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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 3h

This is why I get pissed off when anyone accuses me of being an elitist when I say young people should go to college if they can. I say that because my dad was a local lineman and contractor who did heavy physical labor for years and has had chronic back pain since his early 30s

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 1h

Just FYI: Inflation did NOT decline last month. Instead, the Trump Administration adopted a new method of calculating inflation to make it look lower. Americans know what they are paying. They know that prices are rising faster than wages. Trump expects his base to believe his lies.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?

Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

Attendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak

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Wannabe Utopian @wannabeutopian.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine caring about the orange virus failing. What a sad, pathetic man tt really is.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis privately tore into Trump in texts obtained by Politico:

Graphic featuring Donald Trump on the left and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis on the right, with two large iMessage-style text bubbles attributed to Tillis overlaid across the bottom. In the first message, Tillis tells Trump that Trump “NEVER” threatened him with a primary challenge, says Trump may have him confused with other Republicans he has threatened, and adds that if Trump had threatened him directly, he would have told him to “fck yourself” and immediately announced his retirement. He ends, “Save those threats and head games for cowards and fools.” In the second message, Tillis writes, “I still want to help but I don’t take this bullsht from anyone, including you Mr. President,” adding, “Save that sh*t for the cowards who don’t care if you fail. I care if you fail and right now we are failing.”

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2h

Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove predicts Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton will lose if he doesn’t debate Democratic nominee James Talarico. Paxton has so far refused to debate Talarico.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Well, the new multistate lawsuit against abortion providers was, shockingly, assigned to a Trump appointee, Judge James Cain.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

Tomorrow they’re holding a funeral in Springfield for the Haitian college kid Pierre Damas Bel who killed himself. On the same day in nearby Dayton Ohio suburb President trump will be there holding a fun little rally, not far from the body of the student his policies appear to have, you know, killed

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 2h

Victor Marx's Republican primary opponents told voters that he is a con man, a grifter, and a fraud. Now the GOP nominee for governor is making Colorado history with a record campaign finance violation fine. A hearing officer said Marx's campaign intentionally broke the law.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 8h

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2h

Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ... Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that the first phase of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity & brevity. Tonight: the CCC.

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Civilian Conservation Corps, Narrated by Harrison Ford

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Texas residents in Bastrop are organizing around a proposed data center and power plant in their backyards. Vikki Goodwin is committed to regulating data centers and protecting our land and water for future generations. #VikkiGoodwin 🗳️ @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social

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MyTown @theboringparts.com · 21h

Bastrop, TX — data centers are on the Notice of Possible Quorum agenda (Oct 29, 2026). It is not one town: 565 local governments in 49 states and provinces have data centers on their agendas right now. The record 👇

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Bastrop, TX: Bastrop City Council adopts FY 2026-2027 budget and tax rate • MyTown

Latest from Bastrop, TX: Bastrop City Council adopts FY 2026-2027 budget and tax rate. Next Bastrop public meeting: Public Library Board on Mon Oct 5, 2026…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 6h

Trump’s Justice Department is rewriting the history of Watergate. And this time, they’re casting Richard Nixon as the hero. It sounds like an Onion headline. But it’s not. Please watch & share. youtube.com/shorts/2DKoT...

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DOJ revisits Watergate

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again

The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

Jan Crawford, the CBS reporter who interviewed Alito, attended Paramount CEO David Ellison's dinner in April honoring Donald Trump. A reporter who valued a reputation for nonpartisanship would have steered clear.

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CNN @cnn.com · 5h

A federal court in Texas has issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region. cnn.it/4rK8VXH

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats have filed a lawsuit over the Trump admin's recent use of an emergency measure to make changes to the federal voter-registration form used by U.S. service members abroad and citizens residing outside the country — arguing that it's an attempt to disenfranchise eligible American voters.

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Democrats sue over Pentagon’s changes to voter forms for Americans overseas

Advocates for U.S. citizens overseas say the changes may spark confusion among eligible voters abroad and local election offices.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."

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Cornell, abolish your fraternities

The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram @star-telegram.com · 5h

The pastor of an Edmond-based megachurch has cut ties with Life Surge, a Christian financial leadership organization under investigation for allegedly using high-pressure sales tactics to persuade attendees to pay for expensive classes and invest in the stock market and real estate.

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Oklahoma pastor Craig Groeschel, Tim Tebow cut ties with Life Surge. What to know.

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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 8h

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Obsessed with this photo of the Republican senate candidate in North Carolina

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 5h

I say this as someone who does DraftKings and has for years, but we gotta heavily regulate sports gambling and ban advertising before it’s too late. Millions of people are ruining their entire lives with the click of a few buttons and it’s being blasted at people 24/7.

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After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15h

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15h

Rufo gets to position himself as "respectable." Polite sit-down interview w/ Ezra Klein. Celebrated by Substack as one of platform's "best" writers. Senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. His "Indian Question" podcast is pretty explicitly white nationalist talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14h

My final Morning Note—as I watch is happening at Cornell—is that universities have spent since January 2025, running away (or firing) from the faculty and staff capable of managing this moment. The quasi-administrative proceedings under Title 9 are hard to navigate and take serious skills.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15h

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026

Trump in Oklahoma: "You know why I'm here?…I felt I had an obligation. All these races, I think they're going to be — you gotta get out and you gotta vote for your great future senator, future governor…They're going to win."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.

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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office

The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."

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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 02/10/2026

More than 200 Texans will be laid off around Thanksgiving, as two companies in D-FW cut dozens of jobs and a Kristen Bell-founded baby brand ceases manufacturing in Waco. bit.ly/46V5ioA

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