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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
45% of Project 2025 has yet to be implemented. Here are the five (5) most significant societal transformations we can expect over the next 2 years.
September 13, 2026 at 12:28 PM

1. Abortion Ban (Comstock Act).
- SCOTUS will outlaw shipment of mifepristone and abortion equipment.
States will sue to protect reproductive healthcare access and lose.
- SCOTUS will build on Dobbs, and hold (6-3) that federal law preempts state protections, establishing a de facto national ban on abortion meds.

2. Department of Education fully eliminated
- Rendering Title I/IDEA funds discretionary for states.
- Title IX (gender and LGBTQ+ discrimination; sexual assault) adjudication all eliminated.
- SCOTUS will permit states reallocate fed funds to private school vouchers.

3. Schedule F Civil Service Overhaul
- They'll convert tens of thousands of career civil servants into fireable political appointees, then fire them. Unions will sue over statutory civil service protections and due process, and lose.
- SCOTUS will promote "Unitary Executive Theory," holding the President has absolute firing power. Civil Service will be dismantled.

4. Obergefelll and "DEI"
- The federal government will eliminate all LGBTQ+ non-discrimination protections and enforce the "traditional family" model.
- Challenges to state marriage bans will prompt extremist rulings re: the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS will ultimately overturn Obergefell, returning marriage "definitions" to the states.

5. Medicare Privatization & Medicaid Elimination
- They'll force Medicare Advantage beneficiaries into default. They'll block
Medicaid funds to providers who offer any reproductive care.
- States will challenge restrictions on patient provider choice and lose.
SCOTUS will uphold broad federal authority to restrict funds and accelerate of the privatization/cancellation of the "welfare state."
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 10h
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 10h
Opinion: A livable guaranteed basic income would be a nation-building project that cares for Canadians, providing income security and autonomy for those who need it, when they need it, write Senator Kim Pate and Trish Altass. www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/07/t...
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Two projects on the front lines of income security discourse in Canada - The Hill Times
A guaranteed basic income would ensure that individuals and families are able to live healthier and safer lives while infusing money into local economies.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it." ~Unknown Artist: Wu Guanzhong, China #Art
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Forsaken61453 @forsaken61453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
why is a childish psycho rapist allowed to operate in secret violating ALL the federal laws and citizens RIGHTS to know what the government is doing with their money?
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Climate change is speeding up four kinds of risk at once: • climatological (heat, drought, fire weather) • hydrological (floods, water scarcity) • biological (disease, ecosystem collapse) • geomorphological (landslides, erosion, thaw) They do not arrive one by one. They stack.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago. mrf.lu/20mz5
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mass shooting: 4 wounded in shooting in Trenton, New Jersey.
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jürgen R 💙🇺🇦 🐝 @dailykotzn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Trump’s Politically Driven Deportations Are Quietly Rising
Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
I'm not good at math, is $800 million a lot?
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicare should be able to negotiate every single prescription drug price in this country.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a normal day in America…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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🧐Trudy Lynn 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @tlt55.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While we’re all individuals, we still must have the ability to work together to maintain a functioning society. If individuals’ ability to survive and work productively is taken away, the harm to society is like hive collapse for bees.
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How much treasonous behaviour should be tolerated? Dismantling the military, sucking up to the enemy, declaring trade wars on allies, attacking critics through the courts, lying about casualties, wrecking the Kennedy Centre, the East Wing, Reflecting Pool and Rose Garden!
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
Do you have questions about Ebola symptoms, lab testing, waste disposal, or others? CDC has developed comprehensive webpages for clinicians and public health practitioners 👇 www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr... www.cdc.gov/viral-hemorr...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds reut.rs/4yeilg5
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More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds
More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children ​across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report the state's attorney general ‌released on Wednesday.
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Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms
The worst couple you know is officially divorcing.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 30/09/2026
President Carter signed the Food Stamp Act because we agreed no one in America should go hungry. SNAP helped families buy food for nearly 50 years. Now, over 5 million people and counting have been kicked off thanks to Trump and Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“This amounts to three decades worth of hurricane threats to Hawaii in one year.”
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Why Hawaii is facing an unprecedented hurricane season
Hawaii has never had three hurricanes come within 50 miles in the same year
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perhaps this is "super intelligence" after all. variety.com/2026/digital...
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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election
Donald Trump has routinely claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered website America.gov, which Trump unveiled on Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 👇
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/09/2026
This really isn’t hard — even if they were afraid of getting shunned, could you not just say that you heard sirens and that they should get out of there??? Make an anonymous 911 call? Grab a bat and go upstairs to beat their asses?
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/09/2026
The Cornell 7 case is particularly infuriating because I truly cannot imagine seeing your friends talk about raping a drugged girl in your groupchat and just sit there and do nothing. All 57 of them should have their lives tore to shreds.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026
US oil, gas output up in Q3, producers wary of price outlook, Dallas Fed says reut.rs/4hFibYL
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US oil, gas output up in Q3, producers wary of price outlook, Dallas Fed says
Oil and gas output in the producing states of Texas, ​Louisiana and New Mexico rose in the third quarter of 2026, the Dallas Fed said in a survey on Wednesday, ‌but producers worry whether sky-high oil prices will stick.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
“Trust us, bro” is not a safety plan. We’re racing toward superintelligent AI with the brakes ripped out. Trump is pushing industry self-policing while major tech leaders are warning that AI could pose severe risks to humanity. #GuardrailsForAI
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ll never understand why American farmers boarded the Titanic 3 times? 🤔 Farms are dealing with record-high diesel prices, fuel that is critical to their equipment. Trade disputes have cut off access to vital markets and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have sent fertilizer costs soaring.
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‘Is it really worth it to keep going on?’ Economic pain hits America’s farm belt | CNN Business
John Yeley has spent the last 26 years working on his farm, which his family has owned since 1852.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loved being at @waynelawschool.bsky.social in Detroit on Friday for the Wayne Law Review Symposium to Examine Oligarchy, Power, and the Rule of Law Knowledge is power & the more we learn, the better prepared we are for the battle!
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Terri121 @terri121.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is an old photo from 2018, and no one would ever want to come to the U.S. right now. Get real!🤨 I'm so done.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have protected hundreds of thousands of jobs from attacks by the federal administration. Workers are the backbone of our country, and I will stop at nothing to ensure they are protected.
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FunkmasterP @funkmasterp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The USA has been defunding public education since the 1960's. In many states, even Florida, college was FREE for residents. CUNY waived tuition until 1976. CA had free college for residents based on a decree from 1868. A newly elected Governor Reagan proposed tuition and a 10% cut to education funds
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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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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He never looks happy. The closest he ever gets to looking happy is when he's come up with some mean new insult he thinks is funny and that his base will like. Then he seems more pleased with himself than actually happy. Must suck to suck.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The God of Cities @thegodofcities.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ― Rosa Parks
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 26/09/2026
“Peace should be our plan, and the payment of our debts, improvement of our constitutions, and extension of agriculture our principal objects." #ThomasJefferson #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agriculture
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
NEW: For pro-democracy groups, yesterday's SCOTUS ruling blocking a GOP-gerrymander in Missouri was a welcome ending to a fight dragged on for too long. For Republicans, the ruling was part of a "leftist" agenda, despite the fact most of the judges were appointed by Republicans.
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SCOTUS Missouri gerrymander ruling praised by pro-voter groups, attacked by GOP officials
“People, not politicians, will be the final deciders on this DC power grab," says group opposing Missouri Republican gerrymander.
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Barbara Hershey @barbarahershey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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sobroquet @sobroquet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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