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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 20h

So far this year, 16 states have enacted 29 laws that restrict the vote — a rise from previous years. 28 and parts of the 29th will be in effect for the 2026 midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:

State Voting Laws Roundup: October 2025

The number of new restrictive voting laws has increased this year, while legislation aimed at expanding voting access has lagged.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 15h

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20h

In Portland

This highlights the importance of local police actions. Helping people after tear gas and other chemicals shows your priorities.

Help your fellow citizens demonstrating peacefully.

You want the public to support and believe in your officers? Then have them serve Portland, not feds.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21h

Update from Oregon: Late last night, a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called for the full court to reconsider whether Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Oregon.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 14h

(Hasn’t been update for this horrible administration yet… someone can do it add to this one)

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit stands next to a robot with the number 11 on his helmet

Alt: a man in a suit stands next to a robot with the number 11 on his helmet

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller
Russell Vought
KKKaroline Levitt
Elon Musk
Mark Zuckerberg
Jeff Bezos are all top tier

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 15h

Up till this current administration

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 16h

Agreed MAGA a terrorist organization if you have merch it’s gonna be like Having Nazi memorabilia your grand kids or your own kids will shudder when they see you owned some of that hate merch in 20 years. Noon will admit they were MAGA in the next 5

A photo of a hand reaching out to another hand and then giving it a high five watching it drowned while says when Maga voters start to experience Trump policies

Pyramid of
Guilt
Trump at the top
Then
Trump JR,
Bannon, Stone,
Flynn, Meadows, Rudy
Scavino, Navarro, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Powell, Jenna Ellis Alex Jones, Louis DeJoy
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Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, MTG, Ronny Jackson, Tommy Tuberville and others
Scott Perry, Kevin McCarthy
Jim Pedo Jordan
Barry Loudermilk
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Planners, Funders & Organizers
(Ginni Thomas, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ali Alexander, etc.)
White Nationalists: Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Boogaloo Boys, 1st Amendment Praetorian, etc.
Foot Soldiers: MAGA, Short Bus Idiots, Low IQ White Trash, Rednecks, Trailer Trash, Bumpkins (Tom Cotton's family), Incestuous Brothers & Sisters

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 16h

There is literally never been a human more despicable than this human. There’s been worse human beings but there’s never been a more shit stained worthless piece of fuck. He’s paying for it through funds slushed into his bitcoin, and into all of his businesses, cause he never recused himself

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h

"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."

- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:

🐢 Teenage Mutant Nazi Turtles

Peter Rothpletz on the GOP's latest racist group chat scandal, Trump demolishing the White House, Fox comparing Portland to Gaza, and the latest in Sudan.

zeteo.com

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 17h

The biggest problem that I’ve read recently is that it’s probably been 100 years since they’ve wanted to do something like a ballroom, but nobody’s had the balls to tear down the White House so of course, the billionaires install Trump the Russian asset and have him do all the dirty work- vuala

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 17h

It’s definitely GOP supported construction firms. It’s already it’s been shown to be a back door for favors.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 18h

ARE YOU GOING TO EAT THE REST OF THAT MOUSE? Asks Stephen miller

Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 18h

a man is screaming in a room with the words `` that 's too much information ! ''

Alt: a man is screaming in a room with the words `` that 's too much information ! ''

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 18h

Is she? Seems like if her job is to get close to a 4 or 5 in the FBI, she was a wild success. Her handlers have to be impressed.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 1d

Starting this the day after the new Kings was 100% on brand for this piece of shit president

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 1d

That why he makes this face he’s screwed either way now.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 1d

three little boys are standing next to each other on a yellow carpet .

Alt: three little boys are standing next to each other on a yellow carpet .

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ right?

"Obviously I don't believe circumcision causes Autism. But the evidence linking micropenises to fascism seems to be adding up."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Matthew @thesupere.bsky.social · 1d

She’s in heels… so 4’9 1/3”?

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