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Mayor, attorney, husband, father. Grandpa to two and hoping a future for them in a world that would deserve them. Doing what I can. “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” – Marcus Aurelius

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Amy Oddo✌🏻💙☀️ @amyoddo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#DementiaDon showing us his symptoms on live tv. The Emperor has NO CLOTHES🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 #DumpTrump
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good On You,Mayor Mamdani....👏🏻
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NEW: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals tossed a Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada’s grace period for late mail ballots Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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9th Circuit junks GOP lawsuit challenging Nevada’s mail ballot grace period
"By their own admission, Plaintiffs have not suffered any ‘actual or threatened injury,’" the court held.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Troy Jackson: Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time, and she’s just not working for everyday Mainers. Most of the people across Maine know that now and have watched her over the years be a puppet for people like Donald Trump and billionaires.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Psaki: Why do you think Mike Rogers is so far refusing to agree to a date for this debate? El-Sayed: I mean, I hate to say it, he’s a coward. Rogers the Dodger does not want to actually debate because he knows that he’s an empty suit with no new ideas
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Meiselas: This is a breaking news alert. There is no trade deal between Canada and the United States. As I’ve always said, you can’t do any deal with bad people. And Donald Trump is a fraud, and the people he surrounds himself with are frauds and bad people.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The peasants aren't allowed to know where their foreign beef comes from.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Tyler Boebert, 21, faces five counts in total: three charges of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All of the charges are felonies and are alleged to have happened in 2024." www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/08/10/u...
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US Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of child
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler Boebert has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child.
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richardbain1.bsky.social @richardbain1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Science triumphs again-- as it can when supported!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: You can’t say that you want to make sure sex offenders and sex traffickers are behind bars and then vote for him. Every vote for Blanche is really a vote against survivors. If Thom Tillis wants to call, I’m happy to talk to him. We’ve been trying to get in touch
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2026
RFK Jr. said the outbreak was “under control.” Now the FDA is investigating six Cyclospora outbreaks. More than 12,000 Americans have already been hit with explosive diarrhea. So what exactly does “under control” mean to the CDC these days?
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richardbain1.bsky.social @richardbain1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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The Fourth Estate Forgot to Stand the Fuck Up
The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Black-Tie Surrender
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2026
WHOA!! Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) just STRUCK a person asking him a simple question about rural hospital closures. Reporter: Do you still think rural hospital closures are a myth? Nunn: I said I'm with a constituent. You should protect their privacy! *SMACK*
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is quite clearly a total lie. The story quotes a "draft press release." This is why we meed to support independent pro-democracy media rather than the stenographers for the administration. Begin by subscribing to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Booker: Do you all know that they were constantly chipping away? I was told we would have 13 minutes for questioning. Then they brought it down to 10. Ten minutes of questioning for the confirmation of the highest law enforcement official in the land has never been done before.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This Administration is engaged in the largest criminal cover-up in American history.   Todd Blanche cannot serve as AG. Full stop.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Karin Jurick Women in Gold
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Rolling Red Roads @rollingredroads.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Bloodline politics is wrong anyway you look at it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026
This is Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT
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@janettes-999.bsky.social @janettes-999.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just so you know, the 26-year-old man whom ICE murdered in Biddeford, Maine, was named Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero.
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ICE identifies Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine
An immigration officer shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man after reportedly ramming into his car
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#14 @bryanjersey-14.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Improve its performance”…?? They’re not greeters at Walmart!!! They’re killing people!!!
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Truth & Facts Matter 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦 @cancatdo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Vital safety work”, huh?? Then give that work back to whichever agency did it before ICE was created in 2003 . . . There is no redemption for what ICE has become - violent thugs & racists, hiding behind masks, engulfed in a toxic environment . . . It must be entirely abolished! 💪
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to compel New Mexico to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-15 in these cases. Elias Law Group and its clients are undefeated! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-me...
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🚨 United States of America v. Toulouse Oliver
Learn more here.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2026
*taps sign*
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to force Virginia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-14 in these cases. www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...
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🚨United States of America v. Beals
Learn more.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/07/2026
USDA had to revise its late June U.S. beef export numbers DOWN 90%. Quite the "error."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
State voter registration lists largely accurate and up-to-date, new research shows
Most of the states with higher active registration rates utilized cutting-edge methods to get voters to register, like automatic voter registration, same day registration, and online voter registratio...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/07/2026
Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.
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richardbain1.bsky.social @richardbain1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition
With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The RNC thought it had found a new way to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of lawful voters. It spent millions building a case in an attempt to use disenfranchisement as a systematic tool to gain partisan advantage. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The RNC tried to throw out your ballot. I fought back and won
The Court rejected the RNC’s scheme to disenfranchise voters. Democracy won.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/06/2026
Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2026
My concern is that even if a judge orders this asshole to mail our ballots, that trump will ignore the court and sabotage mail ballots anyhow. He’s got a judge on the 3rd circuit who told DoJ lawyers to tell the courts to fuck off, and he’s deploying more election deniers to the bench.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/06/2026
Q: Why did you give a plea deal to a child sex predator? Do you have anything to say about that? Paxton: (No response.) Q: Should he be registered as a sex offender in Texas? Paxton: (No response.) Q: What do you have to say to the victim of Adam Hoffman? Paxton: (No response.)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ossoff: I don’t think many people are tuning in because he’s lost it. But more importantly, what we’re seeing is how destabilized he is by his global humiliation in the Middle East, which he cannot deny or lie away. He has cemented his place in history in disgrace.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
I’m old enough to remember that Obama didn’t have to give Iran $330bn in unfrozen assets, lifted sanctions, and a wealth fund in order to get them to agree to nuclear inspectors.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/06/2026
Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren
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RescueJen @rescuejen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So, what could be done about it? Actually, the hydrogen peroxide was NOT a bad idea to start with, it was just poorly executed. Peroxide oxidizes cyanobacteria cell membranes and causes them to lyse VERY quickly. But, it also breaks down very fast into water and oxygen, so it has to be spread 8/19
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
💰 @grahamformaine.bsky.social PLATNER: “Wall Street’s takeover of our economy wasn’t an accident... We are living in a system operating exactly as intended… policy choices made by establishment politicians in the service of people who donated the most money to them. And it needs to end.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/06/2026
The Iranian consulate in Hyderabad says that $12B in frozen Iranian assets have been released following the U.S. and Iran's latest talks in Switzerland.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/06/2026
Work crews poured hydrogen peroxide into the newly repainted Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to combat an algae bloom, a little over a week after it was repainted as part of President Trump's campaign to revamp some of Washington's major monuments. reut.rs/4euqOE0
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