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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 6h

people keep saying "when trump campaigns, he gets the base out" but trump keeps campaigning and GOP poll numbers just keep going down

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

California is set to become the first state to ban the production or installation of man-made quartz, amid mounting cases of a lethal lung disease among workers who carve the material for kitchen countertops.

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California Prepares to Ban Quartz Countertop Production

The state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's shocking this is not shocking: "The UK’s largest private-sector employer is offering up to three days of paid leave which can be taken flexibly for activities such as attending court hearings, arranging emergency accommodation, changing locks, securing childcare or separating finances."

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Tesco is first supermarket to offer paid ‘safe leave’ for victims of domestic abuse

Exclusive: Britain’s largest private-sector employer has also trained managers to spot signs of domestic abuse

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10h

Simon Andriesz, former Wall Street banker and whistleblower who exposed previously undisclosed business ties between Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead. According to initial financial and news media reports, he died by suicide. OK, that's what they said about Epstein too.

Side by side images of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein.

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 10h

Federal agents swarmed a protest encampment today, arresting a dozen people and allowing contractors to remove a live protester from, then cut down, an ancient, giant cottonwood "Grandmother Tree" to make way for border wall construction. Protesters had been at the site near Lochiel, AZ for 71 days.

Image: Protesters and Border Patrol agents square off Monday morning near Lochiel, AZ. In the background, a cherrypicker removes a protester from a cottonwood tree that minutes later was brought down.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

“You didn’t protect my son!” Netanyahu heckled by the father of a 10/7 victim at a memorial ceremony. (Netanyahu was reportedly warned an attack was coming and did nothing — then said nobody woke him up that morning🤔)

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 6h

Remember this and all the other criminality since 2009 when Democrats and their Very Serious Beltway Consultants insist on "looking forward, not backwards" in 2027.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers.

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 9h

*stares into the abyss*

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Dave Abbitt @thedaveabbitt.bsky.social · 17h

My mail-in ballot arrived Saturday. I’m voting early against this fraud of a President. Imagine if Biden or Obama had threatened states that vote Republican. Dems — when you win the House and Senate, you must do everything within your power to quickly impeach and convict. 🗳️ 🌊

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12h

Around the country, Americans are fighting back to ensure that big polluters pay for the harm they cause.   SCOTUS should hold polluters accountable & Congress should pass my Polluters Pay bill to make Big Oil pay for their climate mess, not you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Supreme Court grapples with case on holding Big Oil liable for climate change

After more than two hours of argument, it was unclear whether the justices would green-light Boulder, Colorado’s novel lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Trump made some bizarre comments tonight about Iran, gas prices, and nuking 2 West Coast cities. I’ve removed a post about it because nothing he said made a lick of sense. And I don’t think it’s as benign as his defenders would have us believe. But who knows?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h

This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.

ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 10h

True, after losing all daddy’s $413M and going $3B in debt before going chapter 11 bankrupt; when no banks would loan to the shyster anymore. Trump would be a homeless popper if not for billion$ from Russian “banks”, managed by the State. He’s been. Kompromat paid employee of the Kremlin ever since.

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 22h

From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16h

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 19h

Your electric bill is up as much as 30%. PG&E's CEO took home $63.6 MILLION. Duke's CEO took home $51.2 MILLION. And both companies paid NEGATIVE federal tax rates. That's not a coincidence. That's a rigged system. Tax the rich.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

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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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 11h

What a fuckin lunatic 🙄

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." 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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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Thom Tillis now claims he didn't vote to convict Trump after January 6 because "you've never seen a president dealt with that way" and then blames "both parties" (no other president incited a coup attempt!)

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.

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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 19h

Marc Elias: We all have a role to play, it starts with voting. The more seats Dems win, the larger their margins of victory, and harder for Trump to execute his plans. The weeks before election will be critical, the weeks after even more so. Trump’s told us what he intends to do, take him literally…

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 10h

I am in solidarity with Jane Doe I am in solidarity with marching students demanding justice I am Jane Doe #IAmJaneDoe #Pinks

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 8h

You spoke out, and he backed down. Now let’s see the proof this illegal waste of your taxes is over for good. And that he pays the money back. We don’t want the U.S. taxpayers to be the latest contractors to get stiffed.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 19h

Jessica Watkins just became the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit. 🚀 She’s a geologist who worked on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover science team. Now she’s commanding NASA’s Crew-13 aboard the International Space Station. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance 📷 NASA, 2022

Jessica Watkins aboard the International Space Station in 2022, sitting inside the Cupola observation module with Earth visible through the windows.

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Mrs. Beaverhausen @ghostmom.bsky.social · 16h

Coincidence? I think not, the universe is telling us Trump is bad.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h

If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?

CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION

Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.

The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 10h

Do they know that?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

DR OZ: We went grocery shopping. Butter in America -- it's about a buck for a stick INGRAHAM: Where are you shopping? It's not a buck. It's like $4

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 11h

Trump's arch is not about national security. It’s about his own personal insecurities.

A Panel graphic of Senator Duckworth speaking at a press conference in Washington, D.C. There are three images of Senator Duckworth speaking with text that reflects what she is saying over each picture. First, "This arch is about Trump's personal insecurities." Second, "I don't know what he's insecure about." Third, "He must have a lot of insecurities because he certainly is trying to make up for it everywhere he can."

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Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social · 13h

Cornell protest right now. At least a thousand people out here.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 17h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

“The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality”

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause. wapo.st/4ANsaDS

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