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Ted M. Gossard

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 19h
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18h
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 17h
In her new book, “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made,” historian @kkdumez.bsky.social reveals the often-hidden world of white Christian women, which she says influences the country as a whole.
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A new book explores how the subculture of white Christian women shapes America
In her new book, “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made,” historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez reveals the often hidden world of white Christian women, which s...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17h
For the first time, we’re partnering with labor unions to speed up and modernize hiring for city jobs. It should be easy, fast, and fair to find a good-paying job serving the city we call home — and after 100 years, we’re due for an update.
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Mamdani Enlists Unions in Push to Overhaul NYC Hiring
A new mayoral task force will study the dysfunctional 143-year-old civil service system and propose changes in Albany.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NoKings October 17th! Make a plan for October 17th. Make a plan to vote. www.nokings.org
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No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're abo...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So Americans pay more taxes in order to get AI centers in their backyards. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ohioans are overwhelmingly opposed to giving sweetheart tax breaks to these trillion dollar companies, but that's exactly what Jon Husted did when he gave $2.5 billion to Big Tech to make sure they brought data centers to Ohio.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Obsessed with this photo of the Republican senate candidate in North Carolina
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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Kristen McKnight @kristenmcknight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"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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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ArE wE sUrE cHrIsTiAn NaTiOnaLiSm Is ReAl?????? Christian nationalism: A cultural framework that idealizes and advocates for the fusion of a particular expression of Christianity in US civic life & demands the gov't at all levels protect and preserve this fusion. kettering.org/five-element...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The best chance we have of getting rid of this ignorant, strutting popinjay is to get supermajorities in both the House and the Senate #LetsGetVoteReady
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A “God Made Trump” ad is among forthcoming “Paid For By US Government” ads www.joemygod.com/2026/10/cnn-...
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CNN: Infamous “God Made Trump” Ad Is Among At Least 13 Coming “Paid For By US Government” Ads
CNN reports: The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his…
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito will be on Fox News this Sunday. The Trump DOJ, just this week, filed a complaint that said: "Public confidence in judicial impartiality cannot survive if judges, in disregard of their ethical obligations, pander to the press." www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History won't ask what you posted. It'll count who showed up. Be in the count: check your registration, make your voting plan, and bring two people with you. When we vote, we win. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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Ted M. Gossard @tedmgossard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Better yet, makes life affordable for everyone.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FLAG AJC: Georgia's Republican-led State Election Board has sent a letter to top Trump officials (Blanche, Dhillon, Mullin) asking the admin to (1) force changes to the state's voting system before November and (2) investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
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Georgia board asks Trump administration to investigate voting machines
The State Election Board's executive director, in a letter, asked the Trump administration to examine Georgia's voting machines and prohibit QR-code vote counting.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/10/2026
You can thank Donald Trump for that.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Adam is honored to have the endorsement of another Republican Governor, Mike Hayden! Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree: It's time for something different. 🌻
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump refuses to turn his camera on at the G7 summit
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” Bill Gates said, calling for laws, law enforcement, safeguards, & monitoring for AI. Trump wants the industry to regulate itself🙄 We refuse to hand Big Tech a blank check to unleash tools that can put billions of lives at risk.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 02/10/2026
‘Tech companies are pursuing a range of strategies to move debt off their balance sheets to preserve their creditworthiness. The approach has obscured the amount of risk that tech giants are taking on.’ www.ft.com/content/97d8...
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Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors
The move aims to improve the tech group’s balance sheet health as AI spending soars
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Trump tried to dismantle Voice of America. Now the government is paying to rebuild it. (Politico)
The Trump administration moved last year to gut the federal agency that oversees Voice o...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"gas prices have risen more in red states"
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA candidate Gaea Powell convicted on 9 counts of election fraud 9/28/26 www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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MAGA candidate in small Calif. town convicted on 9 counts of election fraud
It turns out this conservative candidate wasn't following election laws herself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump: "We're gonna be signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence, because it's not artificial. We're gonna be naming it Super Intelligence. Officially renaming it."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump is flanked by, among others, Jensen Huang and Musk, with Mike Johnson visible behind them as reporters are hustled out of the room
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Ted M. Gossard @tedmgossard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Horrible.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
JUST IN: The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The White House press bans aren’t about ethics in journalism. They're about what Trump wants from the press: servile propaganda that parrots only what he and his allies say about his administration.
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Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 28/09/2026
It was never about arresting “the worst of the worst.”
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Trump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration Categories
Recent immigration policies of the Trump administration affect American citizens sponsoring family members and employers seeking workers as the economy has slowed down.
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Ted M. Gossard @tedmgossard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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