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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile, @calmerfuture.bsky.social just called this "Anne Frank adjacent."

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Honest to god a DCCC text saying "[Name], we are going to crush these motherfuckers in November. I know we've been sometimes desperate sounding in these texts before but right now I'm telling you if everyone kicks in $30 we can rip their still-beating heart out before their eyes" would work on me rn

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely gutted at this. Rest in power, Curtis.

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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Statute of limitations on this is gonna go past 2028

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18 U.S. Code § 592 - Troops at polls

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a big deal. DC fed judge says that DOJ's pursuit (and use) of the state voter files is unlawful, on a bunch of different grounds. And effectively confirms that for the 18 states that submitted files willingly, whoever collected the files at DOJ Civil Rights committed federal crimes.

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Memorandum & Opinion – #51 in COMMON CAUSE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01352) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION re the 29 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and the 32 Motion to Dismiss, or in the Alternative, for Summary Judgment. See the attached document for details. Signed by Judge Spark...

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VeritasSword @truthsword.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“A lot of pain and death and ruined lives have led to a new and urgent sense of how far astray we’ve gone in the twilight of empire.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is so important. Support progressive sheriffs - and better yet, fight like hell to eliminate the unchecked sheriff system altogether (yes; it can be done - Connecticut did)

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While ostensibly funny and a total self-own, let’s also remember that was a McArthyism tactic. Were you in this place at this time? So you must have partaken in this secret meeting and thus are a communist, and therefore I can destroy your life. It’s not boding well to revive these tactics.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At least Jack Smith loves women's sports.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This. We watch them with suspicion, hesitate to call them, and assume the worst behavior (usually correctly). Just as communities of color have done for generations. It’s beyond repair.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nope. that's it. I'm done. This timeline is too mind-bogglingly stupid.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s decorative race-baiting season, motherfcukers!

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Flying tomorrow and I feel you. Everything is shit and travel is especially terrible

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What did she know and when did she know it? When she said to Navatek “You’ve seen me deliver” after her PAC received $150k? Or when she proudly announced a $9m federal grant to Navatek on her website? (Side note: she is selling herself too cheaply - at least get some serious bribes, Susan)

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Giving this Susan Collins grifter corruption story more legs and attention is an excellent thing.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.

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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 25/09/2026

I feel pretty comfortable saying if this isn't already illegal it should be.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pretty wild that the Texas Cattle Ranchers association is saying that deportations are affecting beef prices in the US because of labor shortages but Republican politicians and candidates never seem to get asked about that.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026

it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did not think I would -- or my children would -- ever hear an American leader go to the United Nations and muse aloud on whether or not to annihiliate another country. But then, I didn't think I would hear and see so many things over the last decade. We will never remove the stain.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Why does it keep feeling like Propublica is the only one trying?

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

G’mar chatima tova. And an easy fast if you do. May this Yom Kippur be a meaningful one.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When does Trump declare every one of his country clubs military facilities so taxpayers are on the hook for greens maintenance?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You don’t hate these out-of-touch freaks enough

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Love this. Exactly what an elected should do - make everyday life better for their constituents.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Paris in August 1944 will have nothing on the mood in DC when we are finally rid of this guy.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is astonishing. Needs to be a day one investigation next year.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 15/09/2026

Immigration attorneys, the Children's Due Process Project matches kids in ORR custody with pro bono counsel who can file habeas petitions. Still more children than attorneys. Becky Wolozin explains how it works, Friday 1pm ET. austinkocher.substack.com/p/habeas-for...

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Habeas for Children: Learn About an Effective New Strategy to Free Kids from Prolonged Detention

EVENT: Join me Friday, Sept 18 at 1:00 PM Eastern for a live conversation with Jill Williams (Acacia Center for Justice) & Becky Wolozin (National Center for Youth Law) about habeas for children.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 14/09/2026

Another insightful piece from @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu: "MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption. Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Kati @katrinskaya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is nearly not getting enough attention. NoBlogs network of more than 7K independent sites is no more because the US can unilaterally declare an entity a terrorist organization anywhere in the world and effectively shut it down. What’s next? Rise Up?

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