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Lifelong Democrat. Twitter refugee. Lover of politics, human rights, civil rights, theology, international affairs, history and cats. Pro science anti-woo. Too shy to post yet. She/her. Resist! Slava Ukraini!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 4h
Shit. He really did say this. www.youtube.com/shorts/ca3C4...
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Palmer Luckey on his idea for using oxytocin to help strengthen marriages
YouTube video by Peter H. Diamandis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused."
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2h
More Social Security talk in the MICHIGAN Senate debate tonight. Mike Rogers calls for "a bipartisan solution" to prevent a 22% benefit cut without backing a specific path. Abdul El-Sayed says: "The answer is obvious here. We should eliminate the cap."
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2h
Sen. Susan Collins: I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the Supreme Court. Troy Jackson: I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 4h
"Kao sent an initial $150,000 to the super PAC using a shell company... Weeks later, Kao told his team Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts."
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5h
In 1981, armed “ballot security” patrols were deployed at polling places in heavily Black and Latino areas of New Jersey, intimidating and turning away voters. History to be aware of as we go into the midterms:
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Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter intimidation campaign is a cautionary tale ahead of 2026 midterms
An armed voter suppression campaign in New Jersey in 1981 finds echoes today in the Trump administration’s persistent efforts to suppress the vote and undermine trust in elections nationwide.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 5h
Aaron is a gem.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5h
I don’t really know how to process publishing this and then two days later ICE shoots someone in my actual neighborhood Uptown has seen a sudden uptick in ICE activity since the summer ( + a citizen pepper sprayed in August) but this “quiet summer surge” is getting very loud
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17h
Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 11h
ICE has reportedly been using a warehouse in New Jersey to detain people despite a court order preventing the use of warehouses. Stephen Miller reportedly "did not want" facilities that were "comfortable" or "humane."
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Anarcho-Crust Demon Hunter @jamesaskew.bsky.social · 6h
This is genocidal rhetoric
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 6h
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly launched a 45-day immigration crackdown in California ahead of the midterm elections, instructing its officers to “go after anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 6h
Remember when we said that it would get really bad as the President realizes that accountability is nigh?
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 9h
On September 15, 2026, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), and Rep. Deborah Ross (NC-02) introduced the Survivors Rights Restitution Act. This legislation would establish a federal restitution program for survivors (cont.) feminist.org/news/address...
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Addressing the Economic Costs of Sexual Violence: The Survivors’ Rights Restitution Act - Feminist Majority Foundation
On September 15, 2026, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), and Rep. Deborah Ross (NC-02) introduced the Survivors Rights Restitution Act. This legislation would establis...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 7h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 8h
In other news: After a century of failure, AI is also projected to make trickle-down economics actually work.😎
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JazzyCleveland @jazzycleveland923.bsky.social · 10h
Ohio Voters: The GOP Attack Ads against Sherrod Brown are LIES- Remember a Trans♀️Claiming SHE was FORCED to have Trans-Surgery against her will, as a young♂️child? The young♂️now♀️named, Soren Aldaco,chose to have the Trans-Surgery as a LEGAL ADULT in Texas,not even from OHIO, "She" is from,+in Texas!
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 9h
Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
AP: “The president recently joked that he would cut off money to North Carolina, which is still healing from Hurricane Helene two years ago, if Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley lost.” How does AP know it’s a joke? Trump isn’t funny, but he is vindictive.
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Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump's midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there
President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
Theories that Trump and Mike Johnson will somehow bar Democrats who win Congressional elections from sitting, thereby successfully killing off the remaining vestiges of US democracy, require candidates who just won to accept that they won’t get a seat, and for the Dem caucus to say OK to that too.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h
A simple mistake. They must have used ChatGPT for their accounting.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h
So the takeaway here really seems to be "You can spot some things if you really know what you're looking for but let's be honest most people aren't really gonna be able to tell when an image is an AI fake pretty soon." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This Photo Is an A.I. Fake. Can You Tell?
We want you to look closely — very closely — at this fake image and spot any errors.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 11h
Greedy sycophant coward with no empathy who wants to replace all humans while taking all their money say whaaat?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h
National Republicans just pulled nearly $2 million of spending out of the Georgia Senate race, per Dem source who shared ad-tracking data with me. The source believes some of it might get redeployed to South Carolina. Another sign of the times.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h
The U.S. is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1991. These graphics show the scale of the crisis.
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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten
The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Pennsylvania.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12h
wrote about Tillis' claim that Trump is getting bad advice. Trump gets bad advice because he is morally committed to never hearing criticism or even ever hearing anything he doesn't make up himself. it's part of his fascism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-choo...
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Trump Chooses Bad Advisors Because He Is a Bad Person
It’s all fascism.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
NEW: As gas prices soar amid Trump’s war in Iran, Republican Senate candidates are asking their own supporters to donate money to cover campaign fuel costs.
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GOP Senate Candidates Have Been Fundraising For Gas Money
Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, and Mike Collins voted for a war which spiked gas prices and are now asking their constituents to pay for gas for them to campaign
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12h
The cover of a fictional book called "Everything I don't like is Woke: A book for basic dickheads" featuring a man pointing at a car engine and saying "This engine is woke"
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls
Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 13h
Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos. Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
The modern, American homepage: @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
NEW: Anti-voting lawyer Cleta Mitchell and election denier Tina Peters are both pushing a scheme to have Trump's commerce secretary regulate voting machines as part of a broader effort to interfere in the midterms. But legal experts say their scheme is way off base and blatantly unconstitutional.
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to regulate voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Jamey Bilyeu @jameybilyeu27.bsky.social · 16h
There's a plan to pull voting machines from more than half the states before the midterm election. No court. No legislature. He’s just gonna do it. @marcelias.bsky.social
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h
I don’t think the mayor of New York can control events in Israel-Palestine, and it’s weird to treat him like he has. Thinking that the murder of innocent civilians is bad, and valuing the safety of all types of people in his city, are very reasonable positions.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 16h
The cost of hiring one very large crude carrier to move US oil to Asia topped $77 million, new data showed Wednesday, surging more than 700% from its 2025 average. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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