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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
46 votes to continue debate. More specifically, 46% present and voting standard. Or, add a qualified majority path.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She sure is!
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please elaborate
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes Ben! Now, what city should come next?
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love it!
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Extremely concerning.
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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 · 21/09/2026
I'd get rid of that inner loop in Downtown
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We should also consider an Independent Redistricting Measure for Missouri as well.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reminds me of the Harvard Station on the Boston Red Line.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Now if they could just extend PATCO.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I thought they'd move into downtown Camden. Stay in Jersey.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Don't get cocky. As we've seen in MI and WI, polls can be wrong.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In your report, have you considered the possibility of realigning the tracks of the Empire Connection to be paired with Lines 3 and 4 of the East River Tunnel?
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Tankie?
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Most importantly, jurisdiction stripping must be included in the legislation for independent redistricting commissions.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Disproportionate.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Pre-ordered!
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Good subject for a book
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Need to get an Independent Redistricting Commission established in Florida by then. Plenty of time to do so!
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very easy to throw Stephen Miller under the bus. Hell, Trump might even get points for doing so.
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What would it take for Republicans to demand Miller's firing? And what would it take for Trump to get rid of Miller? Would people like Steve Bannon object?
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Have any other maps on the Redistricting App that I can see? What is your criteria?
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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Wish Lucas used him more on the prequel trilogy, rather than just polishing Revenge of the Sith
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
That's not bad
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
For Real!
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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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mikeschaeff.bsky.social @mikeschaeff.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How?
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