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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h
it's true fwiw that there aren't perfect answers for every question posed here. but there's a question that court expansion CAN answer that other reforms can't: what are you going to do about the 6 right-wing ideologues on the Court right now?
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h
We are in a hostage situation with our billionaires. They've made it clear that their accumulation of wealth (and the attendant degradation of democracy) only works in one direction. If it moves even an inch the other way, they blow the whole thing up and inaugurate fascism. Completely untenable
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20h
NEW: Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission is advising local officials on managing potential threats amid rising concerns about voter roll purges and federal agents at the polls. The commission said it doesn't anticipate any issues, but want officials to have the guidance they've requested.
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Wisconsin offers new guidance to local officials on emerging election threats
Members of the election commission don’t anticipate any unusual issues this year. However, they approved new guidance for local officials facing questions about their contingency plans.
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Chris Ostrander @2itbbuffalo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m starting to realize why all those teams cut Gardner Johnson
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“The midterm results will do little to change the way Trump has made the federal government his personal weapon; but voters have a hunger for calling a spade a spade. It’s a cousin to Tim Walz’s 2024 strategy of calling Republicans ‘weird’—except this time we’re calling them desperate clowns.”
thehandbasket.co
Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight
Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/10/2026
ICE agents in Houston struck and injured a man with their vehicle on Saturday after he ran from them on foot.
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ICE Agent in Houston Runs Over Man with Vehicle, Breaking Both His Legs
In Houston, ICE agents struck and injured a man with their vehicle on Saturday after he ran from them on foot. An ICE spokesperson said agents were trying to stop a vehicle carrying José Mendoza Cerva...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just don't care about any ~law enforcement~ story coming out of this administration because the idea of this man enforcing laws is preposterous on its face. We're talking about an arsonist doing fire code inspections. You're a sucker if you engage with any of it in good faith
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 11/10/2026
Dan Quinn should be fired tomorrow morning for not telling Jayden Daniels to just clock it there to bring in the field goal team.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
nytimes.com
Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "I was a junior in HS on 9/11, sitting in my chemistry class. I watched as people started to point to people of my faith & say exactly the kinds of things that Rogers was saying. If that's his entire campaign strategy, you have to imagine how small minded he thinks Michiganders are."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
fundamentally the problem that republican candidates are having is that “I am going to stand up to donald trump” is a fundamentally unserious thing to hear from a republican in the year 2026 and every voter knows it
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have surgery until she was an adult ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing trans surgeries not Ohioan, didn’t have procedure as minor • Ohio Capital Journal
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have…
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah it’s pretty awful shit
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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martymcflynn.bsky.social @martymcflynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you believe these things you are a stupid person.
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 01/10/2026
📢 EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY, CHICAGO. Spread the word. Here’s a look at what’s on the ballot. thetriibe.com/2026/09/the-...
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The 2026 election is coming. Here’s what Chicago voters need to know • The TRiiBE
From the Chicago School Board race and local ballot questions to early voting and Vote By Mail, here are the key dates and details Chicago voters should know before Nov. 3.
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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meanwhile McDonald’s has replaced all its workers with kiosks, forces you to use an app if you want anything approximating a deal, and it will still cost you $10 for any amount of food larger than feeding a hummingbird with a dropper. Damn they sure fooled you good.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
I'm closely following what's happening in SW Kansas and have been in direct contact with Secretary Mullin and local law enforcement as ICE executes warrants in order to keep Kansans safe.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/09/2026
That Fucking Newspaper is trying to make “the mayor has a comms team” into a watergate level scandal
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An @DoorDash driver. They are hunting brown people. #AbolishICE
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
npr.org
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We made it fellas.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
midterms fever baby get into it
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We’re a month out from Pat cutting a rip roaring promo for the IDF
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you don’t “do politics” in this country, unless you’re about 25 or younger, it’s awfully hard not to be a bad person.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump says he's "banning the free press"
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martymcflynn.bsky.social @martymcflynn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Players in NFL history to have 5+ passing TDs and 4+ rushing TDs in a two-game span: Josh Allen (Week 1-2 2026) Josh Allen (Week 14-15 2024) Josh Allen (Week 13-14 2024) Eric Hipple (Week 7-8 1981)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“They’re just gonna send us home, because they don’t want to hold Pete Hegseth accountable.” @repstansbury.bsky.social says Spineless Speaker Johnson just cancelled votes & sent the house home to stop Republican Rep Thomas Massie’s impeachment of warmonger Hegseth🤔
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lolllll this also means no votes on the college sports bill
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2026
Robert Kraft and most of his children are major donors to the United Democracy Project, DMFI, and AIPAC, having donated several million dollars combined to the three PACs across dozens of denominations. Kraft recently barred Macklemore from opening for singer Ed Sheeran at a stadium he owns.
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AIPAC’s Network Has Already Spent $67.2 Million to Shape the Midterm Elections
The giant influx from American Israel Public Affairs Committee PACs is a case study in money distorting politics.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Remmick in sinners
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Stella Parton @sweetstella.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m sounding the alarm again today as I’ve been doing everyday since 2016. We are living in a dire situation when a performer is pulled from a tour for simply calling out the genocide being committed in Gaza. Wake up people!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026
everyone involved with alligator alcatraz at every level - its creation, its construction, its staffing - needs to go to jail
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
bring back shame
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