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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

NEW: DC judge orders FBI to respond by July 30 to a lawsuit by watchdog group Democracy Forward, which seeks records/communications from Kash Patel's security team including the following terms: Alcohol Asleep Drunk Drinking Hungover Inebriated Intoxicated et al

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Lee Barnhart @lebt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Same old same old from crazy criminal and adjudged sexual offender. A reminder to Mr. Bible verse Marco Rubio.the silent sycophants standing with Hitler were judged guilty tooo!!!!!!!!! Oh BTW RUBIO WHERE ARE YOUR BIBLE QUOTES???????? None be cause you know all this is wrong.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is the voter fraud they warned us about

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative'

Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a "moral imperative" that ‌people have access to the health services they need.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Department of Justice sent letters to top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. Tuesday warning they could face criminal prosecution over possible noncitizen voting, escalating the administration’s pressure campaign against state election officials. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump DOJ threatens election officials with criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting

Taken together, the letters mark a sharp new phase in Trump’s election agenda. After losing in court on voter data demands, DOJ is now warning election officials that ordinary list maintenance decisio...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/07/2026

🎉 WIN: The DOJ’s request for the personal information of thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers was “unreasonable,” a federal judge ruled. The judge found that the DOJ was clearly motivated by Trump’s repeated false claims of widespread voter fraud.

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Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ’s demands for personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers

The judge said the department's bid to force the county to divulge election workers’ names and home addresses was “staggering.”

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As horrific as Trump is, it's truly appalling to see how many Republicans and billionaires are assisting his criminal racket.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Many of you asked me if I would support Platner or not, right now. If you recall, I kept saying "ask me after Labor Day." Honestly, it's because I figured when more stuff came out, more of you would move to where I was, rather than vice versa. (Also, I was fairly sure he'd be gone by then.) /1

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Robert Fields @robertfields39.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"He took an oath to support the Constitution. Speaking out against a President, and ENTIRE party, that ignore the Constitution is what I call support. Any military member opposed to his action should be ashamed!" •► www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Enjoyed my conversation with the great Heather Cox Richardson. You can watch or listen here.

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The Donk @thedonk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bombs Iran - pays Iran $300B Sells memecoin for $75 - now worth $2 Endorses candidate - candidate loses "Fixes" reflecting pool - algae blooms, paint peels Goes to Knicks game - Knicks lose Hijacks 250th birthday - no one attends Meddles in World Cup - US loses It's like there's a pattern #ETTD

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Found it for him: Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton "appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in 6 elections in the past 2 years...according to records obtained by ProPublica & The Texas Tribune." electionlawblog.org?p=157141

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Did Texas Attorney General (and U.S. Senate Candidate) Ken Paxton Commit Voter Fraud? #ELB

Texas Tribune/ProPublica: Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of ...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: ATLANTA (AP) — Judge rejects Justice Department attempt to subpoena names of 2020 election workers in Georgia's Fulton County.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A federal judge has rejected Elon Musk's bid to void the jury verdict finding that Musk defrauded Twitter investors by trying to drive down the company's stock price after agreeing ‌to a $44 billion takeover.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/07/2026

Trump doesn’t simply accept his losses and move on. He escalates his preposterous claims and rhetoric even further, Marc Elias says. “We all saw what that led to on January 6, 2021.” Help us stand up to Trump and fight for our democracy: bit.ly/4qskS3m

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

As post after post circulated, I couldn’t help but wonder, was I the only person who didn’t get to spend just shy of 20 minutes talking into Mitch McConnell’s ear by phone today?

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John Hatchard @johnhatchard.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lol he knows exactly what he is.

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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NEW: A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that ICE held monthly in-person meetings with Iranian officials in which it divulged details on Iranian asylum seekers and gave Tehran some say in which individuals the Trump administration would deport. Claims both State and ICE coordinated handing over files.

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Lawsuit Alleges Trump Administration Gave Iran Details on Asylum Seekers

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Once more for those in the back: THE WAR. NEVER ENDED. THERE IS. NO CEASEFIRE.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/07/2026

I spoke with Mitch McConnell today for about 20 min. He apologized for not convicting Trump for January 6th and said that Lindsey Graham is a sissy who is too scared to bring Russian sanctions forward despite promising it for a year. It was a pleasant conversation

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Their goal is to create so much chaos and so many crises that it starts to feel like nothing you do makes a difference. Don’t believe it. Every action matters. Keep showing up and remember the resistance will prevail!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE may have moved off the front page, but another man is dead after an encounter with agents, and the administration is still defending detention without bond. This is why we keep watching, even when the headlines move on. Read today’s Civil Discourse: joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-still-...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” — James Bryce 🌱📷

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yay Katie Phang, The Ruling States That The DOJ Is To "remove heavy Redactions,or legally justify the Blackouts",By July 2nd.......💪🏻 (the hill,freedom press)

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James Mathias @artisticoutlaw.com · 05/07/2026

There is no such thing as a starter job. Who is making your whopper at 11am on a school day? Pay people enough to thrive.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/07/2026

Love to see a mainline denomination name and blast the American heresy; would love even more to see other denominations follow suit.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

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Orcaholic 🐳🐬🌿🐈‍⬛🇵🇸🇺🇦💙🇬🇱🇩🇰⚾️ @sandyp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Los Angeles for the win using drones instead of fireworks 👏

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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.

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cliffdubya.bsky.social @cliffdubya.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

He must answer for it.

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Political Humor @politicalhumor9.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Anti-Fascism protest in Philadelphia

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Texans, vote for Gina Hinojosa! She hangs out with Willie, she doesn't want to kill pregnant women and force feed Christian sharia law down your throats. It's time to push Greg right on out of the governor's mansion in Austin.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wouldn't it just be easier and more dignified not to repeat Donald Trump's preposterous, delusional lies?

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In a democracy, you don't need permission from a soldier to cast your vote. Trump disagrees. Stop him. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from sending troops to our polling places

Contact Congress today!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

He stood by his oath, despite the consequences! A true patriot!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Todd Blanche as AG means Trump's lawyer becomes everyone's prosecutor. Tell your senators to block him now. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General

Contact Congress today!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Looking at the week ahead, Elias Law Group is litigating 80 voting and election cases in 40 states (plus DC). This is a lot of work for a small firm of 60+ lawyers. When we fight we can win!⚖️🗳️💪

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Gavin Newsom says even the critics of Zohran Mamdani have to acknowledge his success on election night: I certainly reached out and texted him. This guy figured it out a year ago or more, and his influence continues to grow. It certainly grew the other day during the election.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"In nearly every state, the official humanities nonprofits created by a congress to help make history and literature accessible to all Americans had to give up their 250th anniversary planning when DOGE pulled their federal funding..." www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

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DOGE Cut Off Small Town America’s 250th Birthday Money

Then Trump redirected the money for his own beautification projects.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The rot at the top of the Court has a name. Tell Congress it's time for accountability. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

Contact Congress today!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The regime built a machine to cage people forever. This week a court found the off switch. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...

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