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Madeleine

@madandart.bsky.social
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Politically engaged GA Dem, concerned about our fragile democracy, 🇺🇦, artist, world traveler, retired educator, northeast transplant living in a red state. Citizen United and Gerrymandering are destroying democracy. #VotingRights #Indivisible No Crypto

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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side
This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
💯💯💯
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Musk on the 2024 Election: “I Think I’ve Got at Least Several Years Before I Go to the Gulag”
And on Thursday night, Donald Trump gave away the game.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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The polls were wrong in Michigan—by a mile! Why that matters
August 6, 2026
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Why Democratic Socialists are suddenly winning everywhere
It’s not because of ideology
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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What Would and Should Court Reform Look Like?
I’ve been beating the drums for years about reforming the Supreme Court...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Marc Elias (@marcelias)
NEW EPISODE: The DOJ has sued 31 states to seize your most sensitive voter data. They've lost every single case so far: nine courts, zero wins. I break down why Trump is building a national voter list...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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The real reason Democrats lost in 2024
The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024. In doing so, it fails to prepare the party for the future
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026
Please send this message to Schumer and Jeffries. Call them. Keep calling all your reps and senators and ask them to impeach AND introduce legislation to dissolve this fund.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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The Handler: Karyna Shuliak, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Intelligence Operation Hiding in Plain Sight
How a Belarusian dentist may have ended the Epstein operation from the inside — and delivered its archive to Moscow
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Ellie Leonard (@redpencilscript)
If you are on any other social media platform, please come find me at redpencilscript and link as many people to this story as you can until Congress pays attention.  I will continue to share the Mich...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Trita Parsi (@tritaparsi)
WOW! The Iranian AI Lego team has another video out. They are doubling down on building bridges between Americans & Iranians while depicting the US gov and "system" as the real enemy. The music, ly...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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The John Crow Era
May 2, 2026
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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A Historian Spent 30 Years Interviewing Nazis. He Identified 12 Warning Signs of Fascism. All 12 Are Present in Trump's America Right Now.
The evidence is not opinion. It is public record. And it demands your attention before November.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A silent catastrophe.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Dana Barrett on Instagram: "This bill is designed to keep you in the dark. HB 369 removes party labels from local elections—but only in five counties with Democratic leadership and majority Black elec...
1,886 likes, 115 comments - commishbarrett on April 2, 2026: "This bill is designed to keep you in the dark. HB 369 removes party labels from local elections—but only in five counties with Democratic ...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Opinion | How We Stopped a Bid to Seat Election Deniers in Fulton County
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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A terrific conversation from two of the very best academics on how authoritarian regimes take hold. This is must watch. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
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NO warehouses for ICE detention centers!
The Department of Homeland Security has a disturbing history of creating unsafe conditions for people being detained. Last summer, hundreds of people faced potential diseases from swarms of mosquitoes...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2026
BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Here is how you can help: Cancel your Paramount and Warner Bros subscriptions and sign up for as many pro-democracy outlets as you are able. You can start with Democracy Docket: bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is plotting to steal the 2026 election and his buddy David Ellison and Bari Weiss just won control of CNN. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and pro-democracy. No corporate investors. It will never back down. Support it by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
On immigration: "I often am asked to speak as an economist. And what we should never lose sight of is that each of us is a moral being. And you, as I, have to decide how we feel about this form of rhetoric."
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Joyce Vance (@joycevance)
Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-5d2?utm_cam...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
When she’s right, she’s right
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer•1h
As I said before, the GOP has a massive Nazi problem.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Collins always has an excuse to vote against free and fair elections. It is the one issue on which she reliably proves she is in lockstep with the rest of her party. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
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Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections
When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yes and dangerous, however, when we describe him as "insane" we minimizes the sense of danger we are all in. We need to rethink the language we ascribe to him.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Collins has voted with Trump 96% of the time — the same rate as Mitch McConnell and two points above conservative Rand Paul. This is hardly the profile of someone looking to chart her own path. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
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Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections
When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning 15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Democrats have the leverage in the shutdown over ICE
A majority of voters supports funding TSA and FEMA while conditioning additional ICE money on reforms
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Cancel Elections, but Here Is the Real Threat
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
For decades, arms control limited U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. As of tomorrow, those limits are gone. That’s a bad outcome for everyone.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About
Dystopian Hypotheticals? While he was a chief strategist during President Trump’s first...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...
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The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence
Both the calendar and the events in Minneapolis have brought the midterm...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
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Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Do something and we did
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 29/01/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has opened a new satellite office near College Park in Atlanta to expand administrative capacity. This does not make our communities safer. It deepens fear, escalates harm and targets Black, Brown and immigrant communities across the Deep South and beyond.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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No Warrant...No Problem? So Says Trump's DHS
When it comes to masked federal agents breaking down doors and ripping people out of their homes, it's important to know your rights. A warrant is needed, no matter what Kristi Noem says.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves
Yesterday I discussed how in a flash, over roughly 24 hours, the...
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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The ICE shootings are a tipping point
Donald Trump's approval on immigration has collapsed 17 points since taking office, and support for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swung 50 points since Sept. 2024.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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How Starmer Jammed Trump’s Playbook
Trump Tried to Isolate Europe. It Backfired.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Jan 6 2.0
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Hey folks: Some thoughts about today's murder in Minneapolis. www.youtube.com/live/6YNfqir...
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Freeman at Night -- For Those Who Can't Sleep
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
And Jan 6 2.0
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Lee Stedman on Instagram: "1/24/26 - This was supposed to go up yesterday after I got done at Whipple. ICE agents are changing their tactics rapidly and are ramping up their efforts and their level ...
33K likes, 774 comments - ghost_lee19 on January 24, 2026: "1/24/26 - This was supposed to go up yesterday after I got done at Whipple. ICE agents are changing their tactics rapidly and are ramping ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
If you want proof that Trump is going to try to rig the elections, here it is: In a letter to Gov. Tim Walz Saturday, Bondi claimed that Walz could “restore the rule of law” by complying with a list of demands, including giving the Department of Justice (DOJ) the state’s voter registration records.
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AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Extortion! Exactly!
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar... Trump's Jan 6 2.0
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Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration
We have a major update this evening, and well, surging ICE agents to places like Minnesota may not have been able immigration enforcement after all.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Watching this development closely. When voting early, please post mail-in ballots far in advance of deadlines or use in person early voting where available.
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Madeleine @madandart.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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One year of Trump, by the numbers
One year into his second term, Trump has suffered the largest approval collapse of any modern president (except the one who resigned in disgrace)
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