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Mom, wife, Puerto Rican, Democrat, best banana cake baker. Love to read books, cook, and play video games. Hoping to save Democracy one day at a time. LGBTQ Ally. Overturn Citizens United. We lost the battle, but we will win the war. 🚫DMs 🚫Porn 🚫Crypto

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 16h
Zelenskyy: “I told Trump: If you enable Starlink access inside Russia, we can quickly destroy their ballistic missile launchers. Putin would come to negotiating table, and I wouldn’t need to destroy a single energy facility. But instead, they shut down Starlink.” As they say, "from RU, with love"
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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 14h
My heart is completely broken for the children, families, teachers, and entire Silver Rail Elementary community in Bend, Oregon today. Elementary school should be about jungle gyms, math class, and making new friends—not learning where to hide from a shooter.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h
“Similar past claims..of illegal voters have fallen apart..Last month election officials in Nevada said that they had examined a list..of 185 names of supposed noncitizens who had been improperly registered to vote & found that every person on the list was a..citizen. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls (Gift Article)
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
WAPO: “.. all the major donors to .. Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump: "Zelenskyy is not a good guy for us to deal with ... I'm not a big fan of Zelenskyy. They've destroyed that country." (Note that Trump also blames Obama for the war, but never Putin!)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h
This is an absurd prayer for relief. I've never seen anything like this. I don't even understand how you can ask for this, and I can't imagine this goes anywhere beyond creating confusion. It's an extremely irresponsible action that further undermines the legitimacy of the Justice Department.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h
School shootings happen this often because Republican politicians think gun worship is good for their careers.
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4 killed, including 3 children, in shooting at Oregon elementary school, source says. Shooter is also dead | CNN
Three children and one adult were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from a law enforcement source.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17h
Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can
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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 13h
YIKES #mesen #mepolitics
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
The Trump admin claims it found 20,000 possible noncitizens on the voting rolls in California and is seeking a court order forcing the state to segregate every ballot sent to those individuals. Remember what happened the last time they made wild claims like this? DHS has ZERO credibility here.
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Trump's Claims of Illegal Voting in
Nevada Fizzle.
It was the Trump administration's latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14h
Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, & other predators from the international modeling industry preyed on young women & children for decades. But, where's the accountability? @justandro.bsky.social joins on her compelling series “The Pipeline to Predators” for @msmagazine.com youtu.be/IsKN3OZvz-A?...
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BOMBSHELL Reporting BLOWS UP EPSTEIN’s International COVER-UP!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 12h
By saying that that is one of Jackson's supporters, Collins just admitted that she's okay with Data centers poisoning our environment.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
🚨BREAKING: DOJ sued California on Thursday just moments after the 48-hour deadline it gave election officials to review an unverified list of thousands of alleged noncitizens the Trump administration claims are illegally registered to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump administration sues California in bid to squash ballots it claims went to thousands of noncitizens
The Department of Justice sued California just moments after the 48-hour deadline it gave election officials to review an unverified list of thousands of alleged noncitizens the Trump administration c...
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 12h
Who else other than trump, Musk or Hegseth can give that order? It's a military order, no?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Discovery+, one of the streamers now owned by David Ellison’s media monopoly Skydance, hiked its prices exactly one week after the merger officially closed. Employees have already been told to expect layoffs — while top executives received pay bumps. Monopolies are only good for the monopolists.
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Discovery+, Now Owned by Skydance, Hikes Prices Effective Immediately
Discovery+ is raising prices for U.S. customers, coming one week after Paramount closed its megamerger with Warner Bros.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 20h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
PEARSON: “Data centers are the clearest example of billionaires versus the rest of us” TN-9 Dem congressional candidate Justin J. Pearson tells Democracy Now no one—rural or in cities—wants data centers. His GOP opponent Brent Taylor takes money from Big Tech and carries bills for Elon/XAI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
"While the Dem base has grown more liberal but also more highly educated, the Republican base has become more ideologically extreme but also more committed to a particular style of politics: loud, angry, encased in a deranged media bubble, and indulgent of almost any idea, no matter how ludicrous."
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The GOP’s parade of horribles
Gawdawful candidates are hurting the party’s hopes of holding the Senate.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h
This year alone, New Yorkers have reported more than 188,000 incidents of domestic violence. That's 780 incidents every day. Countless others go unreported. If you or someone you love needs help, call 1-800-621-HOPE or visit on.nyc.gov/hotlinechat.
New Yorker sitting around tables raise their hands. The tablecloths are purple and balloons behind them are also purple. Mayor Mamdani speaks at a podium labeled “NYC Go Purple Day.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different?
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OpenAI sued by 8 states over ChatGPT safety concerns
OpenAI is facing mounting scrutiny over its safety and security practices, including around how the company is working t
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 13h
Looks like they used trump's "SI" to do their faces.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h
“Pro-life” apparently comes with an execution clause.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
🚨 “We're worried actually about Alaskans starving this winter or freezing to death.” In a stunning interview with Ben Meiselas, Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola warns that soaring fuel, grocery, and heating costs are pushing families to the brink “Am I going to heat my home or buy groceries?”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
This is highway robbery thanks to Republicans. Have you received your estimated plan cost for 2027? If so, please reply with details you're willing to share.
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 16h
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 16h
The communications are with trump the chair, not trump the president. Trump can't call privilege on any communicating he has as CEO of his gulf courses when conducting business. Just how I see it and hopefully the courts too.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
The vote marked the second time the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) denied students at the nation’s largest historically Black university, with over 15,000 students, a midterms voting site. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina early voting begins, with students targeted by suppression schemes
Ultimately, voters described the roadblocks as a feature, not a bug, of the state’s electoral system — one that’s littered with so much confusion that some may decide to stay home and not vote at all.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22h
Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx
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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h
No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
Short version: Russia was never a hoax
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 16h
Can't wait.
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 17h
Don't you need evidence first in order to press charges of the alleged crime?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h
In a bonus edition of my Stop the Presses newsletter, I describe how the New York Times invited me to do a video for the NYT website to air my grievances about the Times' sanewashing of Trump's fascist behavior. I was surprised to be asked, but I gave it to them straight.
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The New York Times invited me to point out its failures
My video interview is on the NYT website. I denounced their normalization of fascism.
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 23h
The real images without circulating AI slop which ruins credibility are bad enough.
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Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If there’s one photo to sum up the Trump era, this is it.
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
When the time finally comes, many, many years from now, you will be remembered as the professor who saved many lives, especially in underprivileged countries. You gave us free vaccines and research without asking anything in return. You are a blessing and we are so lucky to have you.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Obviously, a person who has broken immigration laws should not be allowed to obtain government contracts, right?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I think people need to make this comparison RIGHT NOW. Is Elon paying $300M to elect right wingers bc otherwise they'll denaturalize and deport him? Probably not, but if their voters learn he is, it might make the $$ creepy. [Tho I think people need to focus on the child porn Grok makes]
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Authoritarian Accelerations and Love and Empathy as Remedies: My Conversation with Mary Trump lucid.substack.com/p/authoritar...
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Authoritarian Accelerations and Love and Empathy as Remedies: My Conversation with Mary Trump
Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If you need a smile today please enjoy Rocky being “walked” by his disabled brother Coconut. It’s not just a little thing either. Watch at the end and you’ll see they know exactly what they are doing. Dogs truly are special creatures ❤️
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Mir (Read a book, not ban a book) @mir-scs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump's role as chair is not the same as his role as president; therefore privilege is not applicable. It is not the president's role to chair the Kennedy Center.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Since Trump made himself chair of Kennedy Center—“whatever branch [it] may lie in”—all docs & comms reflecting his decision-making are privileged “presidential comms,” govt says. Discovery about demolition is “inapposite,” tho Judge Cooper ordered it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to motion – #106 in BEATTY v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-04480) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE re 96 MOTION to Compel With Respect to Claims of Executive Privilege filed by BRIAN D. BALLARD, MARIA BARTIROMO, PAMELA J. BONDI, MARY HELEN BOWERS, HANNAH F. BUCHAN, SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, RO...
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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How could anyone even have voted for Trump to be president when he told you all COVID was a hoax, one million Americans had died under Trump, and told you to drink bleach?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted
Outage of terminals managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US
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