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⧉ @smilingnodding.bsky.social · 5h
if trump sent out $5,000 checks before the midterms I’d vote for him so hard. if he made them $10k I’d vote for him even harder. if he sent out $100k checks right now I’d vote donald trump for president in the midterm election like my life depended on it
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h
NEW: The GOP is suing election officials in a key Michigan city, claiming they’re appointing more Democrats than Republicans as election inspectors. It's a sign that Republicans could seek to interfere with Michigan’s voting or counting process, as they did in 2020. demdock.com/3UkaTlp
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Republicans sue for more poll watchers in key Michigan city
The effort could be a sign that the GOP plans to try to inject chaos into Michigan’s voting or counting process, as it did in 2020.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 5h
Maybe the local officials should’ve told their Democratic governor that the data center was having a peaceful Free Palestine encampment, they’d have sent in the state police to destroy it right away
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Nissim @nissimss.bsky.social · 5h
Trump Lost the Nobel. Then He Declared War on the World Court While Netanyahu Compared the Nobel Committee to Goebbels With A Blood Lust For Jews. Guess Why?
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Navi Pillay Won the Peace Prize. Trump and Netanyahu Lost Their Minds Because The Two Men Most Afraid Being In THAT Courtroom Are Teriffied
The Nobel honoured international law and those who prosecute war crimes and genocide. Trump and Netanyahu answered by sanctioning the court that could hold them to it, sooner than later.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 5h
And now we begin to see what Putin gets out of his deal with Trump. We'll see more details leaked out over the next several days.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
In 2016, I was the general counsel to the Clinton campaign. In 2022, Trump sued me and others for RICO. The case was dismissed. Trump and his lawyers were sanctioned. Now, they have asked SCOTUS to hear the case. I will never back down. I will never stop fighting. When we fight we win.💪⚖️🗳️
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6h
New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...
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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years
A Federal Reserve study found overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6h
The Golden Age…
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 6h
*goes to nearest data center to set the entire complex on fire, listening for the first server to cry out in pain*
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 6h
being able to identify moments that would be painful to humans (based on the situational language programmed into it) IS NOT the same as emoting or feeling pain. machines can't feel shit! and llms pushed as consumer goods while destroying all the ecology it touches *are* shit.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 6h
Become ungovernable
Cat in store with no cats allowed sign on the door
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h
Really enjoyed talking to @thorbenson.bsky.social at @atrupar.com's great Public Notice site about the three pillars of Trumpism (tariffs, ethnic purges, America First militarism) and how they're all eroding/collapsing:
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
With Republicans facing increasingly dire prospects in the midterms, some of President Donald Trump’s most desperate supporters have urged him to declare a national emergency and seize control of the elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers say an obscure rule on Wi-Fi routers means Trump can decide how votes are counted. Here’s why they’re wrong
"The Commerce secretary doesn't have more power than the president. The president has zero power over elections in the United States.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21h
Rock star.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21h
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21h
When I was in college, Jack Thompson came to my campus and claimed that 2 Live Crew was the cause of rape. Every accusation, in addition to the racism, is a confession.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
Twice in the last week complete strangers have told me to vote early, just in the course of normal chitchat about the weather
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 20h
The man best known for arresting single moms over $50? Hard to imagine
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h
It may be too late to reverse years of tech-induced harms, but there is still time to unfriend a few billionaires. trib.al/cEZwa2n
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The Unbearable, Unstoppable Moguls of Digger and The Social Reckoning
Two movies, two unfolding catastrophes. And in both movies, holding the rich to account is an epic struggle.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20h
the scariest and most correct conspiracy theory is that every one of America's political leaders is one or two birth-zip codes away from being a realtor with a mirror tray and sweaty rolled-up $20 bill in their front seat armrest and a basement pool table they scream at their kids for scuffing up
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20h
it remains funny to me that people believe in things like the Illuminati and the Freemasons and whatnot when it is so obvious the world is run by the drunkest C-student frat boys who could legacy their way into the ancestral mid-tier business schools where they spawn
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 20h
Scientists like this are literally the reason why women don't get anesthetics during IUD placement. just a stones throw away from the medieval thinking that 'animals don't feel pain' Its an epistemology rooted in a belief that everything outside a white man's experience is inherently dubious.
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A secret third thing @secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 20h
babies are very obviously conscious, otherwise they wouldn't be able to laugh when I make silly faces at them. there, just saved science millions of dollars
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do we really need to explain to people that it is really, REALLY important to read to young children? Like, you, personally, need to read to your child - your voice, your face, your hand gestures, your lap, your arms, your closeness. What kind of parent doesn't know this in their bones?
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Don’t threaten us with a good time.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To match JD Vance being the most directlyand outwardly anti-Christian adult Catholic convert in American history. A tough competition.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/10/2026
Yet again, the Georgia senator showed in Thursday’s debate that he knows how to throw haymakers. Until someone else proves otherwise, he’s the front-runner for 2028. trib.al/e9n5MFF
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Jon Ossoff Just Delivered Maybe the Greatest Debate Zinger in Ages
Yet again, the Georgia senator showed in Thursday’s debate that he knows how to throw haymakers. Until someone else proves otherwise, he’s the front-runner for 2028.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/10/2026
I hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?
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Prism @prismreports.org · 09/10/2026
“When I got out, I felt so happy because I had my son in my belly & I thank God that I am out of that detention center. I never wish this on anyone.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains an integral part of the system, Edith Romero reports.
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Pregnant women in ICE detention face policies shaped by eugenics
The experiences of detained women show that the American eugenics movement remains an integral part of the system
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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everything I see re that case just gets worse between the blatant attempts to gaslight & the texts clearly showing she was far from the only one. Hope Yates can actually sort it out but I hope the Jane Doe bankrupts the school tbh. Aside from any way she can get peace.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Hold up, let them cook!
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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was amazin
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And, if you are unaware of my longstanding and repeatedly expressed views here …
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Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law
Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck yeah, Turnverein ruled “Hey you wanna lift heavy weights and discuss liberalism and human rights?” “Hell yeah brother” Turners formed some of the very first and oldest gyms in the US when they arrived after the Revolutions of 1848. That’s right, gym culture belongs to intellectual lefties
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
not now kitten, mommy went too hard in the pit tonight and needs to lie down
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/10/2026
The Department of Justice is celebrating what it claims is the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history.” trib.al/pDPF60l
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40 People at Risk of Losing Citizenship as DOJ Amps Up Crusade
The Department of Justice is celebrating what it claims is the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history.”
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine what the polling must have looked like. The backlash to Trump’s creepy taxpayer ads was so intense he is now saying his super PAC will pay for them. (We will need to monitor whether he follows through with that promise!) The power of public opinion when galvanized is something to behold
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Public Opinion Gets to Trump
Taxpayers won’t pay for his silly ads trying to bolster his toxic brand.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/10/2026
Dude with a MAGA hat tried using his SNAP card at Whole Foods today and the register clerk called security.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
These kids were maybe six or seven years old when Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" remark came to public light. Practically their entire lives have been shaped by public figures openly treating women (and people of color and immigrants) as property. Where do we even start with the deconditioning
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
Rape culture has destroyed the brains of these teenagers long before CTE could ever get to them. Completely learning the wrong lessons from the seven alleged Cornell rapists. What are we doing here.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
I don't care if this is a bunch of high school football players in Idaho. Writing “Let her hang from a ligh(t) post and let the birds pick at her brain for days” and “(You) think Cornell was bad just wait for us” should be grounds for immediate expulsion and charges filed.
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Threats in Timberline football chat lead to police inquiry
A private Timberline High School football group chat sparked outrage with alleged death threats and sexual violence references toward a female student, prompting a Boise Police Department investigatio...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I promise you, there are Democrats in congress right now who still believe it is possible to go back to before Trump. It is not. Republicans are spending Trump’s term as Vought intended. They are intentionally breaking government in as many places as they can to make going back impossible.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is good. The people behind Project 2025 are very very smart and are consciously doing the kind of damage that is virtually impossible to undo. None of the old-school temporary rule-changes that will just be flipped back once the Democrats are in office.
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