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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
October 17 is a nationwide NO KINGS day of action ahead of the midterms. There are rallies taking place all over the country to promote early voting and make sure every eligible voter has a plan, knows their options, and is ready to make their voice count. Find an event: www.nokings.org
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 16h
The Trump DOJ demanded California sideline ballots from voters it claims are noncitizens, from a list sent on a USB drive with a sticky note. Mainstream media doesn't cover these stories like we do. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date: demdock.com/4spjoZj
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 16h
An ethics watchdog organization filed a lawsuit against Jared Kushner and the White House, seeking to bar the president’s son-in-law from acting as a political envoy unless he’s confirmed by the Senate and files public financial disclosures.
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A Watchdog Group Is Challenging Jared Kushner’s Foreign Policy Role
The group’s lawsuit says the president’s son-in-law is a go-to foreign policy negotiator without Senate confirmation or financial disclosures.
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mcatb.bsky.social @mcatb.bsky.social · 14h
Scrotus is at it again
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16h
James Talarico: False claims got millions of views — and this is an example of what I call the ‘rage economy.’ Billionaires who own these platforms get rich, we get angry, and nobody’s life gets better. Conspiracy theories don’t put food on the table, put gas in the tank, or improve our communities.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15h
We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 22h
HHS gave disabled CDC and NIH employees 20 days to submit medical documentation for our reasonable accommodation requests. We submitted it on time. We have receipts. And HHS closed our cases anyway, claiming our documentation was missing. Now we're left in limbo.
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HHS scraps disability accommodations over missing paperwork. Employees say they have receipts 
A union leader for CDC headquarters employees said the Health and Human Services Department closing out these accommodation requests was “a deliberate choice to clear the backlog."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h
It turns out that the best way to avoid being killed by drivers is to be protected by infrastructure.
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North America’s largest wildlife overpass is working. I-25 collisions near Castle Rock are down 91%.
In the 10 months since the wildlife crossing between Larkspur and Monument opened, there’s been just 2 reported collisions
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 16h
REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com
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‘Destructive’: Nearly $13 Million in Family Planning Grants Go to Anti-Abortion Doctors
Millions in federal funds earmarked to train health providers will go to doctors with links to crisis pregnancy centers and the Heritage Foundation for programs focused on infertility and “body litera...
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 14h
If you can vote early, do it. If you can drop your ballot off at a local dropbox, do it. If you have to wait and vote in person, do it. This needs to be a no-doubter of an election.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14h
📅 One week. For eight weeks, we've been showing you tools you can use to save, discover, contribute, and connect. On October 21, we're bringing those ideas together. 🏛️ Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation ▶️ ONLINE: www.eventbrite.com/e/democracys... 🧵
Cream promotional graphic pairing an Internet Archive tools grid with a panel reading "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," a matching circuit-line doodle, and event details: Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm-10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨 CORRUPTION UPDATE: Elon Musk has poured nearly $400M into the 2026 midterm election cycle to help save Republican control of Congress — including $10M backing Ken Paxton against James Talarico alone. Musk ALSO has enormous business before the federal government.
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Instinto do nojo @ozmosi.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Deixa esse filadaputa tomar conta da tua vida, dos teus dados, das tuas idéias que logo logo te passam a mão na bunda e tu nem percebe...
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yep
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump uses DHS and DOJ as weapons to go after the people standing up to him. Raiding @ilhanmn.bsky.social home weeks before Election Day is the kind of overreach that should scare every single American. I stand with Ilhan. We will never be intimidated into silence.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 12/10/2026
Not too much to ask, or to hope for. #holdfast
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another MAGA “citizen journalist” hoax debunked. Next.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In 2021, researchers used optogenetic therapy to partially restore sight in a blind man. They used light to turn nerve cells on & off. A clinical trial shows promise. It is the basis of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine. A breakthrough yrs in the making. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal
Optogenetic therapy, based on Nobel prize-winning science, involves turning nerve cells on and off using light
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Is This Failed Actor Nepo Baby Now the Biggest Media Mogul Ever?” For his Zeteo ‘Ragebait’ column, media column Justin Baragona brings receipts on David Ellison:
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Is This Failed Actor Nepo-Baby Now the Biggest Media Mogul Ever?
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s ‘Ragebait.’
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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persephone @jomaselli.ca · 09/10/2026
“Cuni has been a DHS agent for nearly a decade.” I hope people pay attention to that part. This trouble has been brewing for a while.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Acetaminophen sold on Amazon recalled over complaints
Amazon shoppers: check your medicine cabinet. More than 112,000 bottles of Amazon-brand Acetaminophen have been recalled, according to the FDA.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/10/2026
Putting government counsel on both sides “makes me feel like it’s all a farce,” says one immigration attorney.
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Joe Hill is as alive as you and me
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE collected millions of voter records and considered undercover investigations against voter registration groups, documents reveal. It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
democracydocket.com
ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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mcatb.bsky.social @mcatb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm more interested in policy than gender. Exhibits A & B: Crapito and Miller
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Rachel Fetty Anderson for U.S. Senate @fettyandersonforsenate.com · 07/10/2026
Election Day is November 3rd #vote #election
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J. K. Mooney @jkmooney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think this is prudent. I would also verify the drop box is legit.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/10/2026
Non-citizens and citizens alike are left vulnerable to having our rights violated when the Trump administration repeatedly goes against bedrock democratic principles under the guise of immigration enforcement. Read more in our new report.
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76 Ways Mass Deportation Is Breaking Our Democracy | American Civil Liberties Union
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Katherine A @sallmandertwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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mcatb.bsky.social @mcatb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vote @fettyandersonforsenate.com for WVians. Representation would be a big change for the better
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 01/10/2026
Once again, this administration has blatantly violated the First Amendment. Using religion to validate unlawful government decisions is morally corrupt and anti-American. #holdfast #firstamendment #CorruptMAGA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At least 56 people have died in ICE custody during Trump’s second term. According to ICE’s internal reviews, detention staff did not provide sufficient medical care to at least six of those detainees. ICE has now taken down those reviews from its website. What other cruelty is ICE trying to hide?
theintercept.com
ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of il
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Covering elections is exhausting: 1.) there is always something happening 2.) people are anxious about election 3.) the demand & incentives to work 24/7 on election coverage are real! Election coverage is exhausting so help us focus on it and not fundraising! Help cover Brazilian election
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mcatb.bsky.social @mcatb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop trying to provide structure! Expose him for what he is
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Such barbarism. Let's botch killing someone, then spend energy and resources to save her life... just so we can try to kill her again. WTAF is happening.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tennessee has had two failed executions this year. The death penalty should be abolished. Christa Pike wasn’t afraid to die. She was afraid they would screw it up and make her suffer. Which is exactly what happened. We shouldn’t allow the government to kill people.
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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection attempt
Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 30/01/2025
There really is no comparison
IC efficiency ve EV efficiency IC efficiency ve EV efficiency
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Soolahhoops.com @soolahhoops.com · 01/10/2026
This is the kind of corruption that needs to be voted out in November and then future elections! #datacenters #HagerstownMD
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Davis Allen @davisallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The climate crisis we face today wasn't inevitable, and we have the receipts.
The cover for a new report from the Center for Climate Integrity, "Climate Fraud 101: Big Oil's Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents, 1957-2026"
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 30/09/2026
Nothing says “putting Americans first” like spending $20 million in taxpayer dollars on campaign-style ads while cutting Medicaid, food assistance, and education.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/09/2026
October 17th is the next No Kings. Host a No Kings protest in your community to send a message: #NoKings #LongLiveTheVote. Use this link to sign up today:
mobilize.us
NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY · Mobilize
For over a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. No Kings: Vote Early is the next step: this is not purely a protest, it is a day of nonpartisan voter participation Because in America, leaders do not get to choose who votes, whose voices matter, or what future our communities deserve. The people choose their leaders.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These Motherf-ers. I swear. Link: buff.ly/KdOkuZU
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