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New Kings Democrats @newkingsdems.bsky.social · 20h

Yesterday, former Party Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, violating a court order, called a meeting to hold a vote for party chair. Now she claims Nikki Lucas was elected chair, with votes from only 13 of the 42 District Leaders. This is illegal and undemocratic.

Screenshot of email from Brooklyn Democrats account purporting to announce "Assemblywoman Nikki Lucas Elected As Party Chair"

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 20h

Defiance of court orders by a major chapter of the pro-rule-of-law party: not a good look. Glad this is the last gasp of this leadership.

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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 04/10/2026

The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 01/10/2026

Plan ahead! Anna Dorman covers how to make sure your voice is heard: 🗳️ Vote early 📍 Track your ballot 🗓️ Have a backup plan Get ballot tracking resources and more here 🔗 protdem.org/4xF6S8Y

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...

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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel

The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...

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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At a moment of real & rising antisemitism, extremism, & violence across the ideological spectrum, our communities deserve a whole-of-government response. This strategy marks an important step toward that goal — rooted in the recognition that Jewish safety and inclusive democracy must go hand-in-hand

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/09/2026

‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges

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‘Broadview Six’ prosecutor pens fiery resignation letter saying US attorney pushed for felony charges

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026

"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congress made it illegal for government money to be spent on propaganda-- including partisan and self-aggrandizing materials like this astounding ad. Americans know authoritarian, leader-worshipping propaganda when they see it, and here it is, paid for with their tax dollars in defiance of the law.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A taxpayer-funded ad telling Americans to “love” Trump, which has been accused of amounting to “propaganda,” has aired on Fox News.

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Trump’s Insane ‘Love Me’ Ad Comes With Shocking Disclaimer

The ad was aired during primetime on Fox News.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Judge Kelly ordered WH officials to reinstate the news orgs, but he exempted Trump from the order's reach. Courts commonly do this--exempt the president--as a matter of comity, but it may become relevant here that courts have the power to enjoin the president if it's necessary.

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Could not agree more with this framing.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Before midnight, DOJ told Judge Kelly the press ban of CNN, MSNow, Politico is based on their National Security reporting. But examples are core First Amendment protected reporting. First howler: WH says it is b/c POLITICO reported GOP Convention was a political disaster.

"In September 2026, Politico Playbook relied on unnamed sources to paint the Republican midterm convention in Dallas as a disaster."

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Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The White House's brief responding to CNN/Ms Now/Politico's TRO motion is a joke - legally, constitutionally, and logically. (1/5) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 23/09/2026

The White House launching "Trump TV" using taxpayer funds is propaganda, and a federal crime. @cerin.bsky.social and @rachelegoodman.bsky.social explain the law barring taxpayer-funded propaganda media and what the fallout could look like. ➡️ Read the full analysis: protdem.org/4dLXvwP

A document titled "If you can keep it" features a headline "Trump TV is propaganda — and a crime" dated September 22, 2026, with the subheading "The 'Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider' explained." Below are images of a phone displaying a "TRUMP TV" website and a person in a vehicle seen through an open window. An American flag icon is at the top right.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨Don’t want a Trump allied-billionaire to control both CBS and CNN during the 2028 election cycle? Tell @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov not to settle NOW.

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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.

Screenshot from article: “A recent example came last week when the Department of Homeland Security posted an image on social media depicting an Indian man with the words "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh."”

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching this coalition come together across profound political differences to support our democracy has been a very special thing. So much gratitude to the brief signers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 16/09/2026

The Senate Commerce Committee today passed the bipartisan JAWBONE Act, which the Knight Institute endorsed. The bill would create new safeguards against government coercion of private speech intermediaries, including social media platforms, broadcasters, and AI providers. Read more:

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Senate Committee Passes Bi-Partisan Bill to Protect Against Government Jawboning

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who else put down a Polymarket bet on “Erick Erickson and Jamelle Bouie offer the same interpretation of the GOP on the same day “?

By Jamelle Bouie
Opinion Columnist
The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Something like 1.7 million people tune in to Jimmy Kimmel on a given night. More than 9 million have watched the interview with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, which Kimmel said was forced to streaming because of FCC threats. Defiance is good business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The latest from @adamfreelander.bsky.social, untangling just what constitutes this system of government we're trying to save (and improve!) . www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Lv...

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I don't get democracy

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This weekend, Brendan Carr suggested the FCC would be issuing "guidance" to broadcasters about "fake polls." Threatening broadcasters so Americans don't learn who's likely to win midterm elections is part of the administration's strategy to interfere with those elections. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Carr Warns Broadcasters about Airing Fake Polls, Says New Guidance Could Be on the Way

In an interview on the Fox News cable news network, the FCC leader says he’s concerned fake polls could suppress voter turnout

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@protectdemocracy.org is hiring several amazing litigators for a six-month contract position, 20-40 hours/week. Join this fantastic band of humans fighting for our shared future at a pivotal moment! Apply ASAP, start October 5 or sooner. protectdemocracy.recruitee.com/o/litigation...

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Protect Democracy - Temporary Contract - Litigation Attorney | Protect Democracy

Protect Democracy is hiring contract litigators to support our work through the mid-term elections (October 2026 - March 2027).

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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just some casual antisemitic eugenics from Musk.

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Rachel Goodman @rachelegoodman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Appalled by my alma mater here. @yale.edu, how can you possibly claim to champion free expression at the moment you are taking such an anti-speech action?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/09/2026

Students and faculty want Yale to stand up for their campus, not sell them out to Trump. The Trump administration threatened to launch a DOJ investigation into Yale and instead of standing up and fighting back, President Maurie McInnis is actively trying to cut a deal.

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Bending the Knee at Yale

Why is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Part 1 of a 3-part strategy. First, delegitimize real polls (that show Trump and his party struggling). Second, promote fake polls (that show the opposite). Third, deny election results they don’t like using fake polls as the “evidence” of election malfeasance. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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How Polls Can Help or Hurt Democracy

Attacks on legitimate polls and the rise of fake polls make it hard for voters to know what to believe.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Trump ‌on Sunday said in a post on Truth ⁠Social that NBC's Kristen Welker will be reported to the FCC for ‘rebuke or ‌punishment’, after he said she reported the ⁠Republican President had mixed results ⁠in his endorsement of ⁠candidates.” I remember when this would be unthinkable

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

INCREDIBLE: "Bichotte Hermelyn sent a text ... announcing a special meeting to consider her proposed bylaw changes" [August 25 at the Thomas Jefferson Dem Club.] "The eight challengers elected in June have not yet taken office, so votes would instead be cast by district leaders who lost to them."

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 20/08/2026

Represented by @loevy.com, we’re forcing the release of these public records. This is about holding government power accountable and protecting a free press ahead of the 2026 election. Read more:

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Uncovering how public money funds government propaganda

Protect Democracy, represented by Loevy + Loevy, sues ICE and CBP to enforce FOIA requests, seeking documents detailing the departments’ collaboration with content creators.

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