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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
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 · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mkjohns212 @mkjohns212.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don't forget to vote down ballot.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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pauladinva.bsky.social @pauladinva.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The logic of collective resistance is sound. Absolutely infuriating that institutions, industries, even law firms caved to this convicted, malignant narcissist President. NO Kings & the people in Minneapolis have shown the way. We all have a voice in November to add to the “collective resistance.”
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A child in Abilene wakes up at night thinking it’s morning because a giant data center lights his bedroom window. Ken Paxton has taken half a million dollars from data center interests. Texans shouldn’t sacrifice their homes so Paxton’s donors can cash in. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
Jackson: "The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Mkjohns212 @mkjohns212.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There is no bottom with this administration.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump should ask the 25% who think he has a plan for the war what the plan is
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Mkjohns212 @mkjohns212.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale." Collins bombshell laid out in thread. It's a good day to support @propublica.org .
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.
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Michael @michaelkstahl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Curious how everything they dislike is fraud but actual fraud is something else entirely.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It gets worse: Dem FCC member: “The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros.” An investment of this size “doesn’t just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said & made.” apnews.com/article/para...
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FCC grants Paramount's indirect ownership request for Gulf funds in Warner Bros. Discovery buyout
As Paramount looks to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, it’s racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
isnt there more room in florida for an arch than washington dc
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Big news from @ij.org: A federal judge in Alabama has just ordered ICE and CBP to stop warrantless raids of construction sites, to stop detaining people without individualized suspicion, and to stop detaining people who present valid ID. More to come shortly.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's baffling that Democrats aren't putting Trump right smack in the center of their messaging about AI. He wants to turn our country over to the tech oligarchs and he's putting us all in extreme danger in the process:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is very cool. Gov Abigail Spanberger releases new blueprint on AI data centers that seeks to incentivize powering them with clean energy. I really think Dems should be harnessing public angst over energy/data centers to do more of this (as I argue in the piece/thread below cc @volts.wtf):
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 6:30 PM EST The Kennedy Center, 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC RSVP: protest.handsoffthearts.org
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How many times do these people need to be wrong before a majority of candidates tell them to shut the fuck up?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And this is pretty funny: Trump's PAC now sees an urgent need to spend in Texas districts that Republicans just heavily gerrymandered to the GOP’s benefit, after he corruptly commanded them to do so. Oops! newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MAGA loves to invent fake controversies, using its echo chamber to make people think there’s a real story out there. For example, the fake “Ohio pet-eating controversy” and bogus WNBA “transgender eligibility debate.” Media must stop metastasizing misinformation. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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How MAGA invents ‘controversies’ and some media buy in
Journalists need to resist the right’s attempts to set their agenda
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mike Johnson sending the House home to avoid a vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is a cowardly disgrace…and another reminder why these anti-democratic, pro-war, pro-Trump, Epstein file coverup enablers and Republican failures need to be sent home permanently.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No matter what happens in the midterms, this is going to happen in the winter. Brace yourselves. www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Get ready for a 30% jump in heating oil costs this winter as Iran war drives up prices | CNN Business
The cost of electric heat is projected to increase 9%, while heating with natural gas is expected to rise by 5.8% in price.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Vote early and in person if possible. Your state’s early voting start dates and rules are listed here. If you don’t receive a ballot, many states allow a sworn statement in person that you are qualified to vote, and then allow you to cast your ballot. Report intimidation at: 1-866-OUR-VOTE
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Mkjohns212 @mkjohns212.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
💯 Tell your Dem members of Congress.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Wellman For MO @wellmanformo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Fred Wellman joins Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in calling for Pete Hegseth’s impeachment and removal from office. Read Fred’s full statement here: #MO02 #Hegseth
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Eamon Javers @eamonjavers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a subhed for the ages in the WSJ this morning: “Talk of heading off artificial intelligence’s potential role in destroying humanity hurt some stocks and helped others”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump is a world-historical villain who's putting us all in extreme danger, so put him at the center of this story. Dems can highlight how Trump is actively using DOJ and EPA to help AI data centers steamroll communities, and vow that a Dem majority will stop it. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great argument. Dems “aren’t sufficiently harnessing public anger over AI data centers to argue for a clean-energy future…aren’t stamping themselves as the only party that wants AI’s gains broadly shared in a truly egalitarian way…and aren’t talking enough about Donald Trump’s role in all of it.”
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.
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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoonist: Slyngstad
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can't recommend highly enough that you spend some time this weekend reading this entire series about how MLB's insatiable appetite for new Dominican prospects is creating a deeply disturbing environment for boys who show the least bit of talent at a young age: www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises
Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My Baltimore community has been putting out cold water for our postal carriers & trash collectors since a trash collector died from heat three years ago. But Baltimore has done little to protect workers re: heat and nothing for smoke. Climate change requires drastic safety overhauls for outdoor work
A cooler with ice water sits on a parking strip with a sign behind it saying "Thank you DPW workers and postal carriers"
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good morning sunshines 🌞 A memorial to 9/11 search dogs 👇
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fox News says James Talarico is counterprogramming the GOP convention with Texas food drives focused on affordability. Good. While Republicans gather in Dallas, more than 20,000 pounds of groceries went to Texans who need them. That’s a message people can feel #momsky#sheshed
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dean: He spent billions of your tax dollars wrecking the White House and building monuments to himself. He will be remembered for rot and rubble
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Mkjohns212 @mkjohns212.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
More than one thousand pieces of GOP-sponsored state legislation aimed at repealing the 20th Century. Both parties are not the same.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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God @thegodshow.com · 07/09/2026
MAHA = Measles Are Here Again
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess I’ll just say this every time, then. The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.
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