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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@katiephang.bsky.social is having so much fun with this lawsuit and I'm here for it.

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Nicole Sandler @nicolesandler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social starts today's edition of Emptywheel Fridays with this story, then goes on to lots more! Joooin us at 3ET/noon PT at youtu.be/0HvOZZFld7M & nicolesandler.com

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Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show 10-2-26

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

I definitely think it possible Trump would be so shameless as to appoint Aileen Cannon. Which makes the current timing of the hearing on lawsuit to liberate the stolen documents report, November 2, of interest.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every bit of this 👇

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bain-...

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Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From

A friend sent me this new Bain Capital study on the growth...

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good Morning Peeps ✌🏽 💙 Things that make you go FUCK YOU REPUKES 🖕🏼

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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."

Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..

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Veronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just occurred to me that it’s a good thing Jack Smith was actually at a basketball game that day and they could prove it during the hearing because they were all gearing up to feast on the headline for weeks if not years. The headline was all they were after anyway.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger

Learn more.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂

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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

.. How can Americans be so stupid ?

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil ... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over...I have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."

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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: virtually everyone now thinks Trump's a bitch

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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Donald Trump is using the U.S. treasury and our tax dollars like it’s his personal piggy bank. And just like he squandered hundreds of millions given to him by dear old dad, he’s squandering our money now.

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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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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every horrendous villain movie come to life!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America doesn’t have a polarization problem America has a right-wing extremism problem

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a new Bain study which essentially says that the US needs a massive crash course in innovation to find these to do with AI so that it can pay for itself. $6T needed about $1.4T realistically in sight by 2031. They list four areas of critical innovation opportunity. And if you note here ...

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pathetic and Insanity 😡 I've been there.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026

Raskin and Whitesides sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on Tuesday to look into the reported shuffling of funds.

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Calls for Investigations Into Trump’s Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up

‘Nearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is False’ Rep. Jamie Raskin...

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

😳 Trump's hand as photographed moments ago (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

close up pic of Trump's hand showing disgusting discoloration and skin ailments from his fingers to his wrist

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026

CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember: Trump is continuously stoking doubt in mail-in voting when he cast votes that way TWICE THIS YEAR ALONE. There’s no basis to his claims – he just wants to make it harder to vote.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026