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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In my personal newsletter: 27 races (that aren’t for House, Senate, or governor) that you could & should donate to. amandalitman.substack.com/p/where-to-d...
amandalitman.substack.com
Where to donate now
Besides all the big obvious top of the ticket stuff...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
404media.co
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
alright, who is mobilizing against this? how do we overturn this bullshit garbage as election overthrow effort.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/12/2025
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. 

"So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
FDA Slow Walking a Long-Awaited Abortion Pill Safety Study
The Food and Drug Administration has delayed a promised review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary’s request to put it off until after the midterm elections,...
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/
propublica.org
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/11/2025
yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/10/2025
“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
propublica.org
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
the most corrupt administration in my lifetime
New York Times article reads: "Mr. Zhao had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023 and served four months in federal prison, after a yearslong investigation by financial regulators and U.S. prosecutors.

“President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Thursday. “The Biden administration’s war on crypto is over.”

The pardon was the latest example of how high-profile business partners of Mr. Trump and his family have benefited from his rollback of the wide-ranging crypto crackdown orchestrated by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. To seek the pardon, Mr. Zhao hired lawyers and lobbyists with ties to the Trump administration, while Binance struck a business deal with World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto start-up."
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#SCOTUS denies a stay of execution to Alabama death-row prisoner Anthony Boyd, over *quite* a dissent from the three Democratic appointees, written by Justice Sotomayor, about the problems with nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the
stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they
climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirtysecond mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute
passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long
time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally,
you make it to four minutes. Hit stop.
Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating.
You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are
strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping
your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the
gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to
four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of
Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air. Andhe will thrash violently against the restraints holding him
in place as he experiences this intense psychological torment until he finally loses consciousness. Just short of
twenty minutes later, Boyd will be declared dead.
Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing
squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a
torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not.
This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth
Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. Because the Court should have instead granted a
stay of execution and Boyd’s petition for certiorari, I respectfully dissent.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 21/10/2025
Why the fuck are Democrats confirming this despot's judges. Why are Democrats giving a single fucking inch on anything, while he is waging war on our country? Be. A. Fucking. Opposition. Party.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I'll take my shot at refutation. I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is. You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I dunno, feels like reaching the “hiding your neighbors from the masked secret police” stage of things in like 9 months doesn’t bode well for the next couple of years.
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atticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is the lesson of 2025
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage. newrepublic.com/article/2014...
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
thank you brett kavanaugh!
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.
nytimes.com
After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2025
that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/09/2025
white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 25/09/2025
I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”— Wilhoit’s Law
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2025
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/09/2025
From the point of view of South Korea, the ICE raid on the Hyundai-LG battery factory in Georgia feels especially Kafkaesque: www.thebulwark.com/p/every-day-...
Screenshot of a section of a Bulwark newsletter from 9 September 2025: "From the point of view of the South Koreans, the entire story is Kafkaesque. They’re trying to build one of their factories in America, like Trump supposedly wants. To build it, they need a number of skilled supervisors on the floor who have experience at their preexisting factories—which means they need South Koreans. But the U.S. work-visa process is already complicated enough that it’s difficult getting the people they need over here. Some Koreans are able to get the H-1B work visas they need, while others are here on “gray zone” authorizations like a B-1 business visa. But instead of working with them to make this system easier to navigate, the White House turns around and rounds their engineers up.

The icing on the cake is why the raid reportedly happened in the first place. Tori Branum, a Georgia Republican currently running for Congress, claims to have called in a tip to ICE against the plant. Just what the people of Georgia need: a politician who’s willing to do the hard thing and sabotage the construction of a new factory in the state in order to score immigration brownie points with the base."
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/09/2025
The Supreme Court really said
The Family Guy meme from the turban episode. Peter sitting in a car. There's a chart that says OK not OK. The OK side is white. And not OK side is brown
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