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@lochnessie.bsky.social
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I like to wander the disappearing sagebrush steppe looking for bugs and plants and birds and rocks and things. Art lover, nature lover, democracy lover. 🦋🌿🦉🪨🖼️💙

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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Signaling you are worried about a Republican Senate seat in Idaho is sure something
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In warning letter, VP Vance says Dems are 'prepared to pour millions' into Idaho to flip Risch seat • Idaho Capital Sun
Many Idaho residents recently received a fundraising appeal in the mail from U.S. Vice President JD Vance to support Idaho’s longtime Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch in his campaign for reelection, cla...
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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Emma Joyce was sick and vomiting for days when she died. The next summer, Ava Joan got sick: wouldn't eat or drink, rapid breathing, and her vomit was black. It was untreated diabetes. The girls' toddler brother was next to die. Years later, another brother. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, actually! Fun fact 🤓 ⬇️ The correct spelling is UNITED States, not “Unites States.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "I'm thrilled to welcome you to the great White House, where I spend a lot of time fixing it and making it better. It was falling down. I refuse to say the White House was a dump, but it was in bad shape."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Three more tankers were just struck in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s Iran war drags on. Now a Republican senator in a battleground seat who voted against pulling U.S. forces out is trying to explain away his vote.
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Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote
As fuel costs climbed and commercial ships again came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted blamed Iran, Russia, and congressional Democrats after voting against an order to pull U....
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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Idaho Democratic Party @idahodems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
REMINDER: Idaho Republicans gave billion-dollar data centers a special sales tax break while families still pay one of the nation’s highest sales taxes on food.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There really is this rash of very weird GOP defenses. Like when Paxton said the guy didn’t do one day in prison. That’s a lie! I put him in for a hard 60 days! Or Marshall saying he didnt get the pregnant woman arrested for late bill. It was for not showing up for the lawsuit over the late bill!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
JUST IN: The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The reason I protested in the 1st place was the anti-democratic behavior of Speaker Sexton." Asked if he'd protest in congress as he did in Tennessee (for gun safety laws to protect kids), @justinjpearson.bsky.social reminds NC5 Sexton's authoritarianism necessitated it.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: Federal Court blocks Trump Admin attempt to misuse homeland security funds to force states to bend to its efforts to interfere in local election processes. Big win for our clients, partners, and American voters. @protectdemocracy.org
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miramar, Florida Concentration camp has footage that leaked out from inside, by a whistle blower. This is inhumane, disgusting, and heartbreaking.🤢🤬 youtube.com/shorts/wcqyU...
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Maddow on WHISTLEBLOWER images from inside ICE 'prison camp'
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They committed crimes and were held accountable. That's what happens in a country with the rule of law. May we act as a nation of citizens in November to restore our democracy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I cannot emphasize enough how college students were 6 years old when Trump first entered the presidential primary. Our rising adults, our next wave have experienced nothing other than Trumpian Republicanism. That's it. That's the party.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/09/2026
These people are like if the Great Gatbsy and Marie Antoinette had a baby and only let it eat cake.
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Damn Trump’s Aide For Partying While Americans Suffer
Dear Humans,
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026
@citizencohn.bsky.social on FDA nominee Heidi Overton: “We care what she says when she's in front of Donald Trump, and we all saw it with our own eyes. She was at that press conference when Trump was talking about the vaccine being lethal, and she said nothing, and this is the problem.”
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day 5 since Pro-Publica reported on Susan Collins corrupt operation trading campaign cash for federal contracts. What’s been her response? She’s running the Trump playbook. Claiming to be the victim of a vast conspiracy by the media and Democrats. No remorse, no apology, no accountability.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All: I'm suggesting @pallone.house.gov do this bc he is likely to have the Commerce gavel in January to do such an investigation. It's not a New Jersey thing it's a committee of jurisdiction thing.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NYC Deputy Mayor Julie Su: I think that’s part of the magic of Mayor Mamdani. What he believes deeply in is that government has an active role to play in shaping the economy, in shaping the city, and in making sure that working people have what they deserve.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/
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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills
Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Experienced FBI counterterrorism experts were punished for refusing to investigate something that, at most, warranted the attention of the DC Metro police.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️
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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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talked to @ahylton26.bsky.social about that crazy trump and tucker conversation youtu.be/EO9miRdCLHI?...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talked to @ahylton26.bsky.social youtu.be/EO9miRdCLHI?...
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What Tucker Knows About Trump w/ Antonia Hylton
YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is working hard to ban Alex Gibney's Musk documentary from all social media platforms, and of course he gets whatever he wants. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 24/09/2026
9/24 ProPublica’s reporters say Senator Collins is now making “incorrect and misleading claims” #maine #MEpolitics
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 24/09/2026
Highlighting the growing list of people killed by federal agents, members of Congress heard from family members of those killed on the Trump administration’s pattern of obstruction and lies about the shootings and victims, calling it “dual assassination.” ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/24/r...
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Families of ICE victims tell panel that falsehoods, obstruction amount to ‘dual assassinations’ • Ohio Capital Journal
Highlighting the growing list of people killed by federal immigration agents, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and other Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday heard from family members of those killed…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The amazing thing about Netanyahu's talk at UNGA was not his celebration of a project of ethnic cleansing or genocide in Gaza but his threat that he would do it all over again on the West Bank and in other occupied territories. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Iran-US war latest: Netanyahu tells UN Iran attack was ‘one of his easiest decisions’
Dozens of delegates walked out of the hall when Netanyahu came to the podium
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Buddy Stone @buddystone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In one example, a phony MyChart site shows users fake medical results and then claims they need to complete a verification step." www.eastidahonews.com/2026/09/scam...
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Scammers impersonating MyChart to steal personal information, install malware - East Idaho News
A warning for millions of people who use MyChart to check their medical records. Scammers are now impersonating the patient portal, using realistic-looking emails, texts, and websites to try to steal ...
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