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Michael Kanick

@mkanick.bsky.social
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Dad, Digital Guy, Advocate, Gamer, Native Upstate NYer, Oswego & GW alum, NY sports fan, Nerd. My teams wear blue. Exec. Dir. @voteractionproject.org

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Communies @communiess.bsky.social · 8h
On this date in 2010, Accounting for Lawyers aired! Written by Emily Cutler and directed by Joe Russo, and this is eternal. #OriginalAiring
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Sean's News Network @seanchai313.bsky.social · 20h
So customs and border patrol is spending $20,000,000 of your money on running old trump campaign ads on NFL games
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Voter Action Project @voteractionproject.org · 29/09/2026
After Trump's right-wing, hand-picked Supreme Court ruling weakened key Voting Rights Act protections, Black organizers in Louisiana are building a turnout movement they hope will reshape elections across the South. Read more here: bit.ly/4deMx2V #ProtectOurVote
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@aaup.org is pushing for this.
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A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education
The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
As global birthrates hit historic lows, researchers looked back at the baby-boom era and found federal mortgage programs played a part in the U.S. population upswing after World War II. nyti.ms/4dWY1bp
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Michael Kanick @mkanick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A sitting US Senator from Ohio has no comment on hiring nazi sympathizers.
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Michael Kanick @mkanick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grossssssssssssss give me my autumn back
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
thelettersfromleo.com
On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
In April 2026, the Supreme Court effectively ended the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to an all-white Congressional delegation from the South. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal.”
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A searing editorial from @pressherald.com: It’s Maine’s turn to be concerned about Susan Collins www.pressherald.com/2026/09/27/i...
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It’s Maine’s turn to be concerned about Susan Collins | Editorial
The senator's complacent response to open allegations of bribery sends voters a very clear and disrespectful message.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Talarico: "Corrupt politicians are profiting off a corrupt war and Texans are literally paying the price ... this war in Iran is a disaster. It is killing Americans, driving up the price of gas and diesel, it is wrecking our moral standing around the world. And it must end."
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Voter Action Project @voteractionproject.org · 25/09/2026
"Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud, but a group of outsiders is making that difficult," Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Michael Scherer report 👇 Read more here: bit.ly/4hrJ4z8 #ResistTrump
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My career in one skeet.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This news out of California is another troubling example of how the “rigged election” conspiracy theories have been mobilized into policy, including (illegal) ballots seizures. But it’s REALLY IMPORTANT to stress that the seized ballots are from a 2025 special election, not the current election.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins took credit for an $8 million Navy contract. Four months later, that contractor's CEO illegally sent $150,000 to a super PAC backing her. What he later told the FBI about her: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-fbi...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#earlyvote afternoon update 9/21: at least 62,994 people have voted in the 2026 general election Welcome new states added to the tracker: Indiana and North Dakota 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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» 2026 Early Voting UF Election Lab
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Chairman Wow @chairmanwow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th.
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Michael Kanick @mkanick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I run a niche voting rights organization. I wasn’t interviewed for this story. Every word is true.
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Voting groups sound alarm on funding shortfalls that they say could affect midterm turnout
Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, well, welp
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Voting groups sound alarm on funding shortfalls that they say could affect midterm turnout
Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NBC News poll finds big jump in D voter intent to vote early & drop in intent to vote by mail: - 23% intend to vote by mail, down from 34% in '24 - 36% intend to vote early in person, up fr 30% in '24 - 36% intend to vote in person on Election Day, same as 35% in '24 👇 www.axios.com/2026/09/20/m...
axios.com
More Democrats plan to vote in person in midterms
The result marks a significant shift from the 2024 election.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's too early in the week for crash outs. Mondays are for coffee and existential dread. Save that shit for Thursday.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2026
As GOP leaks about the elections grow more urgent, a top Democratic strategist explains what the numbers really say about the Trump-GOP collapse—and ponders what could still go wrong. trib.al/BqzXvG6
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Transcript: Trump’s Pollster Drops Bomb on GOP as Midterm Panic Erupts
As GOP leaks about the elections grow more urgent, a top Democratic strategist explains what the numbers really say about the Trump-GOP collapse—and ponders what could still go wrong.
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Voter Action Project @voteractionproject.org · 21/09/2026
Civil rights groups and labor unions have sued the Trump regime, asserting that its aggressive immigration enforcement and suggestions that it could send armed agents to polling sites amounted to voter intimidation and violated the Voting Rights Act. Read more here: bit.ly/4hfH78W
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our students don’t deserve this. For those who don’t understand UT Austin admissions, most undergrads get in bc they were top 5% of their graduating class, from a Texas high school. Anyone calling for more white students is advocating for race conscious admissions - to help out white students.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Meet Derek.
An AI add with a stickfigure using a computer: "Meet Derek. AI every day. Always hitting a wall. Then he found evenfall. Private AI chat. No ads. No behavioural tracking. More room to create.Screenshots from "The Good Place" of Jason Mantzoukas (Derek) saying: Well I wasn't technically designed for this. But to be fair, I wasn't designed for anything."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Love when the principled originalist rules based on the "apparent outcome" of an election, which is entirely an artifact of modern polling and media. One might be tempted to conclude he's a right-wing nutjob who decides cases based solely on partisan gain and bad vibes from being too online.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's difficult to overstate how quickly and thoroughly the U.S. economy would tank if he were to do this, and it's terrifying to imagine that no one in his circle has the guts to explain that to him.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still can’t believe they rolled a severely brain-damaged 84-year-old out of his 92-day-long paid medical leave just to vote against paid medical leave for every other American
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Voter Action Project @voteractionproject.org · 15/09/2026
Recent attacks on Black voting rights have strengthened Walden University professor Kisha Walker's resolve to cast a ballot in this year's midterm election — and she's not going alone. Read more here: bit.ly/4AfCT9W #ProtectTheVote
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Washington DC federal court BLOCKS Postal Service mail-in ballot rule. First court to prohibit USPS from taking steps to allow voluntary compliance with anti-voting rule. A victory for ELG and our clients DSCC, DCCC, DNC, DGA and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Elon Musk is an unstable right-wing grifter with more power than any one else in the world. But my liberal neighbor has convinced my city council to put in bike lanes on the road I use to commute to work. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One aspect of shared governance that isn't talked about much is the inherent imbalance of knowledge and expertise. Boards are meant to work together with faculty in part bc faculty know things boards don't, and vice versa Boards increasingly are taking total control but with key knowledge deficits
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's bad that the central rule of US diplomacy is now "sometimes the president just says crap, and sometimes he justs post crap, and neither is the official position of the United States, except sometimes seriously but not literally, or sometimes literally, or sometimes it is. You'll find out."
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW: It's one of the most important elections this fall if you care about voting rights. Anita Earls was a career civil rights attorney before she joined North Carolina’s Supreme Court. Now she faces a Republican who has pushed many of the GOP election laws you’ve no doubt heard about.
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They’ve Long Clashed on Voting Rights. Now They’re Facing Off for a Supreme Court Seat. - Bolts
North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on opposite sides of election issues for over a decade.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump mail ballot EO status: - Election officials are printing mail ballot envelopes - Election officials are mailing ballots to voters - Voters are returning mail ballots - The Supreme Court is asleep
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