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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 1h
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is undergoing a drastic restructuring of its funding model — one that will reduce federal support and require states to shoulder a larger share of the bill.
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SNAP's funding model is starting to change. Here's what that means for the program
States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
... right-wing figures and media outlets have advanced the narrative that transgender people and those who support them are violent or dangerous to society. ... despite a substantial body of evidence showing transgender people are far more likely to be targets of violence, rather than perpetrators.
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What's behind HHS claims that gender-affirming care 'may' radicalize
The report is the agency's latest effort to chip away at trust in established health care models for transgender people. Critics say it frames transgender identity as illegitimate or even dangerous.
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A startup whose founder has vowed to "make nuclear great again" is planning to place hundreds of reactors on federal land in Utah, according to documents reviewed exclusively by NPR.
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
BLANCHE: AI has a lot of benefits. The fact that AI is able to understand what you want, where you want to shop -- you don't know it, but you actually benefit from that CAMPOS DUFFY: I don't want that! BLANCHE: I know you think you don't, but it's not all bad CD: I don't want my govt spying on me
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Opinion by Don Bacon Don Bacon, a Republican and retired Air Force brigadier general, represents Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Opinion | I’m a Republican. This woman tried to do everything right — and was deported.
Can America still differentiate between those who endanger and those who strengthen it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thousands of pounds of meat are being recalled after the United States Department of Agriculture found products were not properly inspected and were distributed with false inspection labels. The products, around 167,639 pounds ... were distributed to retail and restaurant locations nationwide.
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Thousands of pounds of meat recalled for false inspection labels: USDA
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Thousands of pounds of meat are being recalled after the United States Department of Agriculture found products were not properly inspected and were distributed with false …
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
DHS personnel shared a 78-page document listing counties and states that offer election materials and ballots in non-English languages. The list of jurisdictions was attached alongside a Department of Justice criminal checklist outlining requirements for prosecution of voter-related charges.
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A DHS email raises new questions about the Trump administration's election plans
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
“Near a breaking point:” Trump is failing firefighters in an intense burn season
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"We’re near a breaking point": Trump is failing firefighters amid an intense burn season
Crews are spread too thin and lacking resources in an unrelenting year of infernos.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Join @katiephang.bsky.social and me tomorrow morning, as she explains the two new orders Judge Sullivan entered in her case to enforce the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Better hide the ketchup bottles. joycevance.substack.com/p/there-are-...
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There Are New Court Orders: Katie Phang Joins At 10am ET Friday to discuss Her Lawsuit Against Todd Blanche
Judge Sullivan entered two new orders last night in Katie Phang’s lawsuit against Todd Blanche.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Fox wants to buy Roku — yes, the same Fox as Fox News. This could let Fox steer their content to 80 MILLION U.S. households. We can’t let this happen.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/09/2026
The Constitution is a promise that has never once kept itself. Though it waits, every generation, to find out whether the people living under it will. It’s our turn to answer. And I refuse to believe we’re going to be the generation that went quiet. (Link below)
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 But the whistleblower, ... said he had never seen the agency hire people so quickly. Human resources personnel made final job offers before preliminary vetting was complete. Applicants were cleared for duty “without fingerprints, identity verification, or credit checks,” he wrote.
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ICE is quietly firing new hires. For one recruit, it was devastating.
Joseph Moore killed himself after learning ICE was going to fire him. Investigators had identified issues in his past that ex-officials say should have blocked his hiring.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When Trump gets asked about this he will give the same lame ass answer he always gives when it comes to China and Russia - “we do it to them too” - and won’t utter a single word of criticism for his daddy Vladdy.
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God @thegodshow.com · 15/09/2026
I wonder if they've told Mitch McConnell that Lindsey Graham died and if so how that went.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Whitehouse grills Patel on Epstein 👇 WHITEHOUSE: Am I accurate in suggesting the missing 37 pages likely include FBI contemporaneous notes from interviews w/woman who said she was assaulted by Trump? PATEL: I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced 3.5m pages W: But not these 37
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/09/2026
Trump is lashing out at SCOTUS after they blocked his mail-in ballot scheme, calling it “a big loss for Republicans.” He attacked mail-in voting, accused justices of being intimidated by Democrats, and declared: “These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court.”
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, and Bannon, a former Trump White House adviser, will both appear at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, alongside a diverse set of speakers, to convince Congress to work faster to curb the impact of AI.
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon to share a stage to promote curbs on AI
The poles of U.S. politics are coming together over AI. Sanders and Bannon will appear at the "Pro-Human Assembly" in Washington, D.C., to convince Congress to work faster to curb the impact of AI.
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He says fast-moving development must to give safety measures time to catch up. via ABC News App
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Anthropic CEO says AI industry needs to slow down for safety
The CEO of Anthropic says the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What’s the Over/Under on how many times Republicans blame Biden for stuff at their convention tonight in September 2026? 50? 100?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You know who really did show up? Canadian police officers, firefighters, and medical personnel came to NYC, on and off duty, traveling independently or in groups to stand with Americans and help shoulder the enormous burden of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: On behalf of the Democratic Party we have filed in the U.S. Supreme Court to protect mail-in voting from the unprecedented effort by the Trump administration to subvert it.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026
daughter of Minnesota GOP gov candidate Lisa DeMuth on race between her mom & Klobuchar: "one of these candidates sounds like Trump & the other sounds like she's considered the topic more than once before & perhaps has studied the issue w/ experts who can advise on it. i'll let you decide who's who"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/09/2026
oh my god is the catering cart back?
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 Millions of residents could be excluded from the U.S. census, congressional representation could be reshaped and federal funds could be reallocated across states under changes proposed by the Trump administration.
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Trump administration proposes changes to census that could exclude millions
If adopted, the changes could exclude millions of residents from the decennial tally, reshaping congressional representation in the country.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The government of the United States of America. The idiots are in charge.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We all know Witkoff & Kushner’s goal in Russia was to use US policy to make business deals to benefit themselves and their families, which is what they have done full-time since Jan 2025. They have no interest in what’s best for Ukraine or what’s just. Their greed is insatiable.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what Natalie does all day for $150,000 salary from us. Troll the internet for weirdo twisted memes & videos from the cultists, show them to Trump, he approves them, then she puts them out to the world. People who claimed that criticism of her was unfair are morons. M bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anybody that thinks God saved Trump in Pennsylvania so he could do the things he's done to America has a very low opinion of God... ...and America.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts just barred the U.S. Postal Service from advancing new mail voting restrictions that, I break it down in this special live episode. www.youtube.com/live/KTHJMGY...
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BREAKING: Judge BLOCKS Trump's Mail Voting Takeover
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/09/2026
Ha. Chutkan pulled the Arch case!!
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 The Justice Department’s ability to monitor local jurisdictions for voting rights irregularities on Election Day, already curtailed by the Supreme Court, is facing a new hurdle: opposition from Republicans who are seeking to block federal authorities from polling sites.
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GOP leaders in some states move to block Justice Dept. election monitors
The Justice Department has sent out hundreds of election monitors for decades. But GOP leaders in some states have begun to deny them entry to polling sites.
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gift article. 🎁 A coalition of civil rights and advocacy groups plans to deploy hundreds of poll watchers this fall at heavily minority precincts to counter what organizers say is a threat of voter intimidation from President Donald Trump’s administration.
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These activists plan to stand up to federal agents if they show up at the polls
The administration hasn’t ruled out having federal agents at polls. The Vote Safe project plans to send observers to precincts in four battleground states.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Never forget that on March 12, Trump was CELEBRATING oil prices going up because he said his cronies and donors in the oil companies would make more money. He WANTED prices to go up. And Republicans running in the midterms supported it, even though they want to hide from it now.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Both of my kids have benefited immensely from CHOP — my daughter had surgery for thyroid cancer there, for instance — so I would like to take this moment to tell Senator John Fetterman to go fuck himself
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Mary Watson @mary48.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House's campaign to eradicate diversity programs....
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Trump administration pushes to remove tax exemption for private colleges with DEI policies
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don’t get it. Trump and Republicans have been telling us every day for 6 months that Iran’s military is completely wiped out but these things keep happening.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 03/09/2026
Thank you, Gloria, for fighting to make this world a better place for women and LGBTQ+ people — at work, at home, and in every community. May her memory be a blessing.
None of us can be liberated if other groups are not. - Gloria Steinem. HRC logo
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