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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
Today in Politics, Bulletin 477. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 477. 10/9/26
… Trump announced today that he and Vladimir Putin have reached a deal to tamper with the American election where the US will fund the genocidal Russian war machine by buying massive quantities of oil...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After the First Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, and the Iran War, Republican voters are just going to have to accept at some point that warmongering is their brand, despite how often the people who start them talk about peace.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watched lots of footage of civil rights protests in GA, AL and MS in the 1960s. Maybe some of you were there. Mike Collins acts, talks and behaves like a small town sheriff with a club in 1963 after the fire hoses got done. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 476. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 476. 10/8/26
… More scandals for Don Jr’s longtime former fiancee Kim Guilfoyle, in addition to the ones that broke last week, on how she has been out of control since Trump got her out of the country after Junior...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The most revealing aspect of the Blair-LaCivita scandal is what it tells us about the attachment of Team Trump to the Kremlin and their commitment to help Putin achieve his European objectives (or at least take his money in the process). Align this with Kushner, Witkoff, Uday, Qusay and Gen Flynn.
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From Srpska With Love
Trump Goes To War With Chris LaCivita and James Blair
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dear Evangelicals, Growing up in the Church, I’ve often heard you extol the virtues of “speaking the truth in love,” so I hope you’ll receive this in the spirit in which it’s offered… johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-evang...
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Dear Evangelicals, From A Pastor: Your Refusal to Love Your Queer Neighbors is a Sin
Dear Evangelicals,
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Epstein witness found dead under mysterious circumstances" is a headline that has now occurred nine times, including this week. Imagine what QAnon would do with that. But for US corporate media, these deaths don't even merit reporting. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The mysterious string of deaths with links to the Epstein case
As the Financial Conduct Authority launches a probe into its handling of allegations made by whistleblower Simon Andriesz following his suicide, Katie Rosseinsky explores the strange and sad web of de...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mississippi's senate race is doable for the Democrats, but they lack the cash to make a real go of it, says Politico. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Democrats spy a red-state opening. There may not be enough cash for it.
As the Senate map pushes into deep-red states, Democrats worry their money won’t reach far enough to make some of them legitimate battlegrounds.
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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BLM OTD 1775: The Continental Army's Council of Officers officially barred enslaved and free Black people from joining the army to fight in the American Revolution, driven largely by southern fears that armed Black individuals would demand their own freedom. #BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
Pic: French sketch, yorktown-1781
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vikicp.bsky.social @vikicp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
President floats firing Chris LaCivita and James Blair over any ‘conflict’ after reports of work in Republika Srpska
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026
There’s a simple lesson here: The more this election is about Trump, the better.
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Reasons for Hope. Reasons for Alarm.
Things are looking up—for now.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/10/2026
"Most Trumpists know who they are. They're the bad guys. And they own it; they revel in it. The goal of their political movement is to hurt the outgroup. Period, full stop. Not Susan Collins. She enables the Trump movement while posturing about how apart from it she stands."
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Susan Collins Is the Living Worst
The most despicable Republican is actually the “reasonable” Republican.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump has such contempt for the voters of South Carolina that he elevated someone utterly unqualified for senate who knows absolutely nothing about anything connected to the job who reads scripts given to her by MAGA handlers while calling the qualified Democrat names and slurs.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe if Trump could speak coherently and stop trying to justify his Iran War that raised prices on thousands of things for Americans with apocalyptic fear mongering and garbled syntax he wouldn’t have to worry about being misinterpreted or taken out of context.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 475. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 475. 10/6/26
… A new Gallup poll shows that more Americans now identify as Democrats than at any point since 2009.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Michael B Lehrhoff @mblehrhoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our Chief Justice wonders why he is regarded as a pariah, just because he eviscerated the Voting Rights Act and invented Presidential Immunity out of whole cloth for a corrupt authoritarian.🙄
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Peter Schurmann @whatthefog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was in Honduras a few years ago covering elections there. I visited a small town fighting to kick out a mining company that had hired armed thugs to harass residents. They told me politicians had come around offering cash for votes. To see it now happening here is truly stomach churning.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When they lied about policy or statistics repeatedly or tried to shift blame elsewhere they fooled a lot of gullible people. But when they started lying about things that even the cult knows more about than these out of touch weirdos, that’s when they lost the plot.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 474. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 474. 10/5/26
… Turns out the big steel mill project in IA from the company in India that Trump announced to try and rig the election in that state is actually not looking like a great deal after all since the peop...
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vikicp.bsky.social @vikicp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
F oof donnie
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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#47 is telling people to vote because Elon Musk is going to make their vote into three votes! He is telling us that they’re going to cheat! #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 473.
… NYT: “One month until Election Day, voter dissatisfaction with the economy, concerns about political extremism and frustration with Trump have Democrats within reach of flipping 4 Republican-held go...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Supreme Court’s new term and my list of dread: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
October 4, 2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every time Trump is asked about people struggling to pay rent, buy a home, afford groceries, health care and gas and he responds claiming this is the greatest economy ever and people on Wall Street are making tons of money speculating on AI, Republicans go down another point in the polls.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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vikicp.bsky.social @vikicp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How Trump Directed Tax Dollars to Ads Praising Him www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: How Trump Directed Tax Dollars to Ads Praising Him
President Trump personally directed the use of taxpayer money for ads praising his presidency, according to people familiar with the matter. Our White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, explains.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder why Trump and Republicans are promoting this industry so heavily and are allowing them to operate free from any guardrails or regulation?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of course the primary reason why CNN and MS NOW are running the illegal taxpayer-funded Trump campaign ads is because they are afraid of the Trump Admin coming after them if they refuse. The path of least resistance is compliance caused by fear and intimidation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's when a president illegally confiscates money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose because he decides, after the appropriation becomes law, that he doesn't like it. The fact that the Republican Congress ignores that is another reason they should be voted out. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Doesn’t sound like America First. bsky.app/profile/meid...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New: Republican Candidate: “The Country Went to Shit After” Women Got Voting Rights Brandon Herrera made the remark in 2023, but now hopes women will vote him into office. meidasnews.com/news/republi...
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Republican Candidate: “The Country Went to Shit After” Women Got Voting Rights
Brandon Herrera made the remark in 2023, but now hopes women will vote him into office.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Kennedy before he adopted his Foghorn Leghorn MAGA character.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CSPAN: “We should mention that Senator Schmitt was supposed to appear on this program with Sen. Coons but he pulled out the day after that hearing.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time Trump shows up Paxton’s poll numbers go down. I wonder why. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I missed this in the Constitution.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 471. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 471. 10/1/26
… Renee Good’s partner and family have filed two lawsuits stemming from her death - one against at the ICE agent who shot her and a several senior Trump admin officials, the other against the federal ...
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When Dems takeover in January, ICE must be held accountable. Vote Blue. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social www.oregonlive.com/politics/202... #Voices4victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
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ICE initiates immigration enforcement surge in sanctuary cities. Could Portland be among its targets?
Immigration arrests in Oregon have been on the rise since the spring.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: Governor Kathy Hochul has named Letitia James special prosecutor to investigate the Cornell rapers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This entire Donald Trump authoritarian clown show could have been stopped at any point and still can if only 30 or so Republicans in Congress actually cared about America over their own political ambitions.
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