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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 1h
The headlines in this report will give you the information you need. www.aclu.org/publications...
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76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 1h
Trump is coming for all of us. Immigrants are only the start. joycevance.substack.com/p/about-ice-...
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About ICE — Let’s Ty that Again!
A recording from Joyce Vance's live video
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 2h
Why is Iowa the Dark Horse Battleground of 2026? bit.ly/3TLiY2c On @simonwdc.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social ’s latest sit down they discuss why non-college-educated white voters are turning away from the GOP. Subscribe to watch— only on Lincoln Square!
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Simon Rosenberg & Stuart Stevens: Why Iowa’s the Dark Horse Battleground of 2026
Non-college-educated white voters are turning away from the GOP. That’s why Democrats can win in states like Iowa this year.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 2h
Early voting begins in much of Kansas this week — where a critical U.S. Senate seat and most state offices are on the ballot. The big races for governor, secretary of state and attorney general are all closer than expected.
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Kansas, the battleground state
Early voting begins in much of Kansas this week — where a critical U.S. Senate seat and most state offices are on the ba
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2h
Secretary Rubio’s call for a fascist society is hardly a dog whistle. It’s a loud yell, and his Greece speech last week, where he complained about the Western world’s rejection of nationalism and “condemnation of our own history,” proved it. Tom Malinowski breaks it all down
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Marco Rubio’s Descent into Darkness, and the True Meaning of the West
He would do well to listen to John McCain: ‘Indeed, the entire idea of the West is that it is open to any person or any
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2h
People already inventing scenarios like “what if the guy in the truck is hauling Steinway pianos for regular practice at senior centers while also working as a refrigerator deliveryman.” Good job, everyone. You’ve been, shall we say, carwashed.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2h
Leaving this here.
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You Don't Need A Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume
The full-size pickup truck has become America's best-selling vehicle by a country mile. But most Silverado, Ram, and F-Series buyers would be better served with a cheaper means of role-playing.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h
The ACLU’s Mike Zamore joined us this morning for an incredibly thoughtful conversation about how the Trump administration‘s mass deportation policy is damaging all of us; our democracy and each of us as individuals. joycevance.substack.com/p/about-ice-...
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About ICE — Let’s Ty that Again!
A recording from Joyce Vance's live video
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2h
They’re both carrying the same number of people - and probably the same amount of cargo.
Woman wearing black riding, green lime bike. In the background is a blue pickup truck.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2h
“But what about [highly specific scenario] where the best and only option is a truck?” Cool! Use a truck for that. But you don’t need a pickup to commute to your desk job at KPMG or buy groceries. Cars and trucks are tools and not always the best tool for the job. This isn’t hard, friends.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 1h
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Kansas City bets a new Royals stadium will help pay for itself. Decades of research say it won't
Kansas City staff used a graphic of a rack of ribs to show how increased tax revenues from a "stadium impact area" could help pay Kansas City's share of construction costs. Economics and public policy...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21h
Pete Hegseth called reports about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln “completely misrepresented.” 64 dads met their babies for the first time when it docked after 321 days. Get him to 12,000 impeachment letters today: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 21h
Thanks @tombolobooks.bsky.social in St. Pete for carrying Life After Cars. They said it's been a big seller and now there's a signed copy on the shelves! What a great bookstore. tombolobooks.com
Tombolo Books with multicolored facade, black awning, under blue sky with white clouds.Bookshelf with books facing spine out.Signed title page for Life After Cars.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20h
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 20h
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access when a customs rule goes into effect this month, a change that has sparked opposition from Democrats & some Republicans with the cost of living a top issue for voters ahead of midterm elections. apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20h
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21h
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h
And truth is always a defense. New Republic: newrepublic.com/post/216448/...
At least four of Collins’s former staffers and aides have been accused of extremist affiliations. They include Collins’s former chief of staff Kip Talley; former digital director William Paul (the son of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul); and a former intern, Preston Parra, who has frequently shared Ku Klux Klan and Nazi images to his personal social media account, including an image of himself clad in the white supremacist group’s hooded uniform.

“You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office,” Ossoff remarked at one point.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20h
New Republic also notes, "But the hate bled even closer to home: CNN revealed in July that Collins’s son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, was a white supremacist influencer who had shared vitriolic, extremist messaging across the internet."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h
The Talarico nonsense being spread by GOP influencers is a typical republican “scandal” - lots of BREAKING!! And 🚨 but no actual substance. If anyone from the Paxton campaign coordinated with influencers to spread these lies, people should go to prison, and Talarico should sue the fuck out of them.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 22h
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 22h
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California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke
Redwoods adapted to a cool, foggy climate. Now a new study shows they slow down photosynthesis when their environment warms.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Marshall would have ignored the bill except that it went viral on social media. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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A Senator Facing Re-Election Settles a Bakery Bill, 6 Years Later
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker’s story went viral online.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
government that often plans and controls the economy. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-h...
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JD Vance Humiliates Himself Trying to Define "Socialism"
Tim Miller gives his take on JD Vance’s fumbling attempt to define socialism and the hypocrisy at the heart of MAGA’s attacks on Democrats.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Isn't Trump doing this? He uses taxpayer dollars to buy stakes in companies. He's censoring what we can hear in the media. • Socialism: Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just wild. Deters, on right, names the criminals in the Trump regime. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-spoke-t...
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We Spoke to the Guy Who Snitched on Kimberly Guilfoyle (w/ Eric Deters)
Sam Stein on Thursday spoke with Eric Deters, the man at the center of the Wall Street Journal’s explosive report on Kimberly Guilfoyle’s troubled finances, political conflicts, and unethical conduct.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
How Republicans are working to end Obamacare. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/death-by-a...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts: The GOP's Stealth Move to End the ACA
Health care analyst Charles Gaba estimates that at least 15 million people could lose Medicaid coverage if congressional Republicans get their way.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
referred to “a growing network of everyday Republican voters…who are ready for change.” --HCRichardson
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
who voted for Trump in 2024 think the Republican Party should break with Trump in order to win in November. In Kansas on Wednesday, more than 100 prominent Republicans launched a coalition called “Republicans for Hamilton” to back Democrat Adam Hamilton for the U.S. Senate. Their announcement
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Republicans for Hamilton a new coalition! • The latest poll from the Pew Research Center shows that 68% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the presidency. Cook Political Report has moved 18 more House ratings toward the Democrats. Myah Ward of Politico reported that 26% of those
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Voters in midterm elections identify a culprit for rising cost of living: Trump’s tariffs • Missouri Independent
A growing number of voters are taking their anger about affordability to the polls this midterm election and blaming President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a culprit for rising expenses, polls show.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One Big Beautiful Bill Act is projected to cut federal Medicaid spending by an estimated $886.8 billion over the next decade.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump doesn't care if you have healthcare. • The study comes as health systems across the nation brace for the effects of the broad tax and spending measure passed by congressional Republicans and signed by President Donald Trump in July 2025. The so-called missouriindependent.com/2026/10/09/r...
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Urban, rural hospitals closing at similar rates, study finds • Missouri Independent
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation options, acc...
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kansas City, Kansas, sues state to ‘keep a voice’ in Chiefs stadium planning
The lawsuit questions the constitutionality of the law that establishing the sports authority that will oversee the new Chiefs stadium. The Unified Government says its goal isn’t to stop construction,...
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
a situation that campaign finance experts said was potentially unprecedented in the modern era of politics
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not only does Dr. Marshall sue his patients but he doesn't pay his staff. • According to Marshall’s most recent Federal Election Commission records filed in July, no one working for Marshall’s campaign had received a paycheck in the past five years — . www.thepitchkc.com/taxpayer-dol...
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Taxpayer dollars and campaign cash repeatedly blur for Roger Marshall
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall appears at the Sept. 12, 2026, debate at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) As Sen. Roger Marshall fights for his political life in...
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Trump strikes deal with Putin to supply Russian diesel to U.S. and global markets
President Donald Trump has few options to reduce diesel prices given the destruction done to refineries by the wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Health insurers are dropping Medicare Advantage plans — and nearly 3 million older Americans will be affected
One in 10 Medicare Advantage policyholders face disenrollment as insurers exit markets citing financial pressures.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New movie about craven Mark Zuckerberg. How Facebook Broke America open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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How Facebook Broke America
‘The Social Network’ revealed a man's hollowness. ‘The Social Reckoning’ shows how he filled that hole: with ragebait.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lCE is getting our personal information, all of us. missouriindependent.com/2026/10/08/r...
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Documents show DHS probed nonprofits, obtained millions of records in hunt for noncitizen voters • Missouri Independent
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using u...
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“What’s really disappointing is nobody is talking about a realistic suite of options that will fix it,”
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said even though Social Security’s financial woes have been discussed more during this year’s campaign cycle, most candidates have shied away from getting into the weeds. missouriindependent.com/2026/10/08/r...
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US Senate candidates in 9 key races quiet about Social Security benefits cliff • Missouri Independent
Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Commentary: The Cornell case forced me to confront the sexual assault I buried for decades • Missouri Independent
I am Jane Doe. I was a freshman in college, second semester, when I got a call from my mom that my dad was in the hospital. I should find my older brother and we should come home. In the hour and a ha...
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vote for Ingle. • Missouri Senate battleground pits Jon Patterson against Keri Ingle in Jackson County missouriindependent.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Missouri Senate battleground pits Jon Patterson against Keri Ingle in Jackson County • Missouri Independent
Two Missouri House lawmakers face off in the November general election for the State Senate's 8th District seat.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth is a sadist and mass murderer. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film
Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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ICE Is Clearly Violating Constitutional Rights. DHS Denies It.
Watch now (1 min) | Ben Sheehan breaks down new report that documents numerous abuses, with over 500 U.S. citizens detained
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What started as a bipartisan savings concept now comes with stocks you can’t reject, a five-year lockup, and some very happy billionaires. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Trump Accounts Were a GOOD Idea. He Just Made It an Icky One.
What started as a bipartisan savings concept now comes with stocks you can’t reject, a five-year lockup, and some very happy billionaires.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
whose voices were silenced over a forgotten maiden name? Silence.
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
found 72,000 instances, in 6 states, of mail ballots being thrown out over inconsequential technical issues. Recall the outcry from Republicans and many in the media when we learned about a tiny number of noncitizen voters in New Jersey. It was headline news. But when it comes to voters
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lauriechip @lauriechip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Other times, they result from election worker errors, such as when they decide a signature doesn’t match the one on the voter’s registration card. To be clear, there is no requirement of penmanship to vote, and signature matching is junk science. In an eye-opening analysis, Democracy Docket
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