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@tatertown.bsky.social
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A speck of blue in Idaho. Pro-science, Pro-choice, struggling Catholic (No real name because I need to protect my kids) I 💙democracy (and birds)

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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This reminds me of the kids in high school who wrote their speech the night before they had to present it.
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Great Gatsby personified.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...
A table comparing claims made in a letter to Stephen Miller to the claims made in the document predicating FBI's investigation into SPLC.

It shows that much of the FBI memo was quoted directly from the Miller letter.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.
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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So much for free market capitalism
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is obvious political targeting. The DOJ has zero credibility anymore. apnews.com/article/l-lo...
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FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, AP source says
The FBI served a search warrant at the office of the Virginia Senate leader as part of a corruption investigation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2026
COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
oh shit they did the meme
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I knew Israel would ruin it. Netanyahu never honors a ceasefire.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026
I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.
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Whitesheepranch @whitesheepranch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Idaho shot itself in the foot. More accurately, #idleg shot the rest of us in the foot. 35% of doctors who provide obstetric care have left the state. We have a public health catastrophe, thanks to the #Idaho #GOP. #idpol idahocapitalsun.com/2026/04/06/r...
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Reproductive health care restrictions likely to repel provider workforce, research shows • Idaho Capital Sun
Applications to medical residency programs in states with abortion restrictions have declined compared to states where abortion remained mostly legal.
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Funny how they all suck but only the women get blamed
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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Never a truer thing he’s said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/03/2026
Lieu: "Undocumented immigrants want nothing to do with the govt! To vote, you have to first register. How many undocumented immigrants are gonna go, 'Yes, I'm gonna give all my information to the govt that's maybe trying to deport me. No way!' This is a problem that doesn't exist."
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Forbes @forbes.com · 10/03/2026
Turning Idle California Farmland Into A Clean Energy Powerhouse
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Turning Idle California Farmland Into A Clean Energy Powerhouse
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at how data centers are driving clean energy adoption and Rivian-backed ALSO’s plan to shake up the global e-bike market
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Oh my fuck the irony
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The rich always find a way to avoid consequences
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is eugenics
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Imagine ig Canada won and Mark Carney posted an AI of him punching an American hockey player…
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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare. Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised at all if he actually said this
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
For Everything is Political, I reported on young people working multiple jobs. It's about more than side hustles—factors like worker exploitation & lack of opportunities to break in have impacted multiple generations. Now, some young adults say working only one job has never felt viable.
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The Toll Working Multiple Jobs Takes on Young People
“Rat race,” “chaos,” “stressful”: these are just a few ways young people are describing days stuffed with side projects, shift schedules, and Google Calendars color-coded by job. Illustration Credit: ...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/02/2026
Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed. But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments. Mind blowing corruption.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are dealing with a Western Christian supremacist movement willing to see millions die in the name of racial purity. This is William Wolfe. A year ago he was invited with fourteen other faith leaders to the WH. Today he is praising ICE for killing peaceful observers. This is Christian fascism.
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Michael Beveridge @tattieboy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/01/2026
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-cap…
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/01/2026
FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They’re coming for anyone who disagrees with them
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Well shit. That sucks
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Garcia uses his opening statement during Comer's Minnesota fraud hearing to point out that "some of the worst fraud and corruption is actually found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" and that the administration is punishing innocent kids
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
"51% of the vote in one election does not empower you to destroy a city or culture or society" -- Mark Levin after Mamdani won 50.8% of the popular vote "We have rejected, completely, utterly, undeniably, the Democrat Party" -- Mark Levin after Trump won 49.8% of the popular vote
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/12/2025
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/12/2025
BREAKING: Democrats are now +16 on the general ballot. I don't think I've seen anything like this. Also, this is a A+ poll taken BEFORE the government botched the Epstein release today.
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s a cult
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I say dems start a discharge petition to repeal healthcare for congress and the president.
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tatermom @tatertown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It’s actually kind of embarrassing how insecure Nate Silver is.
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