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BlueSoulGA

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Blue Soul in a red state. Recovering newspaper editor. Editing is my superpower. Foo Fighters fan. Not 20 and not done.

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Errin Haines @errinhaines.bsky.social · 3h
Our democracy asks Black women like Crystal Mason to believe in a system that does not always deliver for them. But what does democracy owe Black women? An institution worthy of their faith, one that feels safe, fair — and where a mistake isn’t catastrophic. My latest: 19thnews.org/2026/09/crys...
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Crystal Mason's belief in democracy was shaken — but not destroyed
For 10 years, Texas prosecutors accused her of voter fraud after she cast a provisional ballot that was never counted in the 2016 election. That changed Thursday.
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Michael Scherer @michaelscherer.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: NEW: John Fetterman's fundraising firm, MissionWired, quit working for him in June. So he started offering right-wing groups like RedMajorities and TrumpTruth a hefty commission to raise him money. Even Sen. Mike Lee has joined the rush for cash. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 10h
On this day in 1919, enraged white mobs began a massacre of 200 or more innocent Black women, men, and children in Phillips County, Arkansas, after white men attempted to invade a Black farmer's union meeting.
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Sep. 30, 1919 | 200 or More Black People Massacred in Elaine, Arkansas
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 6h
The Fuck Y'all Caucus.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith. Enough said.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something wicked this way comes.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
This administration has a simple agenda: Profit. The White House should not be the president's personal piggy bank.
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Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More to the story… themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
SCOTUS was wrong to allow Trump to overhaul a federal system to initiate voter registration purges, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in her dissent. Jackson said the court’s decision could potentially disenfranchise legitimate voters, including naturalized citizens: demdock.com/4xFjBIx
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Trump’s summit with Xi left too many questions unanswered. This is one of them.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@theweekendmsnow.bsky.social my question: Is there any law that would prevent elected and certified House members from showing up and simply taking their seats should Mike Johnson attempt to not swear them in.
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach, whether he should apologise or why it took months for OpenAI to detect and report it to the Australian government" Silent about the hacking from OpenAI #auspol
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OpenAI boss refuses to answer Medicare hack questions after Trump-Xi dinner
Sam Altman remained silent and did not answer four times when asked by this masthead what he would say to Australians about the breach or why it took so long to report.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank goodness for Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson who is creating the historical record of the destructiveness of the Roberts Court.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The next Democratic president must force the truth into public view.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why must we continue to abide by the rulings of this lawless Supreme Court?
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But now he’s Mr. “Help the foster kids.” Using minority women as props.
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‘Deported or departed’: Georgia candidate targets immigrants in ad blitz
Republican gubernatorial candidate floods media with ads attacking immigrants, trans people and DEI before primary
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
motherjones.com
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sneaky bums.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
georgiarecorder.com
Georgia school system abruptly bans Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ • Georgia Recorder
Georgia’s second-largest school district is once again at the center of a political controversy over the appropriateness of school materials.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not the best time for end of the world movies.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I got my COVID and my flu shots today and I'm still alive and have only one head.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gratitude to Nikole Hannah Jones for courageously revealing the silent calculus of Black parents in struggling to raise healthy & secure children in a country where Black children’s potential is systemically undervalued, undermined & too often unrealized. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
nytimes.com
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Rick Jackson for GA governor ad with the "foster kids" is making me wear out my mute button.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On my way to the grocery store to see if banning news organizations lowered the cost of this week’s groceries.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Banning @msnownews.bsky.social is not going to stop @carolleonnig.bsky.social who seems to be eating Trump’s lunch on the regular.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Photo of a label that says "Not His House. Our House" with a picture of the White House in the middle
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you James Sample on @deadlinewh.bsky.social. Forget the norms. This coutry is being decimated because of norms. We've blown through those. Dems need to concentrate on crafting concrete laws as soon as we get the chance.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well that's not good.
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Chatham County elections supervisor resigns - The Current
Chatham County elections supervisor Brook Schreiner resigned effective Tuesday, citing friction with the board over her efforts to address perceived problems within the election system.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’ve never seen not one episode of Law and Order, but Mariska Hargitay was so good tonight on the Emmys I might consider it. Might.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nobody, absolutely nobody, should have lifetime tenure for anything.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every time someone asks "What happens if "they" ignore a court order," nobody has a good answer. The people have to vote, may be true, but that's not a response to immediate lawlessness. What is?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are under relentless lethal attack by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How many of the people on these home makeover shows actually entertain?
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
THIS is the story. Not the phantom $5K.
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The fact Donald Trump told his supporters last night to "Cheat like hell" in 2026 election BUT that isn't the headline nationwide shows you again how corporate media is complicit.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good lord www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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Applegate. The Miami Herald, which had 20 layoffs and eliminated 10 vacant positions, lost its city of Miami and city of Miami Beach beats, said deputy investigations editor Carol Marbin Miller.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
About time somebody somewhere was found in contempt of a court.
democracydocket.com
Missouri’s top election official held in contempt for defying court’s gerrymander order
The development was the latest embarrassment for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), after being thwarted in his attempt to force the gerrymander on Missourians.
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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 10/09/2026
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs. It leaves the second-largest newspaper in Kentucky with just two reporters left to cover city and state government.
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McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
GAH! Calling it a bribe gives it too much credit. It's not even a pseudo-bribe. It's just Trump bullshit. A farce. A distraction. Move on!
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/09/2026
A diverse bench increases confidence in the courts. Yet, in 17 states, no state supreme court justices identify as a person of color, including in 11 states where people of color make up at least 20% of the population. Read more in our latest State Supreme Court Diversity report: bit.ly/4r0D7xH
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State Supreme Court Diversity - September 2026 Update
Across the United States, states have shown little progress with respect to racial, ethnic, gender, and professional diversity among state supreme court justices.
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BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Media keeps reporting on this $5,000 like it's a thing. It isn't.
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