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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 53m
Only 4 of the 42 elected Brooklyn DLs personally participated in Sunday's farcical Zoom meeting of #KCDC golpistas -including #RepYourBlock lawyer Mark Hanna, who abstained from voting.The other 3 purported to represent all million-plus Brooklyn Democrats, defying the courts, county chair & voters.
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 5h
They really did it. They went and violated the courts' orders. 🤯 Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas, and the rest of the participants in last night's illegal meeting should be held in contempt of court. This was a flagrant 🖕 to the rule of law and must not stand.
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NEW PARTY CHAIR ELECTED: ASSEMBLYWOMAN NIKKI I. LUCAS
Email from KCDCC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, October 5, 2026 Media Contact: info@brooklyndems.com ASSEMBLYWOMAN NIKKI I. LUCAS ELECTED AS PARTY CHAIR Brooklyn, NY — On Sunday, October 4, 2026, New
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1h
Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
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Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit
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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 4h
This is beyond embarrassing.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 4h
Yesterday, former Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, violating a court order, called a meeting to hold a vote for party chair. Now she claims Nikki Lucas was elected chair, with votes from only 13 of the 42 District Leaders. This is illegal and undemocratic.
Screenshot of email from Brooklyn Democrats account purporting to announce "Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas Elected As Party Chair"
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 5h
And they did so claim, per this morning's email: "On Sunday, October 4, 2026, New York State Assemblywoman Nikki I. Lucas was elected as Party Chair[...along with:] Kenesha Traynham-Cooper, 1st Vice Chair Félix W. Ortiz, 2nd Vice Chair Donald Day, Secretary Chris Durosinmi, Assistant Secretary"
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 19h
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Is Stephen Miller a Nazi? Ask his Jewish family. Miller's isn’t just evil; he’s the evil all evil aspires to be. He’s so dark he turns Satan green with envy.
Vanity Fair called Stephen Miller “one of the most evil people to have worked for Donald Trump.”
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 19h
Next time you ride the subway, take note that every car is marked with the name of the company that built it: Quebec’s #Bombardier, which manufactures them in NY with NY workers yet with many Canadian parts
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 19h
Evan #Gershkovich: Reporting from inside.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/feature/repo...
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Evan Gershkovich: Reporting from inside.
The new book from Evan Gershkovich is not just a prison memoir.
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beetleship @dangbeetle.bsky.social · 21h
Once she, Frank and their allies are out of power we should be able to start finding out details of what they’ve been doing with the party’s money, which is presumably way worse than what Frank is already in a lot of legal trouble for. There has been no visibility into party finances
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Lambda Independent Democrats of Brooklyn @lidbk.bsky.social · 21h
The Brooklyn Democratic Party machine continues to violate the law and deny the will of the voters. The party needs to respect the will of the voters and stop trying to nullify election results!
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 20h
History is always current in #NorthernIreland: 25 years after journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered, #CPJ and #Amnesty call for new investigation cpj.org?p=623931
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Northern Ireland: 25 years after journalist Martin O’Hagan was murdered, CPJ and Amnesty call for new investigation - Committee to Protect Journalists
London, September 28, 2026—A quarter of a century after journalist Martin O’Hagan was shot dead in Northern Ireland, his family is still waiting for justice. On the anniversary of his death, CPJ and A...
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 22h
New and shocking development in the fight for a democratically governed Brooklyn Democratic Party:
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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 22h
The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For anyone watching at home,, the best analysis of not just went sadly wrong with the #RedSox this week but what’s gone wrong with #MLB pitching analytics generally - www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Kepner: Red Sox become latest playoff team to get burned for rigid bullpen blueprint
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Header: 'Whale Batters a Yacht, Leaving Its Crew Stranded for 18 Hours' Lede: "A whale crashed into their 52-foot yacht, damaged a rudder and left the vessel disabled." Fact: Boat crashes into whale, not the other way around... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text on a white that says the following:

The allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case are deeply disturbing and gut-wrenching. Cornell University has failed this survivor.

I fully support Governor Hochul's decision to name Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case and look forward to the complete and extensive investigation that is to come. 

Accountability and justice cannot simply be values, they must also be delivered.
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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There was an awesome and HILARIOUS development in the Brooklyn Democratic Party legal fight yesterday. This update requires quite a fair bit of context, but stick with me here, because the payoff is soooo delicious! 🧵
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
stunning even by Trump-era corruption standards: Inside #KenPaxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts, with Texas taxpayers footing the bill apnews.com/article/ken-...
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The end of this Red Sox season feels just like last year. Maybe worse. - The Boston Globe
The Red Sox at least won a game against the Yankees in their Wild Card defeat in 2025. This year, they barely put up a fight.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ode to Canal Street www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Walking Through the Chaos on Canal Street as NYC Plans Its Redesign (Gift Article)
Famous for sidewalk merchants and street traffic, Canal has long been a rough-and-tumble corridor of commerce and creativity. The city wants to make it safer.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s baseball, Susan.
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Notorious VOG @notoriousvog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Susan Collins’s new ad bragging she handles Chuck Schumer 'like the Sox handle the Yankees' is a hilarious self-own. My Red Sox are on the brink of elimination trailing 8-2 in the 7th. She’s desperately hiding behind Red Sox fans to dodge Trump because her scandal-plagued campaign is in a tailspin.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A .500 team at best that embarrassingly underperformed in the first months of the season, then entertainingly exceeded their limitations in the next stretch, & then regressed to the mean. And here we are, as a rusty past-prime pitcher is entrusted to rescue the season but instead ends it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/08/2026
Red Sox Fan Throws Back Son Who Caught Yankees Home Run
Red Sox Fan Throws Back Son Who Caught Yankees Home Run
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For Trump a ‘Hispanic’ has always meant a disposable construction worker without union protection or (even better) any legal status, who accepts workplace accidents without complaints or recourse
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Garrett meant well
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Teri @1912fenway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the Red Sox can't get past the Yankees, I'm going all in on the White Sox. I'm not Catholic. But I think it would be a great story for a Chicago team, blessed by the sitting Pope, who is from frickin' Chicago, to win the World Series.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Secular humanism is a 20th century term that also applies to the philosophy of the 18th century US founding fathers: Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, Franklin. But now secular humanists are the enemy: #Hegseth Lays Out His Military Vision www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran (Gift Article)
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New era in baseball: #Phillies become first team to win #MLB playoff game on #ABS challenge www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Phillies become first team to win MLB playoff game on ABS challenge (Gift Article)
The Phillies challenged an 0-2 pitch in the bottom of the 10th that was called a ball. The call was overturned, and they earned a victory.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pleased to see #GOP dispatching #JDVance to red-state Congressional districts now tilting purple, as all evidence shows the VP to be deeply almost uniquely unlikable among swing voters- ‘antipático’ is the perfect South Texas term to describe him
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A definitive ranking of all 12 teams in the Major League Baseball postseason www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Ranking the 12 teams in Major League Baseball's postseason
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Student Journalists Who Never Let the #Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
State Supreme Court Blocks #BrooklynDemocraticParty from Voting on New Chair www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/29/a...
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State Supreme Court Blocks Brooklyn Democratic Party from Voting on New Chair
The order comes hours after a state appellate court sided with reformers, tossing out party rules changes pushed by outgoing chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Brooklyn Can't Wait coalition’s goal is not just to unseat Bichotte Hermelyn, our goal is to build a party that listens to voters and fights Republicans. Changing the rules to give power to unelected insiders takes us backwards.
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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let us be clear: Brooklyn needs a fair vote by the elected District Leaders. The Chair attempting to pick her own successor after she lost an election isn’t democracy, it's cronyism, and the illegal rules changes she has fought to enact would permanently end democratic oversight of our party.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile, in other news… www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bodhana Sivanandan: British schoolgirl becomes youngest woman grandmaster
The 11-year-old has broken another chess record after a remarkable performance representing England.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Unfortunate #nyt header:It’s not ‘Brooklyn Democrats’ Who ‘Were About to Lose Power’- It’s former party apparatchiks who #Brooklyn #Democrats rejected at the polls in June & in any normal small-d democratic system would be out of power already.’They Changed the Rules’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/n...
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Brooklyn Democrats Were About to Lose Power. So They Changed the Rules. (Gift Article)
The Brooklyn Democratic Party is in the middle of a fight over who will control the organization that has shocked even seasoned political observers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I never post Shaughnessy stories but for #PedroMartinez I’ll make an exception. The best pitcher not just of the Sox but of all in baseball in my long lifetime. Period. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Pedro Martinez on Game 7 in 2003, no regrets on calling the Yankees his daddies, and a mission to help - The Boston Globe
Martinez is in town to help launch an after-school program in Lawrence, one of the many ways he tries to help kids who remind him of himself in the Dominican Republic.
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From our Brooklyn rooftop tonight
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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'Different level of buzz' as Red Sox secure date with Yanks in Wild Card round
BOSTON -- The Red Sox not only solidified their playoff seeding and a Wild Card Series matchup with the Yankees that starts on Tuesday in New York, but they got some of their recently missing offensiv...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He knows that's just going to make Mamdani more popular, right?
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Bill Orme @ormebill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I never post Shaughnessy stories but for #PedroMartinez I’ll make an exception. The best pitcher not just of the Sox but of all in baseball in my long lifetime. Period. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/s...
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Pedro Martinez on Game 7 in 2003, no regrets on calling the Yankees his daddies, and a mission to help - The Boston Globe
Martinez is in town to help launch an after-school program in Lawrence, one of the many ways he tries to help kids who remind him of himself in the Dominican Republic.
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