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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Johnson: “People have said, ‘Are you going to change your strategy?’ And I’ve said to you all, very plainly in good faith, we don’t have a political strategy here. I don’t have a strategy.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

As predicted.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 7h

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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 7h

Explore this gift article. Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Congressional Democrats Investigate Arrests of Americans During Raids

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 12h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The silver lining is the Professor still has his faculty job, but this is explicitly viewpoint discrimination, a message that there is no such thing as faculty governance.
All admin must be aligned with a political party. For all the talk of leftist indoctrination, this is no different from China.

Univ. of Texas professor was dismissed from an administrative post overseeing university academic affairs because of ideological differences.

Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation.

We must end indoctrination and return to education fundamentals at all levels of education.

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 10h

religioninpublic.blog/2025/10/21/t...

The Coming Battle Over Women’s Suffrage

By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit. National Women’s History Museum.] Every election cycle, millions of women cast votes. For many of them, their right to vote seems uncontroversial…

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

"Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”

The cuts:

📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)

📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)

📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)

📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

KARL: Don't you have questions about Venezuela?

JOHNSON: What about it?

K: The targeting of these boats. You have no questions about how they're doing it?

J: No. I believe in peace through strength. You take out one boat full of fentanyl, you save hundreds of thousands of American lives

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

UPDATE: Israel said Sunday it responded after “terrorists” attacked troops operating in the Rafah area with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Hamas said it was unaware of the clashes.

Israel strikes Gaza as both IDF and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire

Israel said Sunday it responded after “terrorists” attacked troops operating in the Rafah area with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Hamas said it was unaware of the clashes.

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 2d

The Kids Who Sued Trump Just Lost Big in Court. Or Did They? A federal judge threw out their climate lawsuit against the president a few days ago. But legal experts say there was a silver lining in the judge’s opinion. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/c...

The Kids Who Sued Trump Just Lost Big in Court. Or Did They?

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 3d

Air Force Academy alumni board withdraws motions to honor Charlie Kirk www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Air Force Academy alumni board withdraws motions to honor Charlie Kirk

The decision came after several hundred academy graduates and family members contacted the alumni group to share their opinions on the motions.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Grotesque corruption.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

A crime so bad you need not prove it in a court of law! Your punishment? Death or a very stern warning before going home.

It boggles the legal mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 4d

Next year's A.C.A. health prices are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend subsidies.

Via @reedabelson.bsky.social and @sangerkatz.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 4d

Huge health care premium increases being announced in states as a result of the policies of Donald Trump & JD Vance. The premium increases for families range from $13,700 per year in Maryland to $23,700 in Kentucky. All because Donald Trump & JD Vance put the wealthy above ordinary Americans.

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 5d

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Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 6d

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum. The president’s call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/h...

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6d

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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