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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 22h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 15h

Stand over character who cannot keep a government open.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Authoritarianism isn't coming.

It's already here.

@saletan.bsky.social and @monacharen.bsky.social dive in.

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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 1d

From our archives: May His Like Never Be Seen Again.

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From our archives: May His Like Never Be Seen Again

His type should never be seen again. Born from the dark well of swill and advertising, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow ...

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10....

Chalmers wielded the axe on his super tax, but the PM's fingerprints were obvious

The treasurer has never been afraid to venture beyond his prime minister with his tax reform ambitions, but on superannuation, he has been pulled into line.

www.abc.net.au

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 1d

It is pathetic how afraid Australian and UK Labor governments are of the Greens.

If these parties cannot recognise they will need coalitions or preferences going forward, then any successful rise of nuts on the right, is on them.

Be better.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

SA is showing leadership and common sense by banning AI in election ads.

The Federal govt should follow their lead and protect our democracy from the misuse of generative AI.
www.innovationaus.com/sa-cracks-do...

SA cracks down on AI deepfakes in political advertising

South Australia has become Australia's first state to ban AI-generated political ads and deepfakes aimed at misleading voters, with the changes coming into effect on Monday. Political parties, MPs and...

www.innovationaus.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Peta Fitz @pmf24-11.bsky.social · 1d

Such insight , analysis and great journalism - much needed in understanding the need for urgent justice for Palestinians to bring peace to this near 80 years of occupation, displacement and now genocide which the world watched, including Australia

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

How Israel lost a war by not deserving to win

It is ultimately futile and probably wicked to calculate winners and losers in a war against civilians, least of all on any sort of balance sheet weighing and measuring the value of dead bodies.

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds pursues bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins after defamation win

Not a monster.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Families are increasingly choosing to forgo thousands of dollars a year under the Family Tax Benefit rather than have their children immunised. satpa.pe/qYbQ2SV

The rising risks of vaccine reluctance

The latest drop in childhood immunisation rates has raised concerns among medical authorities that some communities are losing herd immunity to diseases such as measles.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

Amelie Szczecinski's paper to the #UNGA recommends that Australia amend the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) to require social media companies to be subject to independent algorithmic auditing as a form of regulatory oversight and transparency. #auspol #GlobalVoices #youthvoices

Disarming extremism in the algorithmic age

Amelie Szczecinski is one of six talented young Australians who will travel to the UN General Assembly in New York next week as part of the Global Voices project.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

True bravery!

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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