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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know how Facebook tweaked its algorithm in the last couple weeks but suddenly I am getting content from far-right influencer types, which has never happened before. This content is less relevant to me than the cattle castration tool ads I’ve gotten from time to time.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17h

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?

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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Donald Trump’s name won’t even be on a Kennedy Center bathroom. When Democrats retake Congress, we’ll put an end to his taxpayer-funded vanity projects, stop his reckless war of choice in Iran, crack down on corruption, and fight for an affordable America.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what in the WHAT

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Astonishing how little engagement this has with the substance of the work she’s recommending. And am I missing it or did she not mention unions at all in this exhortation to blue collar work? (I am an honest to goodness fan of bricklayers but definitely don’t do that kind of work non-union.)

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 02/10/2026

I have had many progressive Jewish friends tell me that they feel significantly less safe in the past few years, and I don’t think that seeing their allies being dismissive about that is going to make them feel *more* safe

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Dems say…” Too bad a media outlet couldn’t confirm it.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

White male privilege is doing a public appearance looking like this, gross messed-up hair, exactly the wrong amount of facial hair, general aura of greasiness, just no effort whatsoever.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Reminded that his biggest donor founded an entire company to halt progress on public transit and hinges a large part of his wealth on the promise of robotaxis as a better and always imminent alternative.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sweetgreen guy got on LinkedIn in 2021 and started ranting about how fat people were preventing us from ending the pandemic and how our problems could be solved with “health mandates” so he is actually top of the list for people you should expect at this kind of thing

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

well, glad we cleared that up!

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 28/09/2026

🧵 This is what I remember about that time period. This NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/u.... I remember it viscerally because if you CTRL+F for "Mock," you'll find a sympathetic, short bit on what happened to C.D. Mock's son.

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Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear (Published 2017)

Betsy DeVos’s Education Department is re-evaluating the get-tough policies on campus sexual assault that were enforced by the Obama administration.

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really wish this was broken down by which people recommended which things, because this list is a real mix of people I follow/respect (as the post quoted) and people whose recommendations I would see as proof positive I should oppose a thing…

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Really need a “no rosemary” filter on recipe searches.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026

The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...

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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What amazes me is that some version of this story runs in every election cycle, and no one ever bothers to look up past iterations to see that it's not new or particularly rare.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists are always much more willing to hold violent students accountable that university administrators. And their call out of the “educational interventions” used by schools to left rapists off the hook is a must-read.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They sent my client a cease-and-desist letter for this ad in PA's hotly contested 6th Senate District. As I wrote back, "We will neither cease nor desist from engaging in this truthful, accurate speech." Here's the "Data Senator" ad which Republicans don't want Lower Bucks residents to see.

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Data Senator

YouTube video by Eileen Albillar

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are you kidding me? The idea was a brief symbolic protest and then a shrug?

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

I think constantly about how Ruby Bridges is younger than my mother.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s raining hard here in MA, and the private equity money has been raining down hard in support of Question 3 (jungle primaries). Remember, folks: The most dangerous words in the English language are “We’re from private equity, and we’re here to help.” Vote NO on 3. #mapoli

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What happens when Susan Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time? Mainers pay for the price for her actions. Watch our new ad 📺

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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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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A ton of professional Republicans are fundamentally horrible people, and Democrats need to tell voters that those Republicans are, in fact, horrible people.

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I keep hearing cackling coming from the next room and I never know at any given moment if @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social is looking at midterms polling or Man City news.

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What's one word that comes to mind? Best I can do for you is eight or nine words.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PSA to HS seniors & their adults - do NOT let the stated costs stop you from applying to expensive schools!! Many students pay less to go to fancy places than they would have paid at their state school. Even at places without a stated "free for families below $X" policy.

Screenshot of this webpage, key thing is the headline - "Swarthmore Expands Financial Aid With New Tuition Guarantee"

https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/swarthmore-expands-financial-aid-new-tuition-guarantee -

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026

ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

There's what DHS said...and then there's reality ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked Balls and Strikes article, reading as follows:

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on the ground who reported injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. Soon, the officers learned that the injured man was a U.S. citizen, and his assailants were federal immigration agents.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a statement on Tuesday claiming that the beaten man “resembled the target” of an immigration enforcement operation, and that he was “not cooperative” with agents’ investigation. “Once the individual finally identified himself,” said DHS, immigration officers “left the scene without further incident.”

A video of the incident shows that immigration officers pinned the man to the ground while he repeatedly yelled, “I’m a fucking U.S. citizen,” and while concerned witnesses asked why the agents were “fucking him up.” Eventually, the agents drove off without rendering medical aid. People tried to comfort the man, who remained motionless on the ground.

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Progressive Mass @progressivemass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MA has 9 statewide ballot questions this year. Be an informed voter! #mapoli www.progressivemass.com/2026ballot/

This November, Massachusetts will see *9* statewide ballot questions, a historic number. But we’ve got you covered.

✅VOTE YES ON 1 to expand the public records law to cover the Governor and the Legislature. We’re the only state in the country that doesn’t do that already. Let the sunlight in.

✅VOTE YES ON 2 to enable public defenders to collectively bargain. Every worker deserves to have a union, and public defenders, who are often overworked and underpaid, should be no exception.

❌VOTE NO ON 3 to prevent private equity billionaires from rigging our election system in their favor. Top-two primaries empower corporate PACs and self-funders, disadvantage grassroots candidates, and turn MAGA voters into election kingmakers.

✅VOTE YES ON 4 to enable voters to register to vote or update their registration on Election Day. No eligible voter should be turned away due to a clerical error, and this reform is one of the most proven ways to increase voter turnout.

❌VOTE NO ON 5 to protect our state’s ability to invest in health care, transportation, and public education. The rich would get millions in tax rebates, while the rest of us suffer from underfunded public services.

⚪VOTE how you want on 6. Question 6 fell shy of our endorsement threshold: our members valued land and water conservation, but were worried about the dedication of existing funds as opposed to new ones.

✅VOTE YES on 7 to enable more starter homes across the Commonwealth. We have a housing crisis, and large lot size requirements mean fewer homes are able to be built.

❌VOTE NO on 8 to protect our state’s cannabis laws. We said NO to the war on drugs back in 2016, and we shouldn’t turn back time and destroy local economies.

✅VOTE YES ON 9 to protect our state’s landmark gun safety law, which cracked down on ghost guns, banned machine gun conversion devices, and strengthened gun violence data collection.

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❌ 👑 Indivisible01027 @indivisible01027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Learn about the 9 Questions on the Ballot on Nov. 3! Thank you, @progressivemass.bsky.social for this informative session.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am duty-bound to remind you that Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™️

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Putting minors and adult students together in a boarding school run by non-educators?

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Man Running with Giant Red Flag

ALT: Man Running with Giant Red Flag

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

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Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A woman showed up at the vet’s office with an adorable golden retriever puppy and it’s probably the closest she’s ever experienced to being a celebrity.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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