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@tacotechno.bsky.social
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Fan of democracy, equality, respect, immigrants, baseball (Mets), the truth, and common sense.

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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 1h
Trying so hard to buy votes
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash their budget.
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Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he’s firing the investigators.
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash their budget.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h
All Republicans have to offer voters in the midterms is failure, lies, corruption, cover ups, fear mongering, name calling, enrichment of oligarchs, christian nationalism, racism, data centers everywhere, flock cameras, higher prices, new wars and fake bribes. Hell of a platform.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 1h
Such a whiny baby! I wonder why he never graduated into adulthood.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 13h
What a jackass!
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BoxerAmore @boxeramore.bsky.social · 15h
Journalists covering immigration enforcement have been arrested, assaulted, and detained by federal authorities. Immigrant journalists have also faced ICE detention and deportation. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documented 32 journalist arrests and 170 assaults in 2025, most during protests.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump economy still stinks: U.S. nonfarm payrolls increase by 29,000 in September, less than expected; unemployment rises to 4.2% www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/j...
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Labor market faltered in September as jobs increased by just 29,000, unemployment rate rose to 4.2%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 84,000 in September while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He promised to cut energy bills in half in 6 months and gas prices would be under $2. He never said he couldn’t do that because he’s “inheriting a mess.” He said he would do it & it would be easy. So he can try & blame Biden now all he wants, but he blatantly lied & is a buffoon.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. n.pr/4hzSuJ0
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He was banned by betting sites, and filed for bankruptcy. Then he relapsed on Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God help us!
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What kind of people make up the 31% who approve of his performance? Insensitive? Racist? Inhumane? Uninformed? Rich? Oblivious to the suffering of others? I just can't figure it out.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
What happened after Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to federal child care programs? 400+ day cares shut down in Oklahoma. 300+ programs shut down in Indiana. HUNDREDS more have closed nationwide. Our families deserve better.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
After nearly two years of claims on Fox News that Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the “worst of the worst,” the administration acknowledged that it's attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the U.S. without authorization.
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Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration is planning to build a national surveillance database using the Flock cameras in your neighborhood. trib.al/G3UVJkB
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Trump Uses Decades-Old Law to Collect Flock Data Nationwide
The Trump administration is planning to build a national surveillance database using the Flock cameras in your neighborhood.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today millions of Americans lose access to Snap benefits, and it becomes harder to feed their families. But Trump marches on building his ballroom, his helicopter pad, his arch.....When will Republican lawmakers wake the hell up and see the writing on the wall? He is taking this country down!!!!!
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just sit on your asses Republican lawmakers, and let all this happen. Your legacies will be attached to the nuts in this administration.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans oppose Medicare expansion to include dental, vision, and hearing coverage. Those are not luxuries. They are essential to living a full life. Republicans think seniors do not deserve them. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just cannot accept that we are treating people this way or that the Supreme Court sanctions the cruelty. This is not the country I grew up in. We are behaving despicably. There is no compassion...just mean racism and indifference to human suffering.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's Iran War has spiked food prices by raising the cost of fertilizer and fuel. His cuts to FDA and HHS have made foodborne illness outbreaks harder to contain. And his SNAP cuts have made it even harder for millions to feed themselves. He's making America hungry again.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking - The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human rights concerns… will hear arguments later this year www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to restart controversial deportations to countries they have no connection to | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human right...
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Again...their inhumanity, their lack of compassion, and their total incompetence are all astounding.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wishful thinking. If they haven't done it by now, they'll go down with the ship
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the Texans out there - vote Talarico if you want to change the 30 years of decline in your state
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's self-aggrandizing tv ads are disgusting. But what's even worse is the fact that Congress and the courts will not stop him from using taxpayer money to promote himself and his agenda.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Read this article and then tell me you support this administration. Their cruelty knows no bounds. Their lack of humanity is appalling. Their compassion is non-existent.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: This week SCOTUS greenlit a flawed database for the Trump administration to purge voters from the rolls. While some claim the impacts will be minimal, it’s a good bet some red states will work with Trump to purge as aggressively as they can get away with.
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
how long have they been pushing these same nonsense talking points?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
“At a time when millions of Americans are already losing coverage and facing skyrocketing costs, Vance and this administration are making the crisis exponentially worse.”
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JD Vance is coming for your Obamacare
Are you really young and healthy—or are you a "phantom patient" trying to con Dr. Oz?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In term 1, Trump took a strong economy he inherited from Obama, threw in some tax cuts, didn’t mess with it much, & took credit for it. In term 2, Trump decided that he wanted to completely reshape the economy according to his own dumbass beliefs and now we’re Trump University.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wonder if she includes immigrant children in her efforts, or maybe since they're not white, they don't need to be reunited????
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's something to be proud of....taking healthcare coverage away from thousands of people. What the hell is wrong with this administration? They seem to find joy in the misery of others.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins was at the center of a major bribery probe for steering millions in contracts to a company whose CEO illegally funneled thousands to her campaign. Then Trump took office and gutted the FBI and DOJ units investigating her. Is this what "being moderate" looks like?
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping po
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Retired four-star Admiral William McRaven, who oversaw the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, is sounding the alarm about Trump’s treatment of America’s allies.
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Admiral Who Took Down Bin Laden Sounds Alarm on Trump’s NATO Damage
As NATO pours billions into collective defense and Ukraine’s survival, William H. McRaven warns that Trump is burning through the personal trust an alliance needs when a crisis arrives.
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tacotechno.bsky.social @tacotechno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States is no longer the leader of the free world, thanks to DJT. People like Mike Waltz, John Thune, and Mike Johnson can pretend the world respects us. But in fact, the world hates Trump, and they're wondering what the hell is wrong with us as we allow him to destroy the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Trump literally did not get Zelenskyy get a word in during the part of their bilateral meeting that happened in front of the cameras. He talked about himself and made genocidal threats as Zelenskyy sat there stone faced.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
Trump's ICE is disappearing thousands of people in their system, hiding their locations from loved ones & lawyers, & preventing them from exercising their constitutional rights.   This is the lawlessness Republicans keep writing blank checks for. Not another dime! apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: Republicans are encouraging voters to request mail ballots, despite filing lawsuits to restrict mail-voting deadlines, overseas voting and permanent absentee laws over the past six years. Experts say the push shows the party's duplicitous faith in mail voting security.
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‘Hypocritical’: RNC pushes mail voting for its supporters while attacking it in court
The RNC has sued across the country to restrict mail voting. But it also paid for emails and a website telling voters to “request your mail-in ballot now,” a Democracy Docket analysis found.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash driver in Austin, then took him from the hospital into federal custody with the bullet still lodged near his spine. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reports on the latest ICE shooting and what happened to Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez afterward. lnk.thebulwark.com/4jmoPp0?utm_...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pretty shameless and pitiful that Republicans who have backed the Iran War every step of the way, never spoke out or criticized it, and voted against every war powers resolution, are suddenly coming out against it 6 weeks before their election while trailing in the polls.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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