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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h
One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters. www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Exclusive: Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket sees Trump 2.0 success
One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 15h
4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h
Federal immigration goons use their vehicles to confront a crowd of demonstrators protesting ICE in Tacoma, in what eyewitnesses say was an attempt by the suspected Feds to intimidate them. You can see the crowd stand their ground, and the goons drive off.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 9h
"Jack Smith is the hero Gotham needs" - Detective Jim Gordon
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 13h
Love that Jack Smith can go out in public without getting booed.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10h
Tomorrow is the deadline for voter registration in about a dozen states. ¿Mañana es el plazo de fecha para inscribirse para votar en los siguientes estados: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Voyavotar.com
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h
"A failing, 80-year-old sociopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead of us."
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The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray
This is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
Public vulgarity and lewdness are Trump's signature on the campaign trail. These are well recognized as signs of advanced senile dementia.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Katie Phang on Blanche: What are you trying to hide? Who are you protecting? This is the permissive culture that is created, that is then buttressed by conduct by people like the AG to protect perpetrators, co-conspirators, enablers of crimes. Crimes against children, crimes against women.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h
Pete Buttigieg is barnstorming the nation in the final weeks before the midterms, boosting candidates in battlegrounds and even areas traditionally hostile to Democrats. Buttigieg is set to campaign in at least six states: North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Georgia, Nevada and Michigan.
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Buttigieg goes big to help 2026 Dems
He is set to campaign in at least six states in the final stretch. As he does, he’s refining his message and thinking about what comes next.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h
We have to crush these sociopaths. The problem is that many Democrats take money from them, which means they will get bailed out at our expense in the next 2-4 years.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 14h
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13h
The Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline is now receiving thousands of voicemails. Listen to what they’re saying: “Ken Paxton is corrupt.” “I’m voting for James Talarico!” Texans are tired of corruption — and ready for something new.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10h
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h
Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improve
Trump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11h
This week, we testified before the UN Human Rights Council about the alarming number of Black people who have been found dead, hanging, or drowned in the U.S. over the past decade. We urged UN human rights experts to investigate these deaths properly as our government continues to fail the public.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 18h
Medical science has long treated Parkinson's purely as a brain disorder. Nagoya University researchers discovered gut microbiome damage from lack of bacterial genes that create vitamins B2 and B7; this damages intestinal barriers, & toxins cause neuroinflammation. en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/article...
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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 17h
Dr.: After your heart surgery, you’ll be in Intensive Care for up to 10 days, and then you can recover at home for the next 4-6 weeks. MAGAt: Wait!! If the school custodian can do sex change operations during a kid’s lunch period and send ‘em home an hour later, why will this take so long?!!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h
So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...
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US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 17h
So anyway being undocumented in the United States is a civil violation of the law not a criminal one
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12h
I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17h
That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Wolfers: Imagine we had a female president who was so idiosyncratic and so moody and whose policy decisions were up and down like crazy... Could you just imagine the coverage? It’s utterly bizarre what we allow to happen.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 16h
If I were a single-issue voter, my single issue would be that 99% of the GOP belong in prison
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RN Mayhem @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 19h
At an Atlanta Hawks concert!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h
Cocchiarella: You said that you do support a moratorium on data centers, but if there were to be one that had to be built, Mar-a-Lago seemed as good a place as any. Nixon: They have a huge golf course that it can be dropped onto.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14h
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
“Expect the price of oil to continue to go up. Expect diesel to go up. Expect gas to go up.” Ben Meiselas on Trump’s latest chaos as MAGA Republicans freak out and Trump dangles a bogus $5,000 midterm promise.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Demonstrators gather to protest Donald Trump ahead of his midterm rally in Ohio 📍Vandalia, Ohio
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brilliant. (This treads on a serious issue that can unite all Texans behind @jamestalarico.bsky.social!)
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This “$5,000” thing is fooling no one. But it has made one thing clear: Republican desperation at the 1-month-out mark.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Senator Schmitt-Head, "I'd like to solve it. The Atlanta Hawks"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Files.. I'll stop posting this neverending post when they finally all get released and we learn the results one way or the other Sound like a plan? #TrumpEpsteinFiles
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A few years ago, I said greedy egg producers like Cal-Maine were using their market power to deliberately drive up egg prices. My right-wing critics fried me for saying this — but now they all have egg on their face.
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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