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@sbirdmi.bsky.social
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Lifelong Democrat, singer/songwriter, socially and politically active.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new Democratic Congress needs to investigate this hateful man.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Xavier Becerra didn’t just discover LGBTQ rights when it became politically convenient. His record goes back to the 1990s, and LGBTQ+ rights have been a huge part of it, from his time as California attorney general to serving as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. 🧵
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nor’easter unearths fragments of 19th-century shipwreck on Nantucket A local journalist spotted wreckage likely belonging to the Warren Sawyer near where fragments believed to belong to the doomed schooner were discovered in 2022. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Nor’easter unearths fragments of 19th-century shipwreck on Nantucket
A local journalist spotted wreckage likely belonging to the Warren Sawyer near where fragments believed to belong to the doomed schooner were discovered in 2022.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“If the race were tonight, we’d win this race. I firmly believe that,” said a confident Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly last week. “This race is following the trajectory that we’d hoped it would.”
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Do Democrats have a chance in November in GOP-dominated Florida?
With polls tightening and Republicans nationally facing increasing public anger over high gas and grocery prices, experts say there is a path for Democratic success this year, though it is far from a ...
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acosta: This is a Category 5 fuck-up of epic proportions. It is likely to go down as the worst presidency that we have ever witnessed in this country’s history. That tops the first administration that ended with an insurrection.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's threat to curtail diesel shipments abroad comes with a risk: the perception that he's reneging on his promise to shower the world with U.S. fuels. That move would inflame tensions between the U.S. and Europe while jeopardizing American credibility as a trading partner.
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Trump’s diesel threat risks burning U.S. credibility
European officials say the prospect of a U.S. cutoff is exposing the risks of relying on American fuel.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! Join the MAGA Resistance & make your voices heard. Accountability. Is. Coming.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS PEEPS, CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION. A DPS screwup left voter registration applications sitting unprocessed for months. The deadline to register is October 5. Don’t find out at the ballot box that you’re not registered. CHECK IT NOW. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
45 days until the midterms. That means all hands on deck to ensure the turnout and the results are too big for Trump to rig. If you're not a subscriber to America, America (free or paid), I hope you'll join us, add your voice and benefit from the analysis and the community. www.americaamerica.news
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America, America | Steven Beschloss | Substack
Essays of alarm and hope, on politics and society, democracy and justice. With passion and urgency. Click to read America, America, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told Democracy Docket that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you worked this little, you wouldn’t keep your job. The GOP-controlled House is scheduled to be in DC just 104 days this year. Through Sept. 16, only 21 days even ran 8+ hours — and that includes long recesses. Americans deserve a Congress that actually shows up and does the job.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How normalized has neo-Nazism become? This guy marched in Charlottesville with League of the South — a white supremacist hate group we successfully sued for their racist, antisemitic violence that weekend. He will now likely be a FL legislator. Important story by letsgomathias.bsky.social
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/09/2026
SCOTUS blocked USPS from advancing Trump's anti-mail voting order. What does this mean? ✅The battle returns to lower courts that have already ruled against it. ✅States can mail absentee ballots as they always have for midterms. Subscribe for more mail voting updates: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CNN’s Harry Enten: “Trump did historically well with non-college Latinos in 2024. Winning by 1 point. Now? His net approval is -42! Big reason? Immigration. They trusted him more than Harris by 9 on it. His net approval now? -47! Effect? Talarico may win cause of major gains w/ non-college Latinos.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
JARED KUSHNER CAN GO FUCK HIMSELF.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A 2024 study estimated that globally, 400 million people have long COVID, with an annual economic burden of around US$1 trillion. This is in line with similar chronic syndromes from polio, Ebola and Lyme disease after infection. Studying long Covid is a new field of study. 🧪 archive.today/KgFhN
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When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes
Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.
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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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∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
❤️ @hunterbiden.bsky.social
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#AZ Down ballot candidates are just as important to make sure you vote for because much of our daily lives are impacted by policies the office holders dictate. From School Superintendent to treasurer to mine inspector-vote blue. Top to bottom! #Pinks #ProudBlue ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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❀𝕀𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕜𝕖𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕞𝕒❀ @irmaspikeymama.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The timing is no accident, that major GOP cuts to Medicaid & SNAP will take effect on 1 January 2027 and the new Congress is sworn in on 3 January 2027. Republicans plan is for THEIR cuts to be blamed on the new Democratic majority. Bunch of crooked bastards!!!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The US secretly flew an American diplomat out of the UK after he was found with child abuse images during a dawn raid, reportedly without notifying British police beforehand. mol.im/a/16127415
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US flew diplomat out of UK after he was found with child abuse images
The ex US serviceman, who was working at the American Embassy in Nine Elms, south London, was allegedly taken from his flat in Putney on August 25.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is an admission of Cheating….
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why is Texas one of the hardest places in America to vote? Because the people in power know what happens when young voters and Black voters show up: they lose. Voter suppression is their confession that your vote has the power to end their grip on this state. #BlueWaveIn50Days
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You need to see this, it’s how it’s done. Hispanic workers destroyed a fence after he refused to pay. 🤣🤣 #Pinks #USDemocracy
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I will follow up with more details...
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Valerie A. Traina @v3ndettaval.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SAN DIEGO activists at Otay Mesa Concentration Camp‼️
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“60 Minutes” — once a fearless national treasure — has been largely gutted. Over a year ago, I appeared on “60 Minutes” because I trusted the leaders of CBS to report the news with honesty and bravery. That will be my last appearance on the show. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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My open letter to David Ellison
You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Final arguments on Trump’s mail voting order — plus a huge win for Missouri voters
The fate of access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm glad to see California take steps to protect children from the harms of social media and chatbots. More states should follow their lead.
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court BLOCKS Missouri GOP gerrymander for the 2026 midterms. A huge victory for voters and our clients. I could not be prouder of the Elias Law Group team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social is simply 1 of the greatest, most inspirational candidates to emerge in years, running against Ken Paxton, one of the most disgracefully corrupt politicians of all-time. So the Texas GOP responds by doing what comes naturally to them, of course: CHEATING! 🤮
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wow, can’t imagine what would happen if a country decided to attack our country. 🔄
For those keeping score at home, the United States is now without an Army Secretary, Army Deputy Secretary, and Senate-confirmed Army Chief of Staff
-- all in the midst of an ongoing War with Iran that everyone in
D.C. has quietly conceded
Trump already lost.
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COHEN
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To anyone writing about or thinking about the so-called "deal" with Venezuela for its oil reserves: It's theft, an "agreement" at the barrel of a gun. Please don't sanitize it. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Can America Ever Regain Its Honor?
A Saturday Prompt
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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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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Everyday someone asks me how they can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: A Florida grand jury finds the DeSantis Administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer funds when it diverted the money to the Casey DeSantis’-related nonprofit, Hope Florida Foundation. I track the money flow in this outrageous corruption and grift! youtu.be/JDOh1GUZrfs?...
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DeSantis CAUGHT By Grand Jury FUNNELING MILLIONS Away From Floridians!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
California said, “Nice try, but no.” They filed the lawsuit before the ink on the federal order was even dry. Protecting mail‑in voting isn’t radical; it’s responsible. And California is making that point - loudly, legally, and with receipts.
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