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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 8h
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h
I am going to try to keep you updated on my trip to the Middle East. My first meeting when I arrived in Qatar last night was a long dinner with Ali Al Thawadi, a key diplomat who coordinates U.S.-Iran shuttle diplomacy.
Senator Chris Murphy and Ali Al Thawadi pictured side by side together
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 6h
That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h
Something I’ve heard about during my trip to the Gulf? War profiteering. Often by U.S. companies. Let me tell you what I learned. And why a Democratic Congress should do something about it
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 7h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Tim Snyder: The Republicans are trying to run this midterm on the issue of communism, whereas Trump’s idols are all communists. Whether it’s North Korea, whether it’s China, whether it’s Russia... Full interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Timothy Snyder: One thing that I do worry about... is that the way we fought the Iran war was obviously out of date. We haven’t learned how to fight a modern war. With Hegseth and Trump… and their just fantastic vision of testosterone plus battleships, I just don’t think we’re going to get there.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 3h
Here @timothysnyder.bsky.social does it again with a perfect phrase: “Superpower suicide.” Except it was assisted suicide - 70+ million ignorant Americans helped put the needle in America’s arm.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Full interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Russia Escalates Strikes as Ukraine Prepares for a Dark Winter (with Timothy Snyder)
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · October 3 · 43m
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Full episode:
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Trump's Own Numbers Crush His Lies... (with Justin Wolfers)
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · October 4 · 19m
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h
Disability advocates warn these changes could push more people into institutions by making the support they need at home harder to get. This affects children, adults, and elderly parents. Nobody should have to give up their freedom to get the care they need.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h
Now this administration is weakening the protections that make that possible. This follows a DOJ opinion challenging protections for community-based care and Trump’s push to institutionalize homeless people.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h
A judge stripped community-integration protections from a federal disability rights regulation at the Trump administration’s request. Disabled Americans fought for decades for the right to live in their own homes and communities.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is no exaggeration that the doctrine of Miller and Trump are unAmerican, at least in how we have understood American values over the last century.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026
Tremendous turnout and energy at the Democratize Yale protest on Friday! Huge high five to hundreds of students, faculty, workers, and alums who are fighting for academic freedom and freedom of speech while telling President McInnis and the trustees NOT TO CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP!
Yale students smile and clap at a Democratize Yale demonstration - one holds a sign reading "TRUSTEES: LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21h
Post-human necropolitics by the numbers www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h
vivek’s a republican, shouldn’t he be better at grabbing kids
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 03/10/2026
Good news, KOSA is dead again. For now.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 20h
Coverage like this doesn't happen without support from our readers. Subscribe for free or become a member to back our work directly: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21h
It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it? “The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 20h
Just public about his instinct for mob boss thuggery
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20h
As an originalist, let me give you 3/5 of my mind.
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Forget C-SPAN, let's hold a séance. As an originalist, let me give you 3/5 of my mind.
If a Founder is busy plundering indigenous people or finding wood for his dentures, I go with whatever policy is favored by current Republican leaders.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
Trump’s Ohio speech tonight is at the Butler High School gym. Here is a photo of what it looks like on a regular day as posted by a user to Google Maps.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 20h
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 19h
Why is Pete Hegseth eliminating 20 percent of general officers? Join the discussion and consider subscribing to Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 18h
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The plans have drawn condemnation from some residents of central Louisiana, and immigrant advocates and child welfare experts have expressed concerns about possible trauma inflicted on detained children..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Journalists (and also non-journalists), please read this important statement and consider signing it Democracy is on the line
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
Trump won’t take no for an answer. Not from voters or the loyalists he’s surrounded himself with. “He is assuming there will be no one in his administration to tell him no,” Marc Elias says. Attacks on voters work best when no one's watching. Keep an eye on Trump: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This part
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow… at Robert Kraft’s stadium…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Damn
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026
“Fascist imperial Russia has not seen and does not see Western companies as partners for mutual benefit, only as targets for weaponization, manipulation, and confiscation," write Bennett Freeman and Nataliia Popovych in this op-ed.
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After Nestle and Auchan seizures, Russia is coming for others
The recent Russian seizure of assets belonging to corporate giants Nestle and Auchan made headlines, all the more striking given the companies' years of loyalty to the Kremlin regime, including throug...
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇🏼 This is what he inherited
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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fact…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He promised to cut energy bills in half in 6 months and gas prices would be under $2. He never said he couldn’t do that because he’s “inheriting a mess.” He said he would do it & it would be easy. So he can try & blame Biden now all he wants, but he blatantly lied & is a buffoon.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hawks and Hawkeyes thing was pure coincidence. The truth is that Republicans--and this goes all the way up to Senators--are cult believers in their own propaganda. Schmitt had a religious conviction that Smith had "conspired" with Fani Willis and couldn't even conceive of other possibilities.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Nations crumble, democracy becomes obsolete, a tech-powered elite rules… threaded into the Trump admin, with VP Vance one of their own… When a nation is betrayed by its wealthiest citizens, existential crisis follows… tech fascism has global ambitions…”😕🤷🏼 #NerdReich
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