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R. Bruns

@lookingforlight.bsky.social
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retired leadership and strategy consultant, stepmom, wife from blue family, examining the micro trends and factors, ready to fight for our democracy.

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 9h
If you’re trying to find a way to deal with election anxiety, the best antidote to doomerism is getting informed. And this @boltsmag.org guide is still the best information out there:
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can you put a price tag on making Trump feel like a big strong man though?
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To be clear, the orange felon has always been a criminal, he’s always been a fascist, he’s always been a racist, he’s always been a rapist, he’s always been in bed with Russia, he’s always been a traitor and the American state media have always normalized him. Wake TF up before it’s too late.
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Dana Nessel @dananessel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kane Korso @godevils2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Completely unacceptable
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/10/2026
TECH INFLUENCE WATCH (@molly.wiki) 👀 $526.6 million from tracked cryptocurrency and AI industry companies & individuals 🤨 $352.1 million "on hand"—held by crypto- & AI-focused committees. 🫠PAC spending: $179.8 million spent directly on federal elections this cycle influence.citationneeded.news
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Tech Influence Watch
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A few weeks ago, Trump signed the last bill that Lindsey Graham wrote. He wrote it while he was in Ukraine. That bill puts big sanctions and tariffs against countries that import oil from Russia. Today, Trump said he was importing oil from Russia.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Putin has put on a masterclass of manipulating the ignorance & avarice of Trump & Co. these last few weeks. The hayseed who thinks he’s getting cheaper diesel for his tractor has no idea the price he’s gonna pay in the long run. Democracy has lost this round to an obese grifter.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/10/2026
Zelensky accused Trump of reaching agreements with Putin “behind Ukraine’s back” while Kyiv’s delegation is in Florida. He said the US is giving Russia “additional money to wage war” and called Ukraine’s team a “smokescreen” for a decision that is “unfair” and “not partner-like.” #Ukraine
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/10/2026
🧵2 Federal law prohibits federal officials from ordering, bringing, or keeping troops at election sites, except to repel armed enemies of the United States. 18 U.S.C. § 592 carries up to five years in prison. Contact your MoCs & state attorneys general. Demand safeguards against voter intimidation
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 08/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have *already* lost healthcare coverage since Trump returned to power: acasignups.net/26/10/08/rep...
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Republican Healthcare Disaster Update: Up to TWELVE MILLION Americans have already lost healthcare coverage under Trump 2.0
Last month I ran a detailed analysis of the most comprehensive, up-to-date effectuated enrollment data for Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange healthcare coverage changes since January 2025 (when ...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The spy runner is a Russia-backed network called Portal Kombat that operates hundreds of websites to spread disinformation…goal is to influence these models so that they will pass along propaganda to trusting users in response to questions.” (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/10/2026
Two writers argued in The Atlantic nearly 40 years ago that the next oil crisis didn't have to happen. With the U.S. caught in an energy shock once more, Rafaela Jinich looks back on their predictions:
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Why America Can’t Fully Escape an Oil Crisis
In 1987, two writers predicted a path to energy independence from the Middle East. What they didn’t anticipate was what the U.S. would do to get there.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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R. Bruns @lookingforlight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And that’s while sleeping through his tragic tenure…
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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a longtime Chicago journalist I want to say that if you fail to put Hastert's serial CHILD SEX ABUSE in the headlines about his death, you are doing it wrong. So far, this is the only headline I've seen that has been crystal clear about what the Illinois pol did to kids. Credit @reuters.com.
Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Russia Plague:
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 2, 2018: @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered by Saudi Arabian agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't forget that most of these cuts weren't scheduled to take effect until around the midterms.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 01/10/2026
The agency that polices Wall Street, crypto, and your 401(k) just changed its rules so one Trump appointee can act for the whole agency when other commissioners are recused or gone. It did it without public comment, calling it a routine process change. www.levernews.com/sec-quorum-r...
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Trump SEC Quorum Rule Lets One Commissioner Act Alone
A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great ad.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the President or others."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ANOTHER DHS VOTER FRAUD CLAIM COLLAPSES Trump’s DHS claimed as many as 15,903 noncitizens were on Nevada’s voter rolls. Nevada pushed back and demanded evidence. 15,903 became 185. Nevada checked the 185. The new number: ZERO. Every single one was a US citizen.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 28/09/2026
What I'm hearing shaking hands at gas stations: We can't afford Max Miller's votes for the war anymore.
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is canceling ~$1B in spending approved by Congress for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. The Government Accountability Office, says the maneuver is illegal. And, isn't $1B the amount he requested for his ballroom? Coincidence? I doubt it.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How is not using a product you purchased fraud?
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Dr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
after all, they hate woke..
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 25/09/2026
Armed checkpoints and a sudden military presence are leaving visitors asking what happened to America’s most iconic gateway.
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The surreal reason this national monument is now under guard
Armed checkpoints and a sudden military presence are leaving visitors asking what happened to America’s most iconic gateway.
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YvetteJR718☮️💙♋️ ♎️❌ @yvettejr718.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When someone shows you who they are believe them. Trump has shown us he’s a horrible, selfish, evil, person who loves $ much more than anything else! The man isn’t well mentally or physically & should have been removed long before now. He’s abusive. He’s rude. Most of the time he’s clueless!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They know there’s no widespread fraud. We know there’s no widespread fraud. The courts have proven that there’s no widespread fraud. STOP TRYING TO DEPRIVE CITIZENS OF THE VOTE Desperate cheaters all.
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R. Bruns @lookingforlight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty impressive data viz
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