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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 12h
Hey Clay Wirestone @claywires.bsky.social , this is worth a look-see. Apparently Marshall’s super generous extra payment doesn’t account for the cost of inflation either. Maybe Sherman Smith can find out whether it was the campaign or the taxpayer who paid this. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kansas GOP candidate for secretary of state fined $93,000 for breaking federal labor law kansasreflector.com/2026/10/08/k...
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Kansas GOP candidate for secretary of state fined $93,000 for breaking federal labor law • Kansas Reflector
Republican Pat Proctor explains why the U.S. Department of Labor concluded he owed $93,000 in overtime and minimum wage compensation to restaurant employees.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
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Matt Calcara @mattcalcara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do it, you cowards! Marshall is getting turfed out whether you help or not, so you're gonna want to be able to take some credit. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Senate Dems’ main super PAC 'actively thinking' about spending in Kansas
Senate Majority PAC President JB Poersch told POLITICO the group is weighing what roles it should play in redder states that now appear to be competitive on an improving Senate map.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins was at the center of a major bribery probe for steering millions in contracts to a company whose CEO illegally funneled thousands to her campaign. Then Trump took office and gutted the FBI and DOJ units investigating her. Is this what "being moderate" looks like?
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping po
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ty is really taking his “no show” job label to the next level: GOP’s Ty Masterson bows out of two TV debates; Democrat Cindy Holscher accuses rival of ‘hiding’ kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/g...
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GOP's Ty Masterson bows out of two TV debates; Democrat Cindy Holscher accuses rival of 'hiding' • Kansas Reflector
Republican Ty Masterson is unwilling to meet Democrat Cindy Holscher in a pair of televised gubernatorial debates ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/09/2026
"Marshall, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, filed lawsuits against more than 700 patients with outstanding bills ... Marshall's lawyers garnished patients’ paychecks and bank accounts. They routinely charged patients an 18% annual interest rate."
nytimes.com
Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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The Kansas City Star @kansascity.com · 14/08/2026
After The Star reported on Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson’s flexible schedule and the opaque source of his privately-funded salary, numerous other outlets picked up the story.
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Masterson to leave 2nd job at WSU for remainder of campaign. Criticism still follows
After The Star reported on Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson’s flexible schedule and the opaque source of his privately-funded salary, numerous other outlets picked up the story.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s about abortion rights & also public school funding. KS Const entitles all kids to “free & appropriate” public ed. Based on that provision, our state supreme court has required adequate funding. The funding formula expires this year & there’s a big fight coming in the ‘27 ksleg.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office. 2 more in the last week. In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention. ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let this feel normal. It isn't.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Schiff: The judge, in that decision on Monday, referred Blanche, basically, to the New York Bar Association because of his conduct. How is it possible that after being referred to the bar association for potential discipline on Monday, we’re contemplating this guy for attorney general on Wednesday?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@nytimes.com Why is it a mere “windfall” when white guy Trump does it and “looting” when it’s an African leader? Isn’t Trump looting? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
In Africa, Sami Abacha of Nigeria, the general and former dictator who died in 1998, was accused by the Nigerian government of looting billions of dollars, including money taken from the central bank.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The quick answer is “undoubtedly.” Extra points, however, if you have a green St. Patrick’s day KU shirt.
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God @thegodshow.com · 03/07/2026
The people terrified of Democratic Socialism always seem to be huge fans of Fascist Capitalism.
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@npr.org Shouldn’t your announcement of the Qatari plane say “a grift from Qatar?” Because you accidentally said “gift.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
i have a modest proposal for the dems: pander to the left for one calendar year. for one year, just court your base. talk about every issue from the pov of the center left to the far left. give no space to the gop. deride their positions as out of touch and extreme. never mention bipartisan.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
He’s achieved in the White House what he never could in his business career. He's finally making a profit.
Reuters Article: Trump reports over $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.
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🌀Blue Crone @nishb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Republicans in Kansas just made ANOTHER six-figure ad buy to change our state Constitution and turn our impartial justices into politicians paid for by billionaire political donors. They're not spending millions of dollars because they're confident they'll win. Kansas- vote NO on August 4
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 30/06/2026
Democratic leadership better step up this instant with an exact plan for court reform and get everyone 100 pct on board to impeach and remove these scoundrels
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026
Congress can pass all the laws it wants, but this court will gut them unless Congress strips jurisdiction. We have to add four seats, have 18 year term limits with senior status and staggered appointments, and create actual ethics rules with consequences. Project 2029.
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mkwlfk @mkwlfk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Great, important story. Well done, Grace: Kansas public officials fault election commissioner’s decision to close Johnson County voting sites kansasreflector.com/2026/06/25/k...
kansasreflector.com
Kansas public officials fault election commissioner's decision to close Johnson County voting sites • Kansas Reflector
Twenty-one Johnson County public officials signed a letter urging the Johnson County election commissioner to reopen the eight early voting locations she closed ahead of the August primary for Novembe...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
If Kansas Republicans try this, they will get sued and lose. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kansas GOP scheme could cancel election in bid to weaken voters’ power to elect U.S. senators
And it comes as GOP lawmakers in the U.S. Congress introduced a stunningly anti-democratic measure Thursday that would let states end the direct election of senators, returning that power to state leg...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/06/2026
If Congress doesn't act now, Social Security benefits could be cut by more than 20 percent after 2032. Senator Bernie Moreno and I have a bipartisan solution: lift the Social Security payroll tax cap. We need to save Social Security for the next generation. Let's get this done.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.
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GamerDad @gamerdad8six.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NBA players wore BLM shirts and were told to keep politics out of sports, NFL players took a knee to protest racial injustices and were called unpatriotic… UFC fighters praise Hitler, dance for Trump, disrespect female athletes and call Michelle Obama a man… silence from the media
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Not surprising, as she's never excelled in the water
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
this is news new york times reporters had months ago, but they suppressed it and kept it out of the paper so they could goose book sales. this should be a scandal but its how modern journalism is conducted now.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 15/06/2026
Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/06/2026
"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...
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Meet the New Bosses, Worse Than the Old Bosses
The second Gilded Age is much uglier than the first
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is broken? www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk…
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If you or I skipped a tax bill, the IRS would come knocking. Donald Trump and his family? "Forever barred" from audits. The Trump family is abusing the presidency to rig the rules in their favor.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Men are too emotional to be president.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
Todd Blanche was behind the Epstein Files cover-up, the rotten cop-beaters slush fund, and a sleazy tax fraud amnesty for the Trump family and businesses; all while causing an unprecedented "fraud on the court" investigation of the Department... 🧵
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My worst political take was believing that after 8 years of Bush II fucking up everything that Democrats and liberals in general would understand the need for total political combat. Instead the last 20+ years have seen literally no improvements.
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Texas will now choose between rage or hope, spectacle or substance. One man sells grievance like snake oil from the back of a burning truck, the other asks whether government can still belong to the people. The ballot is a mirror, look carefully at what you become when you mark it.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/05/2026
Shot/chaser. Trump/Russia.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Democrats should be responding to all of it and more importantly they should be launching so many attacks at the right that they beg for mercy and you double it. And not just a few weeks before Election Day. All the time.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/05/2026
Donald Trump thinks the U.S. Treasury is his personal piggy bank. Let's be clear: the President is trying to steal $10 BILLION of taxpayer money - before a court rules. This is a massive, unprecedented scandal. Congress must stop him. I have a bill for that.
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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