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I mostly RT and fav stuff by people who are more articulate than me. Mostly politics, but I also love cats, art, food, and anything else cool.

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Every Democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

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John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social

New: "The State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsanaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States," per a senior State Department official

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“Shadow docket” is the sort of name you’d come up with if you were writing an authoritarian dystopia.

Riki Wilchins@rikiwilchins.bsky.social

For the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

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The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

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here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

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It is fucking insane that a military contractor (and biggest GOP donor) undermined the performance of services paid for by the DOD, and future GOP Presidential hopefuls are bending over backwards to come up with competing and bizarre excuses for why its all fine, actually.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social

Trump Called Musk and Asked Him to Lift Ukraine Starlink Restrictions Military-grade system appeared to be working more normally on Thursday, soon after the call www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

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As was the plan

Truthout@truthout.org

A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. The rates of primary ballots rejected for arriving late has doubled or tripled in some areas compared to 2022.

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Owner of X funding owners of TikTok, CNN, CBS News. The same guys making a ton of money from government contracts and demanding less regulation also seeking to control the media.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.

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Elon Musk has already declared war on Democrats and begun fighting it on several fronts. This fight is happening, whether or not some centrists want it. There's no real choice now but to make a clear case in the election and then go hard after him when they retake Congress.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

not that I don't think they're capable, but Democrats coming to power and immediately holding oligarchs and corporate power meaningfully accountable is a big assumption

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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White Christianity has nothing to do with the teachings (good or otherwise) of Jesus; it’s about exclusivity, predestined supremacy, goodness achieved without having to pay, forgiveness by proxy, and the eternal punishment of everyone else for the crime of noncompliance. It’s a spiritual gated HOA.

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If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

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Advocates for survivors of domestic violence say they've seen an alarming rise in the number of victims being detained and deported by ICE after calling 911, spurred in part by a Trump order eliminating legal protections for undocumented women reporting such violence

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🚨BREAKING: DOJ’s demand that California prevent an unverified list of alleged noncitizens from voting or face legal action “appears to be a plausible threat that DOJ will attempt to engage in warrant-based ballot seizure,” the DNC said in a new court filing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDOJ’s California demand threatens ‘warrant-based ballot seizure,’ Democrats’ court filing warnsDOJ's new demand that California prevent an unverified federal list of alleged noncitizens from voting or face legal action “appears to be a plausible threat that DOJ will attempt to engage in warrant...

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It would be nice if elected Democrats start speaking up about the regime seeking to nullify the will of hundreds of thousands of voters in the city where masked armed agents did street executions in front of cameras

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

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Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.

baltimorebrew.comA disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore BrewBREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.

I'm sorry Dems, but to fix this country you have to be willing to destroy these kinds of institutions. Fox News is poison and it's mission and primary driver is to spread misinformation and propaganda to deceive citizens into voting for their pedophile protecting criminal political arm.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

ICYMI — Fox (is not) News blaming @jamestalarico for their own lies 🤔 @foxnewspolitics

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Reporters still on X give it the gloss of legitimacy while this is what it's really about.

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If anything, AI should replace upper management. These sentient toilet papers only job is to hire consulting companies to make the decisions they should have been hired to make then bog down all of their employees with justifying and explaining their work again and again when they could be working

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no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders

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The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.

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Any Democrat suggesting that there is any political mission other than bringing all elected Republicans to justice for their participation in an insurrectionist hate group needs to be booed and hissed without cease until they can be fired at the next available opportunity

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A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

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Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:

arstechnica.comCable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership capCable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.

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He doesn't need the money and now millions of his fans could risk having one of the most deadly addictions there is

The New York Times@nytimes.com

From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.

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Christopher Rufo is single handedly the reason most white people who never went to law school know that they hate Critical Race Theory even if they'll never be able to define it

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com

A GOP schism over the Texas candidate Bo French’s social-media post reveals the limits of the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.

This is ableist as fuck and is stupidly harsh.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.

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NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

Republicans when AI: "Nothing we can do man" Republicans when women: "We have to institute a national database of pregnant people, also ban all abortion medications, ban abortion itself, and then prosecute women who miscarry."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rick Scott on AI: "Congress can't regulate this. We can't get election security passed or pass a budget, so we're not gonna be the ones to do it. It's gonna have to be done through the administration with talking to these AI companies."

The Conservative High Clerics of the United States allow the regime to committ literal human trafficking.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

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Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

They're starting to pull the levers. Make sure you're registered to vote. Check it often, go early vote. Make this a blowout because they will try every ounce of fuckery they can.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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This is partly a story of personal corruption and government waste but the driving force is consistent with RFK Jr's policy objectives: he is a eugenicist who wants certain groups of people to die.

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