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KatrinaWTE @katrinawte.bsky.social · 5h

#ThePeteEffect

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Nerdy Pursuit @nerdypursuit.bsky.social · 5h

I just listened to Pete Buttigieg's call with Win The Era supporters. 💙

Pete has supporters in some very red parts of the country. A farmer from Idaho talked about how he hates the tariffs. A woman from a small rural county in Kansas is trying to start up a local Democratic party.

#Buttigieg

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KatrinaWTE @katrinawte.bsky.social · 5h

Good night #TeamPete 😴

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ACLU @aclu.org · 12h

Congress is considering a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Act that would end Senate confirmation of the chief lawyers responsible for secretly shaping policies on surveillance, detention, and interrogation at U.S. intelligence agencies.

Keep Senate confirmation for top intelligence lawyers, civil liberties groups urge

A provision in the 2026 annual intelligence community bill would lift Senate confirmation rules for the chief counsels of the CIA and ODNI. Advocates warn the change would weaken transparency and publ...

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10h

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13h

So far, Republicans would rather shut down the government. So Americans face flight delays, reduced services, and mounting economic damage.

It's time for Trump and Republicans to change course on health care and reopen the government.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13h

In a few days, you may be notified that your health insurance premiums will double, because of Republican cuts to health care. Democrats are fighting to change that before it's too late.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone else see this today and wonder wtf happened?

Oopsie, Stephen.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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California Transit Association @caltransit.bsky.social · 1d

The Association is proud to welcome former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as the keynote speaker for the 60th Annual Fall Conference & Expo.

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BarTGila ♏⚽🌈🐴🇺🇦 @bartgila.bsky.social · 1d

"The president and his party control Washington. Their most basic job is to keep the government running for you - and they've failed."
– Pete Buttigieg

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KatrinaWTE @katrinawte.bsky.social · 1d

Good night #TeamPete 😴

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Lori Moon @lorimoon.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Buttigieg to appear at Texas Tribune Festival.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/tim-wal...

Tim Walz, Vicente Fox, Pete Buttigieg Join Texas Tribune Festival - The Austin Chronicle

The annual fall Texas Tribune Festival never fails to put together an unexpected rendezvous of today’s influential politicians, policymakers, and press, and this year’s programming is similarly stacke...

www.austinchronicle.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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KatrinaWTE @katrinawte.bsky.social · 2d

Good night #TeamPete 😴

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 2d

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump "We have an Insurrection Act for a reason. If I had to enact it, I'd to that ... if courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I'd do that."

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indri🐉🐝🍷🚲 @indri4biking.bsky.social · 2d

Pete might be of very few politicians were journalists digging deep into the past find "secrets" that make him look better rather than worse.

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d

a thing I like to remember from time to time about Buttigieg, that I think is relevant though not dispositive about his willingness to fight, is why Nicole Cliffe donated to his campaign