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Mary Sweeney

@mcsweeney.bsky.social
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Music lover of all things Brit Rock 🎧 My very first date was seeing Bowie's Ziggy Stardust US Kickoff concert at Music Hall. It was life affirming as a freshman in high school. Proud compassionate liberal. Beyond concerned for this democratic republic.

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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 4h
Art is not an algorithm. It is created and shaped by an individual's lived experience. It requires perception, reflection, imagination, consciousness, and mortality. Art comes from the essence of humanity. No computer or calculator can replicate the process. Despite its attempt at imitation.
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Opinion | The Path to Great Art Is Not Through A.I. (Gift Article)
Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: ballot seizures ruled illegal by CA Supreme Court! A key precedent as we prepare to defend the 2026 election Proud that our @democracydefendersfund.org brief helped secure this win
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just realized "Thiel" is one letter away from "Thief."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Be confident your vote will be counted fair & square State AGs, civil rights groups & the pro-democracy movement have your back Vote early & however suits you best, including by mail Why I'm so sure, in this week's publisher's note @ContrarianNews 👇 -TN
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We’re Winning, Contrarians — And We Won’t Back Down
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Frank D. Russo @fdrtoday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Black Caucus Launches Effort to Boost Voting Among Black, Rural and Young Voters in Midterms Mississippi Free Press Monprofit launched multimillion-dollar effort to engage lower-propensity voters in key districts in midterm following years of dissatisfaction over traditional efforts bit.ly/4rhsruH
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Black Caucus Launches Effort to Boost Voting Among Black, Rural and Young Voters in Midterms
A nonprofit run by Black federal lawmakers launched an effort Tuesday to engage lower-propensity voters in the midterm elections.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A true 9 11 story
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The US confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a remarkable revelation after previous warnings about countries such as Russia possibly weaponizing a global frontier long agreed in treaties to be used for only peaceful purposes. apnews.com/article/spac...
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
LIVE Wednesday at 2p ET: Tim Whitaker @timwhitakerspeaks.bsky.social joins me to discuss the perversion called White Christian Nationalism. Join us on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Corruption is driving up costs for Americans—81% say so in a Navigator poll Whitkoff’s reported $200M+ profit raises serious questions about conflicts of interest The American people won't stand for it & a reckoning is coming I explained on @ms.now w/ @nicollewallace.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over *no* public dissents, #SCOTUS *stays* the federal district court’s TRO in the Missouri redistricting case, effectively restoring the Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week (and the 2022 map that it requires the state to use in November).
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a $110 BILLION deal where nearly 50% of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery entity would be owned by foreign investors with about 38.5% of the equity in the new company held by 3 Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. Insane.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW AD: 3 years ago, David Maxwell blew the whistle on Ken Paxton’s corruption and testified in his impeachment trial. Today, David Maxwell is endorsing James Talarico.
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I don't want to hear a word about dead people voting when we have dead Senators collecting paychecks and benefits.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We will not forget this kind of anticipatory obedience
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Texas officials are slashing polling places to disenfranchise voters @democracydefendersaction.org partner LULAC, has the data proving it, & every legal option is on the table if these officials don't reverse course @aliciamenendez.bsky.social & I on @ms.now 👇
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Maybe he just renamed a lake so no one would notice this report in The Guardian about the U.S. Navy being broke.
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Trump’s war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal
Exclusive: Experts and former officials say accounts are running dry, and funding a war with no clear endgame is the main challenge
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Climate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
LEAK THE GODDAMN EPSTEIN FILES AND END THIS HELL.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tonight, the Empire State Building lights will sparkle pink at 9:25 to honor Dolly Parton. A global icon, her seven-decade career touched generations. She leaves a legacy through her Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, providing millions of books to children.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thank you.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Kushner snd Jeffries meet. My first question is, was any money exchanged.
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
What's the actual point of two robots racing? We have people in need. When will we realize there is no greater computer than the human brain. All we are holding back by not nurturing and educating the poor is our own destiny. Humanity is our future. Value life. No one is illegal.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Mary Sweeney @mcsweeney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
President Obama deported 3M immigrants during his time in office. He sent them back. He didn't need to burden the debt with detention centers. Not did he need a budget bigger than that of the Marines to find them. No electric shock gloves. No trafficking people to countries they have no affiliation.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada to match new US tariffs dollar for dollar, Prime Minister Mark Carney says.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 20/08/2026
Political cartoon. File boxes filled with paper are stacked high. A shipping container is pictured next to the boxes. Two people stand next to it and one says, "Now they're secretly whisking him out of the Epstein files!"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Minnesota to provide access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for my firm and our clients. DOJ is now 0-23. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/minnes...
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🚨 United States v. Simon
Learn more here.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
KTLA: "There's no clear path to end the war" Republicans aren't stopping this. Children are dying to keep Trump out of jail for raping kids.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A corrupt cryptocurrency firm backed by the orange felon named World Liberty Financial was given the green light by his MAGA official for a bank charter. One of the most criminally brazen acts of self dealing in US history. This asshole should be in jail, not in the White House.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The attorney general says it’s a “possibility” that he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary, for the Trump administration’s crusade to take control of state voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Attorney General Blanche says taking state voter rolls case to Supreme Court is a ‘possibility’
The attorney general said the Justice Department is "not going to stop" going after state voter rolls despite losing 22 times in court to get them.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
BREAKING NYT: Trump's U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fundraising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in Trump's hush money trial. The office demanded the firm's internal comms with clients — including Harris, Biden, and Jeffries.
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Prosecutors Examined Firm With Tie to Judge in Trump Hush Money Trial
The U.S. attorney in Chicago subpoenaed a fund-raising firm that had been co-owned by the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan, who conducted the trial that led to Donald Trump’s felony conviction.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV used his Assumption homily to once again take aim at Silicon Valley’s longevity movement, two days after Bryan Johnson said he had made his body a religious philosophy. In 2023, Bryan Johnson said he has done more to defeat death in two years than Jesus did in two thousand years.
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“Our True Beauty Does Not Lie in Hiding the Signs of Aging” — Pope Leo XIV’s Answer to Bryan Johnson
Johnson has built a movement that’s trying to live forever through science, and he says he has done more against death in two years than Jesus managed in two thousand. Leo answered him Saturday.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/08/2026
Trump’s Treasury Dept. is deleting a database used to track dirty money, wiping out info that could help investigators follow fraud, trafficking, and money laundering. @crampell.bsky.social on how Trump is making life easier for financial criminals. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Uyd5W4?utm_...
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2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸 @2028-bluewave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This should be much bigger news.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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