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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
TN-9 candidate Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “Gas is too high. Groceries are too high. Wages are too low… and blaming immigrants is part of the problem. The reality is people are struggling because the billionaire class is greedy.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12h
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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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12h
"Latino voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the president’s handling of the cost of living (78%), the economy (74%), foreign policy (68%) and immigration (69%). Trump’s best issue of the five tested is border security — where 39% approve and 58% disapprove of his handling."
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12h
Until they find, I duuno, 1000 real voters (not DC insiders, pollsters, lobbyist, media types) who want Rahm Emanuel to run for president how about no stories or interviews? The legacy media look like morons slobering over him.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h
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Consumers Quit Bowling, Arcades as Leisure Sector Stress Grows
American households are getting pickier when it comes to what they spend on, creating winners and losers in the consumer industry.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h
Putin’s fascination with the medieval takes the next step. www.newsweek.com/suspected-pl...
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Suspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 11h
🇩🇪👀 Merz: Systematic fake information is being spread by Russian networks and their accomplices in Germany. And you can see that today I am more determined than ever, because this truly is the decisive hour. This is a crucial moment — nothing less.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Association Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre ! @pourlukraine.bsky.social · 15h
Ce devrait être une alarme pour l’Europe. Six vols non autorisés ont traversé l’espace aérien moldave en l’espace d’une matinée. Combien de temps faudra-t-il avant qu’un Shahed russe ne frappe une cible ailleurs en Europe, peut-être dans les pays baltes ? @fheisbourg.bsky.social
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h
“Every act of art is an act of resistance” -Tom Morello
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 11h
Jonathan Martin is so so right Governors are essential x.com/jmart/status...
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Jonathan Martin (@jmart) on X
the left should know better by now. The aftermath of 2020 and the unsubtle steps the president is taking now to seize election machinery should have underscored the importance of state and local elect...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
LA: We’re coming to you! Join Senator Bernie Sanders at our rally this Monday to kick off early voting. RSVP at bit.ly/4ATU8OD. #Yeson40 #NoOn41 #NoOn42 #BillionaireTaxNow Dave Regan Debru Carthan, SEIU-UHW
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia has imposed strict limits on the freedom of young men in a move that paves the way for mass military mobilisation, a leaked document suggests. Conscription laws require ­men aged between 18 and 30 to sign up with enlistment offices so they can be called up to fight if needed.
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Russia limits young men’s freedom, fuelling mobilisation fear
A document seen by The Sunday Times suggests Putin is making life harder for conscription dodgers
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/live/Y-F6n96...
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Ballots Over Billionaires Rally with Bernie Sanders in San Fransisco
YouTube video by Yes On Prop 40
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 22h
🇪🇺🇳🇱🇺🇦 Dutch MEP Reinier van Lanschot: 💬 "If we stop being afraid to act, we can respond on our terms. We must stop purchasing Russian gas, hand over frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, establish a no-fly zone over Western Ukraine. Ukraine is helping us, but we can't even thank it."
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 21h
🇺🇸Trump: I'm a high-IQ person, among the highest IQs in the world. It's too much winning. We're winning too much. I can't take it anymore. Europe wants to copy us. Everybody wants to copy us. If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket. I get along great with Kim Jong Un.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 21h
Among the practical problems is the lack of adequate dental care. Another challenge is ethical communication by medical personnel: inappropriate interaction can lead to retraumatization after the violence people have experienced.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20h
The attack marked the fourth consecutive day that Russian forces targeted bridges across the Dnipro River in the capital. The full extent of the damage caused was not immediately clear.
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Russia targets Kyiv bridges for fourth consecutive day, hits Northern Bridge
From Oct. 1 to Oct. 3, Kyiv's Southern and Northern bridges were targeted in multiple Russian drone strikes amid an intensifying campaign against infrastructure in the capital.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/10/2026
⚡️Russian strike on Liberian-flagged cargo ship in Black Sea kills 1, injures 3. The attack comes amid an international call for Russia to halt attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea and allow the passage of grain exports.
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Russian strike on Liberian-flagged cargo ship in Black Sea kills 1, injures 3
The sailor killed was a motor engineer, and three other crew members were injured in the strike, according to the Ukrainian Sea Ports ​Authority. 13 other crew members were evacuated from the vessel.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 03/10/2026
⚡️5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says. "Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3.
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5 Russian missiles and drones exploded on Moldova's territory in overnight attack against Ukraine, Sandu says
"Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped," Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Oct. 3.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 17h
🇺🇦✔️ Kharkiv defeated Putin. For him it was symbolic - the first capital of Ukraine, - Zelensky
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 16h
🇩🇪🇺🇦 “I think this terror will intensify”: Merz on Russian attacks German Chancellor said that Russia is not only attacking Ukraine. According to him, Germany also faces attacks on data centers almost every day. Merz stressed that assistance to Ukraine is in the interests of Germany itself.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 16h
Mitchell Berman, an ER nurse, could flip Paul Ryan's old seat. How sweet would it be for Paul Ryan’s district to become the place where Dems win a majority in the House?"
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 02/10/2026
Putting food on the table and a roof over your head is hard enough without greedy corporations squeezing you for all you’re worth, writes @lindsayowens.bsky.social of @groundwork.bsky.social.
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We Need a Shoppers' Bill of Rights to Protect Us From 21st Century Price Gouging
New technology is enabling companies to reinvent the rip-off right under our noses; we need new laws to protect us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
I continue to warn against complacence. It’s still vitally important that we vote and remain vigilant against Trump’s interference in our elections. But with a little more than four weeks to go before the midterms, I’m breathing a wee bit easier. Here's why...
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Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas?
The power of kitchen-table economics
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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smulford.bsky.social @smulford.bsky.social · 15h
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
BREAM: DOJ plans to send 1k monitors to polls. Sen. Baldwin says 'our democracy depends on ppl being able to have their voices heard, but that's at risk as Trump weighs sending in armed agents.' How do you answer? BLANCHE: She should be saying 'thank God. Thank God we have a govt ready to show up'
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 15h
Grateful to The Lyric Cinema for hosting so many artists & eclectic voices in our Fort Collins community — and for giving us the opportunity to host a “Congress on YOUR Corner” and visit with constituents across Larimer County!
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MUSKEGON. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 11.
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Muskegon Town Hall with Abdul | MUSKEGON · Abdul for U.S. Senate
Please join us at our MUSKEGON stop for the Shouldn't Be This Hard TOWN HALL TOUR. RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY AND THE EVENT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST. MUST PRESENT GOVERNMENT ID AND FOLLOW NO BAGS AND...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Trump and Republicans strip health coverage from millions (for tax cuts for the rich), Dems plan to expand Medicare. #MedicareForAllNOW www.newsweek.com/medicare-upd...
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the risk of aging myself, I'm going to start this with... Back in my day... This brand of blatant, up-front corruption would have been a major news story. He's literally buying votes. Where have you gone, Woodward and Bernstein?
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because my Chicago White Sox are playing the Cleveland Guardians in the playoffs, I was subjected to a dishonest anti-trans TV ad that Republicans are running in Ohio to distract from their vandalism of the economy. There are no limits to what Republicans will do for money and power.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.
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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/10/2026
Stand Up for Science is proud to endorse Jasmine Clark, PhD for Georgia's 13th congressional district. It’s crucial we mobilize at the ballot box to put a stop to the war on science that’s being enabled by a complacent Congress. A vote for Jasmine is a vote for science & democracy.
Campaign poster endorsing Jasmine Clark, PhD for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District. 

Text on the right hand side reads "A vote for Jasmine is a vote for science and democracy." and "Jasmine Clark is a molecular biologist and an experienced, fearless leader, who is a strong science voice in government, protecting funding for CDC, NIH, and healthcare."

To the left is a portrait of Jasmine, a short woman with curly hair and glasses, smiling. 

Bottom left hand corner features a logo that reads "Stand Up For Science Endorsed"
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump tweeting out Tom Cotton’s personal cell phone number because he’s angry at him reminded me of this great moment from ELEVEN YEARS AGO. He’s always been this guy. abcnews.com/video/325986...
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Video Donald Trump Gives Out Lindsey Graham's Cellphone Number
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump retaliates against 2016 opponent Sen. Lindsey Graham by reading his cellphone number aloud during a speech in Graham's home state of South Carolina.
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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In this episode of @250to250.bsky.social , Victoria A. Smalls tells how Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and rose to become a Union captain and U.S. congressman. 📽️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social 📺 youtu.be/duKTxhgUq6s 🐾 Steve #250to250 #WeAreAmerica250
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Yes On Prop 40 @billionairetaxnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨UPDATE: New venue and time for Ballots over Billionaires today in San Francisco: The Curran Theatre, 5pm doors! See you soon! #YESon40 #NoOn41 #NoOn42
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Joe Rogers lost his wife and everything he owned when Hurricane Helene swept away his mobile home. Now others are living on the same land. “Ain’t that the definition of insanity: keep doing the same thing, hoping for a different result?" he said. with @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way
The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could...
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Economic growth should mean more than giving taxpayer dollars to billionaires, corporations, and special interests. It should mean supporting small businesses, investing in our workforce, and creating good-paying jobs that allow Ohioans to build a life right here at home.
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