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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.

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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h

BREAKING: ICE collected millions of voter records and considered undercover investigations against voter registration groups, documents reveal. It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok, this seems quite bad. The accounts posting about this over the weekend were lurid and dodgy but this seems like it’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

CNN on the last jobs report before the midterms: "It came in cold -- surprisingly cold. Job growth weaker than expected, unemployment unexpectedly went up, and paychecks aren't keeping up with prices. This was disappointing all around."

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This shows no movement since July. Not saying Talarico wins but the GOP just set well over $100 million on fire to try to save Paxton from himself and this poll shows it’s not, yet working. Gonna be a tough night over at NRSC HQ tonight.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is really sad news! I’ve been ordering from or going to Dukem regularly for the last 10+ years.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can't get a better insight into how the right wing works than this Eric Schmitt/Jack Smith stuff. His team didn't know the difference between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks They spun an elaborate conspiracy theory around it They lined up all the MAGA podcasters about it.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Could it be that I'm a moron who can't be bothered to do the tiniest bit of due diligence before accusing someone of perjury and calling him a dirtbag? No, it must be a conspiracy." It's hard to find a better encapsulation of where we're at than this. This people are serious, and they're morons.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s somehow more depressing that our constitutional order is being dismantled by people who demonstrably cannot find their own asses with both hands.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 29/09/2026

NBC News: "The Iran war will have a chilling effect on your wallet this winter." Higher heating bills. Higher gas prices. Higher airfare. Package delivery surcharges. Trump's war doesn't stay overseas. It shows up in December, on your bill.

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The Iran war will have a chilling effect on your wallet this winter

Sky-high airfare, rising gas prices and soaring home heating costs are all squeezing consumers heading into the holiday season.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For those not following, there’s a city in Russia occupied Ukraine near the frontline cut off from everywhere by mines and torn up roads, the people who haven’t been able to evacuate have only food they can grow themselves or have been rationing for a year, and Russia does not care.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is bad now. This will be much worse when Dems take back at least one branch of congress.

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Councilmember Brooke Pinto @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We cannot have armed National Guards in or around our schools and young people. Our schools must remain welcoming environments of learning and growth, and spaces where all DC students, parents, and school staff can feel safe and can thrive.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Things need knobs and dials again! No more touch screens. Bring back knobs!

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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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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026

No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...

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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low

No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminder not to overreact to early voting metrics. Based on early voting tea leaf reading the GOP was going to win big in 22. This is mostly a reminder to myself.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is why Bonta and team folding on the merger lawsuit was a massive mistake. Musk is incredibly litigious and will without question use any stake he has in media to torpedo coverage of the many ways his disgusting influence over and profiting from our government.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is wild that every ANC gets a $20k budget every year from DC government regardless of whether they spent last year’s funds.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To well actually a well actually, this is good news for a Democratic president in 2029 if he or she is able to effectively communicate small wins like the many Mandani is winning.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Rebecca Traister Troy Jackson article is a bat signal for all the people on the left more interested in pointless factional infighting than saving America, and its genuinely disappointing to see people who I thought knew better fall into this trap.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a 👀 👀 👀 👀 alert. Only reason it doesn’t earn the fifth and final 👀 is because it and the IA result from Marist are a bit of an outlier. No wonder the GOP is dumping $100 million and counting into TX.

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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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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We send these people a letter and they didn't respond" is a pretty bad mechanism for determining "does this person exist".

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On second thought I think what they're actually trying to do is create the premium death spiral they've been long predicting but that hasn't actually happened. They're saying not filing a claim is evidence of fraud, which gives them an excuse to kick healthy people off the system and manufacture it.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is either the most stupid (they don’t know how insurance works) or most evil (they want to kick healthy people off the exchanges so the ability of insurers to keep affording payouts craters) idea on health insurance I’ve ever heard.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

its odd that the political media hounds dems to constantly comment on every random statement hasan piker makes but don't do the same for Republicans of the top GOP megadonor two cycles in a row

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hegseth should rot in the Hague

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026

The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.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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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And someone thanks to guys like Roger Marshall our nation is less secure and the economy is cooked.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026

OCTOBER???? dawg.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Florida looking particularly brutal right now for the GOP—expect more of this. I think a lot of folks are sleeping on the chance that Jolly wins the Governor's race.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh come on, you can’t eat without risking diarrhea, and now you can’t even wash your hands??

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you @ggwash.org for endorsing my campaign for DC’s 4C07 ANC. Also, I’m running to represent a very small part of Petworth in a competitive race for advisory neighborhood commission. If you like safe roads, more housing, local businesses, and if you hate rats, I’m your guy.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The “branding dispute” being that it’s legally established as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the president from the 1960s who was murdered in office by an assassin, and Trump wanted to slap his name on it too while he held power for reasons of pure narcissism.

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Lionel Dripps @lioneldripps.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another in a long list of institutions ruined for pointless reasons by Trump. This will further hit DC artists already struggling thanks to Trump torpedoing the DC economy.

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