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Maizie

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I have an immense capacity for trival knowledge, but am also informed. Occasionally I rant and have a potty mouth.

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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ignorance was shown the door!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court struck down key GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives. The unanimous ruling is a major win for direct democracy — and a powerful check on the Legislature’s ability to interfere with the people’s lawmaking power.
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Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives
The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
freaking out about this (good) cant wait to hit the ground running
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
UPDATE: Trump just awarded another $3 BILLION military contract to a company backed by his son Don Jr. (and Peter Thiel) — what skilled businessmen these Trumps are! Robbing the American taxpayer in broad daylight.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/10/2026
Project Meridian will be led by a weirdo, a beardo, & a fatty.
Hegseth on Project Meridian.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, the state’s Republican elections chief said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Show me 😡
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Use the 25th Amendment Now
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: In August, OpenAI convened around 40 mathematicians to discuss what to do if AI outpaces human capabilities in the field. The company hinted that its powerful models had solved hundreds of longstanding math problems, say people who were in attendance. www.wired.com/story/openai...
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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BINGO!💥
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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, died this day 1892. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...” “I am a part of all that I have met.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/10/2026
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.
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‘Mike Rogers Is Watching You’: New Ad Blitz From Abdul El-Sayed Attacks Surveillance Support
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leaning into one of the major complaints about surveillance from voters this election cycle.
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how NY Times covered Karoline Leavitt joining Fox News today: "Ms. Leavitt, 29 and a steely and nimble presence at the White House lectern". Steely and nimble??? Never once did they mention her constant lies and awful treatment of journalists.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump is too much of a snob to be flashing such a middle-management brand of menswear without a reason. Jos. A. Bank is owned by Tailored Brands. Tailored Brands publicly filed a registration statement for a U.S. initial public offering on July 13, 2026. What are the chances Donald got a kickback?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did Blanche submit the handwritten FBI notes re. a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Trump when she was 13? Per Blanche’s latest filing, he complied, but I explain why he didn’t really & why it’s just to delay those handwritten notes from going public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWZ...
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AG Blanche FAILS TO COMPLY With JUDGE’S ORDERS In MY Epstein Lawsuit!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
Letitia James AND Sally Yates??? AMAZING.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There it is
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Barack Obama is back in his role as Democrats’ closer-in-chief. He just cut ads for 24 Senate & gubernatorial campaigns—targeting races where he can help move persuadable voters. At 57% favorability, Obama is the most popular living president. Expect to see much more of him before Election Day. 💙
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.
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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today is World Animal Day and the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. The theme this year is “See the World Through Their Eyes.”
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
happy bday the iconic Mahatma Gandhi, b.1869. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔥🔥 Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Samara oil pumping station this morning, setting it ablaze. The facility is a key hub on the Druzhba and Kuibyshev–Tikhoretsk pipelines, mixing and transporting Kazakh and Siberian oil west for export.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Employers added 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%, slower than expected growth...Growth in average hourly earnings fell to 3% on an annual basis in September, well below the current rate of inflation." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Jobs Report Live Updates: Growth Cools and Unemployment Rises to 4.2%
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, as inflation has maintained pressure on markets and raised costs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who was behind a $250,000 mystery donation to the super PAC backing Ken Paxton? The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor's family going back decades.
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Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cornell University case. 19 states have a law similar to New York’s. If you voluntarily consumed alcohol or drugs, you can’t claim you were mentally incapacitated and couldn’t consent. This needs to change. Full story on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/10/2026
It doesn’t matter what polls or the pundits say — we can’t afford to take anything for granted with the midterms as the regime threatens to sabotage this election. That’s why our organizers are busy bringing new voters into our coalition and recruiting more volunteers to protect the results.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So Many Embarrassments to Our Country!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton is a corrupt con man who has used his office to enrich himself and live a lavish lifestyle with his various mistresses at taxpayer expense.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It still astounds me how fast the cult and their corrupt politicians will ignore and violate the Constitution in order to protect their own.
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