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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1h

tbh i think we’re going to have a large enough majority that you don’t have to vote for House Democrats that do this

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1h

the conservative majority did shadow docket bullshit over putting someone to death??

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 7h

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

The Stop The Settlements Act would "prohibit anyone from importing any goods produced, wholly or in part, in any Israeli settlements or outposts in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) or Gaza" like the UK's recently announced ban. It would also impose a comprehensive sanctions regime.

What the Bill Would Do:
Sanctions:
• The Stop the Settlements Act requires the President to sanction any foreign entity or individual that:
o Is responsible for, complicit in, or directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in the
establishment of new Israeli settlements or outposts in the West Bank or Gaza on or after Sep 30,
2026
o Invests in or constructs infrastructure designed to facilitate the establishment of new Israeli
settlements or outposts or expand existing Israeli settlements or outposts
o Constructs or develops settlements in the area known as “E1,” a project that would cut the West
Bank in two and isolate East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank
o Facilitates the transfer of Israeli civilian population into Israeli settlements or outposts on or after
September 30, 2026
o Is a leader or official of any entity, including government entities, that has engaged in these
actions or of any entities sanctioned under this act.
• The bill would also allow for sanctions on any foreign entity or individual that:
o Participates in activities related to financing, planning, construction, expansion, or maintenance
of existing Israeli settlements or outposts that the President determines undermines the viability
of a future Palestinian state
o Assists, supports, or is owned or controlled by a sanctioned entity
• The sanctions to be imposed include revocation of visas, prohibitions on issuance of new visas, and the
blocking of a sanctioned entity’s assets that are in the jurisdiction of the United States.
• The bill includes the ability to waive sanctions for 12 months (renewable once), with reports to
Congress, and exemptions for humanitarian activities, in support of treaty obligations, and national
security activities.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Guidance:
• The Stop the Settlements Act would require the director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to
issue guidance to financial institutions regarding the activities subject to sancti…

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 6h

The Bible actually does have something to say about this: Exodus 20:16: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 12h

Benson and El-Sayed winning by about the same margin would be hilarious

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 12h

this is functionally equivalent to the Trump administration saying the Trump administration can do something, since immigration “judges” are part of the executive branch

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19h

This is a good reminder not to run Shapiro if you don’t want to answer ads about Ellen Greenberg

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 13h

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20h

Israel's horrific, in your face conduct, combined with the suppression of antizionist criticism by pro-Israel political and social elites, has created a kind of cognitive permission structure to deny that Jews face any oppression whatsoever.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 13h

including the audio in the piece is hilarious

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

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14h

Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 19h

"why don't women report rapes"

Tmz tweets "cornell gang rape accusers seeks to keep her identity secret, fears retribution"

Someone retweets with the caption "the world needs to know who this lying whore is so she can never get a husband"

And someone replies "no why they need to know who she is so she can't get prosecuted and fucking jailed. They do not deserve to be free"

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i really don’t like this happening concurrently to the burnerverse bullshit

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

I think people should ask their college to ban this fraternity on college campuses across the country

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

he deserved to win after the fucking Tea Party cut the gas line to his brother’s house because Perriello voted for the ACA

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

taking a break from defending the sanctity of women’s sports to dunk on people for watching women’s sports

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"A Staten Island judge" stop right there we shouldn't have those

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

love that whoever copy edits this stuff continues to be concussed

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

really says something about where we are as a country that oppo against a Democratic Senate candidate is just “expressed a baseline level of empathy for undocumented immigrants”

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The appeals court has sided with New Kings Democrats in Brooklyn Democratic party struggle, ordering the Aug. 25 rule changes voted on by prior district leaders, calling them "null and void."

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

very embarrassing that nobody on the Senate GOP knows ball

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

no amount of glowing profiles will get me to believe Rahm Emanuel’s presidential campaign is remotely viable

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

wish i could pretend this was unique to shitty Republican candidates running in red states but I’m pretty sure Eric Adams was not living in NYC when he was elected mayor (also, neither was Cuomo when he was running for mayor)

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 28/09/2026

these people do not care about the safety and lives of our children

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Word the street is Sherrod hasn’t voted since early 2025

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

really treating this with the gravity it deserves, Ken

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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

do you guys know Tether is one of the largest holders of US Treasuries lol

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly, by choice, especially after the brief BLM diversity push a few years ago. Country quite intentionally avoids non-white listeners and a music writer knows this.

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

American country music has purposefully made itself hostile to large swathes of the country; i’m not sure why it’s surprising that people would not have listened to a charting song in that genre lol

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

Raspberries should hold the place in culinary culture that strawberries do and I’m tired of pretending otherwise

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MGP fucking sucks but she was correct that Chuy Garcia deserved to be censured

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