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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/09/2026
In just 7 months, Trump's reckless Iran war has cost Americans over $120B in extra fuel costs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good to see these news organizations standing together at last. Civic courage is a public good, and so it's undersupplied. I wrote about this earlier this year in a lecture called "Spirit of Liberty." An essay from Geof Stone led me to the Norman Mailer quote. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-spi...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s not about communism or capitalism. It’s about oligarchy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party
The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey, America! Stop Electing Stupid People! "If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" ~ George Carlin @garthtoons.bsky.social
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/09/2026
Oil prices rise as latest fighting revives Mideast supply disruption risks reut.rs/4cpf7hE
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Oil prices rise as latest fighting revives Mideast supply disruption risks
Oil ​prices gained around $1 on Tuesday as the resumption of fighting between the U.S. and Iran in the ‌Middle East renewed fears of supply disruptions from the world's key crude-producing region.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Richard Ferro, MD MSc @richferro.com · 25/08/2026
I’ll always remember Dolly Parton for the fact that she donated $1 million in 2020 to the research that led to Moderna’s COVID vaccine, as well as millions more for childhood vaccine and cancer research. She was an immensely talented, kind, and giving person.
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Everything and everyone is for sale Even our horses roaming free www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.
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Homeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Nevada
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it doesn't make you a “Lib” to be appalled by what Donald Trump is doing to this country… It actually makes you a patriotic American. Enjoy. 😎✨
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/08/2026
JUST IN: The total US debt has officially hit $40 TRILLION for the first time IN HISTORY
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The President of the United States does not have the Constitutional authority to suspend elections.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/08/2026
The SAVE Act continues to fail in the Senate — and now lawmakers have left town until mid-September. “It’s too late for them to enact any voter suppression or election subversion legislation for it to have [an] impact for the 2026 midterm elections,” Marc Elias says. demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Oil Prices Climb on Stalemate in Strait of Hormuz
Hopes were dashed over the weekend for a breakthrough on shipping traffic through the critical waterway in the Persian Gulf.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who helped make This Is The Plan a NYT bestseller! Now that you have the book, the next step is to start organizing. Let me know how you're getting involved in the comments! 🧯🔥
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump, Vance, Miller, Musk, Ellison, CBS, Fox, Home Depot, Coca Cola. All the same. Fighting against what benefits the common people.
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Resist Trump 🤬 🤦🏽‍♂️🇺🇸 💜💙💪🏽 @resist-trumps-rule.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨America Today🚨
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Texans gave up a Tuesday and saved 140 polling places. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...
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Republicans Counted On An Empty Room. Whoops.
A Texas county tried to erase 140 polling places, Missouri killed the governor’s tax scheme, and Kansas buried Kobach by 24 points
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE AS WELL.......!
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is why www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/b...
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Exxon made $160 million per day last quarter as oil prices surged | CNN Business
ExxonMobil and Chevron, the two biggest US oil companies, reported gangbusters profits driven by the spike in global oil prices unleashed by the US-Iran war.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
ABC is calling the FCC's early license review an "unprecedented" intimidation campaign qz.com/abc-fcc-lice...
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ABC accuses FCC of retaliating over its news coverage
The Walt Disney-owned network filed formal opposition Thursday, calling the agency's early license review a warning to all media companies
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
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Patrick Lovell The Producer @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com · 30/07/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice Lawsuit to compel New Jersey to provide the DOJ with access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for voters DOJ is now 0-18 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-je...
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🚨 United States of America v. Caldwell
Learn more here.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Many are woefully ignorant of our history… We Promised! We Have Not Honored Our Promise!
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From American Conversations with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & Ben Wikler, an American political organizer who served as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin from July 2019 to July 2025. @benwikler.bsky.social Watch the full conversation on YouTube: youtube.com/live/ftsOb9c38yQ
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/07/2026
NEW: Less than a month before Alaska's August primary, the state removed up to 3,500 voters after flagging them as noncitizens. However, some of those people were eligible voters, including a few who presented the type of proof of citizenship championed in the anti-voter SAVE America Act.
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Alaska wrongly removed eligible voters from active voter lists
Alaska removed thousands from voter lists after they were flagged as noncitizens. But a state news outlet found some were eligible to vote.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/07/2026
Wondering how you can plug in to ensure free and fair elections this fall? Join our upcoming call to learn how you can step up to protect the vote no matter where you live: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
(above images of Congress and a megaphone) HANDS OFF OUR VOTE
National Kick-off Call
July 30th // 8 PM ET
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/07/2026
The Trump administration is planning to dispatch two senior officials to Brazil on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before millions of Brazilians vote in a presidential election, according to officials.
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U.S. sending envoys to question Brazilian electoral system, officials say
The delegation is expected to visit the Brazilian capital and raise doubts about the integrity of the voting system ahead of the country's presidential election this fall.
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No surprise here.
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Patricia @powermacuser1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A sitting US president stole $900 million of another country's oil money & transferred it into his own private account & m’fing Republicans are worried about immigrants!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026
There is growing evidence in Wisconsin that ballots might not arrive in time to be counted — even if voters send in their mail ballots one week before Election Day. Here’s what voting advocates are doing to fight back:
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Wisconsin voting advocates sue to protect voters from being disenfranchised by mail delays
Faced with growing concerns about mail delays, voting advocates are asking a Wisconsin state court to give voters a backup option to cast their ballot in person on Election Day.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
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Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/07/2026
🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Texas made the same clerical error as New Jersey with noncitizens — but the two instances are being treated very differently. “Have you heard the Department of Justice condemn Texas?” Marc Elias asks. If you’re sick of the hypocrisy, join our fight: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Trump said the quiet part out loud… he picked Bill Pulte because he wants him to investigate our elections.   This is all just a totally bogus attempt to justify interfering in the midterms.   We must stop Pulte.   We must reject this plot.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/06/2026
The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So elections are only fair when MAGA wins???
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redpoppy2.bsky.social @redpoppy2.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What do we do when the president is so corrupt www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...
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Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading
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