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@rctraveler58.bsky.social
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Lifelong Dem, news junkie, Resister. Love books, history, Bob Seger, travel.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/10/2026
The Department of Justice is celebrating what it claims is the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history.” trib.al/pDPF60l
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40 People at Risk of Losing Citizenship as DOJ Amps Up Crusade
The Department of Justice is celebrating what it claims is the “largest denaturalization effort in modern history.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/10/2026
@sanders.senate.gov, @aoc.bsky.social, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using ALPRs like Flock. Now, 404 Media needs your help. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/lawmakers-in...
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Russian ‘lab leak’ and America’s great weakness www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The Russian ‘lab leak’ and America’s great weakness
After Trump withdrew from the WHO and slashed funding for medical research, American scientists told me they feared China would take over as the world leader in science. Situations like this underscor...
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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#TruthWarriors
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Rocky Mountain Progressives @rockiesprogs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thought for today. Make those phone calls for candidates!
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What Timothy Snyder says here cannot be over-emphasized. Democrats must not only win, but immediately – announcing on 4 Nov. and beginning on 3 Jan., they *must* legislate and execute anti-corruption – even if Trump vetos them. We must become the party of anti-corruption and social mobility.
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Will It Matter If Democrats Win the Midterms?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Warden of Delaney Hall, the subject of allegations of abuse & neglect, has lent his name & likeness to an org founded by a woman doing 9 years in federal prison for a forced labor sex cult & who's in the Epstein Files. Why oversight of detention centers is so critical. youtu.be/uCy71zDQVZw?...
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SHOCKING Epstein Connection EXPOSED Between DISTURBING Cult & Trump ICE Facility!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Federal court in Manhattan has scheduled a Wednesday morning hearing on motion by The Intercept, which seeks a court order to halt the Trump monetization scheme to sell advanced access to his Truth Social posts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mohamad Safa UN This is not Hiroshima, this's Gaza. Gaza is nearly 3 times smaller than Hiroshima, and Israel dropped 223,000+ tonnes of explosives, equivalent of ~15 "Little Boy" ATOMIC BOMBS, on Gaza. The world hasn’t seen anything like the destruction in Gaza since Second World War. 💔😢💔😢🤬🇮🇱♾️
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Run for Something @runforsomething.net · 05/10/2026
What books are in your library? What stories do students read in school? How are literacy programs funded? Reading is political because access to information is shaped by public policy. Take action → run for office bit.ly/Run4what
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retiredrn2024.bsky.social @retiredrn2024.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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retiredrn2024.bsky.social @retiredrn2024.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alabama Republicans voted against funding the bridge. Biden got the money approved. The bridge got built. Now Trump wants his name on it, and Republicans have made that the priority. Vote against it. Take credit for it. Put your name on it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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🌊 Making Waves 🇺🇸 @travelingal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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rctraveler58.bsky.social @rctraveler58.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine believing in an all powerful, all knowing God who can be triggered so easily into destroying all of himanity.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
"The failure of liberal-minded politicians to keep government officials accountable is a cause for great fear, especially when those state actors are perceived to be actively and intentionally undermining the public’s sense of security." (from October 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...
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The Politics of Fear in American History
The precedents for the violence and overt use of state power we are now experiencing can be found in the 1910s and 1920s rather than the 1930s and 1940s.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/10/2026
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools. trib.al/EcmGEzP
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 04/10/2026
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank. buff.ly/7tKf5r4
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Mississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank Says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it? “The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/10/2026
Nearly all tested cat foods contain toxic plastic contaminants, the herbicide glyphosate and heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN. cnn.it/4AK4d0e
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Cat food investigation finds heavy metals, pesticides and plastic chemicals
Most types of cat foods contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury as well as toxic chemicals from plastics and fertilizers, a new investigation found.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, if the 🇺🇸 media covered the GOP as it actually is, & the way foreign far right authoritarian parties are covered, behavior like this would spark a wholesale change in 🇺🇸 political journalism. This? It won’t even make headlines tomorrow, & the Sunday shows will platform a dozen GOP politicians.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 02/10/2026
KF Senior Fellow @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @lucanway.bsky.social argue that the US has entered “competitive authoritarianism,” where those in power use government institutions to disadvantage opponents while elections continue. They also explain how the country can reverse course.
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a point I think Dems need to be making more: Taunting the GOP on the way Trump delayed spending then tainted them all with these corrupt ads.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual.
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How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/10/2026
CNN reported that Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is the largest shareholder in Phoenix Financial, which has investments in companies supplying Israel's military.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
The Roberts Supreme Court doesn't want you to know it killed the Voting Rights Act. But it did. New episodes of Stress Test drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones.
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rctraveler58.bsky.social @rctraveler58.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a pathetic loser
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.
It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US gove...
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rctraveler58.bsky.social @rctraveler58.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can you repeat that because what I just read sounds insane.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026
ICYMI: 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 block abortion protections in blue states @autonomynews.co www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL1TT5va/ www.instagram.com/reel/Dd7gtkG...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
A bipartisan group of staffers were set to galavant around Italy and France just weeks before the midterms. trib.al/Jvmki6y
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Mike Johnson Aide Abruptly Cancels Luxury Staff Trip Ahead of Midterms
A bipartisan group of staffers were set to galavant around Italy and France just weeks before the elections.
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Kathy Laya @kathylaya.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is going to get uglier by the week, the day, the hour. Thank goodness for Democracy Docket, Marc Elias, and so many other firewalls working to protect our right to vote. Yikes.😬
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: The GOP-led Georgia State Election Board asked the DOJ to declare the state's voting system unlawful before the midterms. The request, which marks an extraordinary request from the body, comes despite board members denouncing federal involvement in state election procedures.
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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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: A New Jersey GOP official allegedly targeted Democratic voters' eligibility over residency discrepancies while leaving Republicans untouched. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue unless election officials stop the effort — which risks disenfranchising those voters before the midterms.
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New Jersey GOP operative, pardoned by Trump, accused of scheming to purge Democratic voters ahead of midterms
At the center of the controversy is George Gilmore, who holds two influential positions in Ocean County. He chairs both the county Board of Elections and the Ocean County GOP.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Klan chapter littered a pro-Flock, pro-surveillance flyer in/around Columbus, Ohio this week. It's the latest attempt of a dying org to muscle their way into political relevance. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Ku Klux Klan flyers are last cries of a dying organization
The Klan faction known as the Trinity White Knights (TWK) has recently distributed racist flyers several times in and around Kentucky.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
The ads are government-funded, and one official even suggested that the payment scheme is partly designed to get media attention to the ads, amplifying them further. trib.al/CKhyJG8
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Trump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP
As the saga around Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads grows more absurd, the author of a piece exploring Trumpian propaganda explains why no amount of disinfo can protect the GOP from Trump.
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Paquito Dela Cruz 🇵🇭🇩🇪🇦🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇳🇮🇳(🇺🇸) @quitodelacruz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It really does matter if the Secretary of Defense is retweeting a video with very particular views about whether women should be able to vote or serve in combat roles or if slavery really isn't all that bad," ... "That's not just a person's view. It's a person in a pretty broad position of power."
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
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Linda Dominguez (she/her) @lindadominguez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Playing fast and loose yet again…The creation of an “Office of Religious Affairs” is not automatically unconstitutional. But legal problems will arise from what that office has authority to do, who funds it, and whether it favors a particular religion (or excludes another). See you in court.
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Office of Theocratic Fascism bsky.app/profile/moth...
Hegseth theocratic crusader fascist tattoo
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rctraveler58.bsky.social @rctraveler58.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THIS 👇
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not sure who to vote for? Remember that Republicans... 1) Hid the Epstein Files 2) Sent fuel prices through the roof 3) Started new wars 4) Canceled your healthcare If you checked at least two, vote Blue!
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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I read the entire transcript of Time's Interview with Trump. Trump was all over the place & he kept repeating the same things over & over. It reminded me of how my elderly MIL repeats the same thing multiple times in a phone call The interview was so off-the-rails, I'm not sure which meme to use🤷‍♀️
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Henchman #1 @henchman1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kudos to Time for publishing the actual transcript. It's long past time for media to stop cleaning up his insanity. It's massive malpractice and a huge disservice to the world that they keep covering for him in either a misplaced respect for the office (that he sullies) or abject fear.
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Politics Explained @politicsexplained.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 01/10/2026
Opinion from Mark McCormick: In our re-segregated K-12 education system, Black parents face impossible choices #ksleg
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Opinion: In our re-segregated K-12 education system, Black parents face impossible choices • Kansas Reflector
Opinion from Mark McCormick: Black parents make expensive choices and answer impossible questions when it comes to educating their children. One such question, "In what ways will you sacrifice your ch...
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