. Imagine George Bush helping, LOL.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Understand the media asking Trump about the Cornell 7 knew what response it would illicit. Understand that the President of the United States of America just interfered into an open case. And understand when you elect a rapist you cultivate rape culture.
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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OH Police Chief Arrested: Chad Essert, June 11, 2026, in Florida. Bond $500,000. 70 total counts (56 counts of sexual battery, 14 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor) 2005 - 2010, victim was 12 years old. Grand Jury Indictment www.nbcdfw.com/news/nationa...
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Ohio police chief indicted on 70 sex abuse charges after allegedly grooming 12-year-old
An Ohio police chief accused of sexually abusing a minor over several years while working as a youth instructor has been charged with 70 counts of sex crimes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/10/2026
When a foreigner killed 1 American citizen—MAGAs unanimously voted FOR the Laken Riley Act. As Israel kills 9 American citizens—MAGAs unanimously voted AGAINST a resolution requiring an investigation into Israel’s actions. MAGAs aren’t protecting US citizens—they’re protecting an apartheid state.
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What would you do if you found out a January 6th domestic terrorist was running for a seat on your city council or state legislature? For thousands of Americans, that question has stopped being hypothetical. #WeThePeople are taking notes. 📝 #J6Tracker 👀
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J6Tracker | Keeping the Record
Explore the January 6 public record: people, prosecutions, pardons, preserved evidence, and reporting on what happened next.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael J. Fox receives the Order of Canada 🇨🇦🥰
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It bears repeating that, apart from the Schmitt-stain left in the Senate this week, we also witnessed important moral and legal clarity from the former special counsel.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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