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Patrick Giroux

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Designer. Illustrator.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h
One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"
Przeworski, Democracy and the Market coverDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 30/09/2026
Five years ago in the middle of a reckoning over abuse and misconduct, the players of the NWSL were debating if they should save the league or burn it down. They picked both. On the last five years, free to read at @theathletic.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Five years ago, the NWSL was in crisis. Thanks to its players, it’s flourishing (Gift Article)
Amidst a reckoning over sexual misconduct in the NWSL, players faced a difficult choice. The action and change they forced saved the league.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
The power and responsibility to protect this free press is in the hands of the people it serves: you. In a precarious time for press freedom, the existence of public media isn’t something we can quietly take for granted. Power a free press that is only accountable to the public: n.pr/3VxNBIZ
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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Loud Light @loudlightks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What’s on your ballot this November?? Check it out. Also update your registration or get someone registered at ksvotes.org 🚨
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“'You don’t live here,' the crowd shouted like they were in a basketball arena...” kansasreflector.com/2026/09/18/u...
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US Sen. Roger Marshall leaves paper trail in Florida while calling Kansas home • Kansas Reflector
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall established deeper roots than previously disclosed in Sarasota, Florida, where he had a vacation home that he traveled to on official business and said he used for visiting fa...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.
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Sporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 27/09/2026
Key to a good night's sleep: 3 points & a clean sheet 😴
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Sporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 27/09/2026
3 POINTS EARNED 😤
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Drew VanderPloeg @alvanderp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As @anabnos.com said on the H&A discord, I think it’s telling that in two consecutive games Andre Luiz has made the opponent’s left side defenders(and teammates in general) lose their heads within 45 minutes.
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Sporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 27/09/2026
An eventful first half ⏸️
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Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The red card rightfully stands. Hector Herrera grabs Calheira by the throat. Now Calheira gets a yellow as play restarts. Halter gave him the ol' purple nurple. #SportingKC
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Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
GOAL. 2-0 to #SportingKC. Calvin Harris somehow redirects a pass from Luiz into the roof of the net.
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Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AaaaaaaNDRE!!! #SportingKC
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Republicans are the cause of your problems not the solution” is a winning message every election but they’re bringing literal receipts now
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Coming around to the idea that the biggest priority for Americans interested in keeping liberal democracy alive for the next several decades is whole scale reform of the Supreme Court and the judiciary. We can't afford to have Reconstruction 2.0 hampered by the SCOTUS like Reconstruction 1.0 was.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every. F*cking. Time. The. Same. Story. Make a big fraud claim that doesn't hold up on inspection. The goal is to create doubt, not provide truth www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The contempt order kind of writes itself, no?
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Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social talking about KC Current on @kcur.org Up to Date right now.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. n.pr/4d56tVL
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Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.
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mikeeoj.bsky.social @mikeeoj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"...WaPo investigation.. the Office of Remigration's...the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their country of origin." Vote.
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fort Hays State University, facing a major budget shortfall due to federal and state policies, seems to have made a decision appalling to anyone who cares about paleontology or rural Kansas. #ksleg
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Sternberg Museum future in question
" /> By CRISTINA JANNEYHays PostAn employee of the Sternberg Museum of
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's July financial disclosure is live. While serving as president he had time to trade nearly 1200 times in the market during July. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
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Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Groundhogs Day Redux?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Mike @mikedkuhn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So the press conference is on YouTube and in full context this comment from Wicky feels even worse. #SportingKC
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Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So many highs and lows at Sporting Park last night. I’ve never witnessed a first half like that.
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Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The final whistle blows. #SportingKC coughs up a 3-0 half-time lead. 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Union. The team made no adjustments to what the Union changed in the second half, and after each goal, the team seemed to panic even more. #SKCvPHI
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I talked about Trump as a “family annihilator” yesterday on the show. He will destroy everything that he cannot control.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "When I said with Jesse Watters that I'd rather have good roads and good schools than have a billionaire make a second billion, I know that resonated with a lot of folks who might not agree with everything else I had to say."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
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RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Meg Linehan @meglinehan.com · 17/09/2026
wow they really did the thing
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m on a quiz show that only tapes 46 days a year and even I think this schedule is a little light.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump said they would target "the worst of the worst." Instead, ICE is attacking and detaining our children. All of our children deserve to grow up in a country where their safety is valued and they’re treated with respect, and dignity - not terror.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
US Mortgage Rates Rise to 6.97%, Highest In More Than a Year www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Mortgage Rates Rise to 6.97%, Highest In More Than a Year
US mortgage rates last week climbed to the highest level in more than a year, marking the latest setback for an already sluggish housing market.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Federal employees were paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE. As part of the Trump-Musk DOGE program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435%.
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Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort
As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two-term Republican Governor Bill Graves endorsed Adam's campaign for U.S. Senate.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Voters had a good night, & Trump did not We at @DD_fund were proud to support this outstanding win for the pro-voter coalition More on the story w/ Morning Joe @ms.now, 6am ET - TN
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 14/09/2026
The protestor is yelling 'HE SUES HIS PATIENTS', which tells me that the New York Times story on about Sen. Roger Marshall suing his patients - and some of them winding up in jail - has broken through in Kansas.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Judging from his eyebrows at the end of this video, incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall expected a different response from Kansas state fairgoers when he tried to defend Trump’s tariffs.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"When we've designed public programs in ways that people can't figure out whether they're eligible without consulting lawyers, we've done something wrong," Herd said. "That has huge, huge implications for what's to come."
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A cancer survivor hoped to work — then she lost her Medicaid disability coverage
As state governments grapple with how to determine who's sick enough to be excused from new Medicaid work requirements, some families are already struggling with what illnesses guarantee health covera...
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Patrick Giroux @oogiroux.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now I can unclench. Woooo!!!
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Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FINAL. #SportingKC has defeated LAFC in the 2026 MLS Regular Season. 3-1 the final. André Luiz gets his first in MLS, and by and large, Sporting contained a very good LAFC side.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"You don't live here! You don't live here! You don't live here!" #KSSen debate crowd calls out Roger Marshall for his out of state ties.
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