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Sam Scribner

@sam-scribner.bsky.social
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Data analyst/“spreadsheet person”, dad, drummer, news and politics consumer. My views are my own.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19h
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h
Many Hispanic voters heard secure the border and deport violent criminals. What they got was cruelty to: workers, parents, grandparents, children, longtime residents and people with no criminal conviction. This is buyer’s remorse on an epic scale. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 16h
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h
Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do illegals get SSI ? The Truth 👇
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Breaking: The Atlanta Hawks offer to send Jack Smith a DVD of their thrilling February 3, 2024 overtime win over the Warriors because apparently he missed it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Finally, a member of this adminsitration that tells the truth.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Attorney General just announced that the DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Federal District judges in Minnesota -- all but one of them, in fact -- because they did interviews with the NYTimes for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking news: MAGA influencers are equally as incompetent at fact checking as Eric Schmitt’s staffers 🙄
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
chips: we put more air in the bag cookies: we put fewer cookies in the box fruit cups: we have bent the laws of time and space to fit 4 litres of juice in this 250ml cup. God himself told us "stop, that's too much juice" and then we flipped him off and added more juice.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Schmitt probably should have watched more Sesame Street as a kid. I think he missed this lesson: 🎶One of these things is not like the others One of these things just doesn't belong Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?🎶
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moral binding means nothing when one party is on record as having no morals. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump, tech executives sign 'morally binding' AI document
US President Donald Trump said ​he signed an artificial intelligence-related document on Tuesday ‌with top tech executives in Washington.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/09/2026
Calling something “illegal” only matters if the law is actually enforced. Mike Johnson and the Supreme Court need to enforce it. No president should be free to ignore the law to punish enemies, reward allies, and enrich himself.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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zephyr7591.bsky.social @zephyr7591.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Atlantic
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POLITICS
THE CASE FOR TREATING TRUMP
LIKE A NORMAL
PRESIDENT
Both the president-elect and his opposition should behave differently this time around.
By Conor Friedersdorf
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Tillis: "Folks, this was stupid on stilts ... to have a Russian oligarch who's actually traveled in a delegation to Beijing fund some sort of island wedding for a very wealthy family that also happens to be related to the president? Come on, guys, this is this is amateur hour"
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can literally see him gargle Trump's nutsack.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lowering fuel efficiency standards won’t help lower auto price tags. You know what might? Not engaging in useless tariff wars with allies. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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US to finalize sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards
The US Transportation Department on Monday will finalize sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards through 2031, reversing a push by the Biden administration to force automakers to build more elect...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
COVID disinformation superspreader and MAHA/MAGA enabler Makary is speaking tomorrow. People should politely and professionally hold him accountable for his actions and words.
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A Letter to the American College of Surgeons: Don’t Censor Dr. Marty Makary, Amplify His Voice.
We need to remember the doctors who literally stood behind Donald Trump, and we don't need their permission to do so.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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Akinetopsia @akinetopsia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
screencap of holmes with caption "why would i deceive you"
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Amanda P. @amandapatperez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
kissing ass in hopes of commutation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes asks Trump to commute prison sentence
US justice department’s website shows the disgraced former CEO petitioned Donald Trump over fraud conviction
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The parts of the Epstein files on the court justices must be reaaally bad 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt. Hollywood couldn't write this in a script.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surely, a sane person goes to the United Nations and with one breath calls himself a peacemaker and with the next threatens to "annihilate" a nation of over 90 million people. Donald Trump is a psychiatric emergency. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Both can be wrong at the same time 😉
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
being a dem comms staffer must be great because nazi pedophile overlords who sent the gestapo in to terrorize cities all year are dominating the news cycle with “should trans kids exist?” and you still haven’t been fired yet. that’s job security you can’t get anywhere else
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Putin doesn’t think so 😅
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Sam Scribner @sam-scribner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perhaps that’s the plan. The US slides into decline, China and Russia become the new superpowers. Meanwhile Trump, his family, and his cronies make off with our treasure.
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