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Painter, New Jersey Democratic activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈📎 ABOLISH ICE, DISMANTLE DHS, REPRODUCTIVE CARE IS HEALTHCARE, SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY! 🚫👑 #FlipNJ7

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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 4h
Well alright!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMG!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is fighting the press, the courts & your wallet all at once, & it's only Monday His bet is that the chaos moves too fast for anyone to keep track We're keeping track. I'll get into it w/ @arimelber.bsky.social on @ms.now at 6:25pm ET -TN
nytimes.com
Trump’s 2024 ‘Final Battle’ Ad Returns, Funded by Public Money
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After 4 years in office Tom Kean Jr. still doesn’t know what his job is. Hint: it’s not his job to simply support Donald Trump.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There were audible guffaws at some of his answers tonight. www.youtube.com/@NewJerseyGl...
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New Jersey Globe
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tonight Rep. Tom Kean Jr., NJ-7 doubled down on his support for Trump‘s tariffs, his war in Iran, Netanyahu’s “war,” opposition to federal AI regulation, refused to criticize ICE abuses, and claimed his deciding vote on Trump’s OBBB tax cuts for billionaires bill protected constituents’ healthcare.
NJ-7 CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE 
REBECCA BENNETT - TOM KEAN JR.
Sponsored by New Jersey Globe, Rider University.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The Tompkins County DA is re-opening the criminal investigation into the Cornell 7. abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Will international media ever start covering Russia’s ongoing genocide? Ukrainians in Russian occupied Oleshky are eating grass and weeds to survive and the world stays silent 😭
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'Nothing left to eat' — Sybiha urges partners to act on Oleshky humanitarian crisis
Oleshky's population has fallen from around 24,000 to approximately 2,000 as of spring 2026, according to the Foreign Ministry.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh boy.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please re-post.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You re-elected a repeat failure of a businessman to run the U.S. like one of his businesses, what did you expect?!
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's son-in-law pushed us into an illegal war that's made your gas and groceries more expensive AND he's making money from it. @congressmin.bsky.social says it: this is the most corrupt administration in history, bar none.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Lean D NJ-07 Kean Jr."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: Ukraine has hit one of Russia’s largest refineries:
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
We needed to get a handle on AI yesterday — and this is why. AI agents autonomously hacking into government websites is incredibly dangerous and a threat to the national security of every country in the world. 1/2
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
a bill which provided a strong footing for civil liability and punitive damages that attaches to Flock itself as well as the civil jurisdiction in question would do wonders for reining this kind of thing in.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
Happy 100th, John Coltrane 🎷

Did you know his masterpiece “A Love Supreme” was recorded in a single session at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ? Trane's thank-you to God, made right here in Jersey.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Between 29 and 35 percent of the American citizenry is too fucking ignorant to operate a republic. As Churchill noted, democracy is the worst form of government there is -- until you consider every alternative. It's hard, quotidian labor to self-govern, so the worst of us are exploring alternatives.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump is sitting at a -28 approval in 50+1 and -21% in RCP Split it down the middle, say he's at -25% For context, his approvals at this point in 2018 was -11%
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Taxpayers: If you're currently dropping coins in old coffee cans & kitchen drawers to pay for, say, gas or something you hope is actually beef, don't forget to add enough to pay your share of the $6 million Trump is spending on gold leaf for the vulgar ballroom he's thinking about instead of you.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And prolly not even then! C’mon Chris! Pack it in. Your political career went down the tubes way before you embraced DJT.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🇺🇦❗️ Zelensky: Putin, patient zero, the man from whom this war began and spread into the world, becoming the largest war in Europe since World War II, will inevitably leave this world. But the longer Putin is able to wage war, the more evil he will leave behind in this world.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump Net-Approval On: 🔴Immigration: -22% 🟤Economy: -46% 🟤Iran: -46% ⚫️Inflation: -60% SSRS / Sept 17, 2026
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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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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
are you fucking serious newsom and bonta should be raked over the fucking coals for settling
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Murderous dictator invited by wannabe dictator to the U.S. to give legitimacy to their corruption, destruction, and kakistocracy.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 23/09/2026
Trump should do another convention
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You scared? You sound scared.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How conveniently this adds ammunition to double haters’ claim that both parties are corrupt. Hold Hickenlooper accountable!
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John in Western New York @johnwalczak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The patriarchy’s not gonna f**k itself, ladies!
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every day that passes between now and Election Day gets worse for Republicans. Especially Republicans like my Rep Tom Kean Jr. who went AWOL for over 100 days, but continued to trade stocks.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins is a crook. Trump covered up for her. ProPublica has the story.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This should sink her.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NO! This study definitely does *not* provide a continuous reconstruction of El Niño spanning the past millennium. In fact, my main criticism was that it is *missing* critical (based on our own climate model simulations) segments. See this thread: bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
newsom and bonta let paramount threatening to pull out of california torpedo the entire lawsuit and this is going to be an abject disaster for everyone - including california, where they'll gut jobs anyway what a fucking disgrace
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mark today as the first time Trump's approval rating dropped into the 20s.
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The art of the deal every damn time!
Lukashenka of Belarus says there is no potash to supply*
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SMB @smbdemocracy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵 Every kid has a right to a good and basic education. Even poor kids, Even Black kids, Even Brown kids!
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