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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 45m

Trump ignores a question about "what did mean when you said 'let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego?'"

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 6h

Democrats have to explain what we're trying to build, not just what we're trying to block.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 4h

He simply must be removed from office as any other President would have been if they had uttered these words. "A small price to pay" means he is willing to let 15 million Americans be murdered and he thinks it is acceptable. The fact that those people clapped when he said that makes me sick.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "The Iranian are not trustworthy negotiating partners. They lie as part of their religion."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

WATCH: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica revealed the existence of the case for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

We've got to face the fact that a third of the country doesn't care if Trump is out of his mind as long as he's as racist and sexist as they are. But we also must recognize that the rest of the country deserves to live in a free country, not a dictatorship. Vote against all Republicans.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

According to Senator McConnell, I am “one of the field marshals of the academic project to undermine the judiciary.” www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/rem...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

FOX BUSINESS: Are there plans for Trump to come back and campaign again in your district? MIKE LAWLER No. FOX: Okay. Alright.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

RAJU: Is it worth it for your constituents to pay higher prices bc of war in Iran? MACKENZIE: Fuel prices were sky high under Biden. Now they're starting to come down R: Diesel is about $3 higher than it was at the beginning of war M: When refineries are blown up in Russia because of Ukraine ...

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

Grandpa is sundowning hard today over his rallies.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.

Donald Trump in a navy suit. He's opening the jacket, so you can see the label.

A close up of the suit label says Jos. A. Bank.

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Run for Something @runforsomething.net · 3h

Meet the 48 candidates in our October endorsement class running for local and state office across the country. They include 25 red-to-blue opportunities. They're ready to work for their communities, and we're ready to help them. Meet the class here → bit.ly/3VlZbXQ

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Meet Run for Something’s October Endorsement Class: These Candidates Are Coming for Red Seats

Today, Run for Something is proud to endorse 48 candidates running for local and state office across 22 states. This class includes 25…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h

Did you know that my election cheat sheet has a section where you can check out the key legislative districts state by state? What are be the majority and supermajority makers, or races interesting for different reasons? Check it out! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3h

The world needs to shut down travel to and from Russia until we get honest answers about this plague. The broken vial story makes no sense…. Unless they have absolutely no safety protocols in which case this is even worse

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2h

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 4h

Ohio, it’s time to vote – early voting begins today! Go to iwillvote.com/OH to find your polling location and early voting hours.

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 2h

My office seized cash, gold bars, multiple aircraft, luxury items, and more from Yuma doctor Irfan Fazil after he was caught defrauding our state's Medicaid program of $36.5 million. He'll spend 7.5 years in prison and will pay back every dollar he stole from taxpayers. www.azag.gov/press-releas...

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

MIDTERMS PROJECTION PROTEST 10/30-11/1 By vjaybombs

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10h

Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Epstein victim's family speaks out against Colorado Republican Jeff Crank: "My sister Virginia was one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims... After she died, we promised to carry on her fight, but our own Congressman Jeff Crank refused to meet with us... He repeatedly voted to cover them up."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

If you want Elon Musk, the Ellisons and the Saudis deciding what "news" you're allowed to get, vote for Republicans in the midterms. If not, don't. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’

Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others

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TopCat @tiffinjames.bsky.social · 7h

This. It’s not so much the fact we elected this man in the first place. It’s that we elected him AGAIN and have refused to remove him EVEN AFTER WE FOUND OUT HE WAS TRYING TO BE A DICTATOR.

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 3h

Amy Acton earned the trust of Ohio through a lifetime of public service. Scam artist Vivek Ramaswamy thinks he can buy that trust. Ohioans are making it clear they’re not for sale.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 4h

Did folks know that Bill Green's sister used to work for Susan Collins? We didn't. Not till today. Everything is transactional with this woman. #MEpolitics

Bangor Daily News: "Green, the brother of former longtime Collins aide Julie Green, retired from News Center Maine in 2019."

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22h

“This election is likely our last chance to stop the march of fascism led by Trump and his enablers seeking to hold onto power by any means necessary…We should take seriously Trump’s repeated assertions that he intends to stay in power after 2028.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-are-und...

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We Are Under Attack From an Enemy Within

By listening to our founders and refusing to go along with this, we can name and defeat the ongoing danger to our constitutional republic

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/a...

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 17h

grounds for immediate removal

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Snowflake Trump continues to rant and rave that his propaganda network is actually interviewing a small handful of Democrats.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 6h

The opening was already there but Susan Collins's unconscionable support for Trump's wag-the-dog war of choice with Iran has definitely increased the size of the opening. #MEpolitics

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6h

NEW AD: Introducing SCANDUEL! The only betting app where you can parlay Ken Paxton’s scandals — and get paid! Here’s a tip: Always bet that he did the thing. 💰

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office.

Chart showing total net USCIS immigration application backlog, from Q4 Fiscal Year 2023 through Q3 Fiscal Year 2026. The data shows backlogs were slowly dropping from net 4.3 million applications in Q4 FY 2023 to 3.8 million in Q3 FY 2024, after which applications began to rise again, increasingly every single month until Q3 FY 2026, where they stand at 7.7 million.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

Listen to Jim, he’s 100% correct.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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