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Richard D Spatchcock

@richarddspatchcock.bsky.social
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Just a down-on-his-luck, semi-retired taxidermist with a corduroy fetish and a penchant for boat anchors. Chicago, IL

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
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The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And still. Love love love this
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/10/2026
Mike Collins is hating life in this debate.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Mike Collins right now
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.
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Elon Musk becomes biggest political donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mean Girl asked to read the next passage in 10th grade Social Studies book out loud in front of the class because she got caught chewing gum
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Navajo Nation New Mexico
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
Trump's continued attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social the Somali American community, & our Muslim neighbors are a heinous attempt to distract from his complete & utter failure as president. Every American should be chilled to the bone: these are the actions of a dictatorship not a democracy.
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home

The search appears to be the type of action that law enforcement officials typically avoided so close to an election in the past.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Probably a good time to remind that the logic behind the Klan Act lawsuit Renee Good's family filed against Jonathan Ross, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan (among others) is that they're knowing depriving Somali-Americans of their civil rights. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
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Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/10/2026
Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, buy @benwikler.bsky.social's book, where he discusses this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“It’s really fundamentally about whether or not people with disabilities can live, work, go to school, make all the decisions about how you spend your day and you spend your life with..." 19thnews.org/2026/10/disa...
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The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise
Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AOC calls on the Target Corp. to stop allowing ICE to use its parking lots as "private staging areas ... for paramilitary activity."
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Lucifer's Bastard Son @lucifersson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dr. Al-Sayed speaks youtube.com/shorts/UMcT8...
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El-Sayed SHREDS his OPPONENT in FIRST DEBATE!🚨🚨🚨
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/10/2026
The service members were left to seek their own medical treatment. trib.al/cLKQe1P
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/10/2026
Hey, wanna see a murder?
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you've seen the giant golden naked Trump statue that was just unveiled this morning inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France - well, I fixed it, by by making it just a tad more realistic. #DonaldTrump
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
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"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why the GOP wants to convince you that 'SOCIALISM' is a bad word.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith emptywheel.net/2026/10/06/j...
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John Solomon Confirms Todd Blanche is FAR More Abusive Than Jack Smith - emptywheel
The latest John Solomon attempt to deceive his rubes, a bunch of pen register reports targeting Susie Wiles, reveal a great deal of corruption. The corruption is all that of Trump and his aides.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Turns out a FOX News theatrical actor (cuz they are [bad] actors, not journalists) is not most competent choice to run a #military. And you need those DEI logistical people you fired “failure to recognize seriousness of injuries, a poor plan to get wounded to hospitals and hindered follow-up care.”
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's my obituary of Jim Bakker, religious grifter scumbag. Let me provide a few highlights too. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...
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A Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86.   Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bridgeview, where a corridor spanning roughly thirty blocks is affectionately known as Little Palestine, is the site of one of the oldest and largest mosques in Illinois. And it is absolutely not having this.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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