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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16h
Ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/15/e...
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Ex-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young women
Two women filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing former Congressman Matt Gaetz of a sex trafficking and drug scheme. Gaetz denies the allegations.
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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 10h
The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.
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The flu is already in Washington state. Experts say, get your shot, ‘like right now’
The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13h
BREAKING: The FBI made a video trashing Democrats & hyping Kash Patel, then posted it during early voting Spending your tax dollars to campaign or to hype the director is illegal -- This video did BOTH We want watchdogs to find out who signed off Our @democracydefendersfund.org letter👇 -TN
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14/10/2026
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I haven’t really seen anyone mention this in their coverage so I wanted to elevate some reporting I did a few months back about a Trump-linked Dr. Phil drilling project that is in the works in Greenland — and almost certainly what Trump is referring to here:
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Trump Is Almost Certainly Referring to This Dr Phil Project With His Claims of ‘Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration’ in Greenland
A Texas Energy Company, Dr Phil & Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Friends President...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Kinzinger on Elon: It’s scary, because there are no limits. Subscribe to get the full video when it's released.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s hard to think of a better definition of a traitor to the West than someone who deliberately sabotages a European democracy’s military operation against a barbaric Russian invasion.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks. It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/10/2026
NEW: Inflation data came in and Donald Trump’s failed economic agenda has raised prices for Americans by 5.9%. That means families are paying $3,772 more thanks to inflation under Trump.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The White House "says" Trump's investments are independently managed and he has no say in the trades. LIES LIES LIES. Truth is Musk is spending hundreds of millions to preserve Republican power while his company receives government business and the President has a financial stake in that company.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨 CORRUPTION UPDATE: Elon Musk has poured nearly $400M into the 2026 midterm election cycle to help save Republican control of Congress — including $10M backing Ken Paxton against James Talarico alone. Musk ALSO has enormous business before the federal government.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14/10/2026
Musk's DOGE boys took a 'sledgehammer' to the federal govt & services people relied on. Now they're getting rich off the pain they caused. DOGE was never about efficiency, it was about breaking the govt & selling it off to Trump's billionaire buddies & allies. Endless grift.
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They came to Washington to dismantle government. Now, they’re profiting from it.
DOGE alumni have leveraged their government experience, raising at least half a billion dollars for firms spanning cyberwarfare, AI and data centers, a Post analysis found.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"The one common denominator in the ugliness since this country lost its civility is Donald Trump. He has gone way past just changing the tone of our politics. He has been systematically trying to destroy everything that ties us to each other and to our country..." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump is facing a dire situation
At 7:21 tonight, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, walked straight onto the stage in Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, and told the crowd how much he liked the “ass” of one of the me...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Economist @economist.com · 10/10/2026
The Department of War plans to livestream an execution by firing squad. The list of countries that execute people in public includes Iran, North Korea and Taliban-run Afghanistan. It’s not a list America should want to join
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Checks and Balance newsletter: Plans to livestream an execution in America
John Prideaux, our executive editor, argues that making a spectacle of a Muslim gunman’s death is a deliberate political choice
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“The gift of a $400 million aircraft from Qatar’s royal family stands apart because it involves a transgression the framers identified by name and for which they prescribed impeachment as the remedy: violation of the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause.”
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The Case for Impeachment: In a sea of graft, the gift of a $400 million aircraft stands apart | Opinion
The founders were crystal clear that accepting gifts from foreign governments was constitutionally prohibited and should lead to impeachment.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026
Trump announced that a group of companies—including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir, and Amazon—have committed over $2.4 billion to accelerate American scientific research. In other words, he's replacing established research institutions with the corporations that have curried favor with him.
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Trump calls on AI to speed up science—while continuing to defund it
Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026
This is as treasonous as it gets
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration has been, in the eyes of anti-abortion activists, dragging its feet on restricting the abortion pill since early 2025, seemingly concerned about the electoral implications. But now, in a court document, its laid out its plan.
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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 08/10/2026
Seems like a great post to use as report Elon's latest 24-hour FEC filing. The world's richest fascist just added... $1,304,222,21 Which brings his total spent in the midterms to... $39,865,669 Yes, you read that right. Yes, that's nearly $20 million in the last week alone.
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winkleberry.bsky.social @winkleberry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club.”
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Collectively, the cases we’ve documented show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, it has run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens, too, and on a scale not seen in generations. Read our full story:
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
All Lies From Trump's Regime......
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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LadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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winkleberry.bsky.social @winkleberry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Richard Gephardt: “We are in the middle of a rolling coup.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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We Are in the Middle of a “Rolling Coup”
Unless we begin to act, our democracy will likely be destroyed.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The remarks of both Trump and Hegseth are appalling. They’re alarming. But they’re also instructive. In the Trump interview and the Hegseth speech, these enemies of liberty and law, of decency and democracy, reveal what they believe, and make clear who they are." www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"What is becoming increasingly clear is that the administration does not see itself as a litigant before the court and does not see its attorneys as bound by court orders. It sees DOJ attorneys as somehow coequal with SCOTUS, the only attorneys in the federal system not bound by ethical rules."
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The mendaciousness of the latest DOJ attack on judges
Blanche created a new rule out of thin air and is mad it’s not being followed.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Proposed Changes to the U.S. Census Could Decrease Federal Funding and Reduce Representation in Congress for States with Large Immigrant Populations www.kff.org/racial-equit...
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Proposed Changes to Demographic Data Collection in the Census Could Impact Efforts to Address Health and Health Care Disparities  | KFF
This issue brief provides an overview of the decennial census and discusses potential implications of the changes outlined in a September 2026 proposed rule to prohibit the collection of race and ethn...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Representative Jamie Raskin is demanding a pair of government watchdog agencies investigate Trump’s use of taxpayer money to fund an ad campaign.
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Top House Judiciary Democrat Asks Watchdogs to Probe Trump Ads
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is demanding a pair of government watchdog agencies investigate President Donald Trump’s use of taxpayer money to fund an ad campaign promoting his presidency ahead of the midterm elections.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026
The census is used to determine how much say your state has in Congress and the Electoral College. President Trump failed to alter it during his first term, but he's trying again ahead of 2030. trib.al/m96Iu6U
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COMIC: How the census gives your state power (and what Trump wants to change)
The census is used to determine how much say your state has in Congress and the Electoral College. President Trump failed to alter it during his first term, but he's trying again ahead of 2030.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. When pressed on the limits of his power, Trump left himself ample room: He would not rule out declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms .. 'I’m not committing to anything,' he says."
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“At the Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre, its collection of nearly 50,000 books was entirely lost. At the Holst Library, around 10,000 books were lost after the centre sustained partial damage”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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