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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A judge dismissed ​a federal case that accused a Jamaican national of illegally voting — finding the law criminalizing noncitizen voting was unconstitutional and delivering a blow to ‌the Trump admin.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court BLOCKS Missouri's GOP Gerrymander. I will be going live at 6:30ET to discuss this breaking news! www.youtube.com/live/Tm__W1b...
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Missouri Voting Maps That Would Favor Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You'd think hiding war dead in a hugely unpopular war would be a bigger deal, but there's so much you'd think would be a bigger deal.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm starting to think Hatch Act violations need to be punished with prison sentences and bans from holding any office or trust in the US.
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Attorney General Blanche blurs Justice Department boundaries by appearing at political events
Attorney General Todd Blanche is blurring traditional boundaries between politics and federal law enforcement with recent speeches at political events that mark a sharp departure from norms meant to p...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“.. officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is very near the Kruse Ancestral Home in suburban Kansas City and, uh, if they're sending the vice president there to shore up votes, they are freaking the fuck out.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Garcia: There’s a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors that are here in Dallas. And the survivors are saying that they are also disgusted that Todd Blanche is out there giving speeches while refusing criminal convictions, while refusing to release the rest of the files.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a good prompt to remind everyone that there are ~20 people in 🇺🇸 who could end all of this immediately, & all they'd need to do is caucus temporarily with Democrats & vote for impeachment & removal. An 100% of them are <Republicans> & they get free passes from the entire media every day.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Of course, the Democratic Party wouldn’t sit on its hands. Their ever-present legal pitbull Marc Elias would have a field day. If ICE showed up in an intimidating manner to a voting location, I’d bet that a well-drafted lawsuit would be filed within the hour.” democracyproject.org/posts/ice-at...
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ICE at the Polls: Not the Hottest Election Threat
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump says the Iran war will end “immediately after” the November election. His own top advisers have reportedly warned him it could last through the rest of his presidency — until January 2029. Weeks in public. Years in private. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 9, 2026
Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 10/09/2026
Satan’s laugh echos through hell as his minions like Dan try to convince gullible Texans to vote against the Christian pastor and for the adulterous fraudster who uses his power to protect child rapists.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How about this, Trump cancels his trip to Ireland this weekend so he can watch a golf tournament on his course and we take all the tax money we save having to pay for his 168th & 169th day on golf courses this term with 50 Secret Service agents and put it towards stimulus checks.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“.. The Atlanta Fed calculates that as of May, a household would need income of $124,674 a year to afford a median-priced home … that is 45% more than the median household makes.” - Schwab
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Democrat should file a bill on Monday for everyone to get $5,000 checks right now to see if Mike Johnson, John Thune and congressional Republicans will advance and pass it. Call their bluff. Pass the bill.
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Rob Norberg @ludwignut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The reason why they think their voters are this dumb and gullible is because they are.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
New in PN: Trumpflation is here "Why voters expected a self-proclaimed business 'genius' who can’t compute basic percentages to understand global macroeconomics shall forever remain a mystery. Now those same voters are finding out the hard way that Trump’s three major policies are inflationary."
publicnotice.co
Trumpflation is here
He broke it, he bought it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Congress is back in session on Monday so there is no excuse for Republicans not to get a bill filed and passed to give out those $5,000 checks next week. Why wait? Give us our free money now when we all need it because prices continue to rise. You control the government.
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Smirnov-Spite @smirnov-spite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The only way tonight could get any worse for Patriots fans is if
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
trump disdains no one more than his own supporters
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Folks, this is just a starting offer. If you hold out, and his polling gets worse, we can get him to promise everyone $10K or even $15K that they’ll absolutely never see. Art of the deal, baby.
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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you liked your DOGE refund and your tariff rebate, you’ll love your Trump dividend.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video www.axios.com/2026/09/09/f...
axios.com
Exclusive: Fetterman to praise Trump in bombshell GOP convention video
His stunning turn is a dramatic escalation in the senator's growing estrangement from Democrats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
could you guys possibly fix this? It is really really annoying on big politics nights and ultimately drives people to other platforms that don't have weird restrictions like this.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/09/2026
Trump's criminal lawyer Todd Blanche: "If you choose violence, you will be held accountable" *unless you're a pardoned J6 rioter
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🧑‍🌾 IOWA… farmers getting crushed by Trump’s actual war and trade war all across 🇺🇸
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“wE CarE abOUt tHe tRooPS” shut up no you fucking don’t, they’re just cannon fodder for your bloodlust
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Widow of Epic Fury airman denied death benefits as Iran conflict is 'not a war'
The widow of an Alabama airman has revealed she and her children are not eligible for some benefits because the Iran war has not officially been declared a war
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
masterful gambit, sir
NBC NEWS POLITICS 

Presented with bleak polling, the White House moves to make the midterms about Trump Despite economic headwinds and an unpopular war, Donald Trump's allies believe Republicans will win in November if only they can get the president's base to turn out.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/09/2026
The Art of Pretending You Never Wanted a Deal.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 03/09/2026
again, I appreciate that his glowering face is surrounded by the message that liberty died in 2026
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As I walk across the state this week, gas prices everywhere are over $4.25. That’s totally unaffordable for any family living paycheck to paycheck. And the only reason prices are this high is Trump’s insane, incompetent war.
A CITGO gas station sign showing regular unleaded gasoline at $4.29 per gallon and diesel at $5.69 per gallon, with a food mart and deli below.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/09/2026
This poll shows conclusively that women are smarter than men.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/08/2026
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe
MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Fox News hosts love to call other media companies biased yet they openly campaign for Republican candidates. In this edit of a longer segment Ken Paxton is mentioned by name 11 times. Programs on cable news do NOT have to give equal time to candidates.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.
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seapbee.bsky.social @seapbee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It’s the Republican party’s fault
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
43-time Club Champion.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: Stephanie Grisham files temporary restraining order against Rep. Max Miller www.ms.now/news/stephan...
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Stephanie Grisham files temporary restraining order against Rep. Max Miller
The former White House press secretary dated the Ohio Republican in 2019 and 2020. Miller has recently come under scrutiny over domestic violence allegations made by his ex-wife.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Judge box of wine may get fired because of a pool
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