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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 09/10/2026
Revulsion is a powerful political motivator.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: We sued Trump for raiding $20M of your money, some meant to honor fallen officers, for his midterm ads He says "his" super PAC will cover the tab now. And the millions you already paid? @democracydefendersaction.org & Hecker Fink rep @wisdems.org & a D candidate👇
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep, and the data I cite here shows Latinos breaking to Dems by 59-35. Take that along with Trump's abysmal 27% among them and the big spike in Latino early voting, and you have the ingredients for something big.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity members alleged to have gang raped "Jane Doe" is trying to get AG Letitia James disqualified from her role investigating what happened in October 2024. I explain his legal filing & why he’s unlikely to succeed at this point: youtu.be/rUlWY5XeuOM?...
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WOW! Cornell FRAT Member Tries To REMOVE NY AG Letitia James From Assault CASE!?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pritzker: I’m not going to spend much time at all talking about Trump because it can ruin a perfectly good meal for all of us. But I do need to get something off of my chest… There are too many women in this country who are living under the yoke of tyranny…
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To use the technical terminology here, this is bananapants.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This war is a bit like poker, and if everyone had their cards face up, there'd be a lot less drama. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
The Economic Theory of War Is: Don’t
If you’re already in one, figure out where it ends and jump there.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
literally what's happening -- Latino voters seeing family members get ethnically cleansed
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is nuts that you can’t even ethnically cleanse a voter’s entire family without losing that vote to Dumocrats, must be terminal cases of TDS
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
thanks -- we try to give you the straight dope on trump and maga
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This Administration is robbing our country of its dignity.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court BLOCKS Dept. of Justice policy of collecting unredacted voter rolls, checking them against federal citizenship databases, and urging states to remove voters flagged as ineligible. www.democracydocket.com/cases/doj-na...
democracydocket.com
🚨 Common Cause v. U.S. Department of Justice
Learn more.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
“Arkansas leads the nation in farm bankruptcies and farmer suicides right now.” Watch Democratic U.S. Senate candidate @hallieshoffner.bsky.social's interview on The Tea with April Ryan about what's at stake ahead of the midterms: www.contrariannews.org/p/the-tea-ft...
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This penultimate paragraph in @gregsargent.bsky.social’s new piece is a devastating summary of the GOP’s racial politics.
Trump and MAGA have pulled off some astounding political sleight of hand. They have openly advertised that their ideological goal is ethnic cleansing, recruiting ICE agents, and saturating official government communications with explicit white-nationalist appeals. Yet they also succeeded for a time in selling this agenda to Latinos as purely about law enforcement and public safety. This straddle was critical to sustaining notions of MAGA as a multiracial movement.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Under Trump we are not better than this. This is exactly what we are: “I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that.” — Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA), quoted by CBS News. politicalwire.com/2026/10/09/a...
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Another Bonus Quote of the Day
"I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do. America is better than that."
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Only these countries have public executions: Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Afghanistan ( under the Taliban). And now the United States
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Keeping Trump off the air is Fox's in kind donation to Republicans:
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Fox News Tries to Save Trump From Himself
And are Republicans even trying?
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff, El-Sayed and Jackson were brilliant last night www.contrariannews.org/p/fox-news-t...
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Fox News Tries to Save Trump From Himself
And are Republicans even trying?
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tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow!!! One decent judge, holding back the tide of anti American activities!!! Stop the GOP!! VOTE OUT EVERY DAMN REPUBLICAN !!!!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump has turned its Civil Rights Division’s mission on its head, a federal judge said in a decision blocking the administration from demanding states’ unredacted voter rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’
Read more here.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After this campaign it is going to be really hard for Ossoff to tell Dems he doesn't want to run for POTUS. No one has been better in this cycle.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Russia's metals industry falling off a cliff, with 42% of all metallurgical companies now operating at a loss.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New documents reveal Ken Paxton has grown his net worth up to $27 million since taking office. His yearly salary is just $153,000.
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
❗️ Here is the fatal design flaw in Vladimir Putin’s system that turned his most loyal enforcers into his ultimate existential threat. Substack: jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/putin-made... YouTube: youtu.be/YnQqJd6ywgQ
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Putin's Trapped Elites Just Became The BIGGEST Risk To Him
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔥 They control nuclear weapons, state armies, and vast wealth. But, there's a catch: They are Putin's personal prisoners. The Kremlin’s top elites have total authority over the lives of millions, but zero control over their own. 👉 They run the regime, but they’re also its most prized hostages.
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🔥 From Schröder partying with Putin yesterday; To spy chiefs caught for treason or stranded in Kyiv; Merkel traded security for gas, & now the AfD leads the polls. 👉 Germany’s Russia policy is an unbroken streak of catastrophic delusion.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Remember when Donald Trump promised his "Big Beautiful Bill" would make your life easier? 5 MILLION Americans got cut off SNAP. 15 MILLION are projected to lose health insurance. Higher costs are making life even harder.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're home at last- Over 100 sailors are meeting their babies for the first time.
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Thistle Hill @feathersonthewind.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
fantastic idea!!! bravo!!! 👏🏼 and thanks 🙏🏼
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Dozens of protesters arrived before 8AM to deliver cards with handwritten 'tips,' encouraging ICE employees to find other jobs. On a side door, someone wrote: “You can say no,” and “God is watching you”... www.sevendaysvt.com/news/protest...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jon Ossoff to Mike Collins: “You’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 09/10/2026
"Kao sent an initial $150,000 to the super PAC using a shell company... Weeks later, Kao told his team Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts."
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
@isaiahrmartin.bsky.social at today’s D.C. Women’s March Day of Action to Stop Sexual Violence. “Men, you know, like myself, need to shame men that go forward and take advantage of women.”
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When a politician promises to make something cheaper, ask "the second question". Where's the extra supply coming from? ⁣ ⁣ This diesel executive order doesn't make any sense newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HOLY COW
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No wonder R's didn't want to debate. They got DESTROYED in Michigan, Ga, etc. My. goodness.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
Survivors will not be silenced, and the fight for justice is not over. Join an action near you: action.womensmarch.com/local
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
Today, survivors, advocates, and allies ended the D.C. Women’s March Day of Action to Stop Sexual Violence outside the White House. The chants were loud and clear: “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”
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MS NOW @ms.now · 09/10/2026
ICE officer shoots, wounds man during immigration arrest in New York City www.ms.now/news/new-yor...
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ICE officer shoots, wounds man during immigration arrest in New York City
The man survived and was hospitalized after being shot during what the Department of Homeland Security called a “targeted enforcement operation.”
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The Weeknight on MS NOW @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
BREAKING: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is now demanding answers from U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, after she allegedly asked a Trump donor to pay off her $100,000 credit card bill.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Quotas all but ensure that ICE will skip the investigative work it takes to identify the undocumented immigrants who are genuine risks to public safety in favor of quick-hit arrests. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p...
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Exclusive: ICE agents told to ramp up daily immigration arrests despite GOP unease as midterms near | CNN Politics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, accord...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Senator Collins pledged to serve 2 terms in Congress and yet, here we are, 30 years later. Let's retire Susan Collins once and for all.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another very long day. One of the lessons I have learned is that it is not enough to simply do the work of fighting for democracy. Lawyers must show their work to the public and explain the stakes. That is why I started Democracy Docket. Help me grow it by subscribing today. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Most Latin American country populations have between 30-60 percent European DNA. Let’s force Rubio to defend the point he’s trying to make.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
House GOP leaders sent members home early rather than risk a vote on the rest of the Epstein files Survivors are still waiting, & 88% of likely voters want candidates who will release them @milestaylor.bsky.social has a message for men ahead of Nov 3👇 -TN
defiance.news
A message to men: if you really believe in supporting women, prove it on Nov. 3.
One fact became clear at our press conference with Epstein Survivors: this election is about more than just Donald Trump.
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