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Life long New Englander living by the sea. I cuss 🤬 at times. If you follow me and don’t bother to have the barest minimum bio and picture I will block you.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
CENTCOM’s top commander just posted a video swearing the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran.” The same week, Iran sank two cargo ships there, set a record for attacks, and oil hit $110. We fact-checked every claim in his video. 🧵👇
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“Let Me Be Clear”: CENTCOM Chief’s Rosy Hormuz Video Collides With Reality
It was a strange week to declare victory.
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Mike Sacks @mikebsacks.bsky.social · 8h
What kind of country allows for this?
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 17h
A Batavia (NY) City Schools board member (who is also a pastor) called the Salem Witch Museum "Satanic" and voted against a senior class trip that included a visit there. The museum’s response? Free tickets for every Batavia senior who plans to visit. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/salem-witc...
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Salem Witch Museum to give Batavia High students free tickets after pastor’s objection
The museum says they’ll comp tickets for Batavia students after school board member Dan Schmidt called the educational trip “Satanic”
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 9h
Pathetic Weak Sauce! Vote DAMN IT💥
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
The number of voting and election cases Democracy Docket is tracking has hit a record high for the cycle: Total Active Cases: 204 Active Voting Rights Cases: 167 Active Redistricting Cases:  37 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 77 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 90 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30 www.democracydocket.com
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
👇🏼👇🏼
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Note: the Alexander Brothers represented Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in their 2021 purchase of a Florida mansion for $24 million.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/10/2026
It’s time to hold the bankers who financed Jeffrey Epstein accountable.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Children 5,8, 11 shot dead, a teacher too. Others wounded. Agonizing. The nation is again traumatized But not one word from this president. Silence
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
holy fuck we should not be here
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/10/2026
NEW: The Congressional watchdog released a report on Trump’s dangerous cuts to HUD, the federal agency where Americans go for help with their housing. The verdict: illegal funding delays, huge staff cuts leaving phones unanswered, and civil rights falling by the wayside.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/10/2026
Filipkowski on Putin: He is intentionally humiliating Trump. He wants to diminish the United States. He wants to diminish our credibility and our prestige. What better way to do it than week after week after week, making the president of the United States look like a clown?
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/10/2026
Confirmed cases in Congo's Ebola outbreak have surpassed 9,000, with more than 4,300 deaths, as health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak spreading across seven provinces, according to government figures released Tuesday. to.pbs.org/4yMSqNz
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Congo's confirmed Ebola cases surpass 9,000 as containment efforts falter
Health workers are alarmed, as many deaths occur outside treatment centers.
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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ossoff talking directly to @atrupar.com.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"The Pentagon has named one of its own public affairs officials to run the publication Stars & Stripes, and he will keep his Pentagon job while doing it. This places a single official inside both the office that shapes the military's message, and the newsroom charged with covering it independently"
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Pentagon PR Official Takes Over Stars and Stripes Months After Editor, Publisher Kicked Out
Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm old enough* to remember when calling a woman a dog because she was a political opponent would be a career-ending moment. *More than ten years old
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CCDude8 🏳️‍🌈 🌊 @ccdude8.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
40% turnout: Democrats lose. 60%: Democrats win most races. 65%: Democrats win every time. 70%: You get a working majority. 80%: You get a supermajority — gun laws, banking laws, healthcare. KEEP VOTING!!!!!!! Republicans keep power because voters let them. Please VOTE 💙💙💙
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 08/10/2026
One Soldier at the polls is a voter. A formation at the polls is a felony. Hegseth just ordered a military-wide voting stand-down by Oct 15. But 18 U.S.C. § 592 makes it a felony, five years and a lifetime ban from federal office, for any officer to order, bring, or keep troops at a polling place.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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BILL E @echb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Order this
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026
NEW: Reports reveal Trump is letting Big Tech write its own AI rules. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic said the rules were too strict. Trump made them voluntary. Then Musk and Zuckerberg said they were too harsh. Trump cut the 90-day review to 30 days. I’m pushing for guardrails.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😂🥹🥹
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A federal jury has found a 64-year-old Texas man guilty of illegally billing Tricare for millions of dollars in services that were medically unnecessary or never delivered to patients at clinics in Texas and Florida.
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Mental health clinic owner convicted of defrauding Tricare
Kevin D. Curry used the Tricare reimbursements to fund a lavish lifestyle, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck and stays at luxury hotels.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As a child, I used to watch the Wizard Of Oz and wonder how someone could talk if they didn’t have a brain. Now that I’m older and I have social media… I wonder no longer…
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Incident
Rep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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CosmicHomicide @cosmichomicide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"We gave billions of dollars to 40 year old nepobaby whose daddy has funded his Hollywood fantasies. How could this have gone so wrong?" Dolts.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lawyers are on the front lines of the fight to protect our democracy. Right now, @wetheaction.bsky.social is recruiting lawyers who are willing to volunteer their time to defend voting rights. Join them: wetheaction.us/guide
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this investigation needs an independent prosecutor to conduct a thorough, transparent investigation into Jane Doe's allegations.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow! Can we clone this man? Asking for every American City! 😍
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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View from Argus @viewfromargus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please also see bsky.app/profile/ejdi... Please note trigger warning. Also see Pat McAfee and Arch Manning.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Checks out
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here kitty kitty…
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m counting on this comments section to get me through this semicharmed kinda life today…
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