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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Damage control
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: Trump’s DOJ put a convicted election hacker on poll duty. Yes, really.
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Trump’s DOJ Put Convicted Election Hacker on Poll Duty
As Harmeet Dhillon rebuilds the Civil Rights Division after roughly 300 career employees left, Justice Department records place David Michael Levin in the federal election-monitoring operation.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How is she still broke? This sounds so chaotic
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guillfoyle was pretty clearly trading on her connection with Trump to solicit payments in order to help a Republican donor get the IRS to quash a tax dispute. Massively corrupt! We used to take this sort of shit seriously!
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like Deters, who was banned from a Cincinnati courthouse for threatening to burn it down, is burning something down: the career of Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The question is how did he know he had a bare area on the back of his head not coiffed
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah. He’s real eager to clarify what he really meant.
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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Virtually every president has complained about the press. Trump says that reporters who irk him "should be arrested." Can't you see that his instincts are authoritarian? I know a lot of "anti-anti-Trumpers." Can't you see it, my friends? Doesn't it matter?
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He is a very very sick man & extremely dangerous
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think he is referring to the law in Russia.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is GREAT
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I have one house.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Following the Putin playbook
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, good luck with this, Roger. I didn't have her arrested for owning me $50. I had her arrested for not showing up to court when I sued her for $50. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sen. Roger Marshall says he didn't have the pregnant patient arrested over a $50 late bill. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS AND DEFAMATORY!!! He had her arrested for not showing up to court when he sued her for being late for $50.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator Schmitt, a Catholic, broke the 8th Commandment
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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
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The good Senator just broke the 8th Commandment
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@klobuchar.senate.gov Time for Senator Schmitt to go to confession for breaking the VIII Commandment, "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor."
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Eighth Circuit has ordered the district court to reinstate Missouri’s 2025 congressional map. But before folks freak out, it also ordered that court to pause such a ruling for long enough that the challengers can (and will) seek further review from #SCOTUS: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
To allow for appellate review, the district court should administratively stay its permanent injunction until September 28, 2026, at 5 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Without any stay, Secretary Hoskins and local election authorities would be required to immediately begin implementing the 2025 map before the Supreme Court receives or decides any appeal. And without a limit to the stay, PNP could wait to file its petition for a writ of certiorari until the December 21, 2026, due date, see
SUP. CT. R. 13.1, thus preventing the Supreme Court from considering the merits of this case until after Missouri has conducted the November 2026 general election. The mandate shall issue forthwith
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/09/2026
The “Priests Against Genocide” group, an international coalition of Catholic clergy, marched through the streets of Rome on Tuesday to urge Catholic Church leaders to take a stronger stance against Israel’s war in Gaza. CNN’s Christopher Lamb reports.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"The FBI in 2025 under President Trump shut down an inquiry into allegations that a political adviser to Senator Susan Collins had participated in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions from a defense contractor seeking lucrative federal contracts"
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Keep up the good work
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LOL
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so so good
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15/09/2026
The Victory of the Tax Cheats.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The young Ann Coulter
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Only his hairdresser knows for sure, Clairol's #5 Medium Brown, wrong color.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/09/2026
A Missouri state House candidate who won his Republican primary by fewer than three dozen votes is accused of trying to plant cocaine and Adderall on his opponent before the election.
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Missouri candidate wanted campaign manager to plant cocaine in opponent’s car, authorities say
The state GOP chairman said Republican Thomas Christopher Ross should immediately drop out of the race, calling the allegations “serious and deeply troubling.”
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No one should buy it. Boycott it. I am sure I won't be eating any beef in the near future.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today's song is "My Favorite Things," performed by John Coltrane Quintet in 1961, with Eric Dolphy/Flute, Evin Jones/Drums, McCoy Tyner/Piano, Reggie Workman/Bass. First w/Trane on Soprano Sax. Addition of Dolphy & interplay w Trane make it quite different from album. #GAM youtu.be/-j4owPa6w1I?...
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John Coltrane Quintet • “My Favorite Things” • 1961 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sit down, put your head back & elevate your legs then close your eyes. It's mesmerizing
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The junior senator from Texas has an exaggerated sense of self-importance. He thinks he is liked to the contrary, he is disliked.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This stench from this can be smelled around the world.
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thefirstamerican.bsky.social @thefirstamerican.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: Europe Protests as U.S. Invites Russian Minister to Finance Meeting
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here is Trump's progression: Fake polls➡️Fake voters➡️Fake results➡️Fake winners🟰Real suppression, real lies, real subversion and real violence.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/08/2026
In its new rule to implement Trump’s anti-mail voting order, USPS compared mail ballots to fake bombs. “There is nothing about a piece of paper with markings on it that is at all like a fake explosive,” Marc Elias says. Help us hold USPS accountable: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/08/2026
NEW: In a win for North Carolina voters, a slate of anti-voting measures is unlikely to take effect before the midterms after the public raised enough objections to trigger a review by state lawmakers. The restrictions would have made it easier to throw out voters' ballots.
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Public objections pause new voting restrictions in North Carolina – at least for now
The voting restrictions approved by the Republican-controlled Rules Review Commission include tightening ID requirements to register to vote and stricter mail voting standards.
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