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Beach bum

@markpttn.bsky.social
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New here, bailed out from Elmo’s hate fest over on Xitter. Looking for lovers of Democracy, let’s do our best to preserve ours.

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Beach bum @markpttn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great picture!! Have a wonderful holiday 😃
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/09/2026
NEWS: Iran launched what appears to be one of its biggest retaliatory ballistic missile attacks yet toward U.S. forces in Jordan after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian oil tankers.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
Newsom: "He's not screwing around. He wasn't screwing around when he called Greg Abbott for 5 seats, said he was entitled to 5 seats. Why does he do that? Because he knows he's going to lose the election unless he rigs the election before one vote is cast. That is what we're up against."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Jack is joined by Jennifer Welch, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Brian Tyler Cohen to break down the midterms, Trump’s corruption, accountability, and much more. Watch live now: www.youtube.com/live/yFEXer0...
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A cargo plane from Iran "appeared" in Belarus: details emerge. An Iranian Boeing 747-281F cargo plane, with the registration number EP-FAB and belonging to the Fars Air Qeshm airline, arrived in Minsk.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/08/2026
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
forbes.com
‘Stars And Stripes’ Editor Says He’s Worried About Military Censorship After Fires Him For ‘Insubordination’
“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When the order came to abandon ship, Doris Miller didn't. He stayed and pulled men out of burning water. He was 24 when he was killed. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
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Princess Natalie 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦀✡️ @nattygo.me · 22/08/2026
John Roberts has to go They all have to go We can't have a Supreme Court that just lets their favorite president violate the law with impunity
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'
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Beach bum @markpttn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Slava Ukraine !!
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of N Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with S Korea.” This man is failing to defend the United States. This man is a traitor. This man should be removed.
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
ICE is rapidly expanding its surveillance capabilities. The agency has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on vehicles equipped to support cell-site simulators, also known as fake cellphone towers.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2026
NEWS: 29-year-old Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros will defeat 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for CO-01. Kiros, a first-time candidate and former attorney, dominated the Denver assembly and tapped into anti-incumbent sentiment.
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Beach bum @markpttn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
That’s awesome!! Heroyim Slava!! Slava Ukraine!!
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I would read letters like Emily’s every night in the White House. They were powerful reminders of why the work we did mattered, and who we were fighting for.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Kushner & Ivanka: “Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting involved… do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if he weren't the President's son-in-law? And isn't he supposed to be doing diplomacy, not shady land deals?”
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I still think this is one of the most egregious acts of Treason ever committed….
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
DRONE STRIKE ON MOSCOW Just watching a daytime video from a Moscow balcony of dozens of the Ukrainian version of the shaheed flying into the distance. Machine gun fire can be heard as drone after drone plunges into what appears to be the oil refinery - black smoke all across the horizon.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Let's go S.Carolina Vote for Nancy Lacore💥
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to Pennsylvania voter records. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. Another defeat for DOJ. DOJ is now 0-10. 👀 ELG remains undefeated! 🗳️⚖️💪 www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...
democracydocket.com
🚨 United States of America v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Learn more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ANY other President would have been removed, disgraced, and castigated.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
While the killers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti walk free, the DOJ is busy bringing bogus charges against protesters. The Administration thinks intimidation will make us back down. They keep learning the same lesson: Minnesotans don't scare easily. We organize for our rights ✊🏽
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If a Democratic president started a war of choice, spent $100s of billions, blew up international military & economic alliances, then completely surrendered giving opposing nation $100s of billions in reparations while empowering their anti-US regime: Corporate Media would have justly crucified him.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Netanyahu will break this peace between the USA and Iran within the next few days and nobody will blame Israel but act like Iran has done something wrong. Everyone knows this is going to happen.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
You can't make this up: House Republicans just snuck a provision to help private jet owners avoid state and local taxes into a major AIR SAFETY bill! Instead of working to prevent another mid-air collision, the GOP is more concerned with making their wealthy donors even richer.
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GOP Blasted for 'Handout to the Superwealthy' Private Jet Owners Slipped Into Air Safety Bill | Common Dreams
"Oh look—Republicans helping private-jet billionaires avoid paying taxes," said one Senate Democrat. "If only they worke
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella Vote 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: This is what it looks like when a democracy dies. #f'djt #CorruptAF #Felon #Grifter #DumbAF #CGPA1.29 #IRS #Rapepublicans #Epstein
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SpaceX valued at just $780 billion by Morningstar, less than half its IPO target "We think the company has been significantly overvalued," Morningstar's analyst wrote. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...
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SpaceX valued at just $780 billion by Morningstar, less than half its IPO target
SpaceX just got slapped with a bearish valuation ahead of its monster IPO coming up later this month.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
theguardian.com
US employers spend more than $1.5bn a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Trump and Hegseth are asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2026
Wow. They’re openly defending the deletion of DOJ records about a man accused in a child solicitation case who assaulted police on January 6. Truly the Epstein administration.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How is this farce of a do nothing government still going on? It's as if the system that protects incompetent white men and women in power was built to protect incompetent white men and women to stay in power.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Each case is a story of a real family": Zelensky urges the world to investigate the kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russia
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...
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DHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detention
The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...
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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trump’s religious liberty commission hopes to do away with separation of church and state - The Times of Israel www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-relig...
timesofisrael.com
Trump’s religious liberty commission hopes to do away with separation of church and state
17-member panel seeing eye-to-eye on most matters, with exception of one member who was ousted after defending Candace Owens at contentious antisemitism hearing
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