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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
CNN and MS NOW are complicit in Trump’s illegal scheme to steal taxpayer money for political ads. Why are they accepting stolen money to run illegal ads?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Pentagon is preparing to cut 20% of senior military posts as his top envoys discuss sanctions relief, energy deals, and economic cooperation with Putin’s team. The timing is raising serious questions.
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Trump's Hegseth Plans 20% Cut to Senior Military Posts as Putin Envoy Courts U.S.
As the Pentagon prepares to downgrade or eliminate senior billets by January 1, 2027, Trump officials are discussing Russian energy and economic cooperation while Moscow's war on Ukraine continues.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A very long week in court. So, I am setting a another ambitious goal this weekend of 1000 new Democracy Docket subscribers. No spam, or unwanted emails. Just information and analysis about what is happening to voting and elections. Link: demdock.com/4w6emld
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is literally nothing the President could do that 3 of the Supreme Court Justices would find illegal. Let that set in…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/09/2026
The "Office of Remigration" funnels tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to foreign governments—many of them authoritarian and riddled with human rights abuses—to serve as third-country destinations for deported refugees. Keep your ability to feel shock.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the GOP-controlled government can only propagandize and prevaricate, the truth becomes a state secret, and the media becomes a national security risk. This is, essentially, an algorithmic “1984” brought to you by the party most ready to cite Orwell.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
See the difference? 👀
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I am setting a very ambitious goal this weekend of 1000 new Democracy Docket subscribers. No spam, or unwanted emails. Just information and analysis about what is happening to voting and elections. Link: demdock.com/4w6emld
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Where is the accountability? I don’t want to hear another Republican talk about Jesus Christ, morality, or family values ever again. They are the party of psychopaths, pedophiles, idiots, and troglodytes.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The worst human being to ever occupy the office. Just reprehensible scum.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had, and it's not even close.
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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A reminder that russia started a human safari on civilians across Ukraine years ago and it continues to this day. One of the most barbaric acts of terror imaginable against innocent people. russia did that.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Republicans JUST blocked Democrats' bill that would have ENDED Trump's tariffs on Canada and his ability to keep starting these trade wars. This would have saved Americans THOUSANDS of dollars. But Republicans chose once again to put Trump's approval over the American people.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Donald Trump is the weakest, most craven man in American history.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump is suppressing free speech by having the FCC target late night interviews of democratic candidates to pull them from the air. This is banana republic fascism. Not a single legacy media is covering this today. You live in a dictatorship and your institutions do not care.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend. “It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law. (Published June)
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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid
Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalat...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨Happening Now🚨 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Mail voting live updates: Judge weighs fate of Trump’s anti-voting executive order
This morning's hearing may be the most consequential moment yet in the months-long legal fight over Trump's attempt to restrict mail voting before the midterms.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/09/2026
@samsteindc.bsky.social reacts to Pierre Damas Bel’s suicide after he lost his temporary protected status: “He wasn't a criminal. He went by the books; he followed the law. I cannot believe that this is how we are treating people.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW: A bombshell whistleblower report alleged that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) brazenly violated multiple court orders to secretly advance President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting ahead of the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS repeatedly defied courts to advance Trump’s mail voting attack, whistleblower alleges
The whistleblower also said the Postal Service disregarded orders as the DOJ was seeking legal relief from the Supreme Court.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/08/2026
"There’s nothing in the Constitution that makes the Supreme Court the sovereign monarch of everyone and everything in America. We’ve just grown to tolerate it because, so far, it hasn’t been abjectly abused. Those days are (tragically) over."
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John Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the Law
The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social resign
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A mail-in ballot does not pose a health risk. It will not cause panic if exposed to the public. It's a piece of paper marked with a pen that is only dangerous to authoritarians wishing to rule rather than govern with the consent of their citizens. newsletters.democracydocket.com/cremated-rem...
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Cremated remains, fake explosives and your ballot
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Supreme Court no longer pretends the law matters. It’s a naked politica instrument for oligarchy and a revanchist conservative ideology that holds no contact with reality. The conservative justices should be tried for treason.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries needs to resign from congress yesterday.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If the media corporations want people like me and you to fight for their constitutional rights, maybe they should stand up and start protecting their own damn constitutional rights rather than holding black-tie events honoring the guy. newsletters.democracydocket.com/i-was-told-i...
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I was told I worried too much
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/08/2026
Today is national flag day for #Ukraine Slava Ukrainii! They will win
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Waving Flag of Ukraine with Trident Emblem
ALT: Waving Flag of Ukraine with Trident Emblem
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm Marc Elias, voting rights attorney and founder of Democracy Docket. Ask me anything about Donald Trump's threats to the 2026 midterms — Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET. www.reddit.com/r/DemocracyD...
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If Republicans want to live in a totalitarian dystopia where they are fed lies and people are considered state property, I have some advice. Move to Russia.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fascinating how little coverage there is of the WWIII precipice we’re on because Putin doesn’t think Trump will honor our NATO obligations, something every Republican would have found an act of treason in recent past. This is a totalitarian fascist party, the GOP, and the media is complicit.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
NEW: At ProPublica, we file a lot of public records requests. But since the start of the second Trump administration, writes news apps developer @shaw.al, getting public records has become a “Kafkaesque” process of bounced emails and broken portals.
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Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?
Asking the federal government for public records didn’t always feel like a shell game. But bounced emails and broken portals seem like the new normal.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social
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He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.
Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Welcome to fascist America. Thank your local Republican.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I had no idea how many primitive people riddled with psych problems and troglodytic atavisms existed in the in the States until MAGA came along. Turns out, it’s tens of millions. This larger problem cannot be fixed in an election. We must excise the miseducators, propagandists, and demagogues.
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Over 1 million Americans died from COVID. Fauci tried his best, while Trump told people to drink bleach. The Republicans are running a full coverup of the Epstein files and are now trying to engage in pure McCarthyism. Looks like they’ve studied every fascist in history and asked: can we do that?
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pacificletters.bsky.social @pacificletters.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Will Americans finally understand that ICE is the vanguard of an American gestapo, which will start with the “parasitic” immigrants and end with a totalitarian police state? How many lawful residents need to be interned in camps before the people do anything?
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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