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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 1d

Texas GOP chairman Kelly Giles faces felony election fraud charges for falsifying ballot paperwork, another potential failure for a party that has long claimed the mantle of election integrity.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 8h

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Decency Deplores MAGA @danidono.bsky.social · 8h

If it’s anti-American, heinous and anti-Constitutional, it’s always the rat in the nest.

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.

Stephen Miller emerges as key architect of Trump’s offensive on Democratic cities | CNN Politics

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

#2plus2=5

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone who thinks the 2026 midterm elections will be anything other than a referendum approving permanent one party rule under a “First Consul” is in for a very rude awakening.😏

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 8h

ISW reviews internship applications on a rolling basis. Spring 2026 internships applications close November 14, 2025. To learn more about our four internship opportunities across all ISW teams, click here: understandingwar.org... (1/2)

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to the United States of Dumpylandia.😜

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

#TrueThis

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions

"It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

Americans don’t need government healthcare. Why would they? They already have access to the best healthcare their money can buy without any help from government. What else do they need?🫤

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Ken @bludrone.bsky.social · 10h

“Hitler’s takeover is historically unique. The story of the disintegration of democracy in Germany holds a special warning for the West: a reminder that it can happen here, that there is no necessity, no exceptionalism that immunizes us against it.”
3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Should we move on from Hitler? - 3 Quarks Daily

by Jeroen Bouterse

3quarksdaily.com

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

Every MAGA knows that black people aren’t real Americans, they just don’t want to say it out loud.

#ProveMeWrongMAGA

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

Trump has nominated only a few Black individuals to his administration, and we all know the reason behind this decision.

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 1d

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

#TrueThis

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 9h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

www.motherjones.com

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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to the Unified States of Trumplandia. All hail Dumpy the Great!

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized