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@mat1953.bsky.social
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Retired grandma; Democrat. Searching for hope & sanity in this crazy time!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 1h
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 1h
Cook Political Report just shifted this race in our direction for the second time. They’re seeing what Floridians are seeing. We have the momentum and the message for a better Florida. Let’s go win.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1h
They’re all completely insane. Vote every single one of them out. Republican Rep. Moore on Watergate: "Richard Nixon was absolutely couped out of office and was framed. All of this was fake."
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 1h
Democracy doesn’t usually give you the satisfaction of knowing which act of resistance mattered most. You show up anyway. You speak anyway. You document anyway. You defend the guardrail anyway. Because surrender guarantees an outcome resistance does not. 🗣️ #JulesUnfiltered
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 1h
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1h
Every day things are being done at home and abroad by this regime that will take decades to undo and the stain of which will mark America forever Too few understand that permanent damage is being done to our country by the hour—even considering that we only know a fraction of it
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina mailboxes overflow with voter registration warnings after state cut a deal with Trump’s DOJ
“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 54m
“.. a flurry of angry calls from money managers to Wall Street banks that underwrote the debt. .. The paper losses for the investment-grade notes alone topped $100 million, according to an analysis late Thursday ..” @bloomberg.com $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 53m
Trump on Peterbilt trucks: "There's no bullshit. Somebody said, 'Oh, it may not be as aerodynamic as some of the others.' I said, 'I don't care.' I couldn't care less. You put in a bigger engine, right?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 52m
Trump: "As you know, we went to war with Venezuela"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 51m
notably, Trump's speech in Texas isn't being taken live by Fox News or Newsmax. You'll have to watch Newsmax 2 or Real America's Voice to see it.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 49m
The average 30-year fixed rate just climbed to 7.28%. “We’re going to bring mortgage rates down very fast. We will drive down the rates, so you will be able to pay 2% again, and be able to refinance your homes drastically at much lower costs.” — Donald J. Trump www.wsj.com/economy/hous...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 47m
Trump on Talarico: "He doesn't eat meat. He's a vagan. You know what a vagan is? Vagans don't do well in Texas, okay?"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 45m
NEW: A top Department of Defense official says the military has “no plan” to deploy troops to election sites this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOD tells senator it has ‘no plan’ for troops at polls. But she has ‘no idea what Trump will do’
“I take that as a positive sign,” Slotkin said. “[I] still have no idea what Trump will do."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 40m
Trump: "The only thing we're doing badly at is public relations"
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 39m
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 38m
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton: "If I didn't win that election, we wouldn't have a country anymore"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 36m
Trump says "oil is low," but that lie proves to be too much even for him and so he quickly pivots to Biden
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 34m
HAHAHAHA
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 34m
Trump: "We took over Venezuela"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 32m
Trump says he'll fill up the Strategic Oil Reserve "at almost no cost" with oil plundered from Venezuela
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h
Remember when Judge Cannon blocked release of Vol. II of Jack Smith’s report? The part about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case? Now there’s an encouraging update & you’ll want to know all about it. joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-vo...
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Finally. Volume II.
Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report should be public. Donald Trump wants to keep that from happening.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 6h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
🔥 BILL BURR: “How big does your yacht have to be? PAY THE WORKERS.” (From @marcofoster.bsky.social )
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
FLAG: Trump doesn't rule out using the Insurrection Act around the midterms during an interview with TIME. "I don't rule anything out or in." "I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes." time.com/article/2026...
time.com
What Trump Has Built
An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
Good idea, @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon - if Trump loves data centers so much let's make him prove it. www.newsweek.com/angie-nixon-...
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 6h
“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."
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Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case
The judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office.
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God @thegodshow.com · 6h
This loser wants you to believe he’s a warrior. He’s not. He’s a war criminal. He belongs in prison.
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Thou Shalt Put Hegseth In Prison For His War Crimes
Dear Humans,
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 6h
“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 9h
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 10h
#AZ Gas prices… Republicans support Trump’s insidious, illegal war with Iran. The Trump admin & his weak, pathetic sycophants that enable him are putting a choke hold on us while trying to convince you that it’s a “small” price to pay… FIRE THE GOP! #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you, Oswego, for standing up against ICE! ✊
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h
We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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The Only Race We Can’t Win...
Is the one we don’t run
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Trump and Hegseth have killed 230+ people on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific with no proof they did anything wrong, no congressional approval, no nothing. Just 2 unhinged fascists ordering our military to commit murder. Vote against all Republicans for the sake of all that is decent.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 10h
#IA03 Wages flat. Prices up. Corporate profits at records. Every major union in Iowa backed Sarah — AFL-CIO, IBEW, Teamsters, Ironworkers. They know who'll fight for your paycheck instead of the system rigging it against you. Vote for Sarah Trone Garriot! #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #Pinks
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10h
Newsner: US military prepares for first execution in over 60 years as Trump can now approve former Army major’s death sentence. The pro-life party sure enjoys killing people. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h
Ugh. Something else nobody asked for. Most folks just want their passports as quickly as possible, at a reasonable cost, and without Trump’s image soiling it for the next 10 years.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h
Yes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h
Joe Biden was way more coherent than this even in the debate. time.com/article/2026...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
FOX NASHVILLE POLL: 90% (!!) say “YES” @marshablackburn should agree to debate @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social fox17.com/question/pol...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Cook Political Report shifts to more gubernatorial races in the direction of Democrats
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h
Trump's Losing To China In So Many Ways.......
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h
“No agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.” Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
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Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind
We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10h
The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h
The White House has removed CNN — again — from the press pool that's set to cover Trump today.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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