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Mike Lowder

@mclowder.bsky.social
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Deafflatusized sailor; fermenter of chiles; retired attorney. Independently invented basted eggs. Director of Corporate Awesomeness at ANTIFA. To be pro-America is to be pro-immigration. bsky.app/profile/mclowder.bsky.soci…

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 2h
The Maine Republican’s reelection campaign is backed by at least $7.4 million in dark-money contributions that resemble the shell donations that drew FBI scrutiny.
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Susan Collins Faced An FBI Investigation Over Dark Money. It’s Still Flowing To Her Reelection Campaign.
The Maine Republican’s reelection campaign is backed by at least $7.4 million in dark-money contributions that resemble the shell donations that drew FBI scrutiny.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2h
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 9h
It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 4h
That's ironic, because Biden had to withdraw from Afghanistan by a certain time based on an agreement Trump struck and Trump wouldn't stop attacking him for doing so.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h
In case Americans getting ready to vote forgot about Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration killing people, and all of the other governmental lawlessness, Todd Blanche wants you to remember.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h
Which two SCOTUS judges do folks think are paid subscribers to Erick Erickson's newsletter?
You are not alone.

Right now, staff in the White House, at least one cabinet secretary two cabinet secretaries, multiple senators and congressmen, two former Speakers of the House, at least one two Supreme Court Justices, a dozen Circuit and District Court Judges, six governors that I know of, a bunch of state legislators, Supreme and appellate court Justices and judges in multiple states, some really famous theologians, journalists, and public policy makers, and at least one Academy Award winner are all reading the Show Notes that went out at noon.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h
Poorly thought-out foreign quagmires and disasters, economic instability and deprivation, wanton cruelty and violence are all hallmark features of white supremacist societies.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h
Particularly as we already see people framing what we’re seeing from the Trump administration as missteps or backfires rather than the logical outcome when you pursue white supremacy.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 9h
Chat, is it good when a site's head of trust and safety uses an automated system to block half the users?
Screenshot of Aaron Rodericks, Bluesky's head of trust and safety, saying "Automated block actions on my account so that I can stay unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing. TBH it was well overdue.
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Mike Lowder @mclowder.bsky.social · 5h
At this point, it would be simpler to report when the Trump regime isn’t lying.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h
The Trump regime’s Sept. 24 deportation flight to Haiti carried nearly two dozen former #TPS holders and six additional people whose asylum cases remain open: haitiantimes.com/2026/09/25/5...
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US deports 530 to Haiti in month since TPS ended
U.S. immigration authorities deported 39 people to Haiti on Thursday, bringing the number of total deportees to 529 since Temporary Protected Status ended, ONM said.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5h
No biggie, just a House district that Trump won by 22 points 2 years ago.
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Mike Lowder @mclowder.bsky.social · 6h
This! From every Democrat, please!
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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 9h
When I think about the US treating Canada like an enemy, I’m reminded that David Foster Wallace saw this coming in Infinite Jest. Sure we don’t have Québécois assassins (afaik) but look at what he described
L a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when—somehow even worse—
there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.
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David Foster Wallace
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h
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📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Adam Brooks @adamrbroooks.bsky.social · 9h
SCOTUS looked at the harm of people being dumped in foreign lands, and the harm of the government not being able to disappear people… and sided with the government.
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 6h
"We'll make sure that any potential identity thieves can easily determine which mail includes your passport"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6h
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Petisia @petisia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Democrats, Take Notes! You’re Witnessing a Master Class: A public servant standing firm in his oath, refusing to be intimidated—even when threatened with jail by POTUS. "While fear may be contagious, courage is as well.” ― Jack Smith Live Updates―Gift Link👇🏾 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09... #PINKS
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 6h
The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys.   The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 9h
The strategy next time should be to indict everyone for everything, everywhere. The ex-president, if alive, should get a hundred indictments, spread across as many districts as possible, with as many state charges separately brought as possible. Cabinet members and aides should get dozens.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 9h
Remember that Eric Schmitt won’t apologize because his voters not only don’t expect him to but would probably punish him if he did. That is not always how it would have gone down. He’s a schmuck but just a symptom of a dysfunctional public culture.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not ‘voluntary’ that manufacturers include seatbelts in cars. It’s not ‘voluntary’ that new medicines gain FDA approval before hitting the market. Congress has the ability and responsibility to regulate AI.
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Lost Kender @alostkender.bsky.social · 10h
Fuck John Roberts, and the Shadow Docket. This emergency review method needs stricter rules, and there needs to be a set of rules around when it can be utilized. Also we need to have Supreme court term limits, and we need an enforceable code of ethics.
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 9h
Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/30/r...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find • Kentucky Lantern
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15h
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
According to America.gov, it’s not totally clear if it’s illegal to marry an eagle, so I might still have a chance!
what part of U.S. law states that I cannot marry an eagle, because TBH I'm skeptical
There is no statute titled "you cannot marry an eagle." Two separate rules apply.
Marriage is between two people
Federal law treats marriage, for federal purposes, as a union between 2 individuals that is valid where it was entered into.
• 1U.S.C. § 7 7
States issue marriage licenses. An eagle is not a person who can get a license or consent. I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice.
Eagles are separately protected
Bald and golden eagles may not be taken, possessed, molested, or disturbed without a permit.
• Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C.
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• "Take" includes capture, molest, or disturb.Eagles are separately protected
Bald and golden eagles may not be taken, possessed, molested, or disturbed without a permit.
• Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C.
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• "Take" includes capture, molest, or disturb.
Trying to "marry" an eagle would still run into those possession and disturbance rules.
I cannot verify a single line of the U.S. Code that saysạẠmarriage to an eagle is prohibited" by those words. The practical bar is that marriage is for two individuals, and eagles are protected wildlife.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is one of the most painful things you’ll ever see and you should absolutely see it
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rhammer @rhammersley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
glad even the NYT isn't glossing over this immense load of crap Schmitt left in the committee room today....
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Revanchist @calvinrestov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He thinks the basketball game was a pretense to visit the GA prosecutors in order to illicitly coordinate their efforts to prosecute Donald Trump. It's farcical at face value, but really offers an insight into what Trump and his ilk are always discussing when they're at sports games.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
100% this. But you know, it's always the woman's fault.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Bruce Bourgoine @brucebourgoine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This regretfully means that the bottom of the bad cop barrel will be scrapped further and more people will get shot by Trump goon squads. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue
nytimes.com
ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The partisan hacks prove that they are indeed white supremacists.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Mike Lowder @mclowder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court, just like the rest of the GOP is full of racist cranks.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging James Talarico's requests to debate him, so Talarico last week offered to debate him on Fox News and went viral over it: "I'll go into the lion's den." Now neither Paxton nor Fox News are responding to Talarico's request. www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...
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James Talarico Challenged Ken Paxton To A Debate On Fox News. Neither Will Respond.
The Texas Democratic Senate nominee hasn’t gotten “any update” from the conservative news network about hosting a debate before November.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Mike Lowder @mclowder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[D]etail=lie in this case. At best, Schmitt was a sloppy idiot posturing for the cameras. But with what we know of the GOP, you should assume he is lying until he shows proof he's just an idiot.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
There are a lot of things they can't do. But there are also a lot of things they can get caught trying to do and force the republicans to constantly publicly fight them on the most popular shit imaginable.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I need every Democrat to know in their fucking bones that the first whisper of "turn the page and get back to normal" means we're going to primary them so hard their grandparents feel the ripple in space/time.
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I have tried to be incredibly real with myself and everyone that even a blue wave of epic proportions doesn't mean much is better. My entire hopes for the next two years are to stop the worst bleeding and to put the fear of consequences in every fucking heart--including Dems who feel forgiving.
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