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Renae Simmons

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 4h
The Chamber’s Director of Communications, Ryan Hecht, says the candidates are not provided with the verbatim questions in advance but were provided with the topics.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: A source familiar with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Gov forum says the candidates were provided with moderator Ed Sealover’s questions, word for word, in advance. GOP candidate Victor Marx is reading prepared answers, word for word, from a notebook on his lap.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: GOP Rep Gabe Evans and Manny Rutinel (D) repeated familiar talking points in their only, untelevised debate of the swing #CO8 race, continuing to avoid direct questions about their views and records
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 19h
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14h
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
JUST FILED with insights from Heather Cox Richardson: Backlash grows against a Trump campaign rally USS Abraham Lincoln returns New lawsuit seeks to halt future Trump taxpayer-funded ads Big day in court for CNN Lots of enterprise reporting here macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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DAY AHEAD - My Daily Editorial Note
October 7, 2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h
Once a week, for the next 10 weeks, I’m going to share a short passage from my book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable. This isn’t a greatest hits collection. I want to revisit ideas that still feel useful for where we are now and that will help us keep the Republic. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-republ...
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The Republic, Revisited
Ten Essays for Right Now
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Colorado’s Kyle Clark reports Tina Peters is out of prison and again trying to help Trump overthrow our democracy and steal the next election. jared polis care to comment?
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10h
They are burying restrictions or demands on what can or can’t be funded at the Smithsonian in footnotes to apportionments. And some of those footnotes are VERY precise…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h
".. On the sell side, on Aug. 21, he unloaded between $1 million and $5 million each of Advanced Micro Devices .. along with stakes worth between $500,001 and $1 million in companies including Boeing, Home Depot, .. Dell .., Palo Alto Networks and Nvidia." @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/t...
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Trump bought up to $25 million in Meta and millions in SpaceX debt in August
Trump disclosed 517 August trades, including up to $5 million in debt from SpaceX, a major Pentagon contractor and NASA launch provider.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/10/2026
Every single one of these claims better be shut down. Todd Blanche promised Congress the January 6 slush fund was dead. January 6 defendants are suing taxpayers for payouts anyway.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/10/2026
Trump wanted to jam more hens into smaller spaces - making it harder for inspectors to access them - and making living conditions for egg laying hens worse. All so businesses could sell cheaper eggs.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THIS is who is messing with Texas
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘But I got road salt exempted from Trump’s tariffs’ is really the perfect way to sum up Susan Collins during the Trump era. While he does hundreds of things to hurt Mainers, she brags about one small thing she did to help her reelection, while doing nothing on the big things.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#VisibilityBrigade #newmexico #usa #democracy #economy @maddow.bsky.social @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @thegodshow.com @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social #midterms #vote #vets #corruption #midterms #war #gas #inflation #vote #fascism #organize #election
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: Through our investigation, we obtained 166 pages of documents that show ICE's attempts to silence voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today is the 30th anniversary of the launch of Fox News, one of the worst things that has ever happened to to human beings. I will have a piece on this later.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't think of a single non-malevolent reason they would do this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ARIZONA STATE: Tempe Police brutally push, tackle, and punch cheerleader Eryn Bonner in the street 😳 (They dropped felony charges but are still pursuing misdemeanors) 🤔 More: www.themarysue.com/arizona-stat...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Could be some good reasons the US Constitution doesn't authorize one person to take the country to war on a whim.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
STEWART: "That's the answer - if we let them do enough unfettered capitalism, we can apparently capitalism our way to socialism😬... but if the ultimate goal is to give money to the people, why wait? Why not just give us the $50 TRILLION now? -- STOP LYING TO US."
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/10/2026
I am directing the State Threat Assessment Center to actively monitor the situation in the event that foreign actors interpret the President’s remarks as an invitation to target California.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar reut.rs/4hP5HOp
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US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said the US Department of Defense denied ​him access to a key US military base in ‌Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
"[W]hen a majority of the justices on our highest court show themselves to be consistently indifferent to the growing chasm between law and justice, it is not 'public rhetoric' that causes Americans to distrust the Court. It is the Court that surrenders its own legitimacy in the eyes of the public."
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A growing "Oops" Caucus is forming among senators who have a lukewarm relationship with Trump but nonetheless voted for his most authoritarian nominees. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/se...
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Senator Regrets Confirming Pete Hegseth, Becomes Latest to Confess He Made a Mistake
Welcome, Thom, to the Senate ‘Oops’ Caucus Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In a potentially very important ruling last week, a federal judge in south Florida concluded that the Trump administration’s effort to prosecute noncitizen voting relies on a 40-year-old federal statute that is unconstitutional. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Court Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen Voting
Judge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Utah's Republican top election official said the Trump administration doesn't want to hear that noncitizen voting is a nonissue because it goes against its mass fraud narrative. The comment comes after the state found only 27 noncitizens out of over 2 million registered voters on the rolls.
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The bigger scandal behind Kash Patel juicing the FBI's Ten Most Wanted stats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-thirsty-...
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A thirsty Patel juices FBI stats — and DOJ gets Watergate wrong
It's not as funny as it sounds.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp sits next to her man in Marine One as they return to the White House last night, then reenters the building after another day of traveling together #TravelWithNatalie (Tasos Katopodis/Getty)
pic of Harp and Trump on the chopperpic of Harp walking back to the White House
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump's White House ballroom emerges as a "lose-lose" political situation for his fellow Republicans in the homestretch to the election
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is wild. Of the 60 cases initiated in Colorado's U.S. District Court on September 28, *36* of them were immigration habeas cases. A little under half were filed by people without representation.
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