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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 25/09/2026
Is this on Kalshi? We hope so. Our money’s on “still no evidence for Noah’s Ark.” www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
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Noah's Ark resting place '100% confirmed' after 4,300 years
After decades of investigating a mysterious formation high in the mountains, researchers have uncovered clues that point to the final resting place of Noah's Ark.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With 11 days until voter registration ends in Texas, election officials in counties across the state are scrambling to update voter rolls, a burdensome task during their busiest time of year. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Texas election workers scramble after registration snafu leaves thousands of voters off rolls
“I don’t know if they feel confident. Some counties are more confident than others,” Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Elections Officials, said. “Right now what we’r...
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CA Supreme Court just ruled Sheriff Chad Bianco *violated state law* by seizing 650k ballots earlier this year. They did not call out the judge who allowed that unlawful seizure, but it was Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jay Kiel. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement
The twin rulings stand to make it significantly harder for local law enforcement to create election chaos and use unsubstantiated fraud claims to seize ballots outside California’s established electio...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court's use of its "emergency docket" — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket
In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
Trump hates Marc Elias because Marc keeps standing up to Trump in court — and winning. “If you think I don’t take pleasure each and every time there is a court ruling against the DOJ and this administration,” Marc says, “well, you’re wrong.” Join our fight: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Back on the chaise, depression
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bargaining (she ran to me so I could shoo away the interloper)
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Forced to share her chaise, Eva is speedrunning the stages of grief Denial and anger
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
25 September 1938 | Dutch Jewish girl, Frederika Borstrock, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. --- Children at Auschwitz Podcast: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
A vintage black and white photo of a young child seated at a table, wearing a sweater, with a thoughtful expression and hands clasped in front.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
President Trump broke with tradition to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the tarmac last night, a gesture that suggests he will take a conciliatory role during their closely watched summit, @jonlemire.bsky.social writes.
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The Deferential President
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he’s waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It has been a brutal and protracted slugfest. But I think we can finally declare a winner in the long-running "Who is the dumbest United States Senator?" competition.
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Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello friends, on Sat., Sept. 26th, don’t miss “Together in Texas: We The People 2026,” our annual live community event. As the country heads toward the 2026 midterms, we’re bringing our annual live community event to the place at the center of it all: Texas. Buy your tickets today: ms.now/together
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Together In Texas: We the People 2026
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 21/09/2026
American actress and businesswoman Jessica Alba grew up Catholic, but — like many of us — ditched the dogma later in life. More #HispanicHeritageMonth freethinkers ffrf.us/473HBtY
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
19 September 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Georges Berger, was born in Saint-Ouen. He arrived at Auschwitz on 28 August 1942 in a transport of Jews deported from Drancy. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Development of mass murder at Auschwitz: youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0
Black and white photo of a young boy wearing a turtleneck sweater.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today’s Atlantic Festival concluded with a trivia competition. How could I have said no to that?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
How did a man named Umar Kremlev go from Russian biker gang member to Putin ally to secret benefactor of Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding? 🎧 Tune in for a very special episode of ProPublica's “Paper Trail” podcast:
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Podcast: The Russian Benefactor Who Funded Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 19/09/2026
A man recovering his ability to walk is wonderful news. Turning that recovery into “proof” of God is another matter entirely. Telling amputees they might be healed if they’d just have enough faith to “step out of the wheelchair”? That isn’t hope. It’s cruel.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WaPo Exclusive: More American service members have died during the Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon's public database.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If my company killed 123 children, the U.S. government would shut us down and send me to jail
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New episode with @sykescharlie.bsky.social
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New episode with @sykescharlie.bsky.social youtu.be/6hxzQaCDy1c?...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just Googled both their names with the word fascist and in both cases the hits are from left-wingers calling *them* enablers of fascism
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Left-wing podcaster blasts Schumer, Jeffries as 'fascist collaborators'
Podcaster Jennifer Welch described Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries as "fascist collaborators" and said they were not engaged in a full opposition of Trump and his administration.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/09/2026
NEW: Democrats accused Trump of trying to "rig the election" after a whistleblower revealed DHS agents were directed to build cases against noncitizen voters at a rate of five cases per hour. “Americans should not have to fear being targeted by their own government,” Sen. Schumer said.
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Democratic senators blast Trump scheme to ‘rig the election’ by illegally accessing voter data, following whistleblower claims
“It’s unreliable data, combined with data they couldn’t get through failed litigation, being used to manufacture allegations and misidentify individuals as an ‘unlawful voter’ and that false label has...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 14/09/2026
We ended a North Dakota school district's years-long practice of reciting clergy-led Christian prayer at its graduation ceremonies — thanks to one concerned student. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4xJBiad
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"It was the thing that those of us who became Nazis pointed to as making our Nazism defensible"
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
14 September 2015 went down in #history. That is, in fact, the day the #LIGO researchers first detected a #gravitationalwave signal, formally named #GW150914. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... #cosmology #histsci #blackholes 🔭 🧪 ⚛️
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14/09/2026
🚨 USPS was once again blocked from implementing its anti-mail voting rule...by a Trump-appointed judge. This is important. As SCOTUS weighs lifting a separate block, the Trump-friendly court may find the conservative jurist's ruling compelling. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Burnett explained that while the sketch was brilliantly written, it called for "Starlett" to "come down the stairs with the curtains just hanging" on her. Mackie, thinking the visual element could be funnier, "came up with the idea of making the dress with the curtain rod. I fell on the floor."
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Carol Burnett remembers designer Bob Mackie – 'I loved him very much'
Carol Burnett remembers longtime collaborator Bob Mackie, the legendary costume designer behind her show's most hilarious gags.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump is now BILLIONS richer. While he and his family make billions, Americans are getting screwed and costs are soaring. Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov and Oversight Dems will hold them accountable.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A newly disclosed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) whistleblower report is quickly becoming evidence in multiple lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s sweeping mail voting restrictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS whistleblower report bolsters challenges to Trump’s anti-mail voting order
Voting rights groups are pointing judges to the allegations as fresh support for their warnings that the administration’s rushed new system could disrupt the delivery of thousands of ballots before No...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Where and how Putin could expand his war in Europe beyond Ukraine
The CIA director’s recent unannounced visit to Moscow has raised speculation about Russian plans to escalate attacks.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/08/2026
Jo Chase says many in her Kansas City care facility still want to vote, despite having mobility restraints that make it harder to get to the polls. So when she learned of a GOP-led scheme seeking to limit mail and absentee voting, she channeled her anger to make a plan: demdock.com/4hU7mDV
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 28/08/2026
When it comes to the cost of war, previous administrations provided hundreds of pages of detailed accounting. This administration submitted seven pages to account for $67 billion. They’re not showing their math. They’re not explaining the cost of this war.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 28/08/2026
Every face on that wall was a person. Someone loved them. Someone misses them. They should still be here. #SheShed 🎥 IG: defiancedispatch
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/08/2026
“Hitler Juden,” or Nazi Jews, represented less than 2 percent of Germany’s Jewish population—but they provide a cautionary tale of what happened when a minority community cast its vote with a political leader who despised them, Timothy W. Ryback argues.
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The Jews Who Voted for Hitler
What happened when members of a minority community cast its lot with a political leader who despised them
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s incredibly gratifying when someone you’ve interviewed circles back and asks to make an exclusive announcement on your show because you’ve earned their trust. Tomorrow at 9AM PST a recent guest has a huge announcement on Lisa Guerrero Unleashed. Hope you check it out. youtube.com/@lisaguerrer...
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Lisa Guerrero
Welcome to Lisa Guerrero UNLEASHED, a podcast hosted by award-winning investigative journalist, keynote speaker, actor, and producer. One of the most visible faces in the media, her investigations hav...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
People who’ve worked on U.S. government vaccination programs fear that kids in America will wind up fighting for their lives against preventable infections. “I don’t think I imagined it could or would be this bad,” said a former CDC vaccine leader.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/08/2026
📬 USPS’s new rule, which would implement parts of Trump’s anti-mail voting EO, gives USPS the authority to force states to adopt the new standards and refuse ballots that do not meet them. Authority that voting rights groups say USPS doesn’t have under the Constitution: demdock.com/4d5kTFc
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited to help amplify this message tomorrow morning at 9 AM Pacific on my podcast, Lisa Guerrero Unleashed. 🩷
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 26/08/2026
Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond thinks public schools have the right to host official "Prayer Walk" events. We're here to remind him of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4d4W4t4
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Andrew L. Seidel @andrewlseidel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Did Andrew Jackson really say, the Bible “the rock upon which our republic rests”? Separate the facts from the Christian nationalist propaganda right here..
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
While the Supreme Court lifted the block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order, it made no determination on whether the president’s order or the USPS rule was legal – on that score, they said, “time will tell.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Trump ultimately wants the chaos’: States can’t implement anti-mail voting order before midterms, experts warn
“We are way too close to an election for any major changes,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold told Democracy Docket.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 26/08/2026
Looking for your next thought-provoking read? 💭🤔 We've got you covered. The #FFRFSummerReading challenge is still on! Join now and submit by 9/18. ➡️ ffrf.us/4fC1XAe
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