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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/...

democracydocket.com

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wanted a fun movie to watch tonight and found “The World’s End” on Peacock. Didn’t realize there was a Simon Pegg we hadn’t seen. Super fun so far!

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seeing Kadeem Hardison in the Different World reboot is so nostalgic … I used to love ADW. (Makes up a little for Netflix’s egregious cancellation of the excellent Teenage Bounty Hunters, where he faced with Method Man and generally sighed a lot.)

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's happening. The fascist motherfucker is once against attempting to suppress the vote and subvert American democracy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026

I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!

Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And with that, I learned my ability to be shocked still exists. (It’s not *thriving,* but it lives on.)

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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

👇👇👇 Vote EARLY! #nokings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 15/09/2026

In a way, this message is brought to you by the Glendale Public Library. John Mulaney announces the #Emmy award for Lead Actor in a Drama like only a man's man can.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A setting is not “almost a character” in a TV show or movie. It’s the setting. It’s important in its own right! #Emmys

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The video of this is genuinely unsettling. He literally appears to have no idea what the journalist is talking about when she mentions January 6—even when she clarifies that she is talking about 2021 and about the rioters at the Capitol that day. He looks at her blankly. Scary.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jon Stewart’s interview last Monday with Utah’s governor was some of the best pushback and follow-up discussion I’ve seen in political coverage in a long, long time.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

45 million acres is the size of Washington state. Stripping protections and opening that much public land to industrial logging isn't "resource management"—it's a permanent fire sale. Tell your Rep to stop it: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

actionnetwork.org

Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests

Contact Congress today!

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alan Cuming shouting out tomorrow’s Voter Registration Day in his acceptance speech … AMAZING. [Ted Lasso pointing “Yes!” GIF.] #Emmys

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In the halls of the Capitol that are open to the public?

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The cuteness of BtVS presenters Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz … loved her gentle slam about the reboot getting scuttled, and her gentle reference to the loss of Michelle Tractenberg and Anthony Stewart Head. #Emmys #BuffyTheVampireSlayer

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Buffy the Vampire Slayer hosts coming up? #Emmys

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Aww, Kate O’Flynn is so cute. As is Zendaya’s haircut! #Emmys

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Opening number was cute, I actually laughed at the DTF/Down to watch “but I’m that first one, too” line. Also pretty rad that most of the characters women featured so far have been older. Harkitay, Jean Smart, Jennifer Coolidge, Nicole Kidman, Amy Poehler. Does my old GenX heart proud.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A woman hasn’t hosted the Emmys in 15 years? Yikes.

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BREAKING: Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee sitting in DC, issues a preliminary injunction blocking the entire U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rule. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (Key portions of the rule were blocked by Judge Talwani in federal court in Massachusetts.)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DSCC, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01114 (CJN)
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE
PRESIDENT, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01132 (CJN)
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
V.
DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States, et al.,
Defendants.
Civil Action No. 26-cv-01151 (CJN)

ORDER
For the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that DSCC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,
ECF 163, is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART'; and it is further
ORDERED that LULAC Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
ECF 171, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that NAACP Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, ECF
172, is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that the United States Postal Service is preliminarily enjoined from
implementing and enforcing the Final Rule it published on August 21, see Ballot Mail for Federal
Elections, 91 Fed. Reg. 54,966 (Aug. 26, 2026).
DATE: September 13, 2026
'ARL. NICHOL
United States District Judge
' The Court denies only the portion of the Motion that seeks to preliminarily enjoin Section 3 of the Executive Order.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/09/2026

Alright 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice here we go.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Aww, co-written by John Francis Daly. One of the several superstars to come out of Freaks & Geeks.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching the movie Mayday on Apple TV and I can’t believe how much Kenneth Branaugh looks like (an older) Jason Bateman. It’s distracting enough that I’m forgetting to read subtitles.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Steinem’s final essay published today in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/life...

newyorker.com

Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

Gloria Steinem writes about what she meant when she called herself a feminist.

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215 Pounds on the Moon, in 1/6 Gravity, Maybe. @215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/ I cannot stress enough that people who vote by mail need to do it immediately or better yet drop off your ballot in a drop box. The USPS cannot be trusted any longer. You risk losing your vote if you wait My experiences in the past year: 1. May 20, 2025 I sent a letter from Phoenix to my (next)

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215 Pounds on the Moon, in 1/6 Gravity, Maybe. @215poundsonthemoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Vote early! Vote even earlier if you vote by mail. The USPS cannot be trusted anymore! Get the message out! bsky.app/profile/215p...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Started watching season 2 of Black Mirror (2013) and I guess we missed the window for these stories being “futuristic.” A widow training an LLM agent on her late husband’s emails so she can “talk” to him.

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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I went to journalism school at a university which (then) was well-regarded. I learned the inverted pyramid of news writing from the man who inspired the comic strip “Shoe.” And it is *infuriating* to read AI slop articles that are just infinite teaser grafs burying deeply hidden info. What a waste.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This movie has already been too casually violent to lots of relatively innocent bystanders but I don’t see how Marty Supreme has a satisfying ending without something very terrible happening to him. That would be something, at least.

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Sarah Arneson @saraharneson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Aw, man, we were looking for a fun movie to watch tonight and unfortunately we chose Marty Supreme. What a tedious, tedious film. I can’t wait for it to be over. “Under the jail!” as sister-country dictator in Parks & Rec said.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

𝟔𝟎+ 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐂 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟐. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭.

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