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Self-appointed arbiter of who does not have a mandate. "If we do not wake up to this threat, then we, as a country, will die in our sleep."-Beto O'Rourke (8/15/2019)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h
Amid ballooning inflation and corruption, it's getting harder and harder to find MAGA diehards in the diners of Trump country. But after much effort, we did. Here are their personal stories, their opinions, and what Democrats must do to understand them.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
levernews.com
Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h
Q: How long can Ukraine continue to defend itself? It's been almost five years of war. President Zelenskyy: We need to do it, I mean, to stop this war as quick as possible.We count that USA will help us to do this.I hope so. We count on president,his team involving to stop Putin,but to stop Putin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.
Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In 2022 I had to borrow a skateboard for the Navajo Nation parade. This time I built my own at a skate shop in Tempe. The hard part is they just had to close their storefront because of tariffs. Small businesses like this shouldn't be paying the price for bad ideas in Washington.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early.”
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 10/10/2026
ICE moved my client in this case to Camp East Montana in El Paso yesterday afternoon, with no notice to me or his immigration attorney. On the Friday afternoon of a long weekend. He was off the detainee locator system until this morning. We had no idea whether he'd been illegal deported or not.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 10/10/2026
📢 Hurricane Isaias Update WCK is on the ground in Pensacola, FL, preparing sandwiches to provide immediate support to impacted families. The secret to a sandwich made the WCK way? Our signature sauce! We’re connecting with community members to ensure we reach the hardest hit areas. #ChefsForFlorida
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?
gizmodo.com
Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing
Who you gonna believe?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
ms.now
Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon
A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 10/10/2026
"Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elon...
rogerebert.com
Musk review: Alex Gibney shows Elon, warts and all (mostly warts)
May be the most important film of the year.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@propublica.org is doing god’s work everyday. If you don’t support them - you should start.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Meanwhile, it’s important to note that Trump will be president for only the first two years of the next Texas gubernatorial term. So now is the time to turn the page on a governor’s office that seeks to curry favor with Trump at the expense of Lone Star State constituents."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Michael Tracey's whole "point" as he's inserted himself into this gang rape case is that he doesn't believe those accused of sexual assault should be named so ... he's naming their alleged accuser.
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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The reason every country stops doing public executions is because they inevitably cause support for the death penalty to crater.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The war in Iran is the reason gas is $5 and diesel is $7. Mike Rogers has been cheerleading the war since the beginning, calling it a win, win, win. I don't know about you, but when I fill up my tank I don't feel like I'm winning.
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GlenThePlumber @glentheplumber.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
no lies detected
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But his repeated refrain that this can be treated as an issue of education with greater discussions of informed consent and bodily autonomy … this isn’t an issue of men not having this information. It’s an issue of thinking it doesn’t apply to them and no one will make it apply to them. /2
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listened to Pres. Kotlikoff’s message. I’m glad he included reexamining Greek life -that’s no small thing for a place like Cornell to say to alumni. Im glad to hear him acknowledge that Jane Doe is not unique but that many had similar experiences b/f. Alumni have been sharing their stories. /1
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ezra Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” James Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fighting for a better future for our students.
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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On Banned Books Week, I think it's important to remember that soft book banning is happening in school systems all over the US.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Louisiana Voters: Jamie Davis isn't a career politician—he’s a farmer, local leader, and fighter for Louisiana families. From lowering healthcare and energy costs to investing in our schools and towns, Jamie will fight for you in D.C. (cont) #ProudBlue #USDemocracy #ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a big deal for me and, as I've said a thousand times on here, I think the doomer-narrative of nothing being a win bc Trump and his people lie and cheat is dangerous. They lose. A lot. And rightfully so because they're doing illegal things. And taking those wins is important for democracy.
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Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am not a witch.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Toxic in Texas
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This billboard was spotted in Chagrin Falls, Ohio Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All this is obvious, true and but for a couple of very brave pieces in WSJ, not reported or discussed in US corporate media, which are afraid of him.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 04/10/2026
From @michellepitcher.bsky.social: Harris County is a judicial battleground for both parties in Texas. Houston's courts went blue in 2016, and the GOP has been trying to claw its way back ever since. Can Governor Abbott's deep pockets beat back the coming blue wave?
texasobserver.org
A Blue Wave Could Sweep Greg Abbott's Handpicked Houston Judges Out of Office
But experts say that, as Harris County judicial seats have swung with the political tides, it’s not partisanship that matters for criminal defendants.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150
Sepia tone photo of factory workers standing around a rolling book cart at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1915. Text over photo reads "Libraries During the Great Depression". American Library Association logo
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