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Maya Schenwar

@mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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Director, Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. Board president, Truthout. Co-editor “We Grow the World Together” Co-author “Prison by Any Other Name” Abolitionist, anti-zionist, pro-cat, pro-karaoke, Chicagoan mayaschenwar.com

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12h
Instead of releasing people, jails are increasingly complying with ICE detainers and handing folks over to the federal agency. ➡️ Since 2024, the average number of daily detainer-related arrests has grown by 144%
Bar graphs comparing ICE arrests from jail detainers in 2024 (178 per day) and 2026 (435 per day).
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026
"My family had three plots of land planted with olive trees. Two of them are now under Israeli control and have been bulldozed, so we can no longer reach them. We can still access the third, but it no longer looks like the place where we used to spend our autumns."
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3 Years Ago My Family Harvested Olives, Not Knowing It Would Be the Last Time
Two of my family’s olive groves fell under Israeli control and got bulldozed. The third is damaged beyond recognition.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
I wrote an introduction to my friend Rachel's haunting and deeply enraging book "Elegy for Mary Turner" years ago. It's an illustrated account of one of the most horrific lynchings of a woman in this country's history: www.versobooks.com/products/962...
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Elegy for Mary Turner
In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 6h
⭐ First Aid for the People⭐ 📅 October 17 🕰️ 1 to 4:30 PM 🆓 Including: 🩹 Basic first aid 🏥 Situational awareness 🦵🏾 Basic physiology 🫀 CPR 🩸 Stop the bleeding ❤️‍🩹 Overdose reversal 👇🏾 Register here!
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First Aid for the People — Interrupting Criminalization
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“They are looking for our thoughts... They want to see who I’m messaging. They want to see what WhatsApp groups I am part of.” -Jalal Shehadeh on searches of pro-Palestine folks' phones at the border truthout.org/articles/bor...
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Border Agents Are Randomly Seizing Phones of US Citizens Who Support Palestine
Miami lawyer Jalal Shehadeh is the latest supporter of Palestinian rights to be hassled after returning from abroad.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Liliana, thank you for all your coverage of this brutal extremity of state violence over the course of so many years.💔
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s sickening to me that we put people through this, including my journalist colleagues who have witnessed multiple executions, who have to try to make sense of what they’ve seen. Grateful to @iamstevenhale.bsky.social and everyone else for bearing witness to this barbarism masquerading as justice.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Dawn Bense @dawnbense.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I read an article a couple days ago where Pike said she was ready to accept death. She said her only fear was a botched execution.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The evidence of being repeatedly raped and abused by multiple men as a child was deemed inadmisseable at her trial.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️
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Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November
“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s past time to end state-sanctioned murder. No matter the circumstances. No matter what the person did. No matter whether it’s a state execution or a police-perpetrated killing or a drone strike in another part of the world. NO MORE.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/09/2026
A dystopian infringement on our access to information isn’t just some looming threat — we’re actively living through it.
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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New book announcement! New book announcement! Journalism as Resistance drops May 11 2027! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854914...
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Journalism as Resistance by Lewis Raven Wallace: 9780807026700 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For young journalists and activists, a first-of-its-kind guidebook to movement journalism that sparks social change and transforms news media for the better Amid the shrinking of local news outlets, ...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is coming up soon, register now!
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Healing to Action @healingtoaction.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big news—Healing to Action is publishing a book! Survivor Genius: A New Vision for Ending Gender-Based Violence comes out on 12/15 from @thenewpress.bsky.social. If you preorder your copy directly from The New Press, you can get 20% off with discount code HTA20, and TNP will also donate 10% to HTA.
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Survivor Genius: A New Vision For Ending Gender-Based Violence
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” - Goethe
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Victoria Elena Valenzuela @vevalenz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The California City Detention Facility has banned loved ones from hugging those who are facing possible deportation. People go months without being able to hug their loved ones while they fight their cases and face possible deportation. truthout.org/articles/fam...
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Families Are Fighting Draconian No-Contact-Visit Policy at California ICE Jail
The California City Detention Facility has banned loved ones from hugging those who are facing possible deportation.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.
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Artificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are
“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More than 100 people died in Virginia prisons last year. Story via Radio IQ.
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More than 100 people died in Virginia prisons last year
Recommendations in the report included the improvement of “living conditions for long-term incarceration,” health education, the expansion of addiction treatment services and addressing staffing issue...
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI "news" isn't just a specter haunting the future. In journalism, we're already seeing AI upend our ecosystem. @neginowl.bsky.social, @ziggywest.bsky.social and I wrote about witnessing the impact of Google's AI-based search changes on media, & how folks can take action truthout.org/articles/wer...
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI "news" isn't just a specter haunting the future. In journalism, we're already seeing AI upend our ecosystem. @neginowl.bsky.social, @ziggywest.bsky.social and I wrote about witnessing the impact of Google's AI-based search changes on media, & how folks can take action truthout.org/articles/wer...
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Parents of Trans Kids Slam Mount Sinai for Permanently Ending Trans Youth Care truthout.org/articles/par...
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Parents of Trans Kids Slam Mount Sinai for Permanently Ending Trans Youth Care
“They’re turning away children, and they’re refusing to provide care that is life-saving,” one parent said.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/09/2026
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss their new book, "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World."
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“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve...
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In our latest, we’re joined by Da’Shaun L. Harrison to discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week and how the media dogpile from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro to Fox News proved our point www.patreon.com/deathpanelpo...
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The Death Panel vs Fox News w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison (09/14/26) | The Death Panel
Beatrice, Artie and Da’Shaun L. Harrison discuss how we became an object of right wing ridicule over the last week, and how the media dogpil
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 14/09/2026
From Ypsilanti to New York City, protests over AI data centers, political spending and surveillance are putting pressure on elected officials. Stephanie Jordan and Mary Armas describe more than 40 actions held nationwide in August.
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Elected Officials Are Facing a Reckoning Over Their Collusion with Big AI
Across the country, Americans from all stripes are calling on politicians to dump Big Tech.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz also confirmed in a statement on September 1 that Israeli troops would remain inside the Gaza Strip even after Hamas is disarmed and Gaza is demilitarized. ... Katz [later] described a plan to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries[.]"
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose
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This Is Not A Love Song
Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thank you for this, it’s so chillingly terrifying. Looking forward to the book. (Also, as my kid put it, looking over my shoulder—“The last minute is amazing, WE CAN DO IT!”)
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Overwhelmed? We organized our IC resources into handy dandy curricula on criminalization, abolition journalism, transformative justice, and labor & abolition, complete with assignments for each semester, just in time for back to school season! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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Interrupting Criminalization Curriculum — Interrupting Criminalization
As we mobilize to stop ongoing genocides in Gaza, the West Bank, the Sudan and beyond, as well as corporate and state-sponsored violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and navigate increasingly ...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/09/2026
I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)
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The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States
In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Something that PIC abolitionists are attentive to is that you should not build things that you will have to dismantle a few years later because of the harms they cause.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"If we believe a world beyond the war on terror is possible, then we have to act as though it is by refusing its normalization, confronting the institutions & narratives that have allowed it to continue, and building towards collective liberation..." -Maha Hilal truthout.org/articles/25-...
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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made
The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This Wednesday, join our friends at BAJI for a call @ 5pm ET about how Haitian TPS holders & their families are facing continued uncertainty following recent court decisions & changes to their Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Register here:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conversations with BAJI: Haitian TPS — Where We Stand & How to Get Involved . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web...
Event Description: Haitian TPS holders and their families are facing continued uncertainty following recent court decisions and changes to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) timeline. We’ll cover...
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks for this, @elizabethweill.bsky.social & @ethanscorey.bsky.social!
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Find out which of your local businesses are working with ICE. (New database from @theappeal.org) The Appeal’s investigation reveals a widespread web of public and private entities enabling Trump’s deportation machine. theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
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Deportation Dollars: ICE Contracts With More Than 1,000 Businesses Across the U.S.
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/08/2026
30-year-old youth minister Elijah Gantt has spent two years behind bars awaiting trial for attending a protest to mark the 10 year anniversary of Michael Brown’s killing. The state’s case included 12 charges and a sentencing request of 66 years until he accepted a plea deal. Now they are seeking 19.
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Protesters Marking 10 Years After Michael Brown’s Killing Face Arrest and Prison
“To say, why were we out there, why were we even protesting … is to gaslight an entire community,” said one supporter.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/06/2026
Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.
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At Its Best, LGBTQ Pride Is an Abolitionist Uprising — and a Dance Party
Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/06/2026
NEW: An unprecedented assault on American nonprofits is underway, and it all started when the Trump admin convened a slate of anti-trans activists for a workshop on gender-affirming care. Important investigation by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social for Assigned and @accountabilityji.bsky.social.
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MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians. - Assigned Media
The right wing has gone all in on assaulting nonprofits, following the playbooks of authoritarian regimes the world over.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/06/2026
Gabriela Soto: My husband, Martin Soto, was abducted by ICE this February when he left our home at night to buy diapers for our 11-month-old son. Martin — who is a loving father, husband, son, church member, worker, and neighbor — was then jailed for 4 months at Delaney Hall.
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ICE Kidnapped My Husband on His Way to Buy Diapers for Our Infant Son
My husband, Martin Soto, took part in the hunger strike at Delaney Hall. I led a rally. The retaliation was immediate.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/06/2026
Quick read of the trans sports decision.. *Categorical exclusion of trans athletes from sex-separated school sports is lawful under Title IX and equal protection *A biological-sex law is not a transgender classification *No as-applied challenges under intermediate scrutiny or rational basis
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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/06/2026
@ilhanmn.bsky.social: Trump's gutting of Medicaid will strip coverage from millions of people, push hospitals into closure, and make an already broken health care system even worse. Only Medicare for All would ensure that people can get the care they need.
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Ilhan Omar: Our Health Care System Is Broken Beyond Repair. We Need Medicare for All.
Repealing Medicare cuts and restoring ACA subsidies are the first step. But ultimately, we need universal health care.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Why are some of you consistently telling people who live in NY that their candidates can't win in Iowa? LOL. The candidates are FROM NY and running in NY. Take up your criticisms with the media not New Yorkers.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to the young multi-racial coalition of New Yorkers who are demanding better.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
2028 is going to be a fucking extinction-level electoral event for so many of these incumbent Dems who have coasted for years without any serious challenges. This cycle is the clarion call for ten times as many primary challengers to take on suddenly-very-beatable-looking incumbents.
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