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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 07/10/2026
The grifters keep grifting. Chris LaCivita and James Blair, who run Trump’s midterm ad push, were paid hundreds of thousands by Republika Srpska’s government, a Putin ally that spends heavily to court Trump for election advice. Vote out every single Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Look who’s all mad and shit!😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Good night everyone!❤️🤗👊🏾
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you cant join a canvass for Justin please consider joining a phone bank. act.votejustinj.com/phones?r=MCK... #momsky#sheshed
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Weekly Phone Banking for Justin!
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VJM4democracy @vjm4democracy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All that is true. What is also true - and researched - is that power actually physically changes your brain. And not in a good way. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Power Causes Brain Damage
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You may be sick of politics but politics determines everything around you. Get serious and invested! The billionaires are! Vote Blue. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨CALIFORNIA VOTERS BEWARE! Billionaires are funding so many lies. Don't be fooled. ⬅️ ⬅️ SWIPE LEFT through the "comic" strip below for the full story. It's really NOT FUNNY! 🫤 ✅ YES on Prop 40 ❌ NO on Props 41 & 42 Share widely on Bsky, & reach out to Californians you know in "real life", too.
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Shablo Pleye @shablopligh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.”
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Expect projects like this to become rare. WB and Paramount are being folded into Skydance. Evidence of their unique corporate identities will get scrubbed, as when Disney took over Fox. And the recent execs who were barely interested in history are being replaced with people who have zero interest.
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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every single thing is The Producers now. Nobody actually trying to do something, just trying to buy companies and ruin them as a stock market scam.
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @alcappuccinoit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Lee isn’t worth a damn. Do better, Utah. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Lone GOP senator blocks bipartisan effort to prevent Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center | CNN Politics
A bipartisan effort aimed at protecting the Kennedy Center from demolition was blocked on the Senate floor Monday night by a lone Republican senator.
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even a cup of water in the killing desert...
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.
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How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?
City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
RFK Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them. (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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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CA Gov. Newsom has vetoed Tribal water policy legislation which would have given Tribes a say in the water decisions that impact them. He also vetoed the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026, which supported Native religious practices on state lands. (Communities United for Water Protection)
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The reports out of Cornell are another brutal reminder: women and girls should not have to calculate the risk of simply existing. Sexual violence, assault and predatory behavior cannot become background noise. Every woman deserves to move through this country safely. #Pinks
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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 30/09/2026
Monday is last day to register to vote in Kentucky before November election kentuckylantern.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Monday is last day to register to vote in Kentucky before November election • Kentucky Lantern
This coming Monday — Oct. 5 — is the last day for Kentuckians to register to vote ahead of the November general election.
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alberta77.bsky.social @alberta77.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If by chance the democrats win the election they would be smart to make Jack Smith the AG.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maine, surely you get it by now👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 29/09/2026
Imagine volunteering to defend a country that promises religious freedom, only to be told “atheist” isn’t an acceptable description of your beliefs. Our military should recognize the beliefs of those who serve, not force them into government-approved boxes.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund—and a new report shows millions of those taxpayer dollars went to waste thanks to the admin's reckless and cruel detention efforts instead of being invested in healthcare, education, or food assistance. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-spe...
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ICE wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in rapid push to expand detention capacity, government watchdog finds
With an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't forget we've expanded our tour offerings! Come visit for a guided educational tour to meet the residents and hear their stories. Register online at www.merrymacfarmsanctuary.org/tours
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything the Trump Administration Did to America’s Public Lands in 2025 An accounting of the Trump administration’s actions against public lands, conservation laws, and the people who protect them.
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Everything the Trump Administration Did to America’s Public Lands in 2025
An accounting of the Trump administration’s actions against public lands, conservation laws, and the people who protect them.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Texas peeps You may have recently registered and think it’s a done deal. Read the below. Urgently double check that you’re actually registered to vote. 👉🏾 Iwillvote.com 
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
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This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"ENOUGH". What a beautiful and underused word.
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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Implementation began thru corps--which are de facto branches of the gov't. A few yrs ago I stopped shopping at WF after noticing, after the Amazon takeover, the stores were changing--things I specifically shopped for disappearing. An employee told me that decisions on what to stock in stores 1/3
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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
across the country were now being made at the corporate rather than the local level. I said to him right there--that's communism. A business on that scale completely alters the free market--deciding what producers/products get to survive and which don't--and that has many implications. 2/3
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These aren’t political🌲🌊💨🐻🐺They're necessary🌱 @mylifeasabook.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Essentially, unregulated Capitalism looks more and more like Communism. The corporations govern us--and they control the means of production and what we can and can't have.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Abandon Harris = Abandon the environment
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Trump slashes Biden-era fuel economy standards for cars
The new fuel economy standards are the latest assault on Biden-era EV policies.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love this guy already
Manny Rutinel CV
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now that’s a campaign ad
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 26/09/2026
Museums. Musicians. Historians. A year and a half after federal arts and humanities cuts, we're following the fallout on the ground: what is being screened out and where the money is going. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of Reveal: tinyurl.com/y8j5pdsm
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
SCOTUS was wrong to allow Trump to overhaul a federal system to initiate voter registration purges, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent. Jackson said the court’s decision could potentially disenfranchise legitimate voters, including naturalized citizens: demdock.com/4xFjBIx
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Regarding the AI skin people are calling an “actress” Studio types would LOVE this to succeed, so the skin is being featured and anthropomorphized in the mainstream press. Remember, movie producers left money on the table pre-1910 and refused to credit movie actors
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/09/2026
Imagine getting denied for a card by an AI version of yourself.
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 25/09/2026
And this is just the tip of the iceberg...
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Pen2Net @pen2net.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marine Le Pen found guilty, but court clears way for presidential run if she wears tag.
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Marine Le Pen found guilty, but court clears way for presidential run if she wears tag
The National Rally leader now has to decide whether she will run with an electronic tag and will speak on TV later.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🗳️ HEADS UP OHIO: Voters who want to register to vote while applying for a driver's license will now be required to provide proof of citizenship. Voters who register through other means will only need to sign a statement, the lone dissenting judge explained: demdock.com/4xOunfV
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#recall The affected broccoli products were sold in several states, leaving multiple hospitalized. The FDA has released an outbreak report. www.wideopencountry.com/broccoli-sol...
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE!
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