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🥄🥄🥄🥄🫘 League of Women Voters member. Enjoy reading and saving democracy

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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you want to vote by mail, apply for an absentee ballot ASAP. They'll start to be sent out on October 6. When you get it, complete your ballot (i.e. vote!) and mail it back ASAP ⚠️ 💡 Pro Tip: want to avoid post office timing or delays? Drop it off in person at your County Board of Elections
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 18/09/2026
As an American watching the UK Labour Party squander its historic parliamentary majority through aimless, rudderless, poll-driven governance, I hope the U.S. Democratic Party takes note that U.S. voters in 2026 do not want a Democrat-controlled Congress because they want tepid Republican governance
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/09/2026
Mark your calendars for October 17th - the No Kings day for midterms that is entirely focused on mobilizing the vote. Learn how to get involved at indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/08/2026
In the decades to come, when this moment has passed, no one will remember this deal, Marc Elias writes to David Ellison. What they will remember is that at a time when our nation’s democracy was in peril, some stood against authoritarianism while others simply tried to make deals to get theirs.
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My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/07/2026
Additionally, it drives me crazy that the default position in this country is that being here undocumented is a crime. It’s not. Further, legal status isn’t a factor in whether someone should be murdered.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/07/2026
He should just appoint someone.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When Trump says he won the 2020 election in his address to the nation tomorrow night, remember Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for lying to viewers and spreading that same lie.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yesterday Speaker Johnson forecasted his secret plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Today, the President said he loves inflation, which hit 4.2%, and thinks the numbers are great. Northwest Ohioans don’t want Social Security cuts and can’t afford higher costs.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 02/06/2026
BREAKING: Don't fall for what Blanche is suggesting - DOJ is NOT getting rid of the whole bogus slush fund deal; it's still giving Trump $1,776 billion AND still giving him (and family) a broad civil release of liability; all it is NOT doing is using the $1,776 to create a fund for J6ers and others.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Please keep Ukraine in your thoughts. Kyiv is under a massive attack by terrorist Russia. And as always the terrorists bomb civilian homes
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
All of these people can be part of saving the country they profess to love or keep allowing the authoritarian regime that swallowed their party to destroy it. This will not erase their previous misdeeds but it will place them on the right side of history.
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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yesterday I called a nominee running in a red Ohio district to see if he was interested in being considered for Blue Ohio funding. He paused and said yeah- I’ve not raised much because times are so hard and my neighbors need to eat and I don’t want someone to go without because they gave me $25.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?
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Ohio data center tax break cost $1 billion more than expected in 2025 - Signal Ohio
Ohio’s biggest tax break for data centers is more expensive than once thought. A lot more expensive.
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peggesis1.bsky.social @peggesis1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap
The New Main Street Singers, a fictional band from "A Mighty Wind"
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Listen up Democrats!. Voters admire boldness, especially when the cause is just. So act boldly, because Republicans surely will.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians across backgrounds and origins are defying authoritarian forces to fight for their freedoms, their families and their futures. May they prevail and serve as inspiration for all of us in this struggle.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A good post from @dandrezner.bsky.social about the difference between reading books and reading the wikipedia summaries of books. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-illite...
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The Illiteracy of the Trump Administration
What happens when U.S. foreign policy is run by faux intellectuals rather than people who have actually read things?
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Never been to a rally? Come anyway. Your turn to speak out is NOW! You’ll feel it the second you’re surrounded by thousands of people who refuse to give up. This Saturday. March 28. 3,000+ events. First-timers welcome. #NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/b0WkTzXP
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The many can defeat the money when we absolutely refuse to take the billionaire bait and be divided.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Please stop referring to the Voter Elimination Act by the Orwellian moniker MAGA gave it, which makes it sound good. We do not need to repeat their words (ahem, "Patriot Act," "Citizens United") but rather make clear exactly what's at stake.
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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
May primary will be first Ohio election without grace period for absentee ballots "You need to physically have that ballot to the board of elections on election night by 7.30 p.m" -Jeff Rezabek, Montgomery County Board of Elections. by Kathryn Mobley www.wyso.org/news/2026-03...
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May primary will be first Ohio election without grace period for absentee ballots
A new Ohio law will affect people who use absentee ballots to vote.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. See the problem here?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Glaciergator @glaciergator.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I need to remind people. The midterms have never been so important. Don't let people use scare tactics or make you think it won't happen. also if voting didn't matter gerrymandering wouldn't exist.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is a hard read, in part because the feds dropped the ball over and over again when victims tried to seek justice, going as far back as 1996. Had Epstein been stopped when the first complaint came in, this nation and the world would be a VERY different place. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
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Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2026
This is totally unnecessary loss of life. Same for those school children. Unconscionable. Their blood is on Trump’s hands.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Calling it SAVE Act helps MAGA. It’s the Voter Elimination Act. They name everything deliberately; repetition breeds familiarity, increases comfort & approval. We should not parrot their talking points (“Citizens United” “Alligator Alcatraz” “immigration enforcement”.)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Are you—or someone you know—turning 18 on or before Election Day, November 3, 2026 this year? 17-year-olds can register to vote now and vote in Ohio's 2026 spring primary. Register by April 6 to be heard in the primary—go to VOTE411.org
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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Worth a repeat... "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag." Molly Ivins
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you don’t want Russian tanks inside the EU, you must ensure they are destroyed in the Donbas. The cheapest way to defend Europe is to fund Ukraine to build the missiles and drones that are already decimating the Russian economy. It’s not charity
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
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brooks @brooksrocco.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Seems crazy to me the DNC would rather court a single-digit percentage of moderate Republicans, when they could focus on activating the 90 million eligible voters that weren’t even motivated enough to vote 2024
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"The strategy of waiting out the present as a forced pause is wrong; the notion of the future as an opportunity to simply return everything to how it was is wrong. A future as a deferred version of the past is an illusion. The future will consist of us. . .as we will be able to be.--Serhiy Zhadan
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Listen folks, Pam Bondi was Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019 so she's been covering up Epstein's crimes for a loooooong-ass time
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The SAVE Act is a poll tax in order to vote. It's voter suppression, pure and simple. #ProtectTheVote
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
They will be warehousing people. And treating them as objects. These are concentration camps.
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I keep the 50,000 reasons I oppose this guy in a Cava takeout bag. #SayNoMan2Homan 👎
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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is why we run everywhere. It’s quite literally my life’s work to support underfunded dems running in Red America. They speak truth to power, organize their communities, give voters a choice and a voice - and make progress. And sometimes they show the whole country what’s possible. ✨ LFG. 💙
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 31/01/2026
Open letter to our Senators: Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow. We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.
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