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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 10h
Daragh Fleming gets the last word tonight. Good night friends. "Men being silent needs to stop. Silence is enforced by shame. You’re shamed for speaking, calling problematic behaviour out. We need to call out other men who are saying fucked up shit."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump’s attack on the free press is so transparent that we can all see through it. It’s not about national security, it’s about his inability to deal with criticism. Without a free press, we lose our ability to keep track of what our government is up to. joycevance.substack.com/p/consequenc...
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Consequences
Last Thursday, the White House, almost as soon as Judge Kelly entered his order forcing the administration to restore access to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, began searching for play in the joints.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 28/09/2026
I want new investment and good-paying jobs right here in South Carolina — but not at your expense. Darline Graham says data centers are a must. I say South Carolinians should come first. That’s why I launched DataCenterDarline.com today. See for yourself and follow the money.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Don't be fooled. This bill won’t force Big Tech companies to do anything. It's a political stunt to cover Republicans who have been the biggest data center cheerleaders. We need a bill with real teeth to hold these companies accountable.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The trailer for the documentary that a vacuous billionaire wants disappeared. Like the thousands of federal jobs his doge dudes removed. Like the citizens & immigrants removed from American streets. Please watch & repost. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no low too low for this partisan, lawless Supreme Court majority. Using the underhanded emergency docket to give Trump a power the Constitution does not allow, a fat thumb on the scale of elections. Disgraceful, six people who would be better on the Russian Supreme Court than in a democracy
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having a free press is essential to a democracy. That’s why Donald Trump wants to do away with the free press. Here’s what you need to know now: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Hard Pass
Just after midnight last night, Judge Kelly entered an order directing the president to unban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026
Nolan Wells was murdered. No doubt in my mind.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/09/2026
NEW TROY JACKSON AD 🔥 Susan Collins spent years perfecting that “reasonable moderate” act. Then ProPublica dropped the receipts: A defense contractor funneled $150,000 through a shell company to a pro-Collins super PAC while Collins pushed for $32 MILLION in naval contracts.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 23/09/2026
NEWS: Trump is headed back to court thanks to @normeisen.bsky.social and partners.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Statement from Troy Jackson responding to ProPublica’s report on the FBI’s probe into alleged corruption by Maine Senator Susan Collins
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week, I'll be doing 3 book signings in Chicago: -Thursday, 24 Sept w/ the "GI Partners of Illinois'" at the Chicago Union League Club -Friday, 25 Sept at the @WimedicineOrg  conference at the Drake Hotel, -Saturday, 26 Sept at Barbara's Bookstore on State Street. Come join us!
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NPR @npr.org · 21/09/2026
KUT News spoke to two people who work at a business nearby, who said they heard two gun shots and went to see what happened. One witness encountered an ICE agent and a man in a car who had been shot in the back.
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Man injured in shooting by ICE officer in North Austin
The shooting happened Sunday afternoon near Anderson and U.S. 183.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a man in Austin today. I’m demanding transparency, accountability, and safety. Release the footage and records. Hold any officer who broke the law responsible. And get ICE out of our city.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 15/09/2026
Has the show “Lioness” always been this overtly pro MAGA or is it new this season? It’s just cheesy Like the Dems in the show are owned by russia. Yet today… we learn that Russia paid for Trump jrs wedding
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a right-wing group’s request to force Michigan to place a proposed constitutional amendment requiring proof of citizenship to vote on the November 2026 ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court denies right-wing group’s bid to force Michigan proof-of-citizenship measure on November ballot
The denial, issued by Justice Brett Brett Kavanaugh, likely means the measure is dead.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think every Dem AG and Dem controlled state legislature should issue subpoenas for the Postmaster General to testify in their investigations into this horsesh*t as soon as possible.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cylons
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sitting on the Great Lakes right now w/ Huron and Michigan out my window as sun rises, I remember growing up here and as a child learning acronym for the Lakes as HOMES. With Trump action yesterday concerning Ontario new acronym could appropriately be SHAME.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court issues temporary restraining order BLOCKING United States Postal Service from implementing key sections of its Trump directed anti-voting rule. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
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🚨 State of California et al v. United States Postal Service et al
Learn more here.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 27/08/2026
More evidence we elected a toddler as president.
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Trump moves to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America"
The president is following through on his threat over the lake after U.S.-Canada trade negotiations collapsed.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
KBJ has them cold:
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/08/2026
"Against Canada, Trump is fighting a trade war that very few Americans support, under leadership that most Americans reject, to achieve results that virtually all Americans would dismiss as pointless if not crazy" Read David Frum: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How to Lose a Trade War
Trump’s bullying of Canada is failing.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are calling on Target to stands with the Twin Cities. And until it does, we’re standing together, shopping smart and shopping local. We are joined by groups nationwide telling Target: your silence on ICE is a choice and we’re responding with ours. Shop smart, not Target. www.aft.org/shopsmart
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only time Hakeem Jeffries should've come face-to-face with jared kushner is when kushner is under oath before Congress
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts. Original post
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BREAKING: A new filing today proves DHS & Elon Musk knew Mary Comans never approved the FEMA payments they smeared her over Their own general counsel told FEMA to keep the money flowing 12 days before she was fired @democracydefendersfund.org & our partners are proud to put it on record -TN
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/08/2026
ICE can’t be reformed. What voters are we courting by being weak on this issue? Do we have some massive Dem donor that owns concentration camps or something?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Goddamn this guy sucks fucking shit.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This means it was entirely appropriate for Fauci to assert the 5th Am when he testified—because there was a threat of future prosecution & he had the right to avoid self-incrimination.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026
Can I get an amen?
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Powell Memo!!!
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Did you miss the online-only interview of James Talarico by Colbert? The one that couldn’t be aired on TV because it scared the Texas GOP? It’s worth watching. Here it is: ⬇️ youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/08/2026
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president’s March executive order attacking mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Trump's sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and D.C. ahead of November's midterms.
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"In Texas, a 52-year-old man driving to work in Houston, Texas, was murdered by an ICE agent. . .six days later, in Maine, ICE agents murdered a 26-year-old in his car.-@heidicuda.bsky.social What was horrifying about Bolshevism was not universal health care. It was arbitrary violence and terror.
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Hot Type: Reds Under the Bed
Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the ‘Freudian projection’ of Trump’s latest boogeyman – the ‘Communist’
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Got the chance to see these talented players in action today! It was great having the @wnba.com at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center for All-Star Weekend. 🏀
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Susan Collins standing with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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