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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h
Our farmers need all the support they can get as they continue to suffer from disastrous tariffs and retaliatory trade wars. Here in Illinois, we’re working to expand our international trade partnerships and find new ways for our industries to grow together.
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Grain tour at Melvin Price Locks and Dam highlight Latin America trade
Why Illinois brought buyers from six Latin American countries to Alton's riverfront
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h
These people are despicable--and juvenile. Soy boy? You worship a man who colors his hair, wears liquid foundation, a girdle, and lifts, and can't stop talking about fancy ballrooms. What a rugged man!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
El-Sayed: "In 2008, I watched a guy named Barack Hussein Obama run for and win the presidency. His dad emigrated from Africa. My dad emigrated from a different part of Africa. He had mixed parents. He's got a funny name. I've got a funny name. He's tall and skinny. I'm 5 foot 8."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h
Trump wants to make sure it’s as easy as possible for his friend Putin to bomb apartment buildings and kill children. He’s not just the worst president in history, he’s the most evil person to ever serve at the highest level of government. Vote out his weak Republican enablers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
The Department of Justice’s alarming lawsuit to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots from people suspected of being noncitizens could lay the groundwork for challenges to Election Day results, experts warned. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ suing California marks major ‘escalation’ in election interference attempts, experts warn
The concern extended beyond Democratic officials.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump what he's thinking about dropping on Iran: "This is an extremely large bomb. It's like a tiny nuclear bomb."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump: "Zelenskyy is not a good guy for us to deal with ... I'm not a big fan of Zelenskyy. They've destroyed that country." (Note that Trump also blames Obama for the war, but never Putin!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump suggests he is going to pardon everyone, including himself: "I'm allowed to do a self-pardon ... I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump sounds genuinely upset that Putin didn't defeat Ukraine in one day, which he insists Russia could've done had their generals not taken "a wrong turn"
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Not to support us. It will go the opposite way.” First it will be a diesel deal, then a gas deal, then another deal, and another, deal after deal after deal, until Trump and Putin are fully united in the sweet ecstasy of dealmaking.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If we want to deter a wider war in Europe, or a future war over Taiwan, we need to demonstrate that aggression does not pay. That means more weapons for Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. Supporting Ukraine is not charity. It is in America's national interest. 10/
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
On a cultural level that only Texans can truly understand, I don't think folks outside the state can really grasp how well James Talarico did tonight in the CNN town hall. It was a masterclass. He may have actually sealed the race tonight.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
‘Phantom’ Data Centers Are Demanding More From the Power Grid Than They Need www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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‘Phantom’ Data Centers Are Demanding More From the Power Grid Than They Need
Utilities are imposing higher electricity rates and collateral requirements to identify legitimate data-center projects to better plan their own investments.
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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had it right years ago: “You can have democracy, or you can have great wealth inequality, but you can’t have both”
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/10/2026
Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 12/10/2026
I just got Max Miller's mailer lying about me. But what bothers me isn't the lies on it. It's what it's missing: a union bug.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Trump says he may meet with Kim Jong Un soon and says "I get along with him"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heat killed a 24 yr old farm worker in Mississippi in Sept. Republican-backed AB6213 would block all national heat regs. We must stop this bill. Email your US Rep today. We must stop these heat deaths. Two minutes of your time can save lives. 1/2
A photo of farm workers laboring on what looks like a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez

Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North MississippiFarm workers working on a very hot background with the text overlay: 

Perez had barely started working for the season.

Mississippi has some of the most dangerous working conditions in the country.

Second highest worker death rate in the country.

The state is one of the five states that doesn't have its own labor enforcement agency.Farm workers working on a very hot backgrounds with the text overlay: 

"If heat regulations became a standard and the employer was in full compliance with that standard, that worker would likely be alive today."

- Jordan Barab, Former OSHA Deputy Assistant Secretary

Heat regulations save lives.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 11/10/2026
You guys can keep repeating this all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. America was founded as a secular republic, not a Christian nation. The Constitution is pretty clear about that.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelenskyy might be saving our democracy. The mad genius is bombing Russian data centers linked to FAKE NEWS bot farms. Without them, Putin’s midterm influence will accidentally fall from a 30th floor window. I 💙 Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I want our friends who are outside the United States to understand why it is so hard to impeach and remove an American President or to declare them unfit for duty. It’s literally never happened in the 237 years of the American Presidency.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.
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ZD Shaw @zdshaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please vote early.
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ZD Shaw @zdshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vote. Make it come true.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/10/2026
No matter how many Dems win the senate or house, it won’t be enough given how much damage Trump has done to our nation
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
Ten years ago, we heard the most damning recording in modern politics, and then quickly discovered that “damning” no longer meant “disqualifying.”
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In Retrospect, the ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape Marked the End of the Gender Politics Debate
Once America decided openly talking about sexual assault was bearable, it was over.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
Amy Miller, an attorney with Disability Rights Nebraska, travels the state helping elderly and disabled people vote. Congress funds the work. But a new White House proposal threatens the efforts of Miller’s group and more than 50 others like it.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why does another presidential retreat need to be at a property owned by the sitting president? Calling it a gift to future presidents doesn’t erase the obvious conflict of interest.
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Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic National Committee sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“At Cupertino's top schools, administrators, parents and students say white students end up in the stereotyped role often applied to other minority groups: the underachievers.” Gift link: www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...
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The New White Flight - WSJ
In Silicon Valley, two high schools with outstanding academic reputations are losing white students as Asian students move in. Why?
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WSJ 2005: “Whites aren't quitting the schools because the schools are failing academically. Quite the contrary: Many white parents say they're leaving because the schools are too academically driven and too narrowly invested in subjects such as math and science…” Gift link:
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The New White Flight - WSJ
In Silicon Valley, two high schools with outstanding academic reputations are losing white students as Asian students move in. Why?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I don't want to choke anyone out. What I'm interested in is making sure that everybody can breathe. And right now you've got an economy where folks are getting choked out because they don't have the basic means of a dignified life."
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "I think about MLK. He said this thing I always think about -- 'If your coalition is not uncomfortable, it's not big enough.' A lot of people wonder why I'm having this conversation with you. It's because there are people out there who I want to have a conversation with."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026
"Brazil is about to elect the son of its convicted former would-be dictator." What happens in Brazil...can happen here.
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The Doomsday Scenario
Even if Democrats crush the midterms, we’re in a world of trouble.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Ramiro" says, "We’re in the final stretch of the summer strawberry season on CAs Central Coast. We get 3 good months of work. Then in Nov-March, there’s no work. We try to use the little we’ve saved to get through those hard months. It's hard as rent's very expensive. #WeFeedYou
A worker harvesting strawberries
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Note that the WSJ article doesn't actually say what the Fox host claims it says (posted below): bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I can't let you filibuster," says MacCallum, as El-Sayed ticks off gas prices, food prices, service members killed or stationed overseas for long assignments...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Too many Americans have absorbed & tolerate Trump’s insane, destructive behavior as a fact of life…the corporate media has facilitated that mentality…we are facing a constitutional emergency with an exec branch working to centralize its power at all costs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...
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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within
By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did anyone apologize or take responsibility for misspelling our country's name under President Trump's signature when he signed the letter with the AI CEOs? Or do we just roll along like it's no big deal? They keep talking about SI. I'd settle for BI: "basic intelligence."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns. Some thoughts. ⬇️ robertreich.substack.com/p/the-cent…
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🇺🇸 Rep. Ted Lieu says there is “ample evidence” in the full Epstein files alleging Donald Trump raped children. “This is all on videotape.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.
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