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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 14h

In light of that Atlantic article going around featuring the traumatized truck driver who hit Pierre Damas Bel, I'll re-up what I wrote a month ago. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/there-i...

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Blood on J.D. Vance’s hands

A young Haitian man walked in front of a truck. His blood is on J.D. Vance’s hands

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14h

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...

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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18h

I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 18h

Angie Nixon is running a campaign that people who want change in the D party have long called for: Go on the attack, be aggressive on ICE, talk about Democratic values—what liberals can provide for the public to make the country better—and criticize Republican bad values. This is the way in FL.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Only if we let him. Musk absolutely stole 2024 for Trump, but not in the way people think. He spent hundreds of millions. He manipulated the X algorithm. He literally bought votes in multiple states. He didn’t - and can’t - change any votes, and nobody is falling for his bullshit this time.

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 20h

Hey remember when Georgia lawmakers made it illegal to give *water* to citizens waiting in super long lines to vote?

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 21h

To the "guns = freedom" crowd: The fact that Minneapolans placed thei unarmed bodies in between a Masked and unaccountable government brute squad and our rights—your rights—should give you goosebumps. The American people will be free, because the 1st amendment is our most powerful weapon.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wow, imagine if Trump’s legacy was America becoming a democracy.

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Guys: I think there might be a more straightforward explanation for Democrats doing well in the upcoming election than "voter fraud"

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey remember that time when the infrastructure the US had built to track and mitigate infectious diseases overseas was shuttered in Asia right before COVID went out of control? No reason. Just thought I'd bring it up.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spotted in the DC Metro

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defenders Day is celebrated in Ukraine today. Ukraine exists and remains independent solely because there are men and women who defend her. They are concrete names, fates, people. Glory to all who defend Ukraine. Eternal memory to fallen Heroes and Heroines.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”

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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

I’m on the Senate floor to force a vote to block Trump’s illegal line item veto of funding already authorized by Congress. He’s violating the Constitution—we need to stop it!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We fight for democracy by showing up, not just where winning is easy, but where someone has been told not to even bother. I ran in one of those places, and I lost, but the next Democrat won’t have to start from scratch. Now imagine doing that in every district. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

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The Only Race We Can’t Win...

Is the one we don’t run

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The president is pissing off all the Davids of the world as the secretary of war molds our military into a bigger, dumber Goliath

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Bible does support the idea that unlevened bread can be transubstantiated into flesh so, you know, I don't really look to the Bible as the definitive source on trans issues.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ignore the polls. Just assume EVERY battleground race is super close, assume they’re all a dead heat. Because that’s the truth. So why look at the polls? You already know what the deal is. All these battleground races are super, super close. Period. From here on out, ignore the polls. Vote.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But Schmitt clearly did not have *any additional evidence that Willis met with Smith* (separate issue as to why this would have been a big deal). Like this guy was Attorney General for Missouri and his whole case was Smith went to a basketball game in a city where another Trump enemy lived? WTF?

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A video of Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt looking visibly stunned during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing circulated on social media after her colleague, GOP Senator Eric Schmitt, stumbled badly in his questioning of former special counsel Jack Smith.

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Katie Britt’s reaction says it all as Jack Smith gotcha moment goes up in flames - AOL

The exchange unravelled after Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt mistook a Caitlin Clark college basketball game in Maryland for an NBA game in Atlanta

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Bok bok bok bok"—Ken Paxton, man's man. Alpha male. Meat eater.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay. I’m out of jokes. John Kennedy talking about throwing up in his mouth made me throw up in mine. Eric Schmitt is a moron. Katie Britt is the Stepford wife we never asked for, and the GOP should stop wasting everyone’s time with performative bullshit when people are scared and suffering.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In many red states, it's simply a question of whether you can get Trump's endorsement. So we wind up with idiots like Eric Schmitt, Tuberville and Darline Graham, if she wins I mean, Georgia Republicans nominated Herschel Walker because Trump told them to, for G-d's sake. And he almost beat Ossoff

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 30/09/2026

"Russia is testing how far it can go until there is a reaction," Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya tells #EuropeToday. Full interview: l.euronews.com/W7XN

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.

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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026

Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apparently Justice just came to this conclusion after taking the opposite position for over a decade.

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 29/09/2026

9/29 Mainer-slash-historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the best way Mainers can influence the Senate election, speaking at a campaign event for Troy Jackson at USM in Portland Monday evening #maine #MEpolitics

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How scared are Missouri Republicans about their anti-abortion amendment not passing in November? They are running commercials that don’t even mention the amendment will ban abortion… because they know we already gave women the constitutional right to abortion. VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 3.

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pekerpotpie.bsky.social @pekerpotpie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fact check: he was appointed to make sure the dumbshits don't do white house shit

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shamed into doing their job

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One huge reason I think America remains extremely under-concerned about Trump bowing to Putin is that they have no real concept of how overwhelmingly Russia fucked us in 2016.

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How Russia grabbed Trump and his cronies by the nuts in 2016

YouTube video by emptywheel

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