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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well Said,Pope Leo.......
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline is now receiving thousands of voicemails. Listen to what they’re saying: “Ken Paxton is corrupt.” “I’m voting for James Talarico!” Texans are tired of corruption — and ready for something new.
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Boricua405 on X @estadistarebelde1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sounds like as plan. #FightTheRight
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026
"Federal law explicitly prohibits the use of U.S. funds 'for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress.'"
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stephen left these comments from his real page w/ his real name and the name of his business clear as fucking day. Women in Bend and Redmond, I don't think you want this guy in your home working on your house. • Fields Tile & Stone, Bend, OR 97702 • Phone Number: (458) 899-2269 #bend #oregon
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fascism. Who knew? #fascism
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A reminder. #DonTheCon
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Release the #EpsteinFiles!
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Total lying crook. Yes, jail should be the next stop, but that may take a while, even in a DEM administration.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicare should be able to negotiate every single prescription drug price in this country.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fingers crossed that the a**hole gets dinged big time and Stephen has to pay in numerous ways.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Our country is at a serious inflection point, and I want to lead the charge to bring us back to serving the American people.” — ECU-endorsed candidate @leelagray.bsky.social on why she’s fighting for #FL13 families in the latest Democracy News.
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Leadership Over Chaos: An Interview with General Leela Gray
Democrats are on the verge of flipping this Florida House seat.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Obsessed with this photo of the Republican senate candidate in North Carolina
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 02/10/2026
JD Vance recently said during a Florida rally, "When Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is to say, 'Then get the hell out of here." Nixon's response to similar comments: "They are afraid that I am breaking through, and so they want to demonize me."
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Can a Democratic Socialist win in deep-red Florida?
Angie Nixon’s outspoken and progressive campaign for US Senate tries for an upset in the November midterms.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
President Donald Trump is once again offering “exclusive” access to buyers of his meme coin—this time in the form of an invitation to a dinner with him and three secret “legends” to be named at a later date. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Want to attend an "exclusive dinner" with Trump? Just buy his meme coin!
(And don't sell it for a few weeks.)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has already promised that it will flout any law attempting to ban the gloves.
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California bans ICE’s favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said the agency “will not abide” by any state ban.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration has refused to spend billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for health programs, putting them at risk of expiring Wednesday when the fiscal year ends. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Unspent healthcare funding faces do-or-die cliff
The Trump administration has refused to spend billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for health programs, putting them at risk of expiring Wednesday when the fiscal year ends.   Such a move…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. Groceries are just like kind of out of control," said Bethany Lnenicka, 41, who operates a small farm in Fairfax, Iowa. "It's just one thing and the next week it's another thing. It's just insane. And of course your income doesn't go up." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans blame President Donald Trump for persistently high prices, while only about 2 in 10 approve of his handling of the cost of living.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RAPIDAN: “.. The Houthis plan .. a large-scale, coordinated missile and drone barrage on Jazan, Asir, and Najran. The Jazan refinery .. is already offline and unlikely to restart before end-year. .. we still assess 75% odds of strikes .. the Houthis intend to intensify attacks in October.”
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One small, but powerful way that LLM's are supercharging scamming is by allowing scammers to write perfect context-appropriate prose - emails, invitations, "hey checking in" - that before AI would have this slightly *off* uncanniness that would alert the victim. No longer!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(FT) - Diesel prices will not return to normal for more than a year, according to US oil and gas executives surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. @financialtimes.com $CRAK www.ft.com/content/0d74...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith praised honest Republican officials who had stood up to Trump’s corrupt pressure. The committee’s senators, listening to Smith’s remarks, could have chosen to identify with the honest Republicans he cited as models.
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who’s paying for Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran? Working people. Gas prices. Grocery costs. Energy bills. American families are paying more than ever. End the war now.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to end debate in the Senate, 53-47. Every Democratic and independent senator voted against the measure. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
Q: “Wherever you go you are the Attorney General…” Blanche: “That’s not what the law says…I’m allowed to go and support administrative priorities in my personal capacity.”
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan Collins' campaign took in $1,600 from Jack Abramoff's old business partner. Trump pardoned him in July. We asked Collins if she'll give it back. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember Jack Abramoff? His old casino-boat partner was ordered to repay $21.7 million. Trump just pardoned him. The money trail of his former partner leads to Republican Senators: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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