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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 7h

Let’s hope this grows.

Please go if at all possible…

www.nokings.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

With fewer than 60 lawyers, we are currently litigating 63 voting and election cases in 30 states — a number that will almost certainly rise in the weeks to come. The only thing that could cause it to fall anytime soon would be court closures resulting from the Republican-caused government shutdown.

Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases

Read here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 8h

What do yah know…

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Even the American Conservative is skeptical of the Trump administration’s asserted rationale for US aggression toward Venezuela. An interesting read. 10/7/25 … 1/ www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-th...

What Does the U.S. Want in Venezuela?

The administration is making it difficult to discern what it perceives to be our interests in Latin America.

www.theamericanconservative.com

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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 8h

It never occurred to me that they will start NOW, with this CA election which is less than a month away.

All I can hope is it mirrors their rushed indictment of Comey and whatever they’ve got “planned” (conceptual of plan?) it will blow up in their smug faces.

Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re a prop 50 supporter this here is absolutely something we cannot brush off. We have to take Gavin Newsom’s warning seriously.

Newsom warns of possible Trump interference in California’s special election

As Election Day approaches, Gov. Gavin Newsom is raising concerns that the president may try to interfere in California’s special election to redraw congressional districts.

www.sfchronicle.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

The simple truth is that Trump is a criminal. Now he and his accomplices are back in power, and they’re using that power to smear the honest agents and prosecutors who investigated them. www.thebulwark.com/p/bondi-host...

Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

www.thebulwark.com

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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 8h

This is serious. They’re very desperate. How crazy will they be?

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears

Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...

www.military.com

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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, who needs the FBI. Who needs expertise anywhere? As long as you look good on camera that’s all that matters.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Bellmora @bellmora.bsky.social · 8h

He’s not in charge. It’s so obviously clear

apnews.com/article/trum...

AP photos show Rubio's urgent note to Trump before announcement of Mideast peace deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed President Donald Trump a note during a White House event, hinting that a Mideast peace deal was close.

apnews.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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MaryM @mmgram.bsky.social · 15h

He won’t even go to Portland.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Would you consider going to Gaza to see what things are like on the ground?

TRUMP: I would. I might do that.

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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 15h

Do your damn job, Johnson.

Arizona House Democrats press Mike Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva

Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego hold press conference at speaker’s office over his refusal to swear in new Democrat

www.theguardian.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16h

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 16h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15h

What the heck are they (his "advisors") showing him?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15h

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the Chicago area accused of assaulting law enforcement, the latest in a shocking string of failures by the Trump Department of Justice.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15h

What's worse than presidential gibberish?

Authoritarian presidential gibberish.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 23h

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

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