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League of Women Voters of Williamsburg Area @lwvwilliamsburg.org · 3h
The Justice Department plans to send about 1,000 monitors to polls in November, up from about 280 in 2022. The NAACP has sued for records asking who they are, where they’ll go, how they'll be trained & what they can do. We share these questions as a public service. @lwv.org @brennancenter.org
Who will be at the polls on Election Day. Vote by mail or in person early. LWV
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h
At Trump rallies, people "can chant hateful, racist things" while remaining "kind of anonymous," says @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. They might not say this individually, but "there's safety in numbers." On the pod she so good on how MAGA copes with a sunsetting Trump: newrepublic.com/article/2162...
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Trump Rages over Sagging Rally Crowds as GOP Panics: “Five-Alarm Fire”
As Trump’s rallies fail to ally GOP midterm fears, the author of a piece on his diminishing stature explains how his cascading failures are driving away his supporters right when he needs them most.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 2h
I’ve come to conclude that A.I. knows everything, yet understands nothing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
6/ Others were arrested while trying to protect colleagues. Quentin Williams, a staffer at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High, was trying to help a teacher when he was shoved by Greg Bovino and tackled by agents. He was charged with assault, but like others, his case was dismissed.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 18h
My job is to look out for our farmers and work to give them a fair shot. They are being robbed of that opportunity with these high diesel costs because of the President’s war in Iran, and it’s got to end now. captimes.com/news/governm...
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Wisconsin farmers bear brunt of high gas prices, Sen. Baldwin says
Sen. Tammy Baldwin called for an end to the Iran war during a tour of a Dane County farm last week. Wisconsin diesel prices are up nearly 90% since 2025.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 18h
Campaign Legal Center, alongside the UCLA Voting Rights Project, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Morfin Law Firm, PLLC, will keep fighting to ensure Latino voters in Yakima Valley have an equal and meaningful opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 18h
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court just sent our Washington legislative redistricting case back to the Ninth Circuit. As a result of our previous litigation, Latino voters in the state's Yakima Valley region had an equal voice in state legislative elections for the first time in decades.
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U.S. Supreme Court Sends Washington State Legislative Map Case Back to Court of Appeals
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a procedural move, sent Trevino v. Hobbs back to the lower court for further review based on the April 2026 decision in Louisiana v. Callais. On behalf o...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h
running around telling voters youll buy their votes feels like one of the most alpha beta cuck moves you could make Can Trump buy your vote for $90? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Can Trump buy your vote for $90?
Trump is desperately promising voters something, anything, to bribe them into voting GOP, even if it means draining the treasury to do it. The latest move is to send a whopping $90 to over 20 million…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h
My new piece is up. Not so fast SCOTUS…. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
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The New SCOTUS Term Begins Today. But Let’s Not Move on Too Quickly From What SCOTUS Did Last Week
The new Supreme Court term begins this week.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18h
U.S. citizens overseas are the latest voters targeted by the Trump administration. The Pentagon changed the form overseas voters use to register and request mail ballots, while removing online resources for checking voter eligibility. Don't miss out. Subscribe today: demdock.com/46JjoJp
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 20h
Honored to campaign for the amazing Representative Shomari Figures last week! Shomari puts the people of Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District first. He is also a Frontline Member. You can help Shomari here: figuresforcongress.com
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: Ban Flock's license plate cameras. 120,000 of them are logging where your car goes. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Ban Flock mass surveillance cameras
Contact Congress today!
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 20h
Tell Congress: Ban Flock mass surveillance cameras 👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ab47...
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Tell Congress: Stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20h
Flock's diary of your Tuesday: 8:02 left home 8:20 dropped kids at school 12:40 doctor's office 6:15 somewhere you'd rather keep to yourself 120,000 cameras are keeping it. Tell Congress to ban them: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Ban Flock mass surveillance cameras
Contact Congress today!
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 20h
People like Trump don’t believe in Karma until they do. All will reap what they have sown.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21h
🏛️ Government information belongs to everyone. Government documents help us understand society, investigate the past, and participate in democracy. 📚 Democracy's Library brings government publications together so they're easier to discover. Start with the record. 👇 archive.org/details/demo... 🧵
Four "Tools You Can Use" Democracy's Library tiles in a 2x2 grid on cream graph paper with blue schematic line drawings. Top left, "Democracy's Library" above a blue folder reading "Government Information Freely Accessible For All." Top right, a screenshot of the Democracy's Library page with collection highlights. Bottom left, bold black text repeating that line. Bottom right, "Tell us why government information is important to you," with a multicolor line drawing of a columned building.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 20h
We cannot allow this company to continue to operate in the shadows. No one in New York or anywhere in America should give up their privacy just by stepping outside.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 20h
For years, Flock has pointed its lens at New Yorkers. Now it's time to turn the lens around and zoom in on Flock. Flock must delete personal data of American citizens without criminal connections and answer questions about the mountains of personal data they've already stockpiled.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More
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The History of Spiritual Jazz: Hear a Transcendent 12-Hour Mix Featuring John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock & More
Jazz has inspired a great many things, and a great many things have inspired jazz, and more than a few of the music's masters have found their aspiration by looking — or listening — to the divine.
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Seven GOP lawmakers make a misguided trip to Russia
The problem has less to do with seven congressional Republicans going to Russia for the 4th of July and more to do with what they did while they were there.
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An old article www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The new Trump indictment will supercharge his war on American democracy
Trump was aided and abetted by millions of co-conspirators: the MAGA Republicans who bought his lies and still do.
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luxlars.bsky.social @luxlars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: This week we reported how USPS has slowed down mail pickup/delivery times, boosting risks that ballots could reach election offices too late to be counted. USPS also shrunk the period for "extraordinary measures" to ensure timely election mail delivery from 15 days before election day to 10.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 04/10/2026
Trucking bankruptcies mount as Trump's war forces drivers to take dire measures: report
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Trucking bankruptcies mount as Trump's war forces drivers to take dire measures: report
Well over a dozen small trucking operators filed for bankruptcy over the past month amid soaring diesel prices, and an increasing number of truck drivers have been forced to adopt extreme cost-saving measures, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.“Out at the fuel bays, truckers spoke about cook...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My fellow Democrats, stay grounded, realistic, and determined. Don’t believe the media hype, verify the facts. Great organizations to stick with: NAACP SPLC ACLU Democracy Docket Keep up the good fight✊🏽🗽🇺🇸
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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This cancer-causing chemical may be lurking in your bread
Many packaged baked goods are made with flour that may contain potassium bromate, an additive linked to cancer. The chemical is added to flour to strengthen dough and allow it to rise higher, benefits...
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The only name that belongs on the Kennedy Center is John F. Kennedy. Period. It's a memorial to a slain American president. Why is this so hard for Trump and the GOP to understand? #ResistTrump
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026
Some Democrats are quietly preparing a new playbook to investigate members of the Trump administration after the midterm elections, should they manage to retake control of one—or both—chambers of Congress, @mviser.bsky.social reports:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
“You could call it deception, misrepresentation, but frankly it’s fraud. What [Boulder is] saying is, the companies lied about what they knew about the dangers of climate change. Fraud is the heart of it.”
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Burned cattle, drought, smoke-choked pastures—and the SCOTUS case to make Exxon and Suncor pay
“Government can’t fix everything, but it's the tool we have to hold the private sector accountable.”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/10/2026
The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board delivered a blunt warning to President Donald Trump's family on Friday as scrutiny continues to grow over Donald Trump Jr.'s business dealings: "Better lawyer up.
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‘Better lawyer up’: WSJ editorial board warns Trump family over Don Jr. antics
The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board delivered a blunt warning to President Donald Trump’s family on Friday as scrutiny continues to grow over Donald Trump Jr.’s business dealings: “Better lawyer up.”“Does the Trump family know what is about to hit them?” the board asked, warning o...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
For years, David Flippo wore a hat that suggested he earned the Bronze Star with valor—the rare award he admits he does not have.
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David Flippo blamed staff for exaggerating his military record. His own hat tells a different story.
The Nevada Republican sported V-shaped emblems that signify a valor award next to a Bronze Star. Flippo never received a Bronze Star for valor.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
Coverage like this doesn't happen without support from our readers. Subscribe for free or become a member to back our work directly: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
Trump won’t take no for an answer. Not from voters or the loyalists he’s surrounded himself with. “He is assuming there will be no one in his administration to tell him no,” Marc Elias says. Attacks on voters work best when no one's watching. Keep an eye on Trump: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Haha, the king of negativity is falling from his golden toilet throne.
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Screw these unAmerican a**h*les, these radicalized Right wingers are the scum of the earth. Do these White people actually think they are so much better than the rest of us that their lying, cheating, and stealing is somehow justified. We’ve got our eyes on you & your corruption.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our vote is our voice! Register to vote, check your registration, and encourage everyone around you to do the same. Voter registration deadline 👉🏾October 5 Early voting for the general election begins 👉🏾October 14 Votejustinj.com/vote
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'DON’T INJECT CHAOS' – GOP election official calls out his own party youtu.be/Aj2cVME0f_Q?...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/10/2026
Trump voters 'furious' over 'raw deal' as many plan to skip midterms: NYT
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Trump voters 'furious' over 'raw deal' as many plan to skip midterms: NYT
Hispanic voters who helped deliver President Trump's 2024 victory are rapidly souring on him, according to New York Times reporting from South Texas, with many saying they got a "raw deal" and planning to simply sit out this year's midterms rather than switch parties.Times reporter Jennifer Medina, ...
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shambala-1.bsky.social @shambala-1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Big Tech & Vulture Fund Capitalists cannot and should not be trusted. They must be regulated and constantly checked.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New from me. Union nurses warn 🚨 Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system, which was already in crisis. I speak with a panel of @nationalnurses.bsky.social from Maine, Missouri, and Illinois. This is a must-listen! @therealnews.com therealnews.com/palantir-nur...
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'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Jared Kushner is complaining about fake news that's allegedly been written about him. Rest assured, this piece is 100% factual.
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How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With the midterms a month out, Trump's grift is picking up speed, & so is the pushback @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are on the case, & I'll get into it on @ms.now at 5:30 ET 👇 -TN
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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