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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 7h
"Just come here the legal way" was always light years easier said than done; now they aren't even in the same galaxy.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 7h
US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar reut.rs/4hP5HOp
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US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said the US Department of Defense denied ​him access to a key US military base in ‌Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 7h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h
Corrupt, yes finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli... I also don’t think this is going to work
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Most Obamacare $500 rebate checks are going to states that are midterm political battlegrounds
Critics of the Trump administration call the move an attempt to sway voters ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 6h
The polls are open, Ohio!! Vote early between today and November 1. Head to actonforgovernor.com/vote for more information.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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Grace Tinsen @rdpanda.bsky.social · 7h
Attention!!!! Take your ballot to a drop box!!!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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mlNow @mlnow.bsky.social · 5h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
“.. San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Trump has such contempt for the voters of South Carolina that he elevated someone utterly unqualified for senate who knows absolutely nothing about anything connected to the job who reads scripts given to her by MAGA handlers while calling the qualified Democrat names and slurs.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 9h
In line bright and early on the first day of early voting. Working families can’t wait for change!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 9h
1) Trump is campaigning in Texas a month before the midterms. 2) He is so unpopular even there that the state’s governor, facing an unexpectedly close race, won’t show up.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 7h
Cape May County is home to the highest percentage of veterans in New Jersey. I travelled there to hear firsthand about the number one issue on their minds: healthcare.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
Republicans now having to spend many millions in multiple states where they should not have to spend anything because Trump endorsed the worst possible general election candidate in those primaries so now they are being bailed out by billionaires buying elections with dark money.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 8h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w... Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.” #TheCityBrief
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Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego (Gift Article)
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
GOLDMAN: “.. S&P excluding AI stocks has fallen roughly 7% from its late-August peak, giving back its entire summer rally." @yahoofinance.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
Gloomy tape this am, despite the futures action: @wsj.com @bloomberg.com www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 8h
Trump's White House ballroom emerges as a "lose-lose" political situation for his fellow Republicans in the homestretch to the election
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 8h
Not surprising that Tuberville outspent Jones last month. More surprising that Jones pulled in nearly as much as Tuberville did in September. Typically that’s the month GOP candidates load up on cash and crush whatever feeble hopes Alabama Democrats have.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h
“I’ve been sayin it. I’ve been sayin it for 10 damn years! Ain’t I been sayin it?”
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michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 17h
@leavingmaga.org #VisibilityBrigade #usa #democracy #economy @maddow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @thegodshow.com @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social #midterms #vote #vets #corruption #midterms #war #inflation #vote #fascism #organize #election
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 18h
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 20h
Nearly four decades before she published her famous exposé of the Southern plantation system, English actress (& train aficionado) Fanny Kemble visited & wrote about the nation’s first commercial train, the Massachusetts Granite Railway. That & much more in today’s post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 20h
Brian Poindexter is a union ironworker whose platform emphasizes working-class economic justice. His focus is lowering the cost of living, expanding workers' rights, making healthcare independent of employment and banning corporate PACs. Elect Brian Poindexter Ohio's 7th Congressional District
Graphic supporting Brian Poindexter for Ohio's 7th Congressional District.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14h
October 5, 2026
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October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks to everyone - of all ages - who showed up on a Saturday to knock on doors and make sure our excellent Democratic candidates win up and down the ballot this November.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Domestic abuse is so widespread an issue that a major employer is incorporating employees' need to deal with it into their employee benefits. Union rep: "said domestic violence and abuse affected the lives of at least one in five women, and he urged other employers to introduce similar support."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."
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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."
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Anand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23h
Convenience, efficiency, profitability, and easiness have long been the four horsemen of the tech apocalypse.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zelensky condemns 'horrific' Russian strike on boat carrying corn in Black Sea
The vessel's captain was killed and 11 crew members were rescued after the attack on the Turkish-owned ship, Ukraine's leader says.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.
For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 05/10/2026
Whatcha doing back there MNGOP?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Marimar Martinez of Chicago has officially filed her lawsuit against the federal government over her shooting by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum. Read the complaint here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/3e/79/71b60d...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The announcement comes as the US is grappling with one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Q: Your approval rating with Latino voters has dropped down to 27% TRUMP: You're fake news. You're CNN. My poll numbers are great. All you have to do is look at the crowds we're drawing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991 ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...
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