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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
📬 USPS delays this midterm season could cause your mail ballot to not be counted. Nearly half the zip codes in the lower 48 will be affected by new USPS procedures. We mapped those zip codes to help you figure out whether your mail ballot could be affected ⬇️
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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?
Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20h
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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JMay🍁⚖️🏝️🏖️🪖🇨🇦 @bubbles9333.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Robert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US megachurch pastor released from jail after pleading guilty to child sex abuse
Robert Morris, who started Gateway church, pleaded guilty in October to sexually abusing girl in the 1980s
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 07/10/2026
With the $11 billion merger of Paramount-Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery, just five corporations now control 90% of the U.S. media landscape. Ali Velshi explains why mega media mergers pose a threat to democracy.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Jen d’Arc @jenonymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t even know how to describe this beyond “sick and grotesque.” This guy is one of the fascist tech bros favorite “philosophers”— would be great if Musk and Thiel got half as many questions about Yarvin as random Democrats get about toxic left wing influencers they have never met or endorsed.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge them harshly. If they have the money to winter in Fla they have the money to go literally anywhere else. Plenty of places in Mexico, Central America, Europe, etc. with warmer climes. Or they could choose to stay in Canada and winter in Victoria where it’s mild & flowers bloom in Jan & Feb.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption, happening every day, right in front of us. A constitutional order that cannot end & severely punish this is not really worth saving. We need massive institutional reform.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It goes to the millions of Americans who are not on the streets every day putting the necessary pressure on Congress to put a stop to this.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same. 100%
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Literally every single one of them. Americans should be on the streets by the millions.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My father was forcibly removed from his parents as a child at the start of WW2 when Soviets invaded Poland and took 2 million Poles to Siberian gulags. Family separation as cruelty to others is nothing new. He was traumatized for life, and passed that trauma down.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now they won’t even get out on the streets en masse. In 2017 there were spontaneous protests over a *proposed* Muslim ban.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get out on the streets ffs. It’s not enough to vote. Put pressure on Congress to do something.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why the everloving F aren’t millions of Americans on the streets. There were spontaneous protests over a *planned* Muslim ban in 2017. Now y’all are trafficking children and adults to 3rd world countries & untold numbers are dying or traumatized beyond belief for life.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This alone should be causing riots.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Until millions get out on the streets and pressure government, they will continue unabated.
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Would Sam Altman accept some bad things happening to his technology. What an utter sociopath.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again why go there???🤬 Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill Canadians who own property in Florida describe the threats to shake them down for more money as just the latest insult www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This site is one of the most contaminated sites in the entire country. It's a former military barracks where forever chemicals in drinking water have been found to be 575,000x over the federal limit. It's run by LaSalle Corrections foundation, the "charitable" arm of the LaSalle.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At the risk of aging myself, I'm going to start this with... Back in my day... This brand of blatant, up-front corruption would have been a major news story. He's literally buying votes. Where have you gone, Woodward and Bernstein?
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada…” Can we stop both siding this yet? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sharing again now that covid vaccine slots are starting to open up in Canada 😊 I’m not sure why Canadian public health units aren’t talking about long covid at all but it’s an important reason to keep up with vaccines if you can (I have my appt tomorrow morning)
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I caught german measles as a baby. I can attest. It’s been a life of all manner of never-ending allergies and autoimmune diseases. Don’t do this to your kids.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Re-elected Doug Ford no less
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Brooke Fairplay Nasty Canadian🍁🌻🎗🏳‍🌈 @brookefairplay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Michael J. Fox is promoted from Officer of the Order of Canada (2010) to Companion of the Order of Canada - the highest level of the honour - by Governor General Louise Arbour.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was talking with somebody last night about whether today's plutocrats were objectively "worse" than original Gilded Age. Them: "Well, what are your examples?" Me: "Big three: Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg. "Then Ellisons, Kochs, Singer, Schwarzman. Princelings like Lutnick, Uihlein. No contest."
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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadian TV show 'Mayday' cited by passenger who thwarted Flydubai attack - A passenger who helped avert a catastrophe on a FlyDubai flight after the pilot was stabbed mid-air has said he credited a Canadian-made TV show for knowing how to seize control of the aircraft.
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Canadian TV show 'Mayday' cited by passenger who thwarted Flydubai attack
A passenger who helped avert a catastrophe on a FlyDubai flight after the pilot was stabbed mid-air has said he credited a Canadian-made TV show for knowing how to seize control of the aircraft.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at Project 2025. Look at all the billionaire tech oligarchs holding up Trump. Look at the many millions who voted for this. And look at the millions more who aren’t on the streets putting the necessary fear and pressure on those in govt to stop it. Y’all wear this.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It starts with millions on the streets putting the necessary pressure on Congress, but for some reason no one outside America can understand, that ain’t happening.
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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OCTOBER 17, 2026 Nationwide Day of Action 🇺🇸 #NoKingsDay🇺🇸 #NOKINGS🇺🇸 #HoldDJTaccountable #RestoreTheRuleOfLaw🇺🇸 #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸 #DefendOurHonor🇺🇸 #RebuildChecksAndBalances #RegisterToVote🇺🇸 #CheckYourVoterRegistration #VoteEarly🇺🇸 #VoteBlue💙 #VoteOutGOPHouse #VoteOutGOPSenate www.nokings.org
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When are y’all gonna be angry enough to take to the streets and finally put the necessary pressure on Congress?
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Basically nothing. There were spontaneous protests in 2017 over a proposed Muslim ban. Now y’all are trafficking & murdering untold numbers of people incl children and the response has been tepid at best. The world is watching in disbelief.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The rest of the world will never forget how Americans knew, and yet stayed home. Why the streets aren’t filled with millions, putting the necessary pressure on Congress to act, is a shame y’all will wear forever.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It falls on the shoulders of every American not on the streets putting the necessary pressure on Congress.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doug “Pertect Ontario!” Ford spent $189M of our money to call a snap election so he would have “a clear mandate to pertect Ontario from US tariffs!” and another $75M to run anti-tariff ads and now Stelco’s poised to lay off 350 Canadian workers, but rest assured Doug still has his eye on the ball.
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where are the mass protests? In 2017 there were spontaneous protests over a *proposed* Muslim ban. Why aren’t there millions on the streets now? The world is watching Americans do nothing to put the necessary pressure on Congress. You’ve lost your humanity.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gosh, why wouldn't people want to visit the country that's disappearing and trafficking human beings every day
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Persister @persister.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I question why the gender neutral language. It’s by far the male drivers. I continue to be astounded at the degree of hoops men (and a lot of women) consistently go through to avoid calling out men’s behaviors.
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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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