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Former lobbyist: defense, research, education, health care. Trying to live my best life despite the godawful current state of affairs.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20h
The level of pure racism that leads certain people to vote MAGA is the worst kept secret in America. Oh, they’ll tell you it’s the economy, or voter fraud, or maybe the deficit even. The truth, though, is that they’re just a bunch of bigots-and thrilled to have one of their own in the White House
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 20h
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h
NOW: Minnesotans are rallying to protest today's outrageous, racist, politically motivated Homeland Security raid on congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Stop Trump's attacks on the Somali community!
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Raw Story: Republican campaign literature is piling up at party headquarters in western Michigan because volunteers aren't showing up to deliver it to voters, the latest sign that weariness with Trump could cost the GOP in November. This is an interesting development! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 23h
Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Beyond the flimsy legal grounds — detailed in some excellent quote tweets on this post — what could the feds possibly hope to find in a home search that would be relevant to her naturalization? She arrived in the US in 1995.
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sdnixie.bsky.social @sdnixie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Now that, I will watch!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls. There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just got back from the Middle East. What I saw made clear that Trump and Hegseth aren’t telling the American people the full story about the cost and damage of this war. Here are my four biggest takeaways.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 09/10/2026
🧵2 Federal law prohibits federal officials from ordering, bringing, or keeping troops at election sites, except to repel armed enemies of the United States. 18 U.S.C. § 592 carries up to five years in prison. Contact your MoCs & state attorneys general. Demand safeguards against voter intimidation
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Dr. Rihana S Mason @drrihana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out the mini course that will help you weigh misinformation about the election and voting action.aclu.org/signup/democ...
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The Democracy Download: A Mini-Course on Countering Election Misinformation
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think individual states should invite them anyway since states run the elections. 
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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 08/10/2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it expects to complete its long-awaited safety review of #AbortionPills by mid-December and issue a report evaluating the results by March 2027. Via @stateline.org buff.ly/niAzggX
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Feds unlikely to change abortion pill policy before next year • South Dakota Searchlight
The agency disclosed the information in a court-mandated status report it submitted in the federal lawsuit Louisiana v. FDA.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Update: The remnants of Hurricane Rachel, likely as a post-tropical (perhaps still tropical) storm, now appears likely to bring significant impacts to northern Baja CA, far S. California, AZ, and UT--mainly Sunday into Monday. [Brief thread]
Map of currently projected track or Rachel and its remnants from NOAA's National Hurricane Center.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@demgovs.org @dems.ag There needs to be indictments over this.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/10/2026
This is a big f'n deal.
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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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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026
The analysis focused on the One Big Beautiful Bill that slashed funding for clean energy tax credits, environmental rollbacks, the loosening of fuel economy standards and federal actions to stop wind, solar and hydrogen projects. buff.ly/7tKf5r4
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Mississippians Will Pay Higher Energy Rates Due to Trump’s Policy Changes, Think Tank Says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040, a nonpartisan think tank said Friday.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What the actual fuck, CBS?
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“.. Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said, ‘we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
I guess it’s just a coincidence that Elon Musk comes out of the woodwork before every major election and gets handed a government position with major consequences for the American people. 🤔
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
Disgusting. Trump says he feels bad for the seven Cornell students accused of rape, and his biggest worry is that they "won't get a fair shake" with Letitia James as special prosecutor.

Not one word for the victim.

THE WHITE HOUSE LIVE 14:02 PM 

BREAKING NEWS

NOV: TRUMP TAKES QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What Measure E does do is take a choice away from you. If someone is doing the job well, you would not be allowed to keep them. We do not need a rule telling us who we are allowed to vote for. Vote NO on Measure E. #lagunabeach #MeasureE
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. 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
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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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“We didn’t labor in the wilderness to build a conservative party that was inclusive and welcoming … to see it taken over by a bunch of bigots,” Rove said. You think you did what now.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility...The ending for those millions of men, women and children remains to be written. [I hope] readers will not just finish the book feeling sad, but they will feel empowered to demand that the suffering end." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For my latest, I wrote about some of the modern addictions shaping American life, from social media to celebrity to sports betting. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A snare was cutting deep into the neck of this young male lion, and with every movement, the wire would have tightened further. A member of Elsa's Pride, spotted at Mugongo Plain in Meru National Park. The SWT/KWS Meru Mobile Vet Unit removed the snare, and he was able to rejoin the pride.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A company that gets paid when a detention bed is full should not be funding the people who voted for more beds. Nine candidates took the check. Not one answered.
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Trump Fills The ICE Prisons. The Prison Companies Fund Nine GOP Senate Candidates.
Every name, from the filings nobody added up. Also: Georgia’s voters, Jerome Powell, and 30,000 prison workers all beat Trump this week.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026
Here's the breakout to date: U.S. Senate: $353,531 (22.5%) U.S. House: $365,232 (23.3%) State Legislative: $576,959 (36.8%) State Executives*: $105,479 (6.7%) Courts: $62,513 (4.0%) State Dem Parties: $101,466 (6.5%) Local/Other: $3,274 (0.2%) TOTAL: $1,568,454
U.S. Senate: $353,531 (22.5%)
U.S. House: $365,232 (23.3%)
State Legislative: $576,959 (36.8%)
State Executives*: $105,479 (6.7%)
Courts: $62,513 (4.0%)
State Dem Parties: $101,466 (6.5%)
Local/Other: $3,274 (0.2%)
TOTAL: $1,568,454
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 01/10/2026
The ~$1.57 MILLION I've raised so far consists of ~153,000 individual donations averaging $10.25 apiece. It's gone directly to over 3,000 different Democratic candidates (along with several dozen state & local parties), averaging over $475 apiece.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nine GOP Senate candidates took money from the companies ICE pays to lock people up. Sullivan. Hinson. Moody. Husted. Ricketts. Whatley. Paxton. Collins. Rogers. Thirty-two days.
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Trump Fills The ICE Prisons. The Prison Companies Fund Nine GOP Senate Candidates.
Every name, from the filings nobody added up. Also: Georgia’s voters, Jerome Powell, and 30,000 prison workers all beat Trump this week.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two private prison companies. Nine Republican Senate candidates. $157,866 in checks sitting in public filings nobody added up. Every one of those seats is on the ballot in 32 days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Trump Fills The ICE Prisons. The Prison Companies Fund Nine GOP Senate Candidates.
Every name, from the filings nobody added up. Also: Georgia’s voters, Jerome Powell, and 30,000 prison workers all beat Trump this week.
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bplumm01 @bplumm01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
google labels it an ai-generated image; I was going to say it was photoshopped because of the biceps but that "absolute unit" does not exist
this image depicts an ai-generated portrait of a bald man wearing a blue us marines polo...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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