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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22h
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Politico @politico.com · 12/10/2026
Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad politi.co/4B1TePT
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Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad politi.co/4B1TePT
Archbishop of the US military says Catholic soldiers should not serve on firing squad politi.co/4B1TePT
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Liberal constitutionalism is about limits on state power and basic guarantees of rights. It is not (in America, anyway), a wishlist of expansive policies. It is mostly "thou shalt NOT" statements, which is, imo, a center-right position and a good one. /1
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
In this moment, in the run-up to these midterm elections, it’s clear our country is poised on an even more perilous political moment. Our Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally is where and when we join up to launch our brave sprint to win at the finish line on November 3rd. 🧵
The graphic contains a photo of the Statue of Liberty, various science fighters, and symbols of resistance emerging from a laptop screen, and the No Kings & Stand Up for Science logos. The graphic reads: "Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally, with ASL & Spanish interpretation. 10/17/26 at 12 pm EST. Show Up. Fight Back. GET OUT THE VOTE!"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyrbvHLQ/ THIS is the reason Susan Collins went along with everything the asshole wanted to do. He had kompromat on her and she owed him.
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The Susan Collins corruption scandal is bigger than you think. Thanks to @ProPublica’s William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Berg for the incredible reporting!
TikTok video by Jess Craven
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."
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twol4d @twol4d.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.gelliottmorris.com
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Strength In Numbers | G. Elliott Morris | Substack
Independent, data-driven analysis of politics, public opinion polls, and elections. From author, journalist, and pollster G. Elliott Morris. Click to read Strength In Numbers, by G. Elliott Morris, a ...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
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Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fascinating study which shows that at a fundamental level the brain is two separate organs, essentially the brain stem is one and the rest of the brain (forebrain and midbrain) are another. Distinct from the beginning both in formation and evolutionary history. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big update: Trump is furious. The media is standing up to him united. His press conferences have no sound. CNN/Politico/MS Now are suing him and get a good judge. So what does he do? He launches "Trump TV" -- Your taxpayer funded TV network. More on his meeting with Mamdani and the other news:
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Important Update: Media Stands Together Against Trump as President Lashes Out, White House Launches “Trump TV,” and More
Good morning, everyone.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/09/2026
TFMB
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 1960, these people were assuring you, ASSURING you JFK would allow the will of the Pope to override Congress. The playbook literally never changes.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20/09/2026
It's polling season! How should you update your beliefs about the election in the face of new — often contradictory — data? Here's a step-by-step example of how we do exactly that at Strength In Numbers: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-to-upd...
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How to update your beliefs with new polling data, the Strength In Numbers way
Plus, just 11% of Americans want an AI data center built in their town. Your weekly political data roundup for September 20, 2026.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What's worse? The Eagles' alleged supporting role in getting Macklemore kicked off Sheeran tour, or their failure to answer questions about it? If the Birds really want support for a new stadium, they need to make a stronger commitment to free speech My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
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Eagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will Bunch
What’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2026
Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 12/09/2026
There is a clear cycle of corruption between the Trump administration and the companies that run his for-profit detention centers.   Delaney Hall must be shut down for good.
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
💥 Your voice matters. Your ballot matters. Check your voting information today. open.substack.com/pub/peoplep... #ballot #PeoplePower #VotingRights #Democracy
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Ballot & Voting Information | People Power United
Get ballot and voting information, election reminders, and tools to register, vote by mail, and protect your voice.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes. Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If a US president said, if I tried, how badly could I fuck things up …
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to create a national voter registry is an illegal attempt to influence who can vote just weeks before the midterms, a privacy advocacy nonprofit alleged in a new lawsuit Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New Lawsuit challenges Trump’s ‘flagrantly unlawful’ bid to create federal voter database for midterms
Trump is attempting to use the database to influence who can vote, the lawsuit alleges.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Canadian official Doug Ford just threatened to shut off electricity to the US following Trump's 50% tariffs on Canada. “We power 1.5 million homes and businesses... I’ll do whatever it takes.” apnews.com/article/cana...
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"we will send you to endless war, keep you on a deteriorating ship for 11 months, and deport your father" is the kind of thing you read about emperors doing moments before the fleet mutinies bsky.app/profile/cjci...
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 23/08/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/08/2026
Trump reported 1,051 trades in his June disclosure. These two stood out: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23/08/2026
#HoldFast. Two words for this moment. Hold fast to the Constitution, the rule of law, democratic institutions—and one another. Make it a shared rallying cry for everyone resisting Trumpian authoritarianism. Authoritarianism depends on people giving way. We won’t. #HoldFast
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🎥 History is calling in America’s 250th year. Add your voice at the March on Washington: Defend the Vote. @marchonwashington26 www.mobilize.us/peoplepoweru... #MarchonWashington2026 #DefendTheVote
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
> @daveweigel.bsky.social
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Extremely niche surfer take, but for Surfer Magazine to run an article about the coming El Niño that doesn't salivate over the potential for monster surf but instead focuses almost entirely on risk to human life feels like a significant inflection point.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026
Garry Tan was the central figure in my second piece on the Network State: The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco. Now this extremist zealot in the room with Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Scott Wiener, and other money-hungry California Democrats. newrepublic.com/article/1786...
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The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco
A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/08/2026
Xavier Becerra has gone silent since winning the primary for California governor. But here he is with Peter Thiel protégé Garry Tan—Palantir’s employee #10. “Garry’s List” is an AI-generated right-wing news site. Garry is a top Network State figure & tweeted “die slow” at SF city leaders in 2024.
Photograph of Becerra with Carrie Tan at A Gary’s list event
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In new episode of #SistersInLaw, we discussed new charges in SPLC case, insider trading risks with Trump’s Truth API, and the dismissal of DOJ’s case against Harvard over anti-semitism. You can listen here.  podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
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Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW EPISODE: A federal judge in Massachusetts just issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states that don't hand over voter data to the Department of Justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsI5...
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Takeover of Your Mail Ballot
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
holy crap. the dystopia is just coming too fast and furious
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/08/2026
My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The @nytimes hasn't written a single article asking if "voters will think Tom Tiffany is too radical" because he is an election-denying, pro-ICE, authoritarian extremist. Somehow, his position on the political spectrum has disappeared completely from the National and State Conversations™️
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Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you find yourself dooming, it's worth recalling that Trump has neither the legal nor (more importantly) the practical ability to effectively federalize & rig the midterms. But if you find yourself complacent, it's important to note he can cause a whole lot of chaos by illegally trying & failing.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
TPM obtained a Census Bureau draft notice of proposed rulemaking being circulated within the administration that would exclude noncitizens from the count in the 2030 Census and for the first time since 1790 eliminate the collection of race and ethnicity data. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-a-...
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READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated
The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(pausing as I nail up the Ten Commandments in a classroom) "They shouldn't be forcing their religion on schoolchildren!"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
WATCH: “Todd Blanche is committing a fraud on Congress. This document is a sham.” @SenBlumenthal warns the insurrectionist slush fund is NOT dead, and @SenThomTillis & @JohnCornyn are falling for another Trump/Blanche lie.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...
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Senate Democrats say banks turned blind eye to suspicious moves by Jeffrey Epstein
A report from Senate Democrats accuses big banks of failing to report suspicious money transfers made by Jeffrey Epstein until after his arrest in 2019.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 04/08/2026
Park Service official Frank Lands seems to have played a lynchpin role in manufacturing the claim that what Trump calls "vandals" damaged the reflecting pool by cutting it, when, in fact, a highly compensated contractor hand picked by Trumpers was responsible for the debacle. 1/
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Declaration of Frank Lands – #22, Att. #1 in CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01593) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE (Response to Plaintiffs' Supplemental Notice) by JESSICA BOWRON, DOUG BURGUM, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR re 21 Notice (Other) (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Fran...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/08/2026
We speak to author Dave Zirin (@edgeofsports.bsky.social) about his new book, “The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.” For Zinn, “being an academic was always secondary to being in the streets and making history, not just studying history,” says Zirin.
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