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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 21h
I have one house.
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🜲 @fresh72.bsky.social · 11h
Call the Election Protection Hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE (866-687-8683) if you encounter voter intimidation
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🜲 @fresh72.bsky.social · 11h
They're starting early
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Bernadette R. Giacomazzo @bernadettegiacomazzo.com · 29/09/2026
The "master race," ladies and gentlemen.
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Artisanal Misspokes @1uglyman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
"Mr. Vice President: Peter Thiel played a decisive role in your life. Recently, he suggested that evil is good and called the Pope a 'useful idiot.' How do you respond to these extreme statements from your benefactor? Do you agree with him?" —Question a DC reporter should ask (but likely won't)
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Trainwreck
Old habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boston spends 6.4 times more on policing than on libraries That probably explains why BPL is facing a pretty big (under)staffing crisis and may have to close some branches Is this really what we want? 📚 --- Graphic via @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org/snapshots
LIBRARIES VS COPS SPENDING PER CAPITA
r:PS,COURTS,CAGES $697.09 :::nim
LIBRARIES $108.57 :::nim
h BPL belongs to the Books Unbanned coalition, in • WJ which library systems provide a free digital card to
youth ages 13-21 anywhere in the country, allowing
them to check out materials that may be otherwise
unavailable to them due to censorship. The program
was started by Brooklyn Public Library in 2022.
6.4 TIMES MORE ON
POLICING THAN ON
LIBRARIES
LIBRARIES GET 1.09%
OF CITY SPENDING
POLICING GETS 7.01%
OF CITY SPENDING
A 2025 WBUR analysis of Boston Police Department
records found that the police chief routinely ignored
recommendations from the city's Office of Police
Accountability and Transparency, which was created
in 2020 in response to widespread calls for increased
police oversight. In August, Lawyers for Civil Rights
sued the department for footage of the fatal shooting of
Stephenson King, Jr by an officer in March 2026.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These are some of the most ignorant people on the planet. Nobody has to listen to any tech bros and their nonsense.
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine sitting down with a white supremacist who just a few months ago said, "The defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated." Then, asking him absolutely nothing about his white power activism & slapping this quote on the thumbnail of your cozy interview.
Screenshot of NPR's YouTube thumbnail featuring a photo of the white supremacist Tucker Carlson: "I was caught in the partisan lie." 

Title: Tucker Carlson has a new enemy: the politics he helped build.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
texastribune.org
DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gavin Newsom will never be President.
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Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I learned about this earlier in the year from @djinnandtonic.bsky.social who had both some amazing posts about Minnesota people using similar tactics against ICE and has shirts via www.etsy.com/shop/WideAwa.... They inspired one of my favorite protest posters.
@djinnandtonic.bsky.social-inspired protest sign of the Boston anti-man hunting league sign with ICE at the center instead of SH (slave hunter). It's a bright green circle with magenta letters: ICE in the center, surrounded by 6 letters representing people who have different roles in stopping a kidnapping, one who tries to talk the kidnapper down, 5 to grab the kidnapper if that doesn't work, and an outer circle of 12 people who create a commotion so that the kidnapper can be removed from the situation).
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.
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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This promises to be an exiting conversation @txtrek.bsky.social, should you choose to accept the mission.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins doing big crimes while acting like an overwhelmed and helpless person is big Gotham City energy.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
deadline.com
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of the crop of elected Democrats at the Federal level, Chris Van Hollen is the only person who has led and taken any political risks. That's it.
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Chairman Wow @chairmanwow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Crypto oligarchs trying to buy Ohio senate seat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
nytimes.com
The Crypto Industry Targets Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Top Democratic Senate Candidate
Angry after the defeat of a major crypto bill last week, the industry is planning to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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horizonframe.bsky.social @horizonframe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Conservatism just boils down to an aggressive lack of empathy.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You should demand they leave.
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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hell yeah
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
for those who aren’t familiar—the NAACP’s solidarity with trans people and willingness to recognize “similarities between exclusions of transgender kids and racial segregation” is something i find genuinely moving
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/09/2026
Donald Trump appeared not to have even read the order before he went to sign it. trib.al/DA54Vi2
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Trump, 80, Is Shocked by What’s in His Own Executive Order
Donald Trump appeared not to have even read the order before he went to sign it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But then again, what has the whale to say?
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mzrad.bsky.social @mzrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As an atheist who survived 12 years of Catholic school, I’ve read the Bible and I can assure Mr. Talarico and other Christian Dems that their Jesus figure would 100% stand with trans people. Isn’t the appealing quality of Jesus is that he loves everyone? He wouldn’t ever sacrifice anyone for power.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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