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Keith Craker

@keithspyder.bsky.social
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He/Him. Happily married Gen X geek. Graphic designer by day, aspiring rock star by night.

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 9h
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Hegseth begs for mail-in votes while Trump trashes mail-in voting
It’s too bad the president has already managed to put quite a dent in confidence in voting by mail.
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Pizza Rachel 🍕👨🏻 @dftbarachel.dftba.social · 28/09/2026
i’ve been keeping a secret 👀 i designed the Hollywood, Ending John shirt! 🤩 after John’s june video about Andy Warhols sunset series i made a sunset John image, he liked it, we made some tweaks and here we are! it is such an honor to be included in pizzamas for a second time. 🌅 go buy my shirt! 🏃‍♀️💨
a 3x3 grid, nine different colored pizza john faces are in the nine frames, the background is the sunset gradient from Hollywood, Ending’s coverscreenshot of the pizzamas website, a lovely dftba staff member is wearing a pink tshirt with the Hollywood, Ending design on it- while riding a horse
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 13h
This whole interview is such an incredible series of self-owns.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h
reality, what a concept
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h
this is pretty amazing to watch. I'd really like to see those texts.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I realized I haven't posted HEY MY BOOK IS OUT BUY MY BOOK but much more importantly: PIZZAMAS IS UPON US. Get your pizzamas gear (it's incredible this year). All our proceeds go to Partners in Health. pizzamas.com
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A long long time ago, John Green had a mustache for around 3 seconds...and Pizza John was born. Now, every year for the last ten years, Hank and John have gone back to making videos every week day onc...
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay cool. Please run this as an ad.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't come for the queen unless she sends for you.
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'Drag Race' Star Alyssa Edwards Pens Powerful Open Letter To Ken Paxton After He Uses Her To Attack James Talarico
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Keith Craker @keithspyder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So... yeah... 36 years ago today, the recruiter drove me down to the big inprocessing center in downtown Dallas - a few hours later, I took my oath; and around 2am late that night, I arrived at Ft. Jackson to begin my journey as an Army soldier. I have a lot of feels today. Mostly pride.
PV2 Craker in Basic Training 1990
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 25/09/2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is beefing with a drag queen. Apparently, being attorney general can wait. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Why is Ken Paxton beefing with a drag queen?
If we had a nickel for every time a Republican had beef with a drag queen, we would, weirdly enough, have quite a few nickels. Adding their name to the list this time is Texas’ very own Attorney…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/09/2026
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes. www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
President Trump is deeply unpopular and trapped in an unwon war of his own choosing. A reckoning—one far harsher than was expected, even a few months ago—seems imminent, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 25/09/2026
DHS claimed nearly 16,000 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. After further review: 185. Nevada checked those 185. All of them were citizens. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Shocker: Another voter fraud claim goes down in flames
The Department of Homeland Security’s claim that a staggering 15,903 noncitizens were on the voter rolls has completely collapsed.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 24/09/2026
A Quick Poll Follow Up
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A Quick Poll Follow Up
I promise not to be writing a post about every new theory...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those of us who've been following PRECISELY this issue for decades, it's like the regularity of bird migrations. Obviously bogus claims (migrating north), fully & categorically debunked (migrating south) a month later. In the old days it was John Fund at WSJ oped page. Now it's DHS/DOJ.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a bill which provided a strong footing for civil liability and punitive damages that attaches to Flock itself as well as the civil jurisdiction in question would do wonders for reining this kind of thing in.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brazen hypocrisy is not a bug, it's a feature. A really big feature.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING WSJ: Federal authorities have opened a probe into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer and accountant who are now his estate executors, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein’s Executors
Prosecutors have questioned Epstein victims about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
don't like the idea of siding with the oil industry on this. but this is at a minimum stupid and I think there's a decent chance it would raise prices, even in the very short-term.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well that certainly tracks.
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Lifelong Texas Republican Goes Viral With Criticism Of Proposed AI Data Center On '60 Minutes'—And Everyone's Saying The Same Thing
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Keith Craker @keithspyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Either I have fallen into an alternate universe or I died and went to Hell - either way, I'm now in a world where I agree with Bill "Got Everything About the Invasion of Iraq Wrong" Kristol. Sweet Baby Moo Cow.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
CNN: Trump Approval 33%, disapprove 67% edition.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Trump’s midterm woes deepen amid worsened economic backdrop: CNN poll | CNN Politics
With President Donald Trump at record unpopularity, Republicans are facing an even bleaker midterm political landscape than they did eight years ago, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds.
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Hal Sparks @halsparks.com · 22/09/2026
The “Trust the science” folks seem to be completely willing to chuck that out the window and opt for “Trust the Billionaires”. LLMs will not, cannot, ever achieve consciousness. Please stop. We need reasonable, well thought out rules and regs… not a panic economy youtu.be/6xQ8LQfkBg4?...
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MIT Just Found a Hard Limit in LLM Scaling, and Money Won't Fix It
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 22/09/2026
The Freedom Caucus Fund is spending $6 million defending Republican-held seats while warning of a “socialist insurgency.” Lauren Boebert, Scott Perry, Nick Begich, and Eli Crane are among the Republicans getting help. Quite the emergency spending plan. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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GOP tries to stop blue wave by making socialism the enemy
The Freedom Caucus Fund is throwing a Hail Mary ahead of what’s likely to be a blue wave.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the great Trump scrub
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
folks "let's not send out the diesel"
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 22/09/2026
Ashley Hinson is calling for an “immediate end” to the Iran war after voting four times against ending it. Fellow Iowa Republicans Miller-Meeks and Nunn just backed a war powers resolution for the first time. Quite the change six weeks before Election Day. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Iowa Republicans turn away from Trump as midterm peril mounts
Staring down an electoral wipeout, members of Iowa’s all-GOP congressional delegation are trying to distance themselves from Trump.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.404media.co/people-train...
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For the first time in her two-decade Senate career, the Republican lawmaker from Maine was in danger of losing her seat. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 22/09/2026
The Pentagon says the Iran war has cost taxpayers $43.6 billion. Extending ACA subsidies for an entire year would have cost $30 billion. Republicans cited cost concerns when they let those subsidies expire. Quite a comparison. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Iran war has cost US $43.6B—plus $6 diesel and a possible fuel shortage
The Iran war may go down in history as one of the worst presidential decisions in history.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Trump's approval rating fell to 32% - the lowest ‌of his political career - as his fellow Republicans soured on his handling of the cost of living amid the unpopular Iran war. His approval rating is lower than any recorded for Biden, his Democratic predecessor..." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NBC News poll finds big jump in D voter intent to vote early & drop in intent to vote by mail: - 23% intend to vote by mail, down from 34% in '24 - 36% intend to vote early in person, up fr 30% in '24 - 36% intend to vote in person on Election Day, same as 35% in '24 👇 www.axios.com/2026/09/20/m...
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More Democrats plan to vote in person in midterms
The result marks a significant shift from the 2024 election.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It gets worse: Dem FCC member: “The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros.” An investment of this size “doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said & made.” apnews.com/article/para...
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FCC grants Paramount's indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Keith Craker @keithspyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot... ?
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dispensing with the need for an emergency hearing, U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper quickly moved to prevent President Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center—but left unresolved for now this week’s closure of the building and its ultimate fate. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Kennedy Center Saved From Demolition—For Now
JFK Memorial Remains Closed Dispensing with the need for an emergency hearing,...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, the Easter Bunny, and the Abominable Snowman? Can we look into them too? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...
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Trump DOJ ORDERED To HAND Judge UNREDACTED EPSTEIN Files!?!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Convicted on all counts. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/17/l...
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US Customs and Border agent convicted of raping, robbing sex workers in Chicago-area hotel rooms
A federal jury on Thursday convicted U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Luis Uribe on all counts alleging he used his gun and badge to rape and rob Chinese sex workers in Chicago-area hotel room...
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled in post-Roe America. The rates are even worse in states with abortion bans. When we warned them women would die, they didn't listen. This was preventable.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BY THE NUMBERS... 28: How many Florida GOP elected @letsgomathias.bsky.social contacted about Marshall Rawson, a GOP nom for state rep who marched in Cville 22: How many of those 28 had endorsed Rawson 3: How many responded 0: How many renounced Rawson. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In which I hand it to Fox News for telling it like it is. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/th...
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That, yes, is a set of phrases that might make the average reader’s eyes glaze over, but what it means is this: Republicans are trying to claim more power in Congress and the Electoral College by counting fewer people in blue states and regions. That power would shift to red states and regions. This plan violates the Constitution, though right-wing lawyers have mobilized a set of arguments they will use to argue before the Supreme Court that it does not. This is another power grab, albeit a wonkier and more statistics-focused one than such things as Stop the Steal. Unfortunately, the planning for this power grab within the executive branch involves terms and concepts that put most Americans to sleep.

Fortunately, President Trump’s allies in Congress are helping to make it all more explicit. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) this week introduced the “Make Apportionment Great Again (MAGA) Act.” It, too, would do what the Census Bureau is attempting to do: exclude categories of immigrants from apportionment. Clyde gave Fox News an exclusive heads up that his bill was coming. “‘MAGA Act’ could rip House seats from Dem states ahead of next presidential race,” Fox’s headline declared, perfectly accurately.

Super helpful in amplifying this drum we’ve been banging.
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