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Another social media platform trying to replace Twitter? Okay. Let's try this. Was @mirsasha and @nadalnews on Twitter. Am mirsasha and a.rescued.story on Instagram.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 07/10/2026
Following our FOIA requests, we obtained groundbreaking records showing ICE’s attempts to silence voters. ICE obtained 48.4 million records from Heather Honey, a known election denier, as a “strategic line of effort” to pursue voter fraud investigations.
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Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another grift
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cowards
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of course not. He said it for the sound-byte that the kool-aid drinkers would believe.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So very tired of the non-stop anti-Talarico and anti-Trans adverts.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of these things is not like the other. Top 5 countries by number of refugees to the U.S. each fiscal year www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's seriously not a health system. It's a money machine.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is this real life?
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Possible trauma? Possible?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is blatantly unconstitutional and an Antideficiency Act violation. Congress set the ADA penalty in 1906: 2 years in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. It would’ve taken the typical person 31,250 hours of work to pay the fine then, meaning it’s the equivalent of a $1.2 million fine today.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 01/10/2026
Experts say President Donald Trump's goal of lowering gas prices by prohibiting diesel exports would devastate the energy sector and cause fuel shortages.
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Trump’s proposed diesel exports ban could hurt Texas refineries
Experts say the president’s goal of lowering gas prices by prohibiting exports would devastate the energy sector and cause fuel shortages.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How to tell the world everyone called you stupid and low IQ when you were growing up....
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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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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really hate that this season of Ted Lasso has me hating Tracey Ullman. One should never be made to dislike Tracey Ullman.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't make this crap up!
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In one advert, Abbott says that the state doesn't control property taxes, but then promises to lower them as governor. In another, he says opponent Hinajosa voted to raise property taxes 40 times. So, which is it? State control or not? (Not) www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Fact check: Abbott ad says Gina Hinojosa voted 40 times to raise property taxes
Hinojosa never directly voted to “make your property taxes go even higher.” The state legislature does not levy property taxes – counties and school districts do.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How can they be so bad at this?
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is as hilariously incompetent as it is relentlessly vile.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fuck?
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So tired (and disgusted) by all the pro Ken Paxton ads. (or should I say anti-Talarico ads.)
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 26/09/2026
$100 million meant to prevent teen pregnancy is sitting unused, days before the fiscal year ends. All because HHS would rather withhold it than fund evidence-based sex education.
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Congress passed $100 million for teen pregnancy prevention. Most of it is untouched
With days left to go in the 2026 fiscal year, lawmakers push the health department to spend the money Congress allocated to prevent teen pregnancy. An NPR exclusive.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Less judgemental? About killing children?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The SCOTUS decision increases the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as noncitizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls.
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court revived a flawed citizenship database that states like Texas have used to erroneously kick eligible voters off the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The Supreme Court is letting Trump use a faulty database for purges. What it could mean for voters
The Trump administration said states made “some 60 million voter-verification queries" to its flawed SAVE system between January 2025 and April 2026.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So he's treating like the average slum land lord would.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Yes, you, the person reading this post right now.
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You're paying for Donald Trump's new ad
Love me, love me, love me.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026
"Unacceptable": Australian PM says OpenAI hacked government health website. OpenAI did not raise the alarm with the Australian government until September, when it sent an email outlining the incident to a generic email address u.afp.com/S9Uj
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Welcome to the world you helped create.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Heeeee!
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting timing
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This!
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sadly, not shocking
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I knew this would be like every construction job he's been a part of. Also, first thing they should after he's gone is test for asbestos. He loves that shit.
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If they aren't using it, what's the problem?
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miri @mirsasha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate this. My whole life people have said "you're too fat and need to lose weight." They weren't wrong. Now I'm using a GLP1, losing weight, and it's all - cheater! Don't do it that way. Can't win.
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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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