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Mary Phillips @moonstonemary.bsky.social · 3h

Amongst the chaos, this appeared - important info!
www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/cour...

Court appears ready to curtail major provision of the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to strike down a 2024 congressional map that a group of voters has challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering – that […]

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 7h

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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 21h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout.

Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

🚨 Onondaga County v. New York

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20h

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss.

You’re caught up.

Ps: Welcome back.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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foinnsmom.bsky.social @foinnsmom.bsky.social · 2d

It would be much better to direct this question to Bessent, and also ask why his billionaire bros thought investing in this dumbass was such a good idea they need a $20 billion bailout from US taxpayers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not an intelligence guy, but how is a front page NYT story “covert?” Aren’t we supposed to, like, NOT alert them? Or does “secret authorization” mean something else?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

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Selina Grissom @lilrdvet2.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond.

Pay attention and act!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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cett1961.bsky.social @cett1961.bsky.social · 21h

This Keebler elf, Trump kiss ass doesn’t seem to know anything.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 1d

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 22h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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M E L L Y med @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly

M E L L Y med @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 1d

THISSS

My disillusionment over
The Young Republicans
Isn’t that it happened
But that white libs
Are so shocked by it

HOW THE FUCK
DID YOU EXPECT THEM
TO SPEAK?!

The GOP wrote a
900 PAGE MANIFESTO
BASED ON AUTHORITARIANISM
RAPE CULTURE
AND RACISM

They’ve told us they
Were this way 4
A DECADE

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

These are the faces of men who think racism, rape, and gas chambers are punchlines.

The fact that these are actual GOP officials, not trolls in a reply section, says everything about the rot inside their movement.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

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