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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
"Gov. Kathy Hochul really has the opportunity to lead here by calling on Speaker Heastie to pass this bill or by sponsoring it herself by including it in her budget bill."
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Bunkunin @bunkunin.bsky.social · 20h
Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10... #Brazil
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Brazilian government calls for probe into US funding of far-right causes
Report stating that Trump administration directed funds towards right-wing groups comes ahead of presidential election.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 14h
It's time for the media to stop referring to these positions as "radical leftist."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Trump DOJ keeps violating the law & keeps losing in the courts. So now they’re filing judicial misconduct complaints against judges they don’t like, even Trump appointees. I call out Todd Blanche for his rank hypocrisy as he runs around the country in partisan events. youtu.be/nZ_nR2s-ReU?...
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Trump DOJ DECLARES WAR On Judges After MAJOR COURT LOSSES!!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have one house.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💙 @wellmanformo.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social / @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @spaceforcecadet.bsky.social @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social @papillonjaune77.bsky.social @tjsbam.bsky.social @sheilaharris.bsky.social
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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam's words are a chilling reminder that THE COUNTRY KNEW WHAT TRUMP WOULD DO, WHAT HORRORS HE WAS CAPABLE OF .... AND NOW WE'RE LIVING THROUGH IT because REPUBLICANS LOVE MONEY MORE THAN THEIR COUNTRY. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo89...
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Watch Schiff's closing argument in impeachment trial of President Trump
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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rclement.bsky.social @rclement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do not go to the administration…
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHY VOTING EARLY MATTERS! #momsky#sheshed
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whykiki.bsky.social @whykiki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think media need to find a way to talk about the fact that he's not doing government, he's doing personal self-interest. I'm tired of hearing polite reports about his "policy objectives" meeting with foreign leaders or levying tariffs or restricting voting. He's not presidenting. He's Putining.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just so you know, ICE detaining Native Americans and refusing to accept tribal identification cards as proof of citizenship shows you that ICE has nothing to do with immigration status and everything to do with skin color. #TruthMatters Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com
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Chad @bchadhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm is very much NOT responsible for that. www.cbsnews.com/news/rahm-em...
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Rahm Emanuel "Begged" Obama Not to Push Health Care
Book Reports That White House Chief of Staff Wanted Dramatically Scaled Down Plan; Obama Says He Wasn't Elected to do "School Uniforms"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court ruled that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state law when he seized roughly 650,000 ballots from last year’s special redistricting election after pursuing debunked claims of a massive ballot discrepancy. 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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many years have I been telling you to keep your eye on Iowa? I know what I’m seeing on the ground and what I’ve been seeing for a couple of years… LFG!
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Epic lecturing of LAPD for violating a court order. Most of LA cops are moonlighting as ICE slave catchers.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so i’m on the train this morning and a guy gets on with a little dog and pops open a tiny folding chair and THE DOG SITS IN IT
a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel close-up of the previous photo of a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/09/2026
Russian “journalists” kept screaming at Zelenskyy “when are you going to Moscow?!” He said: “On a missile, b…ch”
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persist--007.bsky.social @persist--007.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Eight U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment, according to a letter from acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao obtained by CNN. None died.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Paxton won’t agree to debate Talarico, and we all know why. He doesn’t want to answer these questions: “Why did you give an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator? Why were you impeached… by your own party? Why do you own 15 homes on a government salary?” James Talarico
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Dave @crittersarebuggin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Guillotines.....
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
John Oliver is right: One huge company shouldn’t own your doctor, your insurer, and your pharmacy – AND get to squeeze every penny out of you at each step.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon claimed the DOJ is close to fully enlisting 1,000 federal election monitors to observe the midterms in what she said would be history's "biggest election DOJ observer effort."
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DOJ close to recruiting 1,000 election monitors for midterms, Harmeet Dhillon says
“I’ve called for, and plan to send, 1,000 to the general election jurisdictions that we’re selecting. And I’m really excited to say that we have — we’re pretty close to that number," Dhillon said.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Michigan, we're having to skimp on staples at the grocery store like meat and peanut butter just so we can fill up our gas tank for $5 a gallon and pay our outrageous monopoly utility bills.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’d highly recommend that nobody download this app. At best, it’s unfiltered propaganda. At worst, it’s spyware.
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