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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I will admit I don't care for Blink 182 (just not my taste!) but it is truly something to hear a stadium full of people sing to this guy in appreciation of the music he created and the joy he brought to their lives. Impacting so many other humans positively like this has to feel amazing

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ivy is a 4-year-old Steelers fan who brought her Terrible Towel to every cancer treatment. She is a cancer survivor in remission, now. Original post

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls

Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 21h

Months ago, we called for an IG investigation into a $620 million Pentagon loan to a Trump Jr.-linked company. Now, Trump's sons' investments are tied to over $6 billion in active or promised government contracts. This is exactly why we need answers.

abcnews.com

Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election

The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15h

If they’re admitting 81 planes, drones and helicopters worth $3.3 billion have been lost in Iran, imagine what they’re not telling us. The real cost is likely far higher, and our grandchildren will be paying for this unnecessary war and his reckless spending. www.businesstoday.in/amp/world/st...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What a comically out of touch response. Maine, please vote this idiot out.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are aware of multiple stops conducted today by federal agents in the Madera and Fresno areas. We remind the public to stay calm, to verify information, and to exercise one’s rights, including the right to not answer questions. If detained, do not sign anything without speaking to a lawyer. 1/

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

hollywoodreporter.com

Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Entitled freeloader

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Folks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Flooding the zone" with this stuff might be in order.

Post from Mark R Elias

"I think I'm getting the hang of this."

Mark's question to America.gov

Does the president have the authority over the conduct of federal elections,?

Answer:
The Constitution does not give the president the power to run or set the rules for federal elections. States have the main job if administering them. Congress can change most of those rules by statue. The president's role is to enforce existing federal law, not to replace state or congressional election rules.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you value independent media, do me a favor and subscribe to Democracy Docket. It isn’t on Substack or ActBlue and will never sell your information or send spam. If you are already signed-up, thank you and please recommend it to others. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Per video shared online, one of the East Side detainments this a.m. involved multiple ICE grabbing 2 men out of a car on 106th and S. Ave. C., with agents repeatedly grabbing one of the men by his head and neck. In the video, he can be heard calling for help and asking an onlooker to call 911.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's not just that it's a false dichotomy. It's also that "culture wars" is yet another example of how we are only able to discuss Every. Single. Topic. In. 🇺🇸. Politics. using the talking points & terminology of the right. We & the media are under no obligation to do that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Florida Orange Gold is a farm labor contractor (FLC) allowed by the U.S. government to bring hundreds of migrant farmworkers to the U.S. each year to perform dangerous, seasonal agricultural work.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much

Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate

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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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you don't think they're gonna side with Trump on some 11th hour hail Mary to not seat the midterm winners or just stop them altogether or throw out all mail ballots, man I don't know what to tell you. They will. They will do whatever he wants.

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Butterfly Affect @lowkeybukowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not big on awards shows but flipped channels for a minute. When it was Madonna on screen performing I was 😭😭😭 I'm almost 50 and Madonna is too old for me. Like why can these people not retire.

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Abbott gave $500,000 to Trump's inauguration fund. Now the DOJ case over its allegedly tainted baby formula is reportedly gone. Call your members of Congress and demand answers. If a check can make a case vanish, no parent is safe from the next one. #TrumpsCorruptCongress

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should be reposted every month....

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Not them asking for a little privacy 😭😭😭😭

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social

motherjones.com

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦋🐸 @tallyannae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Deaths in Detention: Mortality Rate for People Detained by ICE More Than Doubles Under Trump Administration Due to recent cuts to reporting requirements of deaths occurring after release, the complete number of deaths in and outside of detention could be even higher. www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

aclu.org

Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump

Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEW: We need to take steps towards universal health care coverage NOW. Today, I’m introducing my Health CARE Act, legislation that would reverse the devastating impacts of HR. 1, implement a low-cost public health insurance option, and permanently expand ACA tax credits.

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 23/09/2026

NEW: Reports show that just one Wisconsin billionaire has spent $13 million and counting to fund attack ads against me from my opponent's Super PAC. He is one of Donald Trump's biggest donors, and he knows Lisa Demuth will be a rubber stamp for Trump's agenda. I will fight for Minnesota.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bruce Springsteen is 77. Seen here looking like a guy in Twin Peaks who’s telling Coop that the birds fly backwards over the town between 1.22am - 2.22am.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 24/09/2026

Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile stops in Chicago

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Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile stops in Chicago

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE.

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