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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake."

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Judge Kathleen Williams looked at Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS and found Trump effectively on both sides of it. She barred everyone involved from calling the deal a "settlement." Then she got to his lawyers. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Judge Todd Edelman asked prosecutors what new evidence could ever justify charging David Hearn again. They said: "I don't know what the future may bring. None of us do." His ruling has one word for that possibility. It isn't kind. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bernie Moreno blocked a bill to make data centers pay their own way, then complained that Congress never does anything. My guy, you are the reason. That's setting the kitchen on fire and leaving a one-star review. #BlueWaveIn30Days www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Johnson sent the House home so they wouldn’t have to vote. Massie called it the Hegseth holiday. A poll had 51% ready to impeach him for a war Congress never approved. Make yours own the dodge. #BlueWaveIn30Days

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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth

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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A judge already warned contempt is on the table. Britain arrested a prince. Here the AG is still fighting the order. Add your name. They count these. #BlueWaveIn30Days

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Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Four losses in one week. A prosecutor back in his office. A felony that cannot be refiled. A collusive deal still sanctioned. A Senate stunt dead on the floor. Thirty days.

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Great News For Us That’s Absolutely Horrible For Trump

A prosecutor, an Olympian, a $10 billion lawsuit, and your power bill. Four stories, all inside.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An ICE jailer's PAC wrote two checks on the same day. Three weeks later, both recipients voted for $45 billion in new ICE jails. One is Alaska's senator. One wants to be Iowa's. Both kept the money and lost our number. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you! Unfathomable. There is no barrel where one there was no bottom.

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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali The United States of Oligarchy: How the Elite Screwed The World THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and Casey Michel substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The United States of Oligarchy: How the Elite Screwed The World

Please take a moment to look at the graphic above.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A senator‘s years of service lying for a criminal don‘t protect the senator from being victimized by the criminal.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while

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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Loooooooong line out the door for tonight’s sold-out event with Heather Cox Richardson, me, and 700+ Iowans.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Any action to restrict abortion pills would immediately break Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge that he would “not block” access to the drugs..." www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...

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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026

Is there anything Kash Patel won’t do for Trump before the midterms? @sfitz787.bsky.social reports from inside the FBI. theatln.tc/yBThhOWF

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trump administration was too stupid to realize that cutting food safety programs and firing thousands of public servants would have shitty consequences. Watch.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another dismal jobs report. Trump’s meeting with AI billionaires. And a crisis of accountability from the top down. We unpack it all on a brand new episode of the Coffee Klatch. Join us: youtu.be/a_yUsUxYO1E

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Is a Reckoning Coming? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on Yo

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This “$5,000” thing is fooling no one. But it has made one thing clear: Republican desperation at the 1-month-out mark.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tim Snyder is correct: If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money and tackle our corrupt system. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Endless corruption.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“...in the court’s polite idiom, the government took a whupping. Nearly all observers, including me, anticipate an opinion permitting Boasberg to resume his contempt investigation.”

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A Hawk’s Eye View of a Week’s Good News

Four developments worth savoring as the week ends.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Clarence Thomas took years of luxury trips from a billionaire and didn't report them. The Senate asked John Roberts to come explain. He said no. He answers to nobody. Tell Congress to impeach him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts

Contact Congress today!

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026

This corruption must be investigated.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A pardoned fraudster. Epstein's billionaire client. Trump's own officials. ICE's jailers. All four wrote checks to Republicans running for Senate. Corporate media never opened the filings. We did. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Trump’s Senate Candidates Really Hoped You’d Never Read This

Twelve names, all inside. Also: our plan between now and Election Day, five ways to fight back, and your invitation to our live election night war room.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Three of our four investigations ended at the same senator's campaign account. A pardoned fraudster. Epstein's billionaire client. ICE's jailers. Susan Collins took money tied to all three. Maine has 31 days to be concerned. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We asked Dan Sullivan about the checks from Epstein's billionaire client. His Senate office sent us to his campaign. His campaign didn't return two calls. He's in three of our four investigations. Alaska votes in 31 days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael Whatley ran the RNC for Trump. He turned up in three of our four investigations this week and still trails in every September poll we found. Trump's friends can write the checks. They can't make North Carolina like him. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ashley Moody's campaign refunded four donors in July. The fraudster Trump pardoned that month wasn't one of them. Neither were the dozen GEO Group executives who gave after she voted for $45 billion in ICE jails. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jon Husted voted yes on $45 billion for ICE jails. Sixty-four days later an ICE jailer's CEO maxed out to him. There's a fraudster Trump pardoned in his filings too. Ohio noticed. Sherrod Brown is up 8. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mike Rogers' fundraising committee took $7,000 from a fraudster Trump pardoned. He has filed a report since the pardon. Refunds to the fraudster on it: zero. ICE's jailers put in $16,000 more. Michigan votes in 31 days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Roger Marshall's campaign took money from Jack Abramoff's old business partner. Trump pardoned the man July 3. Marshall has filed a report since. Refunds: zero. One Kansas poll has him losing to a pastor. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Cotton's campaign took a billionaire's money two years after the Times exposed his payments to Jeffrey Epstein. The House just held that billionaire in contempt. Cotton has had four years to give it back. He hasn't. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ashley Hinson got a check from an ICE jailer's PAC, voted for $45 billion in ICE jails, then got three more checks. Check, vote, check, check, check. Marist has her down 8 in Iowa. The jailers picked a loser. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pete Ricketts voted for $45 billion in ICE jails. Then the PACs for ICE's two biggest jailers each sent his campaign a check. He kept both. Nebraska is so grateful that one poll has him losing to a man with no party. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ken Paxton's joint fundraising committee took $25,000 from one man. That man ran a company ICE pays to fill detention beds in Texas. Republicans fired a sitting senator to get Paxton. He's trailed in eight of nine polls since. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Darline Graham's campaign has filed exactly one finance report. It covers two weeks. An ICE jailer's former CEO is already on it. Some senators take years to get that comfortable. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One senator writes ICE's budget. The two companies that profit from every ICE raid send her campaign checks. She cashes them. Nearly three decades of "concern," and the one thing she's never once been troubled by is the money. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon like a frat house with nukes. 8,954 of us have told Congress to impeach him. We're 46 letters from 9,000. Knock that out in the next hour. Send yours: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth

Contact Congress today!

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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum Thinking about Corruption with Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Thinking about Corruption with Anne Applebaum

A recording from Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder's live video

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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stop the Presses The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves Mark Jacob substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them

The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves

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