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Teacher, menapauser, turned grad schooler the day the last kid left for college. Desperately seeking how to re-form after crumbling post-election.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Trump repeatedly says Kim Jong Un "is a friend of mine" and "likes Trump" and Trump says, "I like him"
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 4h
Have you checked out Vaughn’s phenomenal, evolving Pitchables page, full of places where you can submit your public scholarship? That & much more in today’s blog post for our website’s 1-year anniversary! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Marlene Green @marlenegreen.bsky.social · 6h
@hcrichardson.bsky.social & @pkrugman.bsky.social talk about oil, gas, diesel and how Americans are viewed around the globe... Listen, Share widely and Be sure to Vote Early.... youtu.be/1_-Hj8MNd4k?...
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Donald's Diesel Disaster | Lunch Money with Paul Krugman and Heather Cox
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 7h
Scott Colom’s campaign for Senate is picking up momentum in Mississippi. He’s one of the folks redefining the Democratic Party. He’s great, and his opponent Cindy Hyde-Smith is just a rubber stamp for Trump. @scolom.bsky.social Colom joined @hcrichardson.bsky.social in April to chat: https:/
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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 3h
Babies are not born pessimists and children LEARN negativity. All children deserve to live with positivity and that includes being Fed, Housed, Given Healthcare, Vaccines, Globally Enviable Public Schools, a Livable Planet and Future worth Living For! youtu.be/1VQkVYPv_7k?... go.bsky.app/WcrTza
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brightnessinsight.bsky.social @brightnessinsight.bsky.social · 3h
#IowaBlueTsunami #VoteBlue
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🖇️ Jane @janetea4.bsky.social · 11h
Jack Smith explaining process to Darlene Graham like she’s 8 is priceless.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 8h
Breaking - The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human rights concerns… will hear arguments later this year www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to restart controversial deportations to countries they have no connection to | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human right...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h
There really is this rash of very weird GOP defenses. Like when Paxton said the guy didn’t do one day in prison. That’s a lie! I put him in for a hard 60 days! Or Marshall saying he didnt get the pregnant woman arrested for late bill. It was for not showing up for the lawsuit over the late bill!
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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mlNow @mlnow.bsky.social · 7h
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h
Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
During the Biden administration, the Treasury Department made cracking down on sanctions evasion a centerpiece of its effort to punish Russia. The department imposed thousands of additional sanctions, targeting companies and networks designed to move money around financial restrictions.

The pressure has largely disappeared. Since President Trump returned to office, the administration has removed more restrictions than it has added, according to a Times analysis of Treasury data.

That has made it harder for banks to screen for illicit activity, in part because new actors and organizations can spring up without fresh information. A7 shell companies, for example, have facilitated payments to companies that banked at major American and European banks, The Times found.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Elon Musk is sitting right by Trump
Musk sitting by Trump
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump is flanked by, among others, Jensen Huang and Musk, with Mike Johnson visible behind them as reporters are hustled out of the room
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10h
There was a moment when the US was taken over by enemies and criminals, the incompetent, the corrupt, and the malevolent. They control our government now and will use every means at their disposal, legal and illegal, to try to stop the rest of us from restoring law, order, and decency to US society.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 9h
Reality: When they finally let me debate gavin, I’ll expose his entire record, 5 hours straight, no script, no breaks. From his empty education & Weinstein ties to his israel lobbying, kirk friendship & hypocrisy on trans rights-truth will speak. Until then, 50 posts daily across 7 platforms🇺🇸🙏
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Matt’s Democracy Defenders & Fighters Connections #5 🫡✊🏻💙🇺🇸 🗽 go.bsky.app/Kj2zQcK
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 10h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 16h
Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. “The choices that Trump regime has made since 1/2025 have increased the number of people who die in the field and in custody,” immigration atty and investigative journalist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 13h
Senator Kennedy makes a damn fool of himself. He’s fishing and it’s not working. Let’s see he’s 74 years old. What is it about these old white guys who feel like they can be idiots and their “base” will praise him to kingdom come and back. He’s revolting, like the rest of them.
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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 13h
It's ironic because the Trump admin completely vindicated gender studies as a field. Like we're all living through some sort of unethical gender studies experiment.
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socialirreitant.bsky.social @socialirreitant.bsky.social · 14h
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Greetings from Dorchester!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
The ONLY thing the republicans care about is that their stupid crimey toll records were gathered. By law. Because they talked to a fucking criminal. I can’t believe it’s not embarrassing to the GOP.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h
Amazing the sides these guys put themselves on
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
It's hard to read, but the "gotcha" texts seem to be his staff asking if their seats for the game are reserved. Like, that's it. Even if this were the Hawks game, there's absolutely nothing to it. What an incredible clown show.
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George Smiley @mc2020.bsky.social · 12h
Trying to set up a perjury gotcha, as Smith had just testified he did not travel to Atlanta. And then to further insinuate - which is all maga needs - that he must have therefore had some nefarious dealings with Fani Willis there. It's all risible fascist horseshit. bsky.app/profile/mc20...
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 12h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h
Klobuchar eviscerates Schmitt: "For a U.S. Senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion … and imply you're in another city that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia and then call you a dirt bag is something that deserves an apology."
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mlNow @mlnow.bsky.social · 13h
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Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document
Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation
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mlNow @mlnow.bsky.social · 13h
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‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer
Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
“.. One idea under discussion is insurance against losses on loans to upstart cloud computing companies, or “neoclouds”, if they default and the Nvidia chips pledged against their debt cannot be resold ..” @financialtimes.com $NVDA www.ft.com/content/d6a9...
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 15h
Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 15h
@drannieandrews.com has called for four debates. But Darline Graham, who showed her ignorance in her previous debate, will only agree to one. It's October 11th.
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South Carolina ETV and Public Radio to host, broadcast and livestream "South Carolina Election 2026" U.S. Senate debate | South Carolina ETV
South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV) will host, broadcast and livestream a South Carolina Election 2026 U.S. Senate debate on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. from SCETV studios in Columbia. The debate will a...
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h
We’re thrilled that @angieforfl.bsky.social can stop by to discuss her people-powered campaign! Join us to chat about how we can all help this state legislator, community organizer, small business owner, and mother of five flip a Senate seat in Florida: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
(above images of Angie Nixon, Leah Greenberg, and Ezra Levin) WHAT’S THE PLAN?
with Leah Greenberg & Ezra Levin

THURSDAY, OCT. 1
3PM ET / 12PM PT

WITH SPECIAL GUEST
ANGIE NIXON
US SENATE, FLORIDA
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h
I guess the point is that Roger Marshall wants to keep this story in the news cycle as long as possible. Nice work.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 15h
This Day in Labor History: September 29, 1917. The Army intervenes in the strikes of the Northwest forests and sends in the military to get out the wood for airplanes. It both busted the IWW and also massively improved conditions on the ground for workers. Let's talk about this unusual moment!
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