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Walking into January 20, 2025 with my Eyes Wide Open.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Constitution says Congress, not the president, decides how your tax money is spent. Trump canceled $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock and the independent spending watchdog calls it illegal. Trump treats your money like it’s his. #PayToPlayPresident
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wall Street traders paying for an early look at what Trump posts on Truth Social? Norm Eisen says that’s selling inside government information, and he went to court with David Chiu to stop it. Nobody elected Trump to run a side hustle with your government. #PayToPlayPresident
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
OMG you have GOT to be kidding me
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AP: Renee Good's family is suing the federal government, ICE officer Jonathan Ross, and senior Trump officials, nine months after she was shot and killed in Minneapolis. I wish the family the best of luck in getting justice for Renee. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A professor at the University of Waterloo #Canada has developed a filter to filter out microplastics from drinking water
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social Amee lays it all out for you. We’re almost there. Hang in, keep calm, and do whatever you can. That means WHATEVER you can, even if you think it’s not enough…it is. #Pinks Let’s Keep the Democratic Fundraising Haul Going shero.substack.com/p/lets-keep-...
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Let’s Keep the Democratic Fundraising Haul Going
House Majority PAC (HMP) and House Majority Forward (HMF) — House Democrats’ chief outside groups — raised a staggering $230 million in their third-quarter of fundraising (Q3), their best quarter ever...
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SAVE was built to verify federal benefits. Trump’s administration scanned at least 67 million voter registrations through it-in one Texas county up to 21% of flagged voters were citizens.Voting shouldn’t hinge on a system that can’t tell who you are. #PayToPlayPresident #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...
people.com
Rep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Incident
Rep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: a federal court in Seattle just slapped down Trump for illegally firing the U.S. Attorney there! We @democracydefendersfund.org & were proud with Ashurst Perkins to file a brief for dozens of BIPARTISAN former US attorneys advocating this outcome storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Brief of Former United States Attorneys as Amici Curiae – #23, Att. #2 in Rogoff v. Trump (W.D. Wash., 2:26-cv-02566) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Leave to File Brief as Amci Curiae, filed by Amicus Former United States as Amici Curiae. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order, # 2 Brief of Former United States Attorneys as Amici Curiae) Noti...
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Joan Hussey Local Elections Matter @joanhussey1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two counterterrorism agents were pushed out after questioning a terrorism probe tied to Stephen Miller’s wife. A top FBI official resigned over the demotions. Folks in the senior ranks of the FBI resign. In Trump’s FBI, there's someone else ready to do counterterrorism. #DV1 #PayToPlayPresident
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 01/10/2026
Billionaires have a lot invested in keeping this system exactly the way it is. Our healthcare is their wealthcare. #SheShed
Black graphic with white and yellow text reading, “The USA has no universal healthcare, but it does have 49 billionaires who made their wealth from private healthcare. Connect the dots, folks.”
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We know Trump’s Truth API sells early access to his posts. San Francisco is suing over insider trading. Natalie Harp, who posts for Trump, is a defendant. POTUS isn’t supposed to double as a subscription service to funnel inside info to Wall Street insiders! #PayToPlayPresident
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AIPAC decided they were going to set a record on the amount of money they spent against me in the primary election. $70 million. Do you know what we could do with $70 million?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love it! 👏👇
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What could go wrong? Project Meridian. U.S. Military review at mapping the weapons & strategies required for future warfare Hegseth, A Drunk Musk, A Ketamine Addict & former DOGE (how great was that?) Oh and Newt Gingrich, 83 former speaker, resigned ethics reprimand, GINGRICH NEVER IN MILITARY
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The reason why Trump is president is because the US has way too many people like this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 Anyone who purchases one of these Steinway pianos 🎹 is complicit with the traitorous grifting deceitful corruption of the PedoFelon administration. This is enraging & abhorrent to the great musicians, singers & artists who gave memorable performances with them. #Pinks #Voices4Victory
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If ashli babbitt's family can get $5 million after she literally broke into the Capitol to overturn an election, Renee Good's family should get at least triple that for ICE agents murdering her in the damn street.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some North Carolina voters only have a week left to ensure they can cast a ballot in the midterms as a result of a shady settlement the state elections board made with Trump’s Justice Department. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina mailboxes overflow with voter registration warnings after state cut a deal with Trump’s DOJ
“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 👇
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The average 30-year fixed rate just climbed to 7.28%. “We’re going to bring mortgage rates down very fast. We will drive down the rates, so you will be able to pay 2% again, and be able to refinance your homes drastically at much lower costs.” — Donald J. Trump www.wsj.com/economy/hous...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senior leaders at Customs and Border Protection were left out of the decision to use their agency’s funds for a national ad campaign featuring Trump. They found out from a news report. Trump isn’t smart enough to come up with this himself. Our guess? Stephen Miller.
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CBP leaders cut out of Trump ad buy decision
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and other leaders at the agency learned from a news report that national ads highlighting Trump were paid for with CBP funds.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your sons and daughters are
10000x safer with drag queens than frat boys btw
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 01/10/2026
🧵PENNSYLVANIA. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO VOTE NOW! 🗳️ PA works a little differently. On-demand mail ballot voting is available in some counties. Check your county’s availability, make your plan & make your voice heard. 🇺🇸 YOUR VOTE! YOUR VOICE! #Pennsylvania #Vote2026 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
🗳️ PENNSYLVANIA — YOU MAY BE ABLE TO VOTE NOW!

PA works a little differently. On-demand mail ballot voting is available in some counties.

Check your county’s availability, make your plan & make your voice heard. 🇺🇸

YOUR VOTE. YOUR VOICE.

#Pennsylvania #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Kennedy before he adopted his Foghorn Leghorn MAGA character.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h
Melber: You’re saying the VP has low T. You’ve called Mike Rogers a beta. El-Sayed: I'm just saying that they like to lead on strength. Strength is about being able to stand up to the problem. The problem is Donald Trump, and you don't see much standing up to Donald Trump
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h
El-Sayed responds to JD Vance clip: Low T JD. It's always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 23h
Authoritarianism rarely arrives announcing itself. It advances through normalized abuses, weakened institutions, manufactured enemies, and public exhaustion. Pay attention while the warning signs are still warnings.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 23h
The most dangerous part of Trump's corruption isn't the money he's pocketed. It's the precedent he's setting: that a president can be openly transactional and face zero consequences. #PayToPlayPresident
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
Todd Blanche’s motion for summary judgement in my Epstein redaction training video lawsuit is due tomorrow after a short delay. Multiple sources told me there were videos training FBI agents on how to redact Trump from the Epstein files. I’m suing to get them.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20h
Republican Congressman Mike Collins signals his intent to end Social Security: "[Old people need to] get off of Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."
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