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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h
JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.com
ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last night I wrote about consequences, and what happens when the courts give Trump a pass. I hope you'll take a moment to read it, especially in this moment where we see the Court isn't immune to public pressure—Justice Alito just recused from a case because of it.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a make-me presidency Congress says taxpayer money can't pay for political ads, so Trump ran two in a week If he makes us, @democracydefendersaction.org & partners are ready, & the courts have slapped him down plenty The latest w/ @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Shameful': Russian Dissident Blasts Trump's G20 Invite to Putin www.cnn.com/2026/09/26/u...
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‘Shameful’: Russian Dissident Blasts Trump’s G20 Invite to Putin | CNN
Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza slams President Trump’s “shameful” and “despicable” invite to Vladimir Putin for December’s G20 summit in Miami. Speaking with Erin Burnett, the dissident...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought should be impeached and removed for this.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An urgent must read from the best historian on the founding and the constitution. Today, the lawless Supreme Court took another step toward creating an authoritarian dictator who will use his power to distort elections. Democracy, the plain language of the constitution mean nothing to Roberts et al
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats, voting advocates mobilize to stop Trump from sending federal agents to polls — or anywhere near them
Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm election...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To be clear, Mr. Attorney General, the 1st Cir struck down your policy after full adversary briefing on 9/18. Rather than seek clarification on whether it took effect immediately, you tried to fly still more people to 3d countries so it would be too late for them. On 9/23 it found out & stopped you.
Without even allowing the government a chance to respond, and in the dark of night, a federal appeals court blocked us from conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens, an entirely legal and invaluable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration. We will immediately seek relief from the Supreme Court, which previously granted a stay in this very same case.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
BALDWIN: Do you believe mifepristone is safe and effective? OVERTON: It has been approved by the FDA BALDWIN: So you can't answer the question
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
BLUNT ROCHESTER: Trump says vaccines the size of soda bottles are poured into a child's body. Is that true? OVERTON: ... BR: What would you say? OVERTON: The products licensed by the FDA are safe and effective BR: And they're not the size of a soda bottle either
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
MAGA Infallibility
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it'll be great when they can hold in contempt or stop funding Trump regime offices/officials who dont cooperate
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LATEST: CNN, MS NOW & POLITICO objected to Judge Timothy Kelly (Trump/DC) over reporters being denied entry to White House & having passes taken Thurs AM despite judge's ruling overnight restoring access. Kelly told govt to respond by 12:30 P.M. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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POLITICO, CNN, MS NOW barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Trump is threatening to deploy ICE at the polls. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries are suing to stop him. www.democracydocket.com/cases/federa...
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🚨 DSCC et al v. ICE et al
Learn more here.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 24/09/2026
“There seems to be a wild misperception on the part of some Trump allies that an emergency declaration allows the president to do anything he wants," says @lizagoitein.bsky.social. "It is not a blank check.”
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The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well done.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
A while back when SCOTUS ordered Trump to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, Roberts said “courts must show due regard and deference” to him on national security matters. Since then, he’s used it to justify everything from the ballroom to the arch, mass deportation, boat strikes, and now this.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Ukraine is ready to ensure calm, safe shipping and food security in the Black Sea if Russia is ready to take real steps toward de-escalation too.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is one you just have to read for yourself. The Trump administration killed the investigation, which involved subjects in both parties, when it got rid of agents & prosecutors who worked the Trump prosecutions. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-bad-tues...
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A Bad Tuesday in Maine if Your Name is Susan Collins
And a new order in Katie Phang’s Epstein Files case
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
"A brand new CNN poll shows President Trump at an all time low in his approval rating... look at his net approval rating now with pure independents - it's negative 71 points! I mean, these are the deep depths of the ocean. You never see numbers like these. An 86 point shift away from the president!"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Kaitlan Collins pointed out to Trump that CNN is credentialed by the UN, so they will cover him today even if they're banned from the White House
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Ossoff: "Georgians deserve to know the full extent of the congressman's ties to some of the nation's most notorious white nationalists. I am calling on the congressman to release these files in full."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JD Vance has asked for another chance. We literally can't afford it.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/09/2026
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has admitted his country doesn't have enough potash to satisfy Donald Trump's demands for the critical fertilizer.
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Lukashenko says Belarus doesn’t have enough potash for Trump
“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Missouri referendum proponents asked a federal appeals court Monday to pause its ruling requiring the state to use its 2025 GOP congressional gerrymander in the November elections while they seek U.S. Supreme Court review. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri referendum backers ask 8th Circuit to pause ruling requiring GOP gerrymander for midterms
The emergency request comes after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Missouri’s plan to use its 2022 congressional map in November would violate the Constitution.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I wrote more about this in my latest Substack essay, available at Lucid.substack.com.
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Lucid | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Substack
A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
RNC Chair Joe Gruters: "If you think Havana and Caracas and Moscow is the way to go, then vote for the left" (Trump is occupying one of those cities, trying to occupy a second, and loves the third more than the American cities he's constantly calling "dirty" and crime-infested)
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The rogue Waymo that drove through a farmers market in Denver is a reminder that Colorado has no laws to issue citations for driverless vehicles and their actions.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/09/2026
"Wilber said the bullet had not yet been removed from his back." This ICE victim survived, but the cruelty and incompetence aren't any less. The latest edition of Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Public health is at its best when you don't even notice it's working. It doesn't just pop up during a pandemic. It's clean water. It’s food safety. It’s disease prevention. It’s protecting our communities before a crisis hits. That's why we need public health champions in Congress!
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨"I've Been Shot!" DoorDash driver Wilber Perez told his wife after ICE shot him in Austin, TX. A local cop—not ICE —provided medical care, finding a "deep hole between his shoulder blades.” His wife was then blocked from the hospital. READ MORE: www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-i...
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BREAKING: ICE Shoots DoorDash Driver in the Back, Wife REMOVED From Hospital
“I’ve been shot!,” DoorDash driver Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez reportedly told his wife on the phone after an ICE agent shot him in Austin, Texas. Local police—not ICE—provided emergency medical care
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE wants to deport Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver who they just shot in Austin yesterday. The federal government can't shoot someone and then try to make them disappear to escape scrutiny. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez needs a doctor right now, not a deportation.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/09/2026
Jesse Wegman writes that certain Supreme Court justices might want to take a lesson from the Missouri Supreme Court in handling dishonest litigants: bit.ly/4AmlD2U
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Are Your Hands Clean?
Certain Supreme Court justices might take a lesson from the Missouri Supreme Court in handling dishonest litigants
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s ICE thugs shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez through his car window as he was delivering food yesterday in Austin, Texas. His wife and lawyer were reportedly denied access to see him in the hospital, and ICE is now trying to deport him. This violence must end. Abolish ICE.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Source: END/ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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US intelligence says Chinese satellite imagery of bases is helping Iran
A Chinese company's publication of AI-enhanced satellite imagery of US bases in the Middle East is helping Iranian forces identify targets, US intelligence believes.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I did say I was no longer interested in hearing from Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on COVID/pandemic policy after he told people to stay home for the holidays then we caught him flying out of town to visit family. The city needed a credible voice and it was no longer the Mayor.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is sending a message to U.S. civil society (particularly those on the left): Curtail your advocacy, however lawful, or risk becoming the next test case for a legal architecture developed to fight foreign terrorists. bit.ly/4Ak6MWP
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Trump Administration Linking Its Domestic Enemies to Foreign Terrorists
Falsely claiming that U.S. citizens and groups have ties to international terrorism could let the government turn tools intended to combat the likes of ISIS against its perceived foes at home.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not just weird; it’s delusional. HE. IS. PSYCHOTIC. If your grandpa said things like this, you’d take him in for a full neuropsychiatric workup. And it’s time the media starts interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists to talk about it. DO. YOUR. JOBS.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hitler and other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned triumphal arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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