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Ireshresists @eilishparker.bsky.social · 11h
The world’s love language…music. The other verse people usually leave out of Guthrie’s song is about property... “There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me. The sign was painted, said Private Property. But on the backside, it didn't say nothing. This land was made for you and me”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program
Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
Alito weighs retirement. We MUST win the Senate so we can block any Trump judicial nominee. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 22h
One month ago, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans have NO constitutional right to clean drinking water. I’m still letting that sink in.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I watched this ad and it’s amazing. Doesn’t even use his name. The very clear almost explicit subtext is: my dudes, if I can suck it up and vote for this lying sack of shit, you can too, okay?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This guy is really good, not just for Maine news but for how to put together a news story so you understand the context.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Or that many blue collar jobs are physically destructive and if you want to support blue collar work you don’t tie healthcare to employment (many blue collar tradespeople are independent contractors)
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also if you want to understand the real rewards and cost of a job look at salaries for 65 year olds and what kind of health problems they have, not entry level salaries for people who aren’t old enough to drink and can handle rigorous physical work for 8 hours a day (minimum)
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50501 Georgia @50501ga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's official! No Kings Vote Early happens on October 17, 2026, and part of the Day of Action is an EXPANDED Op Overpass - MORE BANNERS. MORE OVERPASSES. MORE MOTORISTS TO REACH. And that means ALL HANDS ON DECK!
50501 Augusta logo. O.P. Overpass Banner Build, this Saturday, October third, Brookfield Park, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Image: the No Kings logo (a crossed out sketch of a crown) sits above the words Vote Early, over a a background of the shape of the U.S.A. rendered in dripping black paint.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm not into thing where we note fascists celebrating fascist--someone who celebrates murder--but then say, "but watch whoever complain about this guy who's verbal sins are lesser." I'm for eff em all, all attention-seeking fiends across the spectrum from real murderous to just murderously dumb.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 2, 2026
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October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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Ireshresists @eilishparker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heather Cox Richardson stopping by to explain why kids in this country are going hungry. Voting for the right candidate is so important but please if you can, get involved in your community to make sure children in our country are fed. @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/v/18Hd...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 1, 2026
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October 1, 2026
John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30, 2026
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oops you did it again
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe Amy Klobuchar can explain to Eric Schmitt what an “own goal” is?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman theonion.com/area-dad-sure-knows-a-…
Area Dad Sure Knows A Lot About Local Weather Woman
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
September 28, 2026
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September 28, 2026
It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An adult bear popped open a parked car in Gatlinburg, and the whole family piled in for a little retail therapy. They raided the car, grabbed what they could, then dumped the loot in the parking lot.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 27, 2026
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September 27, 2026
A friend tells me that when I take a night off, other people feel they can take a night off, too.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
September 26, 2026
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September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 25, 2026
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September 25, 2026
I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seriously. That’s no cartoon.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The disillusionment is huge. Voters are hungry for a different way of operating. Parties that take power and then try to pick up where they left off by doing the same old thing — because it’s all they know — are quickly punished.”
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The Midterms
The message the Democrats need to hear
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔥 DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Do you know how many terrible things @billmaher has said about people like me? But I WOULD go on his show — because I want to give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The United States seeks a more secure, more prosperous, more equitable world for all people because we know our future is bound to yours.” —President Joe Biden speaking at the UN, 2023 Remember when we had a leader who talked like a real president? www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
😍😍😍
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m not just going to forget that Mitch McConnell went missing for three months, popped back up, and all both sides of the aisle did was post videos of people talking to him like he’s a 4yo toddler with a learning disability, before simply moving on. We’re owed an explanation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Literally zero
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
September 23, 2026
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Ireshresists @eilishparker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don’t get to excited y’all. They cheat.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
September 22, 2026
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surely, a sane person goes to the United Nations and with one breath calls himself a peacemaker and with the next threatens to "annihilate" a nation of over 90 million people. Donald Trump is a psychiatric emergency. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September 21, 2026
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September 21, 2026
On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"One thing I see on this train is that Ukrainians choose to keep going. I don’t want to romanticize; the suffering and the grief are under the eyes, and in the public memorials, and everywhere. Every attack by the enemy hurts, as does every betrayal by an ally." snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Train Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility, 2/2
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Technology never has been and never will be apolitical. The conveniences (for some) that modern tech has created are not without consequences. And a lot of people distrust Big Tech because they are living through those consequences. It's good for people to recognize all of these things
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
28 years ago.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Driving east from Kyiv to Kharkiv, there was no place to get gas from Poltava eastwards, because all of the stations had been destroyed by distant Russian drone operators. The Russians send drones at the pumps, causing explosions, killing attendants and customers. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
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A Meditation on Gas Stations
On Total War and Individual Responsibility (1/2)
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
September 20, 2026
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September 20, 2026
Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
September 19, 2026
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September 19, 2026
On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.
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