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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️

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Retired resident of the Twilight Zone. Salvation is near!! I am a good woman who reads, and occasionally comments, at Balloon Juice. Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 19h
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whipkclark.bsky.social @aguilar.house.gov 'raises serious questions'? Seriously? Is Susan Collins your mentor now? Are you practicing furrowed brows to visually communicate your concerns? This is how FFOTUS does business. I thought you knew that.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have no words that adequately describe the level of debasement required to stoop so low.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If the person is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. "Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings." -- Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, 9/8/2025
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three elected Alabama public officials, all Republicans, were running a human trafficking ring. They were arrested and booked this weekend. weartv.com/news/local/a...
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Three Alabama officials among 17 arrested in Atmore undercover prostitution sting
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Ala. -- Three public officials in Alabama were among the 17 people arrested Friday in a multi-day undercover prostitution sting in Escambia Cou
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dxg... @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov Forget Rahm. Consign him to the Outer Darkness. Matt Randolph gets it. Start showing us more than lip service.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
who the fuck cares what he has to say??
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Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYT/Siena Senate Polls (9/21-9/30) Texas: 🔵 Talarico 51% – 🔴 Paxton 45% Alaska: 🔵 Peltola 50% – 🔴 Sullivan 43% Ohio: 🔵 Brown 49% – 🔴 Husted 46% Kansas: 🔵 Hamiliton 45% – 🔴 Marshall 45% Iowa: 🔴 Hinson 48% – 🔵 Turek 47% www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Trump is spending $1.8 billion on his own vanity projects. What would that money get you?   Let’s do the math.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Desert Flower @crystal159.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Abrego Garcia: At the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump administration #DOJ filed its appeal brief overnight in #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s habeas case (which is distinct from his case to bring back from El Salvador and his criminal case).
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#26 in Kilmar Abrego Garcia v. Markwayne Mullin (4th Cir., 26-6466) – CourtListener.com
BRIEF by Nikita Baker, David J. Venturella, Todd Blanche and Markwayne Mullin. Type of Brief: OPENING. . Do any cases pending in this court or the Supreme Court of the United States raise similar issu...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please be aware of how the Cornell 7 case is being used as a safety valve. They want you so fixated on punishment for these seven men that you get distracted from the big picture: the culture and institutions that create men who rape and enable rapists to get away with it. 
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They're using the Cornell 7 Case to "Safety Valve" you.
YouTube video by Parkrose Resistance
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are back in court to stop Trump from stripping citizenship from babies born here 3 months after losing at SCOTUS, he's trying to rewrite the 14th Amend. from the Oval Office SCOTUS settled this in June--NO do-overs bc he didn't like the answer! -TN
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Karma?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Breaking News: The Trump administration scrambled to halt a number of imminent deportations after a court ruling blocked authorities from expelling people to third countries without a chance to contest their cases, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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Trump Administration Scrambles to Stop Third-Country Deportations After Court Ruling
The decision adds a new burden for the government as it attempts to rapidly remove migrants from the United States without interference from their lawyers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms
Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(Politico ) - The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices .. @politico.com #ExportBan ⛽️ www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026
A few hours-long raid on Venezuela is a war. But a conflict with Iran that has lasted for months and killed thousands of Iranians, including a whole school building full of kids and about 2 dozen Americans, that has critically depleted our forces and upended the global economy: that’s an excursion.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20/09/2026
From banning partisan gerrymandering to giving citizens a chance to sue for voting rights to expanding the U.S. House of Representatives, here are eight solutions to protect every eligible U.S. citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections. bit.ly/4j4uGiG
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Eight Solutions to Protect Voting Rights and Improve Representation
Congress must make voting fairer and more accessible for U.S. citizens and mitigate damage done by states, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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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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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder. 💚✊
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Allegedly Iran did this. What will be their next target? www.khou.com/article/news...
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have been saying that ICE treats the detainees badly. This OIG report about Alligator Alcatraz confirms it. I have no expectation that Mullin or Homan will ensure that Dilley and the other camps are not equally bad.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's Bo French, the GOP nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, just being openly racist and telling the world that MAGA believes white = American. These are South Asian American Texas students celebrating their team's awesome win. About as American as Apple Pie and Mexicans.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So X has done nothing to suspend these accounts, but Bluesky took action: A Russian disinfo campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms. The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party & vote Republican.
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump wanted Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City district erased. Missouri Republicans redrew the map to do it. More than 300,000 Missourians filed a petition two days before those lines could take effect. Two days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Not feeling their pain.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🧵 I personally ran into this. A male on a FB thread discussing the OP's experience w/post partum psychosis made it clear this was a reason to keep women out of positions of power, that PPP was an excuse and I was OK with the murder of children by their mother. I wasn't the only one he went after
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧵 Evidently the cuts could have been worse.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of course the IDF is not sorry.
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much truth here! 😢
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hunter Biden is very good at being smart.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There’s a reason why those Freedom Fuel gas stations that Trump has been shilling is selling gasoline so cheaply, according to a new lawsuit: The gasoline was stolen. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Lawsuit alleges Freedom Fuel gas stations touted by Trump are selling stolen fuel
The stations around Philadelphia and New Jersey had raised questions about how they were able to undercut rival retailers.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧵 Well @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov you ready to do battle on this? The building was safe until FFOTUS' name got yanked off and now it's falling apart? Congress has a thing or two to say about this, or are you going to walk away?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
Trump: "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
Trump: "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don’t expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mayor Wilson, Councilmember Foster, Councilmember Saka and I are teaming up to ban surveillance pricing at grocery chains in Seattle. Surveillance pricing is a harmful practice where your data is weaponized against you to price gouge. (1/2)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Ohio law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. A victory for ELG, our clients Red Wine & Blue, the Alliance for Retired Americans and the voters of Ohio. www.democracydocket.com/cases/ohio-p...
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🚨Ohio Proof of Citizenship Requirement Challenge
Learn more here.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2026
Despite intense White House pressure to find noncitizen voting cases, our reporting showed that Trump's crackdown has produced little: Just 41 people have been charged with voting illegally or other election-related crimes.
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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and did you tell all that to Jared? Why was the meeting secret? You have battled? BTW WE THE PEOPLE are the reason Bondi and Noem are gone. We The People standing up to FFOTUS' version of the Gestapo. Talk is cheap. We will see what you DO after November.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SANGER: “.. why, if sanctions as airtight as these are possible, they were not employed before Mr. Trump ordered the U.S. military into battle, exposing shortages of key munitions and the limits of American military power? “ @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Palestinian-American determined to defend his home from Israeli settlers - www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestin…
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The Palestinian-American determined to defend his home from Israeli settlers
After months of attacks, Louai Abu Ridi leaves Ohio and returns to the occupied West Bank to stop settlers from taking his home
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years. (Published March)
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dear God I hope she is wrong.
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MotherSkadi 🏴‍☠️ @motherskadi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Class matters but does not operate on a vacuum. Race, gender, ethnicity provides a necessary context. 🧵
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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
More lying per the usual. In this case, grifting credit for things done by others.
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