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Nancy Kapitanoff

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Archival Researcher. Current subject of interest: Red Cross social workers in the Pacific during World War II.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These facts are VERY similar to the case of Mohamed Jama in MN. They were looking for a 5'5" guy and snatched Jama, who is 6'5" (his lawyer did a big Perry Mason moment to have him stand in the court room). These rulings may help the victims sue.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump & his DOJ called Davey Hearn a vandal Now Davey has won, & the case they built on a botched, rushed paint job is finished for GOOD @democracydefendersfund.org @washlitgroup.bsky.social & Steptoe fought every step of the way I'll explain w/ @ms.now @7PMET 👇
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Prosecutors Cannot Revive Reflecting Pool Case Against Ex-Olympian, Judge Rules
A charge against David Hearn was dismissed “with prejudice” because of President Trump’s attempts to influence the case.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman in a long Victorian style dress and hat at the top of a very long stepladder holding a large camera as men below hold the ladder
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massi...
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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It seems like Todd Blanche and Mike Waltz got to tell lies about CNN on the Sunday shows, as a reward to them for banning the press.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
Good morning, Mr, @girmayzahilay.bsky.social. Doesn’t it violate King County’s rules to have ICE obscure its loading of migrants from the Boeing Field livestream like this? And can you please find out if the migrants have been on buses on the tarmac all night after yesterday’s plane (N468AW) broke?
A screenshot of the livestream view of Boeing Field’s ICE camera, showing two large buses obscuring the loading area in front of N455AW
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every other news outlet should boycott this trip. Don’t give this malignant narcissist the oxygen of coverage. Leave it to the radical right wing outlets reaching only the cult. White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...
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White House Blocks CNN From Air Force One
CNN won’t be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But, as I wrote in my newsletter, these 8th circuit judges should actually be impeached. We simply can’t have “a judicial system” if Republican judges are going to literally defy the *Republican* Supreme Court just to try to give the GOP one more House seat.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
⚠️ Tens of thousands of Texas voters are missing from the voter rolls after the state failed to process their voter registration applications properly. But it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to vote in the midterms: demdock.com/46PkXFM
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm with Jamelle here. People aren't primarily interested in going back to a standard level of dysfunction in Congress; people want accountability and consequences. In fact, a functional Congress moving forward essentially REQUIRES it via disincentivizing lawlessness and corruption. Do what's right.
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What should Democrats do if they win?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 GEORGIA: Unsubsidized ACA enrollees can look forward to their health insurance premiums jumping ANOTHER ~21% next year. Reminder: Congressional Republicans let the enhanced tax credits expire last December. As of August, enrollment had dropped by ~430,000 people. acasignups.net/rate_changes...
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2027 Rate Changes - Georgia: +20.7% individual market (unsubsidized) (FINAL)
Originally posted 7/13/26 Hoo boy. Via the Georgia Insurance Dept., I've acquired the preliminary 2027 individual market rate filings for Georgia insurers, and it's not pretty. Unfortunately, all of t...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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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...
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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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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guess Newsom isn't running for President
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#ELB: Birch Bayh, U.S. Senator (Indiana) From 1963 to 1981 electionlawblog.org/2026/birch-bayh…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
McCrery informed the White House that Trump’s ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above.

In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump’s desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure’s maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building’s footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom.
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Stateline @stateline.org · 22/09/2026
Eight states on the East Coast sued the Trump administration Tuesday over paying private companies to cancel offshore wind leases. stateline.org/2026/09/22/s...
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States file new lawsuits against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind • Stateline
An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the governm...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 21/09/2026
I just received a notification of another death in ICE custody – the 57th death during Trump’s second term. It’s time to shut down these private, for-profit detention centers.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Horrifying as usual. Randomly atarted chasing a guy, shot mutiple times into his car, didnt render assistance ince he was in custody. Local cop ended up ended up doing that. Isnt even in thr country illegally, tho obvs that shldnt include a death sentence open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Ellisons are threatening to leave CA unless the AG's cave on their case to block the Paramount-Warner's merger I call BS together with leading antitrust experts @contrariannews.org 👇 The AG's and the unions should not fall for it
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AGs Must Not Cave to Paramount’s Empty Threat to Leave California
No company should be allowed to bully a state into abandoning its job of protecting consumers.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good statement, but what does it mean to "stand in defense" of their colleagues? Are they just noting an objection for the record? Or will they refuse to cover White House events until the ban is lifted?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rs dropped six new polls today. So in the last 9 days they've dropped 32 Senate polls in 14 states by 7 pollsters. It's a manic, desperate effort, and no one should be fooled by what they are doing. 1/
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Notes on the Florida Senate Race talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/notes...
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Notes on the Florida Senate Race
I want to flag this poll for you. It’s a poll of...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And now these folks want to claim that the vaccine that came as a miracle, saving countless children and immeasurable pain, is a "massive fraud"? The ignorant arrogance of a (subset of) society that has erased its history and replaced it with conspiracy theory.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
We’re:
— Redesigning our most dangerous streets. 
— Regulating delivery apps. 
— Lowering speed limits where children play.
— Upgrading 1,000 intersections every year. 
— Cracking down on dangerous drivers and super speeders. 
— Improving our street lights.
— Building safe, beautiful public spaces.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11/09/2026
Exactly one year ago, a then-newly formed advocacy group brought thousands to the Missouri State Capitol to protest a severe gerrymander. That group, People Not Politicians, won two major victories today on its anniversary. Here's the backstory, on All Rise News buff.ly/VcHwwVw
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the GOP, scotus is now the rich dad with political connections you call to fix whatever becomes a problem.
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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I never realized till I read Gloria Steinem’s obit how much she changed my life. The timing was 🎯 open.substack.com/pub/margaretsulli…
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Thank you, Gloria Steinem
My life and career would have been far different if she hadn’t been in the world
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/09/2026
This whole thing is so bizarre. The media shouldn't just be repeating the nonsense. They should be the ones calling out how this is all 100% based on hateful bigotry.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
For Labor Day this year I wrote about wage theft (LA is the wage theft capital of the nation---over $1.4 billion/yr) and the just-passed city legislation to fight it, the result of a 3-year legislative struggle... and decades of organizing before that. 1/7
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Might also include a pile of Elon's racist tweets. Read them out loud and ask Republicans if they agree or disagree with what Elon is advocating... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
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