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Retired Social Worker, business partner, wife, mother, grandmother and friend. News junkie, avid gardener and bookworm.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: 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 nearly a year.
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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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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is one of the scariest reports on pesticides that I’ve ever read. It’s awful to read that people have been trying and failing for DECADES to get the EPA to forbid its use.
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w... I hope I live long enough to see this man pay the price for his corruption.
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026
How typical is that? Incompetent yet corrupt is no way to run a government.
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Crazy
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I didn’t know this
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The regime is cutting backroom deals to carve off protected Yosemite land and hand it to a luxury developer—funded by taxpayer conservation dollars. Do not let them privatize our national parks. Kill the deal today: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 25/09/2026
David Flippo lied about receiving a Bronze Star for valor in countless fundraising emails and campaign ads. If he can't be trusted when talking about his own military service, how can he be trusted to represent Nevada's second district? www.thedailybeast.com/trump-endors...
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MAGA Candidate Busted Lying About His Military Record
The former Air Force officer stretched the truth about one of his service awards.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: Nevada said that 185 voters in the state identified by DHS as noncitizens were, in fact, citizens — and the agency appeared unwilling to substantiate its claims. The revelation deepens concerns about the reliability of the Trump administration's ongoing effort to identify alleged noncitizens.
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NYT appears to confirm the story Haaretz broke weeks ago. Shame on Bibi. Shame.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Arizona 1st Congressional district GOP nominee Jay Feely no longer has a photo of Trump on the homepage of his campaign site Before ... and after
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My dad was a small-town doctor who made late-night house calls on most nights I can remember growing up—and to my personal knowledge forgave (or delayed) payments from people who were on hard times. This story makes me want to move to Kansas and spend next 5+ weeks canvassing.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ann Wagner has been in office 14 years. She hasn’t defended her record as a member of Congress this entire election. She has attacked me. She has lied about how she has helped “middle class families.” She has said she’s just getting started. She has never held a town hall. She hasn’t debated.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mamdani is not obliged to cater to corporations etc because he only accepted money from small donors. So he is free to cater to his constituents- voters. It’s a great example of when we get money out of politics. Think of the country we could have.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In 38 days, we have one last chance to get this right—to constrain the madness of King Donald, hasten the end of the MAGA sickness and reassert our values. “It’s up to all of us—we, the people—to get this done.” www.americaamerica.news/p/this-cant-...
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This Can’t Go On for Two More Years
Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you put it this way, it sounds pretty bad!
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here’s your chance to see some amazing photographs
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brazen hypocrisy is not a bug, it's a feature. A really big feature.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please remember this when Trump or anyone else from his regime talks about "waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2026
I don't say this lightly, but Pete Hegseth deserves to be impeached. I understand just how serious a vote to impeach is from experience, and I still believe impeaching him is the right thing to do. The Iran war. The purge of senior ranks. The boat strikes. The case is overwhelming. (Link below)
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent discussion
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“I don’t think there’s ever been a circumstance where the 25th Amendment was more required.” Ty Cobb, former Special White House Counsel, doesn’t hold back in our conversation. Be a part of my coverage of the threat of a deranged President: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As soon as this fall, Vladimir Putin may be more willing to test NATO, new U.S. intelligence suggests. Officials cited by WSJ and CBS say a test could range from cyberattacks to a limited land incursion. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-intelli...
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Kao laid out in devastating detail how his operation worked. He gave agents a 50-page document naming dozens of lobbyists, congressional staffers and members of Congress who he said helped him trade cash for contracts.” www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The cost of hiring a very large crude carrier from the Gulf to Asia has risen to $1.1mm a day, up from ~$100,000 at the start of the year. Costs on other routes not directly impacted by the US-Iran war, such as the Gulf of Mexico to Asia, have also surged 400–500% y/y.
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The Next Inflation Shock: $1 Million-a-Day Oil Tankers
Former President Bill Clinton once said that when a crisis breaks out, the first thing everyone in Washington asks is, “Where is the nearest [aircraft] carrier?” That remains a critical question as th...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Horrifying as usual. Randomly atarted chasing a guy, shot mutiple times into his car, didnt render assistance ince he was in custody. Local cop ended up ended up doing that. Isnt even in thr country illegally, tho obvs that shldnt include a death sentence open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Republican who runs South Dakota's elections just backed a Democrat to succeed her. "South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation; who will support election officials rather than burden them for political effect."
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Republican Who Runs South Dakota Elections Backs Democrat to Succeed Her
Monae Johnson, the secretary of state, is the latest Republican incumbent to speak out against conservative candidates as President Trump loses support before midterm elections.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WIRED: “Census Bureau Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank — home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person, used for drawing congressional districts + allocating federal funding…” Nothing to see here, folks! 😕🤷🏼
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The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE Involved in Two Violent Incidents Over the Weekend talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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ICE Involved in Two Violent Incidents Over the Weekend
Trump’s Mass Deportation Op Grinds On We start today with two incidents...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The “United” States?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
US Intelligence has definitively linked commercial Chinese satellite imagery to the Iranian attack on a Jordan airbase that killed 3 US service members. 1/
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why is it important to talk about OLESHKY ? Because people there are starving, and russia is not allowing them to evacuate. The international community needs to put prеssure on russia. And for that, we need to spread the word. Please tag your leaders. Only together can we help.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They’re just… saying it
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Seems like a good time to reup: presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...
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The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trump’s derangement | Press Watch
The commander-in-chief is unfit for duty.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Things Donald Trump says are for “national security”:

• A $1 billion White House bunker-ballroom & rooftop "drone port"

• A fully weaponized Arc de Trump

• Thousands of National Guard troops occupying D.C.

•Terrorist designations and a 1798 wartime law to justify unjust ICE raids, detentions, and deportations.

• Arresting, smearing, and killing ICE protesters, and other activists, political opponents, including Reflecting Pool observers.

It’s a typical pathetic strongman mash of insanity vanity projects, federal occupation and the criminalization of dissent, all justified with the same two magic words authoritarians love to twist to their own ends: “national security.”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Olivia of Troye @oliviaoftroye.com · 19/09/2026
The Pentagon is recruiting from immigrant communities while ICE detains military families. At least 52 parents & spouses of active-duty troops have been detained, even as the military recruits more green-card holders. Yes, both are happening at the same time. Quite the recruitment strategy.
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They would just have to give up their moment on tv and work better to get the information instead of just saying “Trump says”.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Foreclosure activity in the U.S. rose at the start of the year to its highest level in six years, according to property data firm Attom, reflecting mounting financial pressure on homeowners from rising costs beyond their mortgage payments. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/foreclosur...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
cool
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VT Moderate 🇩🇰 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @vtmoderate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Excellent
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BREAKING: The global energy crisis is escalating. Saudi Aramco has told at least two European oil refiners they will receive no Saudi crude next month following attacks on the kingdom’s main pipeline to the Red Sea, Bloomberg reports.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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