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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3h

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 8h

is this press pool so neutered that no one is going to ask any of these people a normal question

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2h

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The city is accusing the lender of misleading consumers and making loans without a lending license. Key issue: The use of recommended tips.

Baltimore City Lawsuit Accuses Fintech MoneyLion Of Preying On Borrowers

The city is accusing the lender of misleading consumers and making loans without a lending license. Key issue: The use of recommended tips.

www.forbes.com

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 12h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 9h

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 4h

SHAME ON THE MEDIA. Do you know who is NOT represented telling OUR stories? People like me and MILLIONS with chronic illness and Lupus, chronic pain, cancer survivors, Seniors and OTHERS who live on FIXED incomes that'll be devastated by health care INCREASES from ACA & CUTS from the BBB. AWARENESS!

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. PADILLA: This Justice Department fired a 15-year career prosecutor who put away sex traffickers and transnational terrorists. She was marched out of her office. Why? Because she had the audacity to remind Border Patrol that it should follow court orders.

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Charles Booker @booker4ky.bsky.social · 14h

This morning, I am thinking about all the innocent families being terrorized by ICE. We all want our streets to be safe from violence and terror, so ICE shouldn’t be on them.

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Rhonda @rhondakaye.bsky.social · 15h

Just heard a co-worker say, unironically, "I don't watch the news, Facebook is my news." Thank you, sir, for validating every thought I had about you from day one.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 4h

"Chicago isn't licking boots!

No hate no fear. Immigrants are welcome here. All power to the people.

No human is illegal.
No raids. No deportation. Down with the occupation!"

#HandsOffChicago #AbolishICE

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9h

Folks, the oath of enlisted people and officers are two different oaths. The officer's oath does not include the stuff about the president.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 9h

Again, the oath has mentioned obeying orders of the President since 1789. Here it is as established by Congress in 1962, in Public Law 87-751 (codified then in 10 USC 501, codified after 1968 in 10 USC 502):

Public Law 87-751
October 5, 1962
AN ACT
(H. R. 218]
To provide that individuals enlisted into the Armed Forces of the United States shall take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Armed Forces.
Enlistment oath.
70A Stat. 17.
National Guard.
70A Stat. 602.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
"$ 501. Enlistment oath: who may administer
"Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:
-→ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, accorang to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 8h

I am canceling tonight's antifa pot luck due to the tumor I got from taking the measles vaccine. I appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 4h

this is truly good news. what a relief!

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 7h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

I love Kyle Clark

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

VIEWER FEEDBACK: One viewer says I won't read negative feedback and another viewer says I'm a lying viper from hell

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h

Grateful to hear the news that after two years and far too much suffering a deal to release the hostages and end the hostilities may have been reached.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson is lying. Swear-in Rep elect Adelita Grijalva. Release the Epstein files.

Congresswoman-elect calls out Mike Johnson for REFUSING to swear her in

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

www.youtube.com

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