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Andrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 17h

Tony Romo drove drunk. He doesn't deny it. In fact he plead no contest and has taken ownership of his actions and publicly acknowledged his struggles with pain medication and now alcohol. For that he got canned by CBS while the NFL suspends players ~4-6 games for domestic violence. The NFL sucks

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 11h

That tickle you feel in your nether regions is Denver reaching into your pocket to balance its budget deficit. We got a hold of the city's plans to massively expand its traffic ticket camera system.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Congrats to the Graham Platner assholes. You muddied the waters with women voters and wasted everyone's time, attention, and money in the primary.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14h

I do and don't feel bad about bringing Peter Herbstreit into the whole Deshaun Watson situation. www.mediaite.com/opinion/thur...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Elon Musk scam PAC is trying to scam Colorado voters.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Elon Musk is trying to scam Colorado voters. www.9news.com/article/news...

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Republican candidate Brandon Herrera on giving women the right to vote: “I’m not saying that the 19th amendment was a mistake. I’m just saying the country went to shit after.”

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks for letting us know neither one of you would have called the cops at Cornell.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not friends with Nazis. White male identity politics are a hell of a drug.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 18h

Ads opposing Props 134 & 135 in Colorado are up and out: youtu.be/vWWoZQ0m_6o?...

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Check the Language

YouTube video by Families Not Politics

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 19h

Any enterprising reporters want to look up whoever the hell is "Colorado Dawn"?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans are already giving up in North Carolina -- just 2 weeks after Trump held a campaign rally in the state for the GOP Senate nominee Michael Whatley. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim

As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21h

The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22h

Anti-abortion activists would tell you Texas's abortion bans aren't to blame for Tierra Walker's death bc they have medical emergency exceptions But GOP lawyers have made *pretty clear* that those exceptions are just decorative and not actually meant to be used ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

New Fox poll of Texas has Talarico +7 with registered voters and +2 with likely voters. This is striking: *He's winning half of working class *In mid-60s w/Latinos *Winning 22% of non-MAGA Rs (!) The kicker: Non-MAGA Rs *disapprove* of Trump New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

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New Fox Poll—a Disaster for Trump—Rattles Fox Anchors: “Wake Up!”

They were freaking out on Fox News Friday morning over a new Texas poll. A look at the internals shows they had every reason to.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 21h

iso cam on Charissa Thompson as she's forced to listen to praise of a rapist

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 20h

“We swim in rape culture in the United States to the point where it doesn’t even register anymore. It simply floats by with the rest of the news, barely a blip in our consciousness.”

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Everywhere in the world, they hurt little girls

Losing My Perspicacity, October 2, 2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

"The adversity that he's been through." Yes, yes, this poor man had to deal with *dozens* of suits for sexual assault. And here he is, surviving and thriving on the other side of all those settlements. What a brave hero.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 22h

I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 22h

Kirk Herbstreit is the Trumper meathead we've suspected all along.

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit treating Deshaun Watson like any other QB, and nary a mention of two dozen sexual assault allegations as part of an already disgusting “redemption” arc they’ve spent all night trying to weave is really gross.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 22h

There is something profoundly fucked up at the leadership/ownership of the New York Times for continuously platforming white nationalist Chris Rufo. @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...

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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23h

There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)

Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026

Wemby is something else, man

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do think there should be a running tally of the amount of money this administration has lost just in employment lawsuits. This one is going to be a dunker too.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

our problem isn't polarization; it's fascism. I've been saying that for a while. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...

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Our Problem Isn't Polarization. It's Fascism.

A new paper makes the case.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@jamescdownie.bsky.social Just read this thread about the Colorado Republican candidate for Governor. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@bgrueskin.bsky.social The Colorado Republican candidate for Governor. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Note to national reporters, pundits, or anyone inclined to think Victor Marx is a joke candidate: this is a man who enjoys violence, including against his own family. He's not amusing. He's not funny. He's why restraining orders exist. He's why the data about intimate partner violence exists.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marx acknowledged throwing his toddler son across a room onto a bed in anger, but said the boy was not hurt. "I'm not proud of that," Marx said. KNUS' Jeff Hunt again reiterated: "No calls to police. No reports. No charges. No convictions related to any of that incident."

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eileen Marx disclosed on KNUS that she was raised in a home with domestic violence. "So I know what domestic abuse looks like," Eileen Marx said. "That was nothing like domestic abuse."

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On KNUS, Victor Marx retold the story of slamming Eileen Marx into a door to teach her a lesson. "Remember, babe? It was our first little house," Marx said on KNUS. Marx's retelling differed from his original account. "She was fake crying. She wasn't really hurt," Marx said.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This entire thread is horrifying.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marx says "words and events can be taken out of context and presented in a way that creates a completely different impression." Here is an extended version of Marx speaking in 2022 about the time that he threw his toddler son across a room. Marx said the child was terrified.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marx says the video is out of context. Here's a longer version of the 2021 clip where Marx laughs about slamming his wife Eileen into a door so hard that she cried. Marx says he was teaching her a lesson that she needed self-defense training. Marx says she learned her lesson.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apparently I'm on an Advance Colorado Republican list. #copolitics

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