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K.G. Morrison

@kgmorrison.bsky.social
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Writer. Cynical optimist. 20+ year journalist. Former magazine editor and features reporter. Cornhusker. Rooting for and grieving for democracy. Facts are knowable.

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Dina Sayegh Doll @askdinadoll.bsky.social · 2h
NEWS: Greg Abbott may be forced to turn over “embarrassing” and “intimate” communications with Elon Musk that were earlier redacted because of a public records request filed by Rep. Gina Hinojosa. @meidastouch.com
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 1h
The Obama Foundation and US National Archives (NARA) have a new, joint effort to give the public even greater access and understanding of the work of President Obama’s administration.
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Rob Norberg @ludwignut.bsky.social · 1h
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Sister of Wendy #AbolishICE 🐸 @sisterswendy.bsky.social · 5h
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 4h
this is remarkable
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 21h
So, Republicans hauled in Jack Smith to testify intending to discredit his investigation into Jan 6. What they accomplished was to show Smith operated with integrity and conducted a solid investigation that shows Trump’s guilt. AND they showed themselves to be incompetent toadies to boot.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
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Trump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body
‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 5h
I first started working in the Senate in 1970–56 years ago. I have loved and revered the institution, worked in it and with it over all these decades, with dozens of senators from both parties. I’ve seen bad stuff and bad people along with great ones. Nothing quite compares to Eric Schmitt. 1
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 5h
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 5h
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watchdog group Public Citizen files a formal FCC complaint about Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads “Broadcasters may be held liable for airing any ad that is in violation of federal law. Federal law explicitly prohibits using appropriated public funds for government propaganda"
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Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 @scondrasht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Eric Schmidt is being rumored to be Vance’s running mate in 2028. The same Eric Schmidt who ended up with Schmidt all over his face after that embarrassing performance today.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda. This is about Trump and Millers obsession with segregation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report
GAO documents array of costly problems as ICE pursues controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans continue to prove they don’t care that Trump committed crimes and tried to end our democracy 🇺🇸
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Biden tripped, the media replayed it, analyzed it, and talked about it for months. When Trump falls asleep in the Oval Office every day, networks don’t even cover it. It’s only on social media. Same presidency, very different media coverage.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress, @shustry.bsky.social reports.
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A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 29/09/2026
Cory Booker calls out Republicans for perpetuating J6 conspiracy theories: "This committee's Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth."
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GAO says it cannot find assurances that DOGE properly handled Americans’ data. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/doge…
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Congress’ Watchdog Arm Is Not Assured That DOGE Protected Americans’ Data
Several federal agencies did not answer the congressional auditor’s questions about data security.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 18/09/2026
When it comes to how Donald Trump could disrupt the midterms, the Times’ Maggie Haberman says that after January 6 ‘you can’t rule anything out.’
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Don’t Tune Out Trump’s Midterms Sabotage
When it comes to how Donald Trump could disrupt the midterms, the Times’ Maggie Haberman says that after January 6 ‘you can’t rule anything out.’
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Politico @politico.com · 29/09/2026
Newsom signs laws targeting ICE with shock glove ban, detention center tax
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Newsom signs laws targeting ICE with shock glove ban, detention center tax
Democrats rushed to outlaw shock devices after reports that ICE planned to purchase gloves for officers.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., slams the White House’s pro-Trump ad that’s paid for with taxpayer money and says it is not a PSA: “I hate it. I tell you, it feels like Viktor Orbán talking to the Hungarian people. There’s no place for that sort of thing.”
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ArnFinnArneson @arnfinnarnesson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We cannot let ICE hide their crimes behind the anonymity of masks and cover-ups by the Trump administration Any citizens or immigrants harmed by DHS agents deserve justice-with both civil remedies and criminal prosecution, if applicable And we must rid the country of these bloodthirsty thugs
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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DBeach @beachnic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration is running more television ads promoting the president—and the public is paying the bill.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tell the Secret Service to stand down, and you, too, can have a memorial like Kennedy and Lincoln.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Answer: Because Trump is a Russian asset and useful idiot for Putin.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c... When you realize he’s actually working for big oil, the war, this , everything starts to make more sense
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Old Hippie @oldhippie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since these media outlets have been kicked out of the WH, they have personnel and the time now to investigate and report on the Epstein Files. ✌️😀💙🌈
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/09/2026
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in public spaces in Canada. According to the CBC, these products are being used against women, with reports of attempts to extort money from victims to remove humiliating videos from social media platforms.
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Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in Canada to prevent covertly recorded videos from being shared on social media.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
President Obama tried. It was called Obamacare. It's what EVERY Canadian has: health care. Don Johnson, 81, lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. =====================
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it. As we resist tyranny, we gain solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we build courage. As we feel more courageous and stand up for our communities, we weaken tyrants and their regimes. ~ Robert Reich
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Judge needs to drop the damn hammer on this contemptuous behavior.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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