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@somervilleny.bsky.social
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Always a Democrat, writer, singer, general nuisance.

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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 5h
This laughable buffoon knows he's a Fox Nooz joke to any serious and professional military leadership, and so off with their heads! Pete Hegseth Is About to Slash a Fifth of All Military Leadership newrepublic.com/post/215992/... via @newrepublic.com
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Pete Hegseth Is About to Slash a Fifth of All Military Leadership
Hegseth has said he wants “less generals, more GIs.”
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 8h
American hero!! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jack Smith clashes with senators over Trump probes, says he will not be silenced
Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from...
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why doesn't Trump have himself dipped in gold? Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grifting, lying, hating, and election rigging is so tiring. Trump, 80, Promptly Falls Asleep After Announcing New Steel Plant newrepublic.com/post/215938/... via @newrepublic.com
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Trump, 80, Promptly Falls Asleep After Announcing New Steel Plant
Donald Trump struggled to stay awake during the Oval Office press conference.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We make room for gargantuan data centers, but not for human beings. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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See how data centers are changing the American landscape
Satellite imagery shows what was once farmland and desert taken over by warehouselike structures.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
36 Days... Who's ready?
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joneson/dead bird site survivor. @joneson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#AZ voters, click on Arizona to view what cruelty repub Biggs & his ilk did to Arizonans with the passage of this bill. Not one repub should be elected with the horrific policies of this regime. Re-elect Dem Katie Hobbs to protect your rights & our democracy www.americanprogress.org/article/stat...
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State Fact Sheets: How the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Are Increasing Costs for American Families
This series of fact sheets provides insights into how the OBBBA and the administration’s policies will increase the costs of health care, food, energy, and borrowing in each state in the near future.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law" A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it's too late. @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo:
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Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law
A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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Johnathan Sisson @tomlarsom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Josephine Imperato @bakingfool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is this paid for by the U.S. Government is what I want to know? Also, he's not wiping out the Communists, he's entertaining them in the White House.
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Jean Ibosh @fedup90611.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I would love to go just one day without seeing his ugly face.
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Toni Collette's 'Just One Day!' Frustration
ALT: Toni Collette's 'Just One Day!' Frustration
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Paid for by the U.S. government” means paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. Thank goodness we’re not looking at record deficits or something.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump, servile suck-up to dictators Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him
Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out the 100% NEGATIVE labels these voters of all persuasions assign GOP'S garbage candidate Ken Paxton: "BAD" "AMORAL" "WOMANIZER," "CROOK," "DISGUSTING." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | ‘They Picked the Wrong Candidate’: 12 Texas Swing Voters on the Paxton-Talarico Race (Gift Article)
The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out the 100% NEGATIVE labels these voters of all persuasions assign GOP'S garbage candidate Ken Paxton: "BAD" "AMORAL" "WOMANIZER," "CROOK," "DISGUSTING." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | ‘They Picked the Wrong Candidate’: 12 Texas Swing Voters on the Paxton-Talarico Race (Gift Article)
The group discusses the economy, the president and the U.S. Senate race in Texas.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's stupid refusal of guardrails is helplessness wrapped in greed. As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's stupid refusal of guardrails is helplessness wrapped in greed. As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump, servile suck-up to dictators Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him
Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Americans want out of Trumplandia. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/l...
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For about $50, you can apply to be a Canadian citizen. But you will need to wait … for awhile. - The Boston Globe
When the amendment to the Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect in December 2025, the expected wait time for processing citizenship applications was about 9 months. Now it’s 33 months.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay cool. Please run this as an ad.
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Royal Blue Angel @rba11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎶 RAP THE VOTE 🇺🇸 #VOTE Check your state for early voting & #VoteBlue #Blues
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well this sums it up right? 👋 #Blues #Democracy #GopCorruption
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tbeaumont.bsky.social @tbeaumont.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Any Republican senator can be racist, but it takes a special one to work in racism while expressing the rare good position!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.texasobserver.org/joe-rogan-ja...
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Does Joe Rogan Care Who Wins the Texas Senate Race?
An exhaustive accounting of the Austin podcast giant's thoughts (and lack thereof) on James Talarico, Ken Paxton, and the electoral contest between them
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
look close and you can see Natalie Harp boarding Marine One to travel with Trump today #TravelWithNatalie
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love this for him. Meanwhile, his stupid war continues. people.com/trump-booed-...
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Trump Booed at the Tennessee vs. Texas Football Game as He Appeared on the Jumbotron
President Donald Trump was booed by the Tennessee crowd during a game-day appearance in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 26, when the Vols hosted the Texas Longhorns. He was seen seated in a box a...
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Billionaire leeches www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Billionaire leeches www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love this for him. Meanwhile, his stupid war continues. people.com/trump-booed-...
people.com
Trump Booed at the Tennessee vs. Texas Football Game as He Appeared on the Jumbotron
President Donald Trump was booed by the Tennessee crowd during a game-day appearance in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, Sept. 26, when the Vols hosted the Texas Longhorns. He was seen seated in a box a...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/09/2026
President Donald Trump's touted "biggest oil deal in world history" with Venezuela faces legal and logistical problems likely to sink it.
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Trump's 'biggest oil deal' doomed to collapse as investigation exposes legal flaws
President Donald Trump's touted "biggest oil deal in world history" with Venezuela faces legal and logistical problems likely to sink it.The Guardian reported Saturday that nearly every major claim the Trump administration has made about the arrangement falls apart under scrutiny, from how long it l...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Minnesota Republican state Senate candidate Austin Peterson endorses NDAs for data centers: "There's a reason why there's NDAs out there"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump botched one pandemic. He doesn't care whether Americans live or die. U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics
Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's forever fubar war www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump rejects Iran’s proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, restart peace talks
Tehran’s proposal, delivered to U.S. officials through mediators, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart peace talks within seven days.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
The ruling also deals a blow to voting and privacy groups challenging DHS' overhaul of the database as a violation of federal privacy laws and an unconstitutional attempt to usurp states' authority over elections. Read the full story:
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
Jackson: "Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified SAVE system is allowed to continue operating...[like] the risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Iran is playing Toddler Trump like a toy fiddle. Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/w...
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Iran Proposes 7-Day Plan to End War
Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We have a broken-brained thug in what's left of our White House.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2026
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu revels in his annual appearances before the U.N. General Assembly, defiantly excoriating the world body. But this year, his speech shined a light on something very different: his isolation. on.wsj.com/4z14zya
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Netanyahu Returns to Familiar U.N. Stage More Isolated Than Ever
The Israeli prime minister’s speech came as he faces a tight election and weakening ties with the Trump administration.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
In a 49-50 vote, the Senate failed to block President Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran ahead of midterms, reflecting Democrats’ strategy to force votes on war powers resolutions to highlight Republican support. See how your senators voted:
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How every senator voted on the Iran war powers resolution
The Senate failed to block President Donald Trump from ordering further strikes on Iran in a 49-50 vote.
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2026
In testimony in front of the US Senate, Lindsey Isaacs said she spent almost two weeks in jail after a Flock Security camera falsely attached her car to a fatal hit-and-run. CNN has reached out to Flock Security but not yet received a response.
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jmc @somervilleny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Trump deserves the same treatment. Everyone Walks Out of U.N. Before Netanyahu Says a Single Word newrepublic.com/post/215828/... via @newrepublic.com
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Everyone Walks Out of U.N. Before Netanyahu Says a Single Word
The Israeli prime minister is increasingly isolated in the world.
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