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@tonyjoyce.bsky.social
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Just a blue dot in a purple state. Finally retired. Tax the rich and help the poor.

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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 13h
Your government websites are being taken over. Your access to things like Social Security, Medicare, IRS etc and your privacy are both at risk. Read the open letter from the government employees trying to protect you.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 19h
Daily Reminder: SOCIAL SECURITY IS OUR MONEY!
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 17h
Another stunning investigation by @propublica.org, this time on how the Trump administration bullied the Postal Service on restricting vote by mail: www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 17h
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h
Evil. Shame on everyone who voted for this.👇
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Melinda here 4 the defeat of evil 🛑 this shit 💙🤬 @melin4u.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This ⬇️
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I read about the White House airing campaign ads with taxpayer money, I immediately thought about an exhibition I saw last year in NYC about how Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me
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Me Me Me
The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you
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Citizen Jane @rivergoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Protected Expressive Treason
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Dems may be positioned to take back the House, but this is no time for complacency. Jeffries is right to put healthcare front and center. Medicaid, healthcare costs, and who government actually works for are going to be major issues in this fight. Nothing is won yet.
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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 28/09/2026
Caun McCann’s “Build With, Not For” mantra continues to be the defining feature of civic tech and DOGE’s bullying is its antithesis. Those who joined federal government also took their oath of office seriously - their allegiance is to the Constitution, not to Musk or their bank account.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They’re all so evil.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another cartoon
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A core belief uniting Trumpists with Silicon Valley tech bros is that society should be organized around male entitlement to sex: a cross between Mad Men and the old Playboy Mansion.
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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@missiggeek.bsky.social Pretty picture. Also, trigger warning, Carl has Puffin calendars ;)
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ElizabethC 💙🐸 @econklin44.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is why Trump loves tariffs. He can declare them as punishment, claim gratitude for lifting them, and pocket the cash (or distribute it among his allies) along the way. #ProudBlue
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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy Sunday 🍃💙🍃 This 👇
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In case facts still matter… Receipts: www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Inhumane civil confinement violates Due Process if officials manifest “deliberate indifference” or the conditions are “punitive.” Judge Kaplan found both. Evidence suggested that “harsh conditions” were “a deliberate feature” to incentivize self-deportation. 5/5
Asthis Court explained when it issued the PI, the administration's actions with respect
to noncitizens illegally present in the country and the conduct by ICE staff and contractors at 26 Fed
"suggest that harsh conditions of confinement are a deliberate feature" of the administration's massdeportation program 49 That conclusion has been reinforced by passage of time and the full development of the record. Since this Court issued the PI, the administration has continued to
attempt to detain and deport as many noncitizens illegally present in the country as possible, as fast
as possible, and with as little procedure as possible. Part of that program has been its self-deportation
project, which, as the administration has described it, "offers illegal aliens a choice: leave voluntarily with [flederal support and financial assistance or face strict enforcement and penalties. '500 That the
harsh conditions of confinement at 26 Fed are one aspect of this "strict enforcement and penalties" is supported by the fact that ICE has papered walls and windows on the fifth, ninth, and tenth floors with flyers asking detainees, "Do You want to Return Home?" and incentivizing them with money to "[a]sk[] to return home now." These flyers serve as an ever-present visual reminder of the
Hobbesian choice posed to detainees and described by an ICE officer at 26 Fed: self-deport or
"remain detained" for years.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m so fucking sick of the pretending these are rational agents with free will
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI agent made unauthorized attempts to access federal agencies' websites #TheHill
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OpenAI agent made unauthorized attempts to access federal agencies’ websites
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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s interesting that women’s care for menopause is growing while care for abortion is shrinking. Because older women collectively have more disposable income, while a greater share of younger women’s care is paid for by the taxpayers? Of course, just follow the money.
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The MAGA Supremes put their thumb on the scale for 🤡.(again) This breakdown covers what it does & does not do Remains true: the outcome of this election is up to us voters -Keep checking your registration -know where your polling place/ballot is -VOTE, & do it early -spread the word iwillvote.com
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Addressing reader concerns about the Supreme Court’s SAVE database decision.
September 26, 2026
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s draft plan would put Russell Vought on a board with veto power over NIH grants, but Congress stopped the political review rule until Dec. 11. That reprieve came from pushback, and your voice can still protect research your family may someday need. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"when Hegseth cuts off soldiers from reporters, he isn’t just silencing reporters, he’s silencing soldiers. He’s suppressing the stories of the most meaningful and dangerous and traumatic moments of their lives.” @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
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Opinion | What Hegseth Is Hiding
Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New federal loan limits restrict borrowing for graduate degrees in many fields, and prospects for private loans are also grim. Many health care grad students say they can't get the loans they need.
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Many Health Care Grad Students Can’t Get the Loans They Need
New federal loan limits restrict borrowing for graduate degrees in many fields, and prospects for private loans are also grim.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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maryburns.bsky.social @maryburns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You. Can. Always. Demand. A. Provisional. Ballot. If. Your. Eligibility. Is. Questioned. #Pinks
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
11. In essence, Trump asked a majority of voters to trade democracy and the rule of law for an IOU, and to the shock and horror of the civilized world, a majority of voters accepted.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It hasn't gotten as much attention as it should, but Trump has been engaged in a relentless war against public sector unions, using his familiar bogus claim of national security to justify reducing union representation from workers from 56% to 34%. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unions-aga...
Graph showing the percentage of federal workers represented by a union decreased from 56% at the beginning of Trump’s second term to 34%
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 25/09/2026
Socrates added that the collapse of society has accelerated when people share absolute modern day nonsense and attribute it to him.
An incredibly stupid socrates meme too long to type out, sorry.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lebensraum. They're bragging about using mass deportations for Lebensraum.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please think about people other than yourself ❤️‍🩹
I'm so tired of people saying "we will survive this" No. We're already NOT  surviving this. Go talk to a woman who've lost agency. Talk to people DOGE  fired or family split apart by ICE. Maybe in YOUR  bubble you still woke up ate your cheerios, but outside of it, others are eating dirt.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We should make a push for mass cancellation of Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Apple. They have all increased their prices as people are struggling to pay rent, groceries and gas. Guarantee you they'll respond to a massive boycott. All they care about is $$$
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥CALIFORNIA, NO!🔥 Click on the left image below to see how some CA voters have fallen for the propaganda put out by BILLIONAIRES re Prop. 39, the little brother of Trump's so-called Save Act. Click on the rt. for FACTS! 🗣️ Talk to friends & consider writing a letter to the editor of your paper.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 23/09/2026
Governments all over the world have been building up arsenals of technologies to surveil and monitor migrants and asylum seekers. We conducted a global survey to map the various technologies reportedly used on people on the move. privacyinternational.org/report/5866/...
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An Arsenal of Surveillance: A Guide to the Technologies Harming Migrants
Governments around the world are building increasingly sophisticated surveillance infrastructures to monitor migrants, asylum seekers and refugees at borders and within countries.
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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just heard an ad about how great it is to have data centers in Loudon County VA because property tax rates have dropped 30% due to the data centers. Is that enough to pay your increated electric and water bills?
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something is deeply wrong when Trump’s net worth is skyrocketing but families across the country can’t afford gas, groceries, and health care. Donald Trump’s culture of open corruption is leaving Americans out to dry while he and his friends get rich.
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tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not just valor that he steals.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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