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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s time for an aggressive state AG to bring RICO case against Cleta Mitchell and her co-conspirators for conspiracy to attack lawful elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm attending Minnesota DFL's event, “Democracy Protectors: Constitutional Observer Training, Help Us Protect the Vote” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/dfl/event/10...
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Democracy Protectors: Constitutional Observer Training, Help Us Protect the Vote · Minnesota DFL
We need you. Donald Trump is threatening to send agents all over the country with the goal of intimidating voters. As Democratic State Parties, we will not let this go unchallenged. State Parties ac...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15/06/2026
You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026
Mike Johnson on the Supreme Court striking down the Voting Rights Act: "They reaffirmed a very important principle: Nobody, no American citizen should be discriminated against based on the color of their skin."
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 14/05/2026
It's the age-old authoritarian playbook Take away your rights, erode your society, then pin blame on the "others"
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🚨The End of the Second Reconstruction: Southern Republicans, after claiming they didn’t need a law to respect the rights of Southern Blacks, moved immediately to eliminate Black reps across the South. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What Kilpatrick wanted, and what the Roberts Court is making possible, is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white. The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the “horrid blasphemy” that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance. This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called “reactionary colorblindness,” the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means. It takes the view that the Constitution’s “color-blindness” renders any attempt to remedy anti-Black racism unconstitutional, because by definition that would involve making racial distinctions. Similarly, the ruling in this case does not explicitly overturn the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting so much as rewrite it to allow such discrimination.
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Michael Podhorzer @mikepod.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Before you see concentration camps, you see years of propaganda demonizing the out-group and justifying their removal from society. Sound familiar? www.weekendreading.net/p/call-trump...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...
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There are no two sides to a confession
Over the years, I have watched the Republican Party morph into a crime family that boasts about rigging elections.
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Druh Farrell @druhfarrell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fuck.
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Analilia Mejia for New Jersey @analiliafornj.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I hate newsroom layoffs, but they did this to themselves CBS News and Washington Post choose worst possible moment to lay off reporters, stress punditry - right as the streets of Minneapolis are showing how journalism can beat back government lies My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...
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CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground |Will Bunch
Two iconic U.S. newsrooms slash reporting and stress opinion writing even as Minnesota proves the need for factual journalism.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
ICYMI: In a late night filing, DOJ argues the federal courts cannot force them to comply with the law requiring release of all the Epstein files.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
@DHSgov on X: The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.

[Image of a beach] America after 100 million deportations
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
None of what Trump is doing is popular and voters are telling us that
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The American people are speaking tonight and they're sending a message to the current occupant of The White House.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. 
People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. 
As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. 
Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. 
Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/10/2025
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I’m old enough to remember when their biggest fucking grievance was a made-up complaint that Obama did this.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The far right has been looking for a reason to commit mass political violence and it’s extremely important to unite around the principle that all political violence in America is unthinkable and unacceptable.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Imagine if RFK and co destroy childhood vaccination in the US? A 50% decline in childhood vaccination could result in 51.2 million measles cases over a 25-y period, 9.9 million rubella cases, 4.3 million polio cases, 10.3 million hospitalizations, and 159 200 deaths jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US
This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Here's a partial transcript of my @slate.com Amicus conversation with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about the risks to the Voting Rights Act this term at the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Supreme Court Is Poised to Trigger an Earthquake in American Politics
The court seems poised to do away with the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My grandfather also wants to pass along the message that RFK Jr. is destroying one of the prime achievements of American medicine. This is something he knows well, given the decades of his life he dedicated to medicine, to the scientific pursuits, and to helping research new treatments for diseases.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
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Mike Christensen, MCMP, CNU-A, AICP @mrc-slc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The Fall of Philadelphia humantransit.org/2025/08/the-... via @humantransit.bsky.social
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The Fall of Philadelphia — Human Transit
The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed.  Similar dramas are playing out in Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Isla...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Not trying to downplay, but understand. To me, this reads as saying they want to make an online portal to apply to, say, ICE or BPD or the FBI or whoever else is being told to patrol DC, but not creating a new agency. Is that the right read? Bc if so, it comes back to a big pt for me:
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So Trump is making an online portal where ppl with vigilante & vigilante-adjacent expertise sign up & get deputized as regime-approved brownshirts. Instead of venting on 4chan or Stormfront they can now sign up & be brutalizing regime enemies w/promise of legal immunity. Am I missing something?
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Did America seem like a country in urgent crisis before January 20? Are its cities burning? Are its people being displaced in their millions? No, no, & no (unless you're a migrant). The only chaos is Trump's doing, the only emergency his continued rule. It will only end with his removal from power.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
If Trump spreads this police crackdown, the restaurant industry might face its worst crisis since Covid: -Deportations of the workforce (some the best French cooks are Mexican and Salvadoran) -Tariffs cut into their wholesale purchases -More tariffs = less disposable income for eaters
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
They’re whitewashing our history in books and museums …recruiting Nazis into ICE. …deploying the military into our cities. …shielding the pedophiles and predators in their ranks. …stealing your data, social security & Medicaid. Because some of you couldn’t handle pronouns.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2025
In October, we published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism.
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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Next up is Martial Law, folks. He will suspend elections and unleash ICE and his goons to arrest protestors.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Worth asking why the same news outlets that tripped over themselves to explain that Obama getting 53% of the vote was meaningless - “still a center-right country”! - but Trump getting 49.8% of the vote against a candidate who entered the race in July is effectively the Enabling Act.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Looking back on the video where Jesus is super into having a guy start a small business instead of multiplying loaves and fishes
From me: Just watching Prager U's video "was Jesus a socialist?" that culminates in Jesus meeting a homeless man and getting him to set up a small business with the help of a wealthy investor.

And then it’s screengrabs of the action being depicted in the PragerU video
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The U.S. State Department officially supports El Salvador’s removal of presidential term limits—flashing a warning of what’s to come in America. The Trump regime will likely attempt the same, with support from a complicit Congress and Supreme Court. And when they do, we the people will fight back.
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US sides with El Salvador on eliminating presidential term limits, prompting democracy debate | CNN
The US State Department has voiced rare support for El Salvador’s decision to abolish presidential term limits, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection. Critics argue t...
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Trump is recklessly shredding our economic advantages in the global economy. Companies that are looking to make investments shouldn’t have to worry if Trump has cooked the books on economic data--but that’s exactly what’s happening following his decision. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Firing of labor statistics head undermines trust in key data, ex-Trump official warns
President Trump is expected to nominate a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week, days after firing Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a disappointing jobs report. Th...
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 04/08/2025
IN FOCUS | The Trump administration is using ‘fascist propaganda’ to promote its mass deportation campaign, experts say
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Trump administration is using ‘fascist propaganda’ to promote deportation: experts
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