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@steelstrong.bsky.social
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No party affiliated voter, writer, former newspaper reporter and editor, educated in criminal justice/law enforcement. I am not an attorney, but a legal nerd. I absorb Substack and Bluesky posts to stay informed. Fore warned is fore armed.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 16h
LIVE NOW youtube.com/live/wBCvQ2-...
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BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS Man in Bronx With Young Child in Back Seat | LIVE PROTESTS
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: ICE vehicle RAMS through NYC protesters attempting to block it from leaving after ICE agents SHOT a man in NYC—the man’s young son was in the back seat. WE’RE LIVE ON SCENE ⬇️
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Immigrant rights organizer tell us "this is unprecedented" & opens door for thousands of other detainees—with similar crimes committed against them—to try and apply for U-Visa. WATCH our EXCLUSIVE interview with Martin Soto, his wife, and lawyer www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Delaney Hall Hunger Strike Leader Martin Soto RELEASED, First Interview with Status Coup
Watch now (1 min) | Soto reveals he was ILLEGALLY thrown in solitary confinement for 4 months as retaliation for helping launch hunger strike at Delaney Hall ICE prison; he also lost 40 pounds over 9 ...
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We want to thank everyone who took the time to comment! More than 1.6 million people have spoken up for our national forests. The message couldn’t be clearer: 99.1% of public comments oppose repealing the Roadless Rule according to Center for Western Priorities. #KeepRoadlessRoadless
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 23h
Years and years of fighting to get a plaque installed honoring the officers who held the line on January 6th. Last week a federal judge dismissed our lawsuit. She said we have no standing. I'm used to losing. I'm not done. www.standingourground.us/p/they-dismi...
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They Dismissed Our Lawsuit. I'm Used to Losing. I'm Not Done.
Five and a half years.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING via Punchbowl The Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about President Donald Trump's actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23h
The machinery to turn alleged misconduct at election protests into federal investigations of political organizations and their funding is already in place. As the midterms approach, understanding what a “predicate” is matters. Read The Predicate by Jonathan M. Winer: buff.ly/bTezuo6
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The machinery for turning alleged misconduct at election protests into federal investigations of political organizations and their funding is already in place.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
Watch the full episode: www.meidasplus.com/p/in-your-ba...
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IN YOUR BACKYARD: The People vs. Dirty Air
In the third installment of In Your Backyard, Luke Radel talks to two people hurt by the Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, and a member of Congress shaping the fight ahead.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Popok is joined by the Brennan Center’s CEO and President Michael Waldman at this critical tipping point, where Trump doesn’t know what the issues are that concern the midterm voter, but Supreme Court reform is high on the list! Tune in below!
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Trump Plan to Pack Supreme Court FOILED by the Voters and Congress?!?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23h
A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents. bit.ly/4AZMLoU
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Co-opting Local Police to Suppress Dissent
A presidential order has activated the post-9/11 machinery of federal-state-local law enforcement cooperation to target the administration’s political opponents.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 23h
ICE went after voter registration groups, collected 99 million voter records to find "high-value targets," and sent armed agents to polling sites. But their intimidation won’t stop a blue wave. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 23h
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Trump DEADBEATS and STIFFS the American Taxpayer for TENS OF MILLIONS for “Love Me” Ads!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If protesting didn't work, would those in power be doing everything they can right now to vilify protestors and crack down on free speech? Activist and author Annie Leonard offers an important history lesson on why protest is so important — and why it's needed now more than ever.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 08/10/2026
“The Men and Women Who Chose to Serve Trump—and the One Who Has Made Cruelty a Government Policy”: A rogues' gallery of the Trump Administration by Steady State’s own Bill Piekney. buff.ly/MSLIDNE
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PURE, UNALLOYED EVIL
The Men and Women Who Chose to Serve Trump—and the One Who Has Made Cruelty a Government Policy
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls
Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHAT a life!! Margaret Hamilton, who lead the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter, Lauren.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LIVE NOW: Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Lisa Graves fill in for Popok on Legal AF, breaking down the Epstein files fight, the Sullivan case, Marsha Blackburn’s lawsuit, CNN and Judge Kelly, and the Supreme Court, plus the Kennedy Center report and DNC lawsuit over Trump administration TV ads.
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LIVE: Trump PANICS as DOJ DAM BREAKS on Epstein Files | Legal AF
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 08/10/2026
Trump is asking for American cities to be attacked. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng?...
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Daisy L.A.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WATCH: Trump is rallying in Texas to boost Republicans ahead of the midterms. But even the state's sitting Republican governor Greg Abbott appears unwilling to be seen with him.
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Texas governor DUCKS Trump’s visit to his state as election fears grow
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another Kennedy Center Court Loss for Trump! youtu.be/fr7GrAFt00Y?...
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Another Kennedy Center Court Loss for Trump!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
October 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026
On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JUST IN: A judge has blocked ICE's policy "to stop collecting biometric information" from detainees that they need to pursue lawful status, like visas for human trafficking survivors and other crime victims. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 07/10/2026
NEW: Judiciary Democrats demand DOJ investigate former Bard President Leon Botstein after uncovering evidence that he likely enabled and possibly participated in Epstein’s abuse—including an email asking whether a young woman Epstein was trafficking was “for me.” [READ🔽]
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Ranking Member Raskin, Rep. Dean Demand DOJ Investigate Former Bard College President After Uncovering His Email Asking Whether Young Woman Was “for Me” or Epstein Himself, Reveal History of Sex Abuse...
Washington, D.C. (October 7, 2026)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Madeleine Dean demanded a federal investigation into former Bard College Presiden...
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 07/10/2026
Terrible news out of Arizona - Courage for Democracy PAC is furious and bereft to hear about the rape and violent attack that our Courage Candidate, Bernadette Greene-Placentia, experienced while doing campaign work. couragefordemocracy.com/furious-and-...
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Furious and Bereft: Courage Candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia survives rape - Courage For Democracy
Courage for Democracy PAC is furious and bereft to hear about the rape and violent attack that our Courage Candidate, Bernadette Greene-Placentia, experienced while doing campaign work. Bernadette’s h...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEWS: Trump says he can do "very bad" things to Obama and Biden, threatening them. ICE secretly investigated hundreds of voter registration groups, an Arizona Democratic congressional candidate says she was raped while fixing her campaign signs, and more.
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NEWS: Trump Threatens ‘Very Bad’ Things for Obama, Armed Guards Deployed to Post Offices for Election, ICE Spies on Voting Groups
Good evening, “I can do whatever I want, if I want.” That’s what Donald Trump said in the Oval Office today, moments after telling reporters he “could’ve done very bad things” to Barack Obama, Hillary...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As the Trump DOJ hemorrhages qualified lawyers, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the “Civil Rights” division, hires partisan hacks & incompetent lawyers who have been fired, rejected, or driven out of their prior positions. Why these hires put the entire country at risk: youtu.be/8G1PVefC5do?...
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Trump DOJ SCRAMBLES As LAWYERS FLEE And Department COLLAPSES!!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
VICTORY! A Georgia judge Wednesday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to restrict where Gwinnett County voters can return mail ballots, ruling the law allows the county to accept ballots at designated early voting sites. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia court rejects RNC bid to restrict mail ballot return access in state’s second-largest county
The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia’s second-most populous county to cast their ballots ahead of the November election.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration is sending $500 checks to select Americans. Why that is less a policy win and more a voter bribery scheme is worth understanding. So is how Trump is turning the presidency into a corrupt family business. Two stories. One familiar Trumpian playbook.
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This Week In The Big Picture
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats sued the Trump administration Wednesday for using taxpayer money on campaign-style television ads promoting President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump sued for using taxpayer money on campaign-style ads ahead of midterms
While Trump himself is not on the ballot this year, Democrats argued the taxpayer-funded ad campaign is part of an effort to bolster Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/10/2026
NEWS: The DNC is suing Trump for illegally diverting $20 million in taxpayer funds—including money intended for line-of-duty memorials—to air pro-Trump propaganda ads ahead of the midterms.
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DNC Sues Trump Over Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda Ads Ahead of Midterms
The lawsuit alleges Trump personally ordered $20 million in federal funds diverted toward campaign-style TV spots—including money budgeted for commemorative events such as line-of-duty memorials.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l6J...
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Trump SQUEALS as Epstein-Trump Survivors STICK IT TO HIM in Epstein Files Bookmobile Kick Off Event!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JUST IN: The Trump administration is asking Judge Sooknanan to shut out the public from next week's hearing on its use of Guantanamo Bay as an ICE deportation holding facility. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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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
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/10/2026
Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - DOJ's loyalist hiring spree exposed - Susan Collins' brutal debate - Secretary Bessent caught yelling at staff - Seniors turn on Republicans open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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BREAKING: DOJ's Loyalist Hiring Spree Exposed, Susan Collins' Brutal Debate, Secretary Bessent Caught Yelling at Staff, and more...
Top Stories for October 7, 2026.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LIVE Data Center REVOLT Sweeps Tiny NJ Town After SECRET Approval. Status Coup's Jordan Chariton & Jon Farina will be back on the ground at 5:15pm ET. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP-C...
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LIVE: Data Center REVOLT Sweeps Tiny Town After Secret Approval
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/10/2026
Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls
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Street Level Surveillance
EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 07/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, reports @jonshorman@bsky.social.
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Documents show DHS probed nonprofits, obtained millions of records in hunt for noncitizen voters • West Virginia Watch
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records as part of a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, according to internal DHS reports, and weighed using…
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 07/10/2026
As West Virginia lawmakers consider how to reign in AI-driven police surveillance technology with legislation during their upcoming session, they’ve given Flock Safety a deadline of this week to answer a series of questions to their satisfaction, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
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WV lawmakers give Flock until Friday to answer questions • West Virginia Watch
West Virginia lawmakers have given Flock Safety a deadline of this week to answer a series of questions to their satisfaction — or else they may use subpoenas or compel witnesses to answer them.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Delaney Hall Hunger Strike Leader Martin Soto RELEASED, First Interview with Status Coup He and other detainees inside Delaney Hall were served expired/rotting food. He lost 40 pounds over his nine month detainment. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Delaney Hall Hunger Strike Leader Martin Soto RELEASED, First Interview with Status Coup
Watch now (1 min) | Soto reveals he was ILLEGALLY thrown in solitary confinement for 4 months as retaliation for helping launch hunger strike at Delaney Hall ICE prison; he also lost 40 pounds over 9 ...
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Blanche is delaying, hiding behind claims of privacy to shield co-conspirator identities from being revealed. Video: buff.ly/bKLQDCF
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 07/10/2026
Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032, reports @jennifershutt.bsky.social.
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US Senate candidates in 9 key races quiet about Social Security benefits cliff • West Virginia Watch
Nearly all of the U.S. senators elected this year will be in office when Congress debates how to restructure Social Security to prevent an automatic drop-off in retirement benefits in 2032.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 07/10/2026
Doctors and medical professionals have pushed for the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services to pay more attention to menopause for more than a decade. Now, they're listening. WATCH: www.contrariannews.org/p/congresss-...
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Congress’s Sudden Interest in Menopause Is Decades Late to the Discussion
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf’s new book explores the years of demand for robust women’s health policy and advocacy.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW FROM ADAM KLASFELD: The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board refuses to share evidence in a federal lawsuit, invoking presidential communications privilege. But Trump isn't only the president here. He's the board chairman, calling the shots and making the decisions challenged in the lawsuit.
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Trump PANICS and STONEWALLS Evidence in LAWSUIT...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice tapped criminal prosecutors and an FBI official to watch voters in Arizona’s primary elections earlier this year in a major break from past norms, according to records reviewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/10/2026
Today's Kinzinger Report is out and we cover: - Russia is covering up a deadly plague outbreak - Trump backs down on his taxpayer-funded ads - Tillis says his Hegseth vote was the biggest regret of his career - Trump kicks Politico off Air Force One open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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BREAKING: Deadly Plague Outbreak in Russia, Tillis Regrets Confirming Hegseth, Trump Backs Down on Taxpayer Ads, and more...
Top Stories for October 6, 2026.
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: Popok reports that ALL 4 federal judges in Tennessee’s Middle District, without explanation, mass quit/recused themselves from Senator Marsha Blackburn’s suit against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, and NOT ONE Tennessee lawyer or firm wanted the case either!!
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Trump RED-FACED as Every JUDGE QUITS Senator’s Suit Against JACK SMITH!!!
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