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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h
Seems like the Republicans' campaign slogan is: "Biden sucked, and we suck less." Not exactly inspiring.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h
Two of the worst people on the face of the Earth.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h
A few months ago, I wrote in my Stop the Presses newsletter about the media's tendency to say Trump is joking when he's not.
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Stop saying Trump is joking when he’s not
Will he rig the midterms? Seek an illegal third term? We need to take him seriously
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h
AP: “The president recently joked that he would cut off money to North Carolina, which is still healing from Hurricane Helene two years ago, if Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley lost.” How does AP know it’s a joke? Trump isn’t funny, but he is vindictive.
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Disaster relief funding is creeping into Trump's midterm rhetoric. Critics say it has no place there
President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h
Venezuela will never have free elections as long as Trump is president of the United States. He needs an authoritarian government there to help him steal the oil.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h
31% of Trump’s 2024 voters disapprove of his job performance, according to a new Pew survey.
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Trump’s Approval Rating Drops as Fewer Americans Are Confident in His Handling of the Economy, Other Issues
This rating is near the lowest reached in his first term. And 31% of those who voted for him in 2024 now disapprove of his performance.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h
Jax is 18. She should be focused on college. Instead, she's battling depression because her father is stuck in an ICE detention center. Episode 5 of Fractured, a docuseries exposing the human consequences of ICE enforcement, tells her story. Watch the full episode here: act.link/gi-MSO1ui
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Fractured: The Human Toll of Trump's Deportation Regime
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h
Disgusting www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h
Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking Chair Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith on the behalf of his GOP committee members — especially for Republican Eric Schmitt. The letter also demands Grassley turn over the underlying records Schmitt used during the hearing.
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Democrats call on Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith for basketball gaffe
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h
I'm THRILLED to finally get my hands on this new book on the Voting Rights Act! I've long talked to author @kevintmorris.bsky.social, who is an indefatigable researcher of voting rights and the (worsening) state of democracy in this country. So I know for a fact I'll be learning a ton.
Photo of the book An American Problem by Michael Miller and Kevin Morris.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h
“So many systems are not responsive to the needs of Americans,” Anand Giridharadas told me, which creates “the sense of abandonment,” that “no one is listening, no one is coming.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Hope, Struggle and The Need for Belonging
In the latest ‘Six Questions,’ Anand Giridharadas explains why our politics are so fractious, the dangers of ‘civic pessimism’ and how we get to a better place
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
Republicans are barbarians.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h
Through this livestreamed execution, the Trump regime will declare that it has departed from the civilized world and has plunged headlong into its own Dark Ages.
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h
Trump made 517 personal trades of stocks, bonds, or other financial funds in August — including purchases between $1 million and $5 million each in Microsoft, McDonald's and Comcast stock.
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SpaceX, Palantir, McDonald’s: Trump Made 517 Personal Financial Trades in August
Federal records detail the president’s latest stock and bond spree.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h
President Obama just endorsed Troy Jackson in the Maine Senate race.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h
Trump cratering by many fresh metrics: *approval below 35% *underwater in every red state with competitive Senate race *Ds +8 in generic ballot *Rs admitting their gerrymanders might not deliver *Rs privately fear "worse than 2006" On the pod we bring you all of it: newrepublic.com/article/2163...
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Trump Polls Take Brutal Turn as Allies Grow Rattled: “Worse than 2006”
As Republicans start fearing they’re heading into George W. Bush 2006 territory, a leading forecaster explains how Trump’s low approval is expanding the map for Democrats in hidden ways.
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Smart Dissent @smartdissent.bsky.social · 13h
Hes very proud of himself for the wars and death to pull Epstein and his rape of little girls from the nonstop headlines.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h
So much wisdom from forecaster Kyle Kondik on today's pod. He notes: *if Dems have a good night, there may be zero GOP-held districts left that Kamala Harris won *big difference from 2018: this time Trump underwater in red states with contested Senate races It's a good episode, check it out:
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 13h
This stain on our lives has no clue how not to double down on the stupidest shit he says
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Smart Dissent @smartdissent.bsky.social · 13h
Hes very proud of himself for the wars and death to pull Epstein and his rape of little girls from the nonstop headlines.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh. newrepublic.com/post/216331/...
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USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22h
Trump is actually very transparent about what he wants to do to elections. Yet the legacy media discounts him. “I have to take him seriously because that’s my job,” Marc Elias says. They want you tired and tuned out. We help you stay in the fight. Support us: demdock.com/4yDtK9W
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
First Lady Natalie Harp gets off Bribe Force One moments ago after another long day of traveling with the guy she once said is "all that matters to me" (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)
pic of a smiling Ms Harp disembarking Bribe Force One upon her return from Texas
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h
🎉 The Montana Supreme Court struck down GOP-backed restrictions on the people's right to create initiatives and referendums for voters to weigh in on. The court ruled that the Montana Legislature cannot burden the people's constitutional power to make laws themselves: demdock.com/4rTE5vR
A quote from Justice Beth Baker of the Montana Supreme Court discusses the Constitution and the intention behind people's lawmaking power having minimal obstacles. The text is accompanied by an illustration of a courthouse.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h
NEW: It's been an eventful week for Montanans. On Monday, early in-person polls opened and mail ballots will start flowing to voters Friday. With just 26 days until Election Day, here's what voters in the state should know when it comes to voting access for the midterms👇https://demdock.com/4ekwpx7
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13h
🤔 Why did ICE investigate a popular skate and streetwear store? It’s all part of the Trump administration’s search for data to back up unfounded allegations that noncitizen voting is rampant in the U.S. Here’s how the two are connected: demdock.com/4rTHXNp
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h
Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it
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CNN @cnn.com · 14h
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. cnn.it/4zgcsQc
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Smart Dissent @smartdissent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are the shithole country.
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Smart Dissent @smartdissent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
REPUBLICANS want to transform the 2030 census in ways that'd dramatically skew representation.
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Smart Dissent @smartdissent.bsky.social · 21h
Naw
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. In new ad, Mike Rogers runs away from Trump's trade war with Canada, declaring: "Canada is not our enemy." Confirms reporting in the piece/thread below on Midwesterners seeing interdependence with Canada as a good thing, repudiating right wing nationalism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJO...
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AD: We Need to End The Tariff War — Now
YouTube video by MikeRogers
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We can deliver universal childcare. But Republicans in Congress would rather support Trump’s Iran war and give another tax break to billionaires than guarantee child care for every American family. This is a fight worth fighting.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump's rage at Dr Annie Andrews is getting worse and his smears are getting more disgusting. Must be those GOP polls finding South Carolina close!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Onion couldn’t have made up something this absurd.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The planning underscores just how much the president wants to reduce gas prices and demonstrate progress in the conflict before the vote, administration officials told us.”
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
10 years ago today GOP Sen. Mike Lee: “If anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter…the way Mr Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The clear message of Republicans is that this country is owned by white people and everyone else is renting.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fox is not journalism. It’s anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump admin has declined to invite election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to witness the midterms — meaning observers from the group won't be at a U.S. election for the first time in more than two decades.
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW EPISODE: ICE never wanted you to see these: internal government documents that show Homeland Security Investigations has been probing nonpartisan groups that help register citizens to vote They even went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJoZ...
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic National Committee sues Trump administration, alleging taxpayer-funded ads violate propaganda law.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Change depends on overwhelming victory of the Democrats and overwhelming defeat of the anti-democratic party of oligarchy, corruption and crime.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s not a political party or a presidential administration. It’s just a giant bucket of dodgy schemes by morally reprehensible people.
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