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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 39m
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 3h
Trump predicts the “Big One” but not an earthquake. “Let him take out San Diego. Let him take out Los Angeles”
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
Trump called for Iran to “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego. When are we gonna start treating him like the actual traitor that he is? Impeach him now.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 4h
Trump is even more desperate as midterm election gets nearer.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 6, 2026
Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Make a plan. Vote your plan.
nokings.org
No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Closing arguments on Trump corruption. The list is long and the amounts are vast.
steady.substack.com
No Checks Only Blank Checks
Corruption is a Trump family affair
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Support Democrats
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Trump Is Terrified America Will Forget Him. Two Judges Just Made It Easier To.
Also: a shelter director, a disabled voter, and a Republican who blamed his accountant. Plus: Trump’s deep-red rescue mission.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Large wind farms are nearing completion but may be the last for years because Trump has used taxpayer dollars to pay to stop wind farms.
climateactapp.substack.com
Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope, October 6, 2026
U.S. offshore wind!
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Investment in data centers is crowding out nearly all other manufacturing investment.
paulkrugman.substack.com
AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
No two districts are the same so Democrats are free to emphasize what’s important to their constituents. That’s good. Compare to Ken Paxton who says his campaign is controlled by Washington.
roberthubbell.substack.com
Trump is surprised that voters object to taxpayer-funded political ads
October 6, 2026
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The regime violates international law and human rights again by killing boaters and Alito claims same sex marriage settled law but not women’s right to choose.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
substack.com/@luizajarovs...
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@luizajarovsky)
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @Cory Doctorow's concept of 'enshittification':
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Voting has begun in some states. Vote with friends on October 17 No Kings Vote Early.
roberthubbell.substack.com
A desperate Trump urges Republicans to vote by mail.
October 5, 2026
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump’s regime corruption puts everyone at risk from individuals and FBI agents to Congress and other countries.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The hurt in Kansas.
robertreich.substack.com
Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas?
The power of kitchen-table economics
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This machine kills fascist.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Turn facts into action with yard signs. factocracy.net
factocracy.net
Factocracy — Facts in Every Yard
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s unconstitutional ads
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Trump Goes Full-Orwell
The administration’s propaganda hype-ads are an abuse of power.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
List of Republican candidates taking money for votes or pardons.
open.substack.com
Trump’s Senate Candidates Really Hoped You’d Never Read This
Twelve names, all inside. Also: our plan between now and Election Day, five ways to fight back, and your invitation to our live election night war room.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
joycevance.substack.com
Five Questions with Iowa’s Democratic Senate Candidate, Josh Turek
Two recent polls show him in the lead
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Robert Reich’s prediction from 1994 is our reality.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Back door dirty deal. No negotiation with Trump’s oilmen.
billmckibben.substack.com
Reform or Regression?
A hard calculation at a hard moment
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another reason to impeach Hegseth—Separation of church and state.
luciantruscott.substack.com
Testostero-Pete thinks he’s Patton in his button-popping skinny legs little boy suit. He needs to be impeached NOW.
Let’s get this out of the way right now: General George S.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump’s king of manosphere
robertreich.substack.com
Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump
Friends,
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Talking points for final month—Corruption and Affordability
robertreich.substack.com
The Rot at the Top
The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Be suspicious of Florida men says Alabama voters.
joycevance.substack.com
Florida Men
This Friday, Donald Trump will be in Mobile, Alabama, the place where his first campaign really started to gain traction after then-Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III threw his support ...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth’s Warriors.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It doesn’t take super intelligence to understand the danger of AI.
paulkrugman.substack.com
One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them
Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 29/09/2026
The LCV Victory Fund 2026 Dirty Dozen, the Worst of the Worst running for Congress: -Susan Collins -Mike Collins -Jon Husted -Mike Rogers -Michael Whatley -Juan Ciscomani -Gabe Evans -Bill Huizenga -Mike Lawler -Scott Perry -David Valadao -Derrick Van Orden Share and help us hold them accountable!
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“If we elect serious leaders who can take control of Congress and the presidency, they’ll have to work hard — we need all kinds of reforms to prevent a relapse of the sickness to which we’ve fallen prey. None of it will be low stress.”
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive Americans of all stripes want less not more ICE.
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Janet Mills (ME) is a great public servant who can turn around bad government, support health and education needs of people, and reduce costs by building green energy solutions.
climateactapp.substack.com
Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: Interview with Governor Janet Mills of Maine!
A pioneering state-level leader on climate action and resilience.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Now justice department officials’ recent defense of Maurene Comey’s firing – both in an 18 September court proceeding and legal filings – has lifted the veil on the apparent politicization of Trump’s DoJ and as well as his seeming desire to dramatically expand presidential power.”
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How the Trump administration is trying to defend its firing of Maurene Comey
Star federal prosecutor is fighting her no-cause firing, as DoJ dances around Trump’s loathing of her father, James Comey
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin (@scottdworkin)
Excellent questions.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Susan Collins pay to play scandal
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
The Susan Collins corruption scandal is bigger than you think. It’s not just about her, and it DOES affect you. Thanks to ProPublica’s William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Ber...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As if writing directly to Trump, “Peace should be our plan, and the payment of our debts, improvement of our constitutions and extension of agriculture our principal objects,” Thomas Jefferson.
theguardian.com
Thomas Jefferson letter goes on the market – containing a prescient warning for Trump today
Third US president wrote in 1787 about importance of peace, paying off debt and supporting agriculture
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nokings.org
nokings.org
No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump prefers China’s press corps to that of USA.
joycevance.substack.com
Hard Pass
Just after midnight last night, Judge Kelly entered an order directing the president to unban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republican Raunch ‘Raunch is the coin of the realm, a “locker room talk” style of sexual vulgarity is de rigeur, and positions of power in the Trump world sometimes seem to go hand in hand with sexual assault allegations for men, and very specific kinds of surgical enhancements for women. ‘
theguardian.com
In its push to subordinate women, the American right is embracing raunch
Conservatives long promoted a politics of sexual prohibition. Now such morals have been shed in favor of male domination
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I will keep speaking. An eye witness reports to Congress regarding Alex Pretty’s last movements and murder.
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Jess Craven (@jesscraven101)
This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to fina...
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
King v. Constitution
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King Trump: Privileges, Not Rights
It’s all about whether the press can criticize the president
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Support Sherrod Brown, OH because Big Crypto opposes him.
robertreich.substack.com
How to know whether a candidate is on your side
Follow the money
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘The oil that governments fight over is also the carbon pollution that is warming our climate. The bad air quality in Delhi, the high price of fuel in Vietnam, the cost of electricity in the United States, the terrifying floods in the Himalayas – they all connect back to fossil fuels.’
theguardian.com
Our message to global leaders: we need solar power everywhere by the decade’s end | Open letter
As the UN gathers, signatories from Bernie Sanders to Yeb Saño issue an open letter calling for clean power for all
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly | Bill McKibben
There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More arch BS from Trump
luciantruscott.substack.com
There is an obvious tell in Trump’s “military complex/triumphal arch” announcement
Let’s get right to it: He claimed the arch will be used to “hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage.”
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Mark G @markgillingham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Press, Walk Out.
luciantruscott.substack.com
White House press corps misses an opportunity to stand up to tyranny
This is what the White House press room could have looked like after MS NOW, CNN, and Politico reporters were turned away at the security gate of the White House today.
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