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Avid reader, gardener, Democrat. Whatever catches my interest merits full investigation. Retired accountant (that's an old picture) and fabric artist.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Gov. Shapiro: We’re going to go as far as we can to show that we believe in science, to protect access to vaccines. If RFK tries to take something away from our public health system here in Pennsylvania, as he has… I sued and won. We’re going to stand up for science and stand up against RFK Jr.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 3h
It's Banned Books Week. Read a book. Read a banned book. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 3h
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h
🧵 Weird stuff I saw online today. Let’s go.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended
— and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.
The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.
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Pump a couple into his gut. Let him start to bleed out and think about the 72 virgins. Then blow his chest open.Pete Hegseth #@ @PeteHegseth • 1h
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J.
Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unar...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 7h
Once again, Trump and Putin take the side of international corruption. Trump/Russia.
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 8h
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Eliza Jayne @elizajayne.bsky.social · 8h
Human trafficking is my guess.
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Moriah @moriah1121.bsky.social · 9h
Make NO Mistake— What the heinous Trump regime is doing isn’t just amoral and cruelty of the highest level… It is trafficking children. THIS. MUST. BE. STOPPED‼️
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Cyndi @savannahpeace.bsky.social · 9h
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 9h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h
NEW: The Trump DOJ plans to send roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places this November — and hasn't disclosed who they are, where they're going or what they've been told to do. The NAACP is now suing to force DOJ to turn over the records, citing fears of voter intimidation.
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 9h
Team Gary™ represent!
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 11h
Letters from an American October 4, 2026 Full letter available here: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p… @hcrichardson.bsky.social
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts.   “This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless ‘Slush Fund’ that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs.”Congress established the Medicare Improvement Fund in 2008 to enable improvements to the program and periodically adjust payments to healthcare providers.   A Republican congressional aide told Dan Diamond of the Washington Post that lawmakers had been planning to use the fund to help fund several health programs this year, and were taken aback by Trump’s announcement.Trump continued: “Because I delivered on this very important issue for the American People, they can also rest assured the highly popular $5,000 Trump Dividend will be distributed to every U.S. Citizen if, and when, the Republicans win the Midterm Elections!”  The fact that he is openly using taxpayer money to buy votes in the election suggests just how worried Trump is about Democrats winning control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.As Aaron Parnas reported in Meidas News, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote a letter on September 30 to Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI director Kash Patel demanding they immediately release a document they are “illegally” concealing, and any others like it.  Wyden has been doggedly following the money trail connected to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, noting that his operations, including human trafficking and sexual abuse, depended on the banks whose officers looked the other way as Epstein’s finances repeatedly indicated he was engaged in criminal activity.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12h
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 14h
Turns out it was two bedrooms. My bad!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14h
The white evangelical movement split in the 1970s so those who hated civil rights, especially for women, could boost right-wing Republicans. Talarico is reclaiming the movement for the others, and it is a very different thing indeed. Jimmy Carter v. Jerry Falwell.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 13h
Skeet of the Day 🥇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Spot the difference
Side-by-side comparison of three social media posts announcing the death of former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert at age 84. On the left, Fox News posts, “BREAKING: Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dead at 84,” above a photo of Hastert raising his hand at a microphone. In the center, CBS News posts, “Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died,” above a photo of Hastert walking through the U.S. Capitol. On the right, MeidasTouch posts, “Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a ‘serial child molester.’ He was a registered sex offender.” The MeidasTouch post includes an image of Hastert speaking from the House floor with a C-SPAN chyron identifying him as Speaker of the House.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12h
Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social is the real deal. Iowans, make sure your friends vote!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23h
October 4, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/10/2026
“Anthropic is hiring a Political Programs Lead to build and run the programs through which Anthropic, its political action committees, and its employees take part in the political process, including our engagement with candidates and causes at all levels of government.” What the heck is this?
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Political Programs Lead - Daybook.com
Anthropic seeks a Political Programs Lead to develop and manage its political engagement initiatives, focusing on AI policy education and candidate…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fascinating thing about imperfect emerging AI technologies (of various types) is that they become useful for scams, first, because the business model has a fairly high tolerance for error.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Some were there because even though they had not known the young man personally, they 'are dedicated to standing in solidarity with his family and all of the other Haitian families who have come to Springfield seeking a place of safety,' the pastor said..." www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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At Haitian student’s funeral, a community confronts painful immigration reality
The emotional ceremony held in English and Haitian Creole was attended by his parents and two younger brothers, local community advocates and elected officials including Springfield Mayor Rob Rue, Sta...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scott @scolom.bsky.social is the real deal.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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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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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/Fgqw_2OC6hI
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Trump WHITE KNUCKLES It as Senate Probes His Admin PROFITING from Iran Crypto Used to Fund Terrorism
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/10/2026
Ah, so Trump’s DHS removed *one of two bedrooms* on the luxury private jet and kept the bar, marble bathrooms, and manta ray skin table — for deportations. Okay. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
If Texas AG Ken Paxton loses his state’s U.S. Senate race and doesn’t accept the results, he will have unusually powerful tools to investigate his own race — even without legitimate evidence of any crimes. Fortunately, election officials are on heightened alert: demdock.com/4jvWgFM
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"You're living right next to people you're writing about. You're at the grocery store with someone who you just wrote about the worst day of their life. It's very tough business, and it makes people mad, but it is a vitally important part of our society..." nofilmschool.com/kill-bury-pr...
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When Officials Talked About Killing Reporters, Ben Klein Made a Movie About It
The director spent months earning a newspaper family's trust, then put the first shoot on credit cards.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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rhonnie-72.bsky.social @rhonnie-72.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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What the Heck Just Happened?
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rhonnie-72.bsky.social @rhonnie-72.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Timothy Snyder on how the U.S. is committing ‘superpower suicide’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Forget the speech, the optics are speaking louder.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks to everyone - of all ages - who showed up on a Saturday to knock on doors and make sure our excellent Democratic candidates win up and down the ballot this November.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings, linked to Konstantin Sokolov, RU-US businessman who was a private donor to Trump’s $350M WH ballroom, received authorization from the Treasury Dep to complete an acquisition of Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, involving sanctioned Russian bank.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
アメリカ大使館● @usembassy..・53m X
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We are aware of information indicating that U.S. military personnel have been detained in connection with the incident in Okinawa
Prefecture involving the death of a Japanese national. On behalf of the United States Government, we extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved family of the deceased. At present, an investigation is underway to clarify the facts, and the United States Government continues to cooperate closely with the Government of Japan and local authorities. @IIIMEF_jp
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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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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How ICE plans to speed deportations by holding children, families beside a Louisiana airport
Government documents, interviews with officials and public testimony shed new light on day-to-day operations within the controversial new facility designed to hold undocumented women, families and una...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…" religionnews.com/2026/09/30/a...
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As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It was a beautiful day to be at the Deerfield Fair! A big thanks to @maggiefornh.com for showing me around and to Rockingham County Democrats for the warm welcome.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
In addition to infesting government with this creepy crew of flakes and grifters, real national security work is not getting done as they chase imaginary goblins. That’s the real cost of An Audience of One, and losers/grifters who take advantage.
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How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
The effort to prove the 2020 election "stolen" failed. Diehards remain undeterred.
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you haven't heard them or read them, you might enjoy her series Letters to an American by @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/IzGtBznP9AU
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An Immediate Calamity
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
Funny how their “originalism” dissipates when there’s a Republican/billionaire imperative at stake. I don’t think “originally” corporations were people, or presidents had immunity, or agencies couldn’t make “major” rules, or Congress couldn’t set terms of office. What a joke.
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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