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Natrice Rese 🇨🇦 @natrese.bsky.social · 39m

I’m upset about the AI
I’m sure it’s going to do more harm than good

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 2h

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Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ 'Fossil Fuel Insiders' to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles | Common Dreams | Flipboard

commondreams.org - One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators. A top …

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4h

This is the way

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

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.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h

🚨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 · 14h

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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sosuume.bsky.social @sosuume.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans Hit Roadblock in Missouri Redistricting politicalwire.com/2025/10/09/r...

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What’s Dat @too-young.bsky.social · 5h

I Love Chicago Residents, we will never allow anyone to destroy our city, NEVER

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MJ @ambientheat.bsky.social · 5h

Things like this give me hope.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 4h

“The lives of thousands of people are at stake,” due to the shortage of essential medicine against malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and other diseases, François Moreillon, the head of the ICRC’s delegation in Congo, said during a news conference Wednesday.

More than 80% of health facilities in eastern Congo are out of medicine, Red Cross says

The International Committee of the Red Cross says over 200 health facilities in eastern Congo face medicine shortages due to fighting in the region and a lack of humanitarian funding.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 7h

Sean Fraser 🇨🇦
This year marks 150 years of the Supreme Court of Canada helping to shape this country, standing in ardent defence of Canadian democracy and in defence of our freedoms.
May its work continue so that 150 years from now, Canada remains the true North, strong, and free. #cdnpoli

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 5h

Democratic analyst Tommy Vietor, who worked in the Obama administration, chided a Department of Homeland Security "propagandist" on Wednesday for defending violent acts immigration agents have committed against peaceful protesters.

Ex-Obama aide slams 'propagandist' over ICE violence: 'Would be funny if it wasn't deadly'

Democratic analyst Tommy Vietor, who worked in the Obama administration, chided a Department of Homeland Security "propagandist" on Wednesday for defending violent acts immigration agents have committed against peaceful protesters. Vietor referred to recent protests against Immigration and Customs E...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 5h

Republican congressional leaders have been quietly warning the White House not to move forward with plans to decimate the federal workforce and shred the social safety net under cover of the government shutdown.

GOP lawmakers privately 'frustrated' by Trump's shutdown moves as Dems refuse to give in

Republican congressional leaders have been quietly warning the White House not to move forward with plans to decimate the federal workforce and shred the social safety net under cover of the government shutdown.Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and other senior Republicans have advised Presid...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Well, that was certainly a busy news morning. If you appreciate my coverage of the Bondi hearing and the Trump/Carney meeting, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. You'll enjoy it and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Paul @dedikend.bsky.social · 11h

Berni explains Trump's plan to "decrease the surplus population" in time for Christmas.

#USDemocracy

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‘America On Verge Of…’: Bernie Sanders Issues Chilling Shutdown Warning To Trump From US Senate

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