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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
Millions of Americans are ready to get into election protection formation. Join us at the next No Kings Day to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the nearly 2,500 events planned for the next No Kings Day on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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LiziBytesNews ❌👑 @lizibytes1975.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“… There they sit, a collection of braggarts and blowhards, guys who’ve lived lives of endless privilege and limitless second chances. They think they have all the answers, that they’re smarter than they really are & the future will bend to whatever ideas pop into their heads, no matter how inane…”
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 06/10/2026
Lots more from races across the country: • A Democratic group reups Kansas spending as GOP rushes to keep Senate seat red. • Two Republican-held House seats are falling off the map, and that's *not* good news for the GOP. • Campaign to restore abortion rights to Idaho outraises "no" side.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
The next No Kings Day is almost here. Let’s make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
Trump promised prices would come down on day one. Check your receipt before you vote.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
Join the No Kings coalition for a nationwide election protection training to level up your election defense skills. We will focus on the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.
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No Kings: Vote Early: Election Protection 201 · No Kings
Join the No Kings coalition for this training to prepare for engaging in sustained mobilization and results protection work depending on opposition response to election results. *A core principle beh...
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The only rule Trump has...is at play here: "If I want to do it, I do. No one can stop me." Just like a five-year-old, only worse.
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Mike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(The Atlantic) Great summary of what we all know to some degree: Trump's ability to ignore important tasks (cost of oil, cost of goods, inflation, partnerships with allies, stopping wars, etc.) and only focus on monuments to HIMSELF. Time to tear them down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(WSJ) You know times are tough when the conservative WSJ sees a Blue Wave on the horizon; Dems ahead in eight of the nine most critical Senate Races. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THIS! Hey Trump: start your excuses and pouting NOW. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The Midterm Sprint Is Here. Senate Polls Show a Lot of Blue.
Plus, Trump says proposed arch will also be a “military complex”; and the administration prepares to impose sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Key questions answered about scheme that has sent more than 25,000 people to countries that are not their own
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What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/09/2026
Pet parades, costume parties, and votercades — we love your creativity for the next No Kings on October 17! Join (or start) a local event to promote unprecedented early voting and stop the regime from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/09/2026
Everybody can help build the nationwide infrastructure we will need to respond to attacks on voting rights in any community.
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**Hands Off Our Vote** is Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, every ballot is counted, and the results are honored. **By signing up you’ll become a ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
update on today's maritime murders
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meanwhile, we’re still murdering people in the Caribbean. www.reuters.com/world/us-say...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 20/09/2026
And the more you unravel this story, the more questions there are. Read all about this crazy story via ProPublica here: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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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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We Hold These Truths @weholdtruths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This Constitution Day, we are reminded that our freedoms are not guaranteed. They are protected when we show up and act for them, generation after generation. Our democracy is worth defending, and that time is now. Sign the pledge: weholdtruths.org #WeHoldTheseTruths #ConstitutionDay
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Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 17/09/2026
There's three things Democrats can do if we win a majority.
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LiziBytesNews ❌👑 @lizibytes1975.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"... We’re living through a season engineered to make people feel small: to make conscience feel naive, refusal feel futile... Beckerman’s answer to all of that is patient and devastating."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As @rincewind.run says, "just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns"
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/09/2026
Patel defended the FBI's loosening of hiring standards regarding an applicant's past experience with prostitution and bestiality, insisting the changes were meant to enable victims of those acts to be considered for employment without fear of automatic disqualification. to.pbs.org/46Zx6YD
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WATCH: Patel testifies in Senate hearing, defending changes to FBI hiring standards on prostitution, bestiality
FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau's loosening of hiring standards regarding an applicant's past experience with prostitution and bestiality, insisting that the changes were meant ...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2026
In case you need more evidence that Kash Patel seems really bad at his job. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel again denies firing Iran experts before Iran war
Patel insisted to a Senate committee that FBI staff fired from an Iran counterintelligence unit were technically "not experts."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kash Patel defended his new policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee which allows the FBI to hire agents who have engaged in bestiality and it barely gets noticed because there are 50 other things happening from these clowns each day that are worse.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/09/2026
Justice Jackson affirmed what we already knew: Americans have the right to vote in whatever form is most convenient for them — via mail, with a drop box, early in-person, or on Election Day. Trump’s pathetic and desperate attempts to rig the election by sabotaging mail voting have failed once again.
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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Federal district court judges like Indira Talwani — who effectively stopped Trump's plan to use the US Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting — deserve the gratitude and appreciation of all Americans. They are holding the line against the authoritarian bullies who threaten our freedoms.
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This week’s Joseph N. Welch Award goes to …
Recognizing the people who are protecting us against Trump’s authoritarianism
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meaux55.bsky.social @meaux55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The key portions of the Rule exceed any conception of the outer bounds of these authorities,” the judge wrote in his 24-page opinion. Nichols is a Trump appointee who serves on the federal trial bench in Washington, D.C. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Second judge freezes Trump mail ballot plan as Supreme Court ruling looms
A second federal judge blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing President Trump’s executive order targeting mail-in voting, adding a new obstacle to the president’s plan as he awaits word …
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Conservatives also understand the USPS rule lies way out of bounds. Order: buff.ly/EWq8u2I
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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 14/09/2026
MAJOR VICTORY: A federal judge just blocked the administration's mail ballot rule in our lawsuit! 🛑🗳️ Vote-by-mail is so safe and secure the president himself uses it regularly. This was a desperate power grab to silence voters—and we shut it down.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 14/09/2026
Trump’s own party agrees with what a federal judge already found to be true: it’s too late for his dangerous USPS rule restricting access to voting & the electoral process to be implemented without sowing chaos and harming voters.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
VICTORY: Trump's mail ballot interference rule is blocked in FULL A fed. judge ruled USPS never had the power to rewrite how America votes, weeks out from the midterms @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org brought this case for LULAC, ASA, SFI, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN
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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From the New York Times: "Here’s How the Postal Service Could Refuse to Deliver Your Mail Ballot" The Trump Administration is trying to disenfranchise Washingtonians. We blocked their illegal attack in court and will continue to defend our elections.
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Here’s How the Postal Service Could Refuse to Deliver Your Mail Ballot
The plan, which two dozen states have challenged as unconstitutional, puts in place new requirements about who can receive mail ballots.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
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‘Serial Killer Empire’: US Kills 3 in Boat Strike, Bringing Trump Murder Count in ‘Make-Believe War’ to 230 | Common Dreams
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends deadly boat bombings in the Caribbean, claiming to target "narco-terrorists."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ruled that the Trump admin broke the law when it ordered a 50% cut in FEMA employees — including thousands of on-call workers who respond to disasters.
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Federal judge rules Trump plan to cut FEMA by 50 percent was unlawful
The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Auditors observed election mail at 14 processing facilities and 73 delivery units and found significant flaws in the handling of ballots. In some locations, management wasn’t familiar with ballot processing requirements.
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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LiziBytesNews ❌👑 @lizibytes1975.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“… no military can win a war in which no one can define “winning” [or] win a war of attrition if their opponent can force the expenditure of a multi-million dollar missile by tossing out a $1000 drone. Our military is very big, very expensive, and very poorly led. …”
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Trump isn’t just losing the war, he’s losing the world
His failures on the battlefield and in diplomatic chambers have stripped America of influence.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/09/2026
We'd love a $45,000 Christmas bonus, too! But if it takes a cult-like devotion to our boss to get it, you can count us out.
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Trump's mysterious $45,000 cash gift to Natalie Harp
The president's eerily devoted aide received quite the generous Christmas bonus.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/09/2026
A man who scrutinized voter rolls as a hobby is in charge of investigating alleged voter fraud across Georgia. Thanks to his new gig, he now has access to far more information to potentially weaponize.
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A MAGA activist flooded Georgia with voter challenges. Now he works for the State Election Board.
“This man is trying to suppress votes, and he’s happy to suppress as many as he can for any reason he can.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026
Yesterday in Dallas, Donald #Trump promised every American adult $5,000 if #Republicans keep control of Congress. Turning public money into an electoral reward is an outrageous degradation of democratic politics.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/09/2026
Good morning ☀️ Curiosity is a powerful thing. There’s a reason oppressive regimes tend to dislike people asking too many questions 👀 So what are you curious about? Drop a topic below -- tell us what you want us to dig into! 🔎
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