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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

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After racist Kansas Young Republicans chats leak, Gov. Kelly calls out posts from state GOP

Politico exposed racist and homophobic messages sent by leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the state GOP modeled similar behavior in its own social media posts.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3h

Yesterday, SCOTUS heard a case that could make it easier for GOP states to get away with racial gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterms. Should the court rule to weaken a key voting protection, it could kill what’s left of a vital civil rights law.
https://bit.ly/4osqNDX

SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

Read more here.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3h

Blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3h

Trump is working on creating a “Ukraine Victory Fund,” which would be financed through new tariffs on China, per The Telegraph. Trump has instructed Bessent to discuss the plan with European counterparts ahead of Zelensky’s visit to Washington on Friday.

How much for this “fund” will go to Ukraine?

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 2h

No, you can't just fire workers you don't like.
Judge blocks Trump's mass firings of federal government workers as "politically motivated," finding that evidence would ultimately show the cuts were illegal and in excess of Trump's authority.
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Judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from firing workers during the government shutdown

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Meiselas: How do you see yourself in that race versus Graham Platner?

Mills: We’ve run people against Susan Collins before, and she won because we ran people who were untested… I’m the only one in the race who’s actually won an election

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Frost: Trump knows that when they passed the big, ugly bill that rips away healthcare from 17 million people, you usually don’t win elections when you do something like that…

So instead of undoing that, he’s pressuring states to give him more seats.

What California is doing is responding to that

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here:

youtu.be/ExdL4LQmg64

Dems FURIOUS as Trump BYPASSES Congress With DANGEROUS Plan

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

youtu.be/hOj1X4UGUZo

MAGA Mike THROWS TANTRUM on LIVE TV as HE LOSES CONTROL

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Boyle: Mike Johnson and House Republicans have decided to do their own version of quiet quitting — they canceled session three weeks ago, they canceled session two weeks ago, and they’ve now canceled it last week and this week.

There is clearly no strategy there other than pure, sheer laziness

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h

After the Missouri GOP passed a new gerrymander at the expense of Black voters, over 2,400 Missourians gathered together to collect 106,000 signatures to veto the measure. However, the state is doing everything in its power to stop them.
https://bit.ly/47fy2rH

Missouri Secretary of State Erects New Hurdle for ‘People’s Veto’ of GOP Gerrymander

Read more here.

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MoveOn @moveon.org · 1h

Presidents don’t seek revenge when people disagree with them; dictators do. Our country was founded under the promise that it would remain a king-free space. Let’s keep that promise.

October 18, join us in showing the world that Americans won’t bow to a wannabe dictator 🚫 👑 MoveOn.org/NoKings

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social)

DOJ prosecutors in Virginia under Erik Seibert didn't believe they gathered enough evidence to charge Letitia James. So Trump pressured Seibert to resign and replaced him with a loyalist (and former…

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨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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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 16h

Citing the #shutdown, a federal magistrate is postponing action to determine whether new walls along the southern border by the Dept of Homeland Security is illegal.

Our work to halt this wall continues. To get up to speed on this work, check out our page, #NoBorderWall ➡️ bit.ly/4nQAQ5w

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Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 16h

Cancelled Coal Sale spotlights @SecretaryWright cluelessness. Markets trashing Trump's energy plans.
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Cancelled Coal Sale Spotlights Clueless Trump Energy Plans

I’m old fashioned. I think markets tell us something important that we ignore at our peril.Markets just gave us yet another key indicator on the fundamental assumptions of the Trump admin&#82…

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David Doniger @daviddoniger.bsky.social · 15h

And the dopes seeking American energy dominance are busy canceling solar, wind, and battery projects, like the Esmeralda 7 in Nevada.

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13h

⁨The blatantly political videos being forced on airports across the country are not only an abuse of taxpayer dollars, but they violate the law.

I'm joining @SenBlumenthal and @SenJackReed to demand DHS take down these videos immediately.⁩

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 13h

House Republicans are saying that they are doing all of this work, but they are twiddling their thumbs and refusing to negotiate.

I have never seen people who hate working this much. They need to pick up the phone.

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