LOL! The GOP doesn't like when Dems use the same tactics they've used for years - the last time was in the 2024 elections in Florida. Are they going call that into question?🤨 Trump says he ordered DoJ to file lawsuit to block Alaska Senate results certification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Beckstle
@beckstle.bsky.social
Writer of TV & movie reviews, pop cultural & history analysis. Anti-MAGA, pro democracy, cat lover, and queer. Current Guilty pleasures: RuPaul's Drag Race (in most of its forms) & rewatching the X-Files.
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Duh! Of course he's helping Russia. He's likely a Russian assest - plus, he needs Putin's help to try and help MAGA win the midterms. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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I think Greg is right but I also think Talarico’s program is much bigger. The Rs justify their goals thru the lens of a strain of Christianity that allows you to choose evil as long as you have a “personal relationship with Jesus.” Talarico calls that an abomination. That threatens everything.
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
Articles like this remind me of who the U.S.'s daddy was. We definitely inherited the hubris. 😏
Britain chose to leave the EU. Yet politicians and commentators still talk as though we should retain a say in how Europe runs itself. Niall Ó Conghaile asks whether Britain has really understood what being outside means.
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Britain chose to leave the EU. Yet politicians and commentators still talk as though we should retain a say in how Europe runs itself. Niall Ó Conghaile asks whether Britain has really understood what being outside means.
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“A month before Election Day 2024, the New York Times reported that the US job market was 'as healthy as it has ever been'. A few days later, The Washington Post’s Heather Long explained, 'We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes'.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet's two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, according to a study in the journal Scientific Data. https://to.pbs.org/3UN86kP
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Tell me again about how the US is the home of free speech and the free market
David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staffers brace for what’s next. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Don’t look at what Republicans say, look how they vote. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
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This is why I donate to @propublica.org, even as I work for @motherjones.com. We are all fighting corruption and abuse of power, regardless of which side of the aisle it's on. Please support nonprofit journalism in your annual giving. With Trump on the attack, it's never been important. Seriously.
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End this war of choice NOW! Call every Congress person & Senators office! Call their local office if you can't get through in Washington. Gifted wapo.st/3SPycmE 5calls.org 5calls.org?gad=1&gad_so... @resist.bot #voices4Victory #usDemocracy #Dv1
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What? A sudden 30% decline in national housing prices would be a sign we're in like a serious depression. After the housing bubble burst in 2006/2007, national house prices fell "only" 27% peak to trough fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSH...
Housing director Bill Pulte lies his ass off: "The cost of a new home is in some cases 20%, 30% lower than it was under Biden ... President Trump was crushed inflation."
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This is why I've never had Bernie Sanders as a first choice. The idea that class issues will motivate racists is a fallacy. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bw3...
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The Twins Days Festival bills itself as the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. While the festival celebrates the unique bond between twins, it’s also a hub for scientists studying what makes them so alike – and so different. https://to.pbs.org/4xS1IqB
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Would we get in trouble if we put up big billboards explaining what jury nullification was? I'm asking for completely unrelated reasons, of course
"This isn’t just meant to stop liberals from engaging in anti-ICE activism. It’s meant to destroy trust among activists, who must now constantly worry about whether HSI has infiltrated them. It’s meant to drive out of public life anyone the administration disfavors." — @snipy.bsky.social
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(CNN) - A US Navy guided-missile destroyer spent four days last month without working toilets, galley services and air conditioning in the blistering heat of the South China Sea after the warship lost power. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/a...
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Air Force Major Jason Watson tells Erin Burnett President Trump is 'flagrantly violating the Constitution' and he hopes his actions 'inspire Americans to act.' #ImpeachConvictRemove www.cnn.com/2026/08/17/p...
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Bonespurs Trump thinks the service members of the USS Lincoln should suffer even more. And Hegseth says they’re lying about their horrible conditions. Dr. Dawn Lanaville, clinical psychologist, on how this causes a new type of PTSD & why this Regime is failing its military. youtu.be/Tak640j_LIY
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We have the chance to change the corrupt status quo and end Trump's crime spree in America in November! #VoteBlue
🎭American actor Harrison Ford says of Trump: "I don't know a greater criminal in history. He has no policy, only whims. That's what scares me. The impudence, the arrogance, the lies, the betrayal. Trump knows what he's doing... He's profiting from his wealth while the world goes to hell."👇🎭
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Replying to @cwebbonline.com
This is why they need to knock them down bsky.app/profile/phil...
Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he eventually was arrested
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NEW EPISODE: A federal judge in Massachusetts just issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump's executive order that would have let the U.S. Postal Service withhold mail-in ballots from states that don't hand over voter data to the Department of Justice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsI5...
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A federal judge blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement's attempt to hastily deport witnesses of a fatal shooting in Houston, according to reports Tuesday. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...?
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"Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that fateful day has not been publicly reported until now, more than five years later ... Lynch remained at DOJ and, under the second Trump administration, received a big promotion: He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing political violence."
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