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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

By allowing for the dismantling of minority districts held by Democrats, a ruling against the VRA could give President Donald Trump and the GOP enough additional seats to lock in the party’s control of the House for a generation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fair Elections — and Perhaps Control of Congress — at Stake as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to VRA

Read more here.

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@billspaced @billspaced.com · 2h

We are all Sarah Connor now. #Terminator

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

Half of America’s Voting Machines Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/half-of-am...

Half of America’s Voting Machines Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.

dissentinbloom.substack.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16h

While they're at it can they bar sheriffs from contracting with ICE?

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Citing ‘serious questions’ and ‘questionable spending,’ Mass. lawmakers move to hold back funding for sheriffs - The Boston Globe

Massachusetts lawmakers propose holding back $162 million for county sheriffs' offices in a spending bill, citing “questionable spending practices."

www.bostonglobe.com

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 18h

Let me start a trend here, for those who are out protesting and will be out on #NoKings events, may I suggest we start a nationwide protocol: protesting while wearing former presidents masks?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

Everything is for sale.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 23h

Waiting for this, finally

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, that’s the Katherine Harris’s 2000 make-up cheat sheet she keeps hidden in her lacquered vanity drawer

The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 1d

And Armed Forces recruitment and Liberty University ads on Hulu

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 1d

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 2d

Now show the faces of the Palestinian hostages and their homes they are returning to afterwards. Oh hey, there are no homes left…

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 2d

IF (big emphasis) we still can count on the electoral process, and not Dominion voting machines rigged, for example. We may have Putinesque elections, from now on, I’m afraid.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Kamala is all out of f*cks and I’m here for it 🔥

We see you, @codepink.bsky.social

Your paid performative agitators pop up on her book tour like they think we don’t know the VP’s job.

The VP doesn’t set Middle East policy, the President does. The VP’s role is to support the President, period.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 2d

The faster the democrats in congress and their voters remove Chuck Schumer the better

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 2d

What is scary though, this POS will occupy WH if Don Demented gets 25th

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 2d

George losing his patience on air is television gold.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home.

So much for “America First.”

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 4d

Only one NYC mayoral candidate has come forward regarding the absurd indictment of AG James, where are the other two…oh, one was prosecuted by James for sexual harassment and improper behavior…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, the word “mafia” comes to mind. Hope it will change soon for the sake of NY.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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:

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 4d

Republicans do like trash
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As plastic trash fills NC waterways, the legislature has banned local efforts to stem the flow | Opinion

In 2023, Republican state lawmakers slipped a provision into the state budget prohibiting local governments from banning “auxiliary containers,” things like plastic bags and Styrofoam cups and coolers...

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The Wanderess @thewanderess.bsky.social · 4d

Because there is a For Sale sign everywhere in the US. They are breaking and selling the country pieces by pieces

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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