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@knitmyworld.bsky.social

Liberally knitting in Colorado ~ Personal finance ~ Lifelong learner

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It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

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We now know some of the people involved in mailing children fake transgender pamphlets here in Texas.

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Of course they did.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

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Flagging and gifting this "wowzer" story, as one of its authors called it. Russia, Russia, Russia, all over again. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

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Ukraine says satellite access still restricted despite Trump saying otherwise
The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday. wapo.st/3UeuOlS Gift article

wapo.stUkraine says satellite access still restricted despite Trump saying otherwiseThe president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday.

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This is explosive. In the Witkoff/Kushner discussions with the Kremlin with respect to the sale to a Trump-backed consortium of LUKoil's foreign assets, Trump has offered a slice of his big Alaska project to a Russian major close to Putin. The structure is designed to entangle US investments

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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NEW: Mail ballots in North Carolina's largest county are being rejected at rates higher than the rest of the state — over 50% are due to a new GOP rule on envelope sealing. "We've had voters who we've had to mail them four or five different ballots," one official said. https://demdock.com/4dU9RTT

democracydocket.comGOP-backed ballot rules plague North Carolina voters in Democratic strongholdIf a 3.5% rejection rate were to hold in this election, with the number of residents voting by mail reduced by 30% to account for decreased mail voting requests, an estimated 887 ballots would be reje...

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(1/2) 77 people were removed to Haiti on the October 22 removal flight from Alexandria, LA. Haiti is not safe for deportations and these flights raise serious protection and human rights concerns. onm.gouv.ht/note-de-pres...

onm.gouv.htNOTE DE PRESSE : RAPATRIEMENT DU 10ème CONTINGENT DE RESSORTISSANTS HAÏTIENS EN PROVENANCE DES ÉTATS-UNIS / onm.gouv.htRAPATRIEMENT DU 10ème CONTINGENT DE RESSORTISSANTS HAÏTIENS EN PROVENANCE DES ÉTATS-UNISSur instruction du Premier ministre, Son Excellence Monsieur Alix Didier FILS-AIMÉ, l’Office National de la Migr...
ICE Flight Monitor@iceflightmonitor.bsky.social

An ICE Air flight (Velux23) is about to take off from Alexandria, LA for Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Deportation flights to Haiti have been occurring once a week on Thursdays since Aug 20.

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There will be a major tendency among pundits to downplay GOP gerrymandering when Democrats flip the House and the GOP fails to flip some of its mid-decade remap targets, but the pre-2026 baseline was still very gerrymandered. Even in a wave, the national map could cost Dems two dozen seats or more

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social

GOP gerrymandering shifted the median congressional seat from Trump+3.1 in 2024 to +4.5 in 2026. He won the 2026 median by 3 points more than his national margin. That gap could grow by several points in 2028 if only the GOP redraws more states, but new Dem maps may be able to fully counteract them

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The BBC proves that it can stand up to Trump, who deludes himself about his power. Without fear of retaliation, it follows freedom of speech and exposes his weakness. This trial is a lost cause for him, and his testimony could publicly finish him off. #ProudBlue #DV1

thelondoneconomic.comBBC hits back at Trump as he drags heels over deposition requestThe BBC have hit back at Donald Trump after he once again tried to delay the broadcaster's request for his deposition.

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11/ To independent media, creators, and organizers: we know the MSM will fail us so we are asking you to be ready to amplify our voices and join with yours to educate people on the theft the GOP plans. The Serbian students are showing that preparation is power. We can & must learn from them.

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10/ We need a Day Two plan. Rapid response teams… email, text and call teams, media blitz teams, local organization and civic teams ready to hit the streets and make your voices heard . Pre-agreed messaging for the lies we know are coming. Legal teams on standby. Peaceful, visible mobilization ready

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Tommy Tuberville pledged in 2020 to donate his Senate salary to Alabama veterans & families. An investigation found no evidence he did. The pledge is worth roughly $1 million. Asked about it, he had staff remove him, then called the media socialists and communists. www.huffpost.com/entry/tommy-...

huffpost.com‘Get Him Out!’ Trump Ally Freaks Out Over Question About Broken Promise To VeteransSen. Tommy Tuberville reportedly ousted a reporter who asked him about a pledge he made to veterans and their families back in 2020.

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1/ A new study points to a cheap way to tilt how an election looks: bet on it. Kalshi and Polymarket odds now show up on CNN, CNBC and Fox News. Those odds aren't polls. They're prices. And prices can be pushed up or down. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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People in Houston are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at the memorial of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed by an ICE agent in July. A beautiful reminder of the people who can’t cast a ballot themselves, but whose lives matter just as much. #SheShed #VOTE

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GRANDPASAURUS: “FARMERS — Most of the $8 BILLION bailout will go to corporate farms… meanwhile you’re losing billions from Trump’s SNAP & USAID cuts… what’s your plan for 2027?” 🧑‍🌾

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I want to hear less about the polls and more about the consequences. The media should be focused on what the next 2 years will look like if Trump continues to be unchecked by Congress.

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This should frighten every person in every country that depends on technology owned by Elon Musk. If he will do it to Ukraine, he will do it to any country that displeases him or gets in the way of his making money.

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JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

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Trump: "With Roger Marshall in the Senate, we will make year-round E15 permanent. But if Adam Hamilton is in, I'm not going it. That's it. I'm only doing it for him. That's a big deal for Kansas."

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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

More evidence of an alliance between the “Tech Bros” & the “Catholic Right”. On 7/1/24, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale used his blog to thank Catholic hardliner Leonard Leo for his “advice & support” re: a SCOTUS brief that Lonsdale’s Cicero Institute had filed to help criminalize homelessness. 1/

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We are being robbed. Of our homes, our healthcare, our retirements, our recreation, our very futures. They lay off 1,000s and use the saving to buy back stocks. Aren't you tired of these thieves taking money out of your pockets?