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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 7h
I do hope someone asks her about the Comey case and how terrifying and threatening the seashells were.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 7h
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Holy SH*T! NY Times reporting tonight that Trump has stolen $20 million dollars of our taxes to pay for ads to help Republicans win the midterms. Let me repeat that: Trump stole $20 million dollars of YOUR taxes to help Republicans. Trump MUST BE prosecuted. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An FBI agent about Election Day: “I’m either going to be sick that day or they are going to have to fire me” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 01/10/2026
👀 ‘Since assuming office in 2015, Paxton…took over 275 out-of-state trips to places such as the California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots. The travel cost TX taxpayers a minimum of $1.9M to cover expenses charged by his security detail.’ apnews.com/article/ken-...
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, do you have a plan to vote? Just six days remain to update your registration or register to vote in this election. Make a plan to vote & share this graphic with two friends to help us build the movement we need to take back Texas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A CAMERA IS NOT A CRIME. ICE handcuffed a volunteer filming agents and pulled down her pants. Record EVERYTHING. Preserve evidence. Demand accountability. Know your rights: PAXIS.app Help keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here
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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Texas peeps You may have recently registered and think it’s a done deal. Read the below. Urgently double check that you’re actually registered to vote. 👉🏾 Iwillvote.com 
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
Want to register to vote or check your voter registration status? We can help with that: demdock.com/4gRtE8P
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 27/09/2026
One critic joked that Dan Scavino’s post was “precisely the midterm messaging the GOP needs.”
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'No Shame': Trump Official Gets Eviscerated Over His 'Out Of Touch' AI Flex
One critic joked that Dan Scavino’s post was “precisely the midterm messaging the GOP needs.”
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 25/09/2026
Absolutely brutal ad just dropped against Roger Marshall in #KSSen. Just watch.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 25/09/2026
The claims in Nevada are part of Trump's broader accusations of widespread noncitizen voting.
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Trump's Claims Of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Dealt Major Blow After Bombshell Report
Trump's Claims Of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Dealt Major Blow After Bombshell Report
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 24/09/2026
Look sharp, Texas voters. If you’ve registered to vote at any point over the last year, double check your registration ASAP. You have until October 5th to register or to sort out any issues with your registration. www.fox4news.com/news/texas-d...
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Texas DPS voter registration error leaves thousands of applications unprocessed ahead of midterm deadline
A Texas Department of Public Safety error means about 11 months’ worth of voter registration applications were never sent to county election officials, creating a severe backlog less than two weeks be...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
CNN pulled a clip of Michele Tafoya recently saying "I've never said I was embarrassed to be from Minnesota" and then displays an unearthed and deleted tweet of her saying "I am embarrassed to be from Minnesota" 🥴
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
Ashley Hinson voted repeatedly against efforts to end U.S. hostilities with Iran while taking more than $217,000 from oil and gas interests, including $38,500 since the war began. Meanwhile, Iowa gas prices have surged 60% since the start of the war as major oil companies report soaring profits.
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Ashley Hinson Got Big Money From Oil Companies After Repeatedly Voting For the Iran War
The price of gas for her Iowa constituents has risen by 60% since the start of the war, while oil companies are making record profits
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: 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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what masked federal thugs are doing on the streets of America. This is the evil that America is doing in the name of Donald Trump. This must not be what America is, and we must make it crystal clear in November that this is not what America is.👇
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
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Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
.@TVietor08: I just want to make sure that listeners know the story of Ken Paxton and a man named Adam Hoffman. Adam Hoffman was an attorney in Waco, Texas. He was arrested in 2022 after being accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a young boy.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's shameful, but remember, they tried to gag Pentagon reporters and that didn't stop them from doing their job. Support a free & independent press. It's even more important when our president doesn't.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People of DC (and the country): Let's be prepared to be out there surrounding the Kennedy Center, "tank-man" style.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 6:30 PM EST The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC RSVP: protest.handsoffthearts.org
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Attorneys for Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) alert the judge that Team Trump appears to be considering demolishing Kennedy Center New filing this morning ====>
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/09/2026
There's hypocrisy, there's you-gotta-be-kidding-me hypocrisy, and then there's this next-level sh*t. #NJ07 www.washingtonsun.com/money/tom-ke...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. Runs Anti-Congressional Stock Trade Mailers As He Trades Stocks
The taxpayer-funded messages don’t mention the New Jersey congressman’s own frequent financial moves.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Eighteen Americans are dead and hundreds are wounded. The president calls this 'small potatoes.'"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Trump excuses Xi for helping Iran kill US troops 👇 Q: On the topic of Xi, we recently reported Chinese entities may have provided Iranians w/ satellite imagery of airbases in Jordan-- TRUMP: He's behaved reasonably well. When they say China spies on us, I say, you're right, and we spy on them too.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for an AI slowdown, per FT
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Broken old man" is tight.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is both intended and explicitly framed as a bribe
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Christian Mike Johnson defends his guy's comments describing women as "cum trophies." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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