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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 12h
Thanks to Trump & Hegseth the sun is now quickly setting over the American Empire www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military...
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After Iran war damage, US may close some Middle East bases for good
America’s military footprint in the Middle East is shrinking, as the U.S. assesses its role in Gulf conflicts following extensive base damage during the I…
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h
October 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026
On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump Accounts come with an app, QR codes and a promise to invest in children’s futures. The same law is making food assistance harder to access. #uspolitics #midterms #trumpaccounts #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Goodie Bag Has a Bottom
Trump Accounts make investment easy and visible. SNAP is becoming harder to access, even though feeding children is an investment too.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump spent Tuesday handing out “goodies,” launching a shipyard years before it opens, touting $21 trillion in investment his own White House can’t match, rewriting Iran’s troubles on the fly, and hinting at “big surprises” before November. #uspolitics #midterms open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Goodies, Receipts and Jiggery-Pokery
Trump spent Tuesday handing out promises, rewriting quotes and touting records. Behind the podium, the November machinery kept moving.
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Propositions Conversations · Coconino County Democratic Party
The propositions on Arizona’s ballot affect our daily lives and understanding them can be a real challenge! If you’re baffled by the legal language, the intent, or the potential impact, sit in on this...
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Prescott Support Public Education Canvass · Save Our Schools Arizona
Join our team as we knock on doors together to talk to voters about Public School Proud candidates like Dr. Theresa Ruiz for Superintendent for Public Instruction and to support a YES vote on the Pres...
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump’s Ohio rally offered $5,000 checks, dangled federal benefits, revived the 2020 election lie and delivered an unusually candid explanation of presidential power: “You have a lot of power over states.” #uspolitics #midterms #kakistocray open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Transactional Midterms
Trump offers $5,000 checks, dangles federal benefits and explains why control of Congress matters to him.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump heads to Nebraska today while diesel prices hammer farmers, truckers and everyone who depends on them. #uspolitics #midterms #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Harvest Season in Grand Island
The president brings his only event of the day to farm country, where diesel is at record highs and his explanation doesn't survive the numbers.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump went to Nebraska, admitted Republicans are “in trouble,” asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot, then signed a “historic” diesel order worth about a quarter a gallon—maybe. #uspolitics #trumperbole #kakistocracy #midterms open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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A Quarter a Gallon, Recast as History
Trump’s Nebraska rally turned diesel relief, immigration, Iran and campaign spending into one long exercise in Trumperbole.
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump wants voters to “pretend I’m running.” So October begins with factories not yet built, deals not yet signed, inherited projects rebranded as wins, and taxpayer-funded ads selling the story. The future, conjugated in the past tense. #uspolitics #midterms open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Future, Conjugated in the Past Tense
With a month to go before the midterms, Trump is selling factories, deals and prosperity that haven’t quite arrived.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Local races are critical too #oregon #cooscountysheriff open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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When Leadership Walks Into the Interview Room
A sheriff doesn’t investigate every case, but the culture he builds helps determine what happens when a woman says she has been raped.
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Its Up to All Of Us to Save Democracy: Kathleen Sauer
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One war ends. Another lands on the electoral calendar. #Hegseth says “personnel is policy,” the White House finds gaps in court orders, and #ElissaSlotkin comes home from Hungary with a warning: don’t wait until the moment of repair to make the plan. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Who Is Writing the Spreadsheet?
Iraq is over, Iran is on the electoral calendar, Hegseth is rebuilding the Pentagon, and America’s fragile guardrails need a plan before the next moment of leverage arrives.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone learned the difference between the Hawks and the Hawkeyes. Far fewer heard what #JackSmith actually told the Senate: that his team had developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump committed serious crimes. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Wrong Story Went Viral
A Senate hearing became a basketball farce while Jack Smith testified about serious crimes and the rule of law.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump’s new AI accord is “morally binding,” heavily dependent on self-policing, and sold with the usual reassurance: trust the smartest, richest people in the room. #uspolitics #AI #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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The Honor System
Trump says the people building “super intelligence” can police themselves. Their track record suggests we may want more than love.
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Michael Milcetich-Tano @milcetich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If this does not undermine or highlight their stupidity I don’t know what will. 🙄
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump preys on the public’s willingness to believe a good conspiracy theory. At what point do people see through the act? In the meantime, he is destroying our democracy.  www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Page one of repressive playbook’: critics warn of Trump’s conspiratorial attacks
President’s outlandish and extensive conspiracy theories endanger US freedoms, health and science, experts say
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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September 29, 2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump declared big government dead, then unveiled a federal AI chatbot powered in part by Grok. British investigators are refusing to say what Washington had already announced. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Trust Us, Says the President
Fairford, America.gov, and the widening gap between what Washington asserts and what the evidence supports.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A 1,700-year-old republic, Enron, #Taiwan, Venezuelan gold and Iran all point to the same lesson: rules usually look annoying right up until you remember what happens without them. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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There Ought to Be a Rule
From San Marino to Enron, Taiwan, Venezuelan gold and Iran, a reminder that the guardrails usually exist for a reason.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iran & Trump declare victory, “best poverty” enters the Trumpolinguistics dictionary, fuel-efficiency rollbacks revive an old oil-shock lesson, a pocket rescission tests Congress’s power of the purse, the #midterms approach their most vulnerable window. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Best Poverty, Best War, Best Everything
Trump declares victory by the transaction while the costs pile up in the next column.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Watch AOC break down why ICE ‘should not exist’
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared at the More Perfect University’s fourth “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall, where she discussed the need to abolish the wasteful…
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald's Diesel Disaster @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and historian Heather Cox Richardson are joining forces for Lunch Money, a new monthly conversation series. #USA #Trump #uspoli www.youtube.com/live/zcMSxfX...
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Donald's Diesel Disaster | Lunch Money with Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The President may be brought low this fall not by the Democrats who would crawl over broken glass to defeat him but by the very voters who sent him back to the White House in the first place. Iran, it seems, may finally have done what Jan 6 and all the rest of Trump’s countless misdeeds could not.”
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
September 26, 2026
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September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy National Public Lands Day! 🌅 From the Rio Grande to the top of our mountains, our national parks, and the forest lands and acequias that have sustained our communities for generations, these lands are part of who we are. Public lands are our lands. And we will keep fighting to protect them!
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump told the UN, “To the victor belong the spoils.” Days later, Norway’s Espen Barth Eide warned: “Now is the time of monsters.” #uspolitics #unga #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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To The Victor, The Fine Print
Trump claims the spoils at the UN, while the deals, the casualty counts and the alliances tell a different story about what trust is worth
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hurry up and do it 💥
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More than 200 days into the #ranwar, #Congress still won’t take the wheel. The costs are mounting, sailors are stretched, arsenals are draining and Washington still can’t explain where this ends. #uspolitics #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Autopilot Is Not A Strategy
After 200 days of war, Congress still won’t take the wheel while the troops, the Treasury and America’s credibility absorb the cost.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump says America is “the most respected country anywhere in the world by far.” Allies are quietly advertising something else: predictability, reliability and trust. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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By Far
Trump says America is the most respected country in the world. The allies, the courts and the planet kept their own scores this week.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That is the best summary of Republican hypocrisy 👇👇
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump can threaten martial law but he can’t cancel the November 3rd midterms. Sorry, Donny, but there ain't no “I lose so I shut the country down” button. No statute. No constitutional clause. Courts still work in this country. That’s the law, not a Trump tantrum.
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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SBWU Democratic Party Letter Sign On
Please sign on to this letter to the CEO of Starbucks to support workers in this critical next phase of their campaign for a union contract. After signing, your organization’s name will appear on the ...
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Xi arrives in Washington today for red carpets and military honors. Rare-earth dependence, advanced-chip fights, AI cooperation, Iranian oil and U.S. officials linking Chinese commercial satellite imagery to a strike that killed American troops. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Contain the Capability. Cooperate on the Catastrophe.
Xi Jinping gets a B-2 flyover, a state dinner, and America's full contradiction on China deterrence, dependence, and a satellite-imagery scandal, all under one red carpet
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last year at the #UN: inflation defeated, gas going lower, $17T invested, 7 wars ended. This year: $21T, 8 wars, Iran unresolved, and several old boasts quietly gone. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism #trumperbole open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Reality Has a Longer Memory
Trump returned to the UN with bigger numbers, more “ended” wars — and several boasts from last year conspicuously missing.
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Yavapai County Democratic Party @yavdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We almost went to war with #Yemen. We still don’t know who helped deliberate a decision that reportedly got as far as approved targets and bombs being loaded onto aircraft. NO → YES → LOAD THE BOMBS → NO #uspolitics #composmentis #kakistocracy #authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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No. Yes. Load the Bombs. No.
Inside the 72 hours that decided whether America opened a new front in Yemen and why Congress still doesn't know who was in the room.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The diplomatic scenery keeps changing, but reality has its own schedule. This morning: Greenland, burning refineries, Hormuz, motor-oil shortages, $4.48 gas and what happens when the press release meets the actual world. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #midterms open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Release Countermeasures!
The White House Can Stage the Deal. Reality Still Gets the Final Cut.
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Mary Geddry @magixarc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The #1stAmendment acquired a badge reader this morning. CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters turned away. Press freedom, Judge Luttig, #midterms, and a remarkable amount of spaghetti hitting the wall. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
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Trump’s On His Heels
A press ban, a $5,000 promise, and a warning from a conservative judge about January 3, what a nervous president looks like six weeks before the midterms.
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