capes.bsky.social

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The FT has a detailed expose of Donald Trump Jr's corrupt visit to Mongolia with Putin-aligned oligarch Umar Kremlev (the same guy who paid for Don Jr's wedding celebration, yes). Note also that Don Jr. sold the right to accompany him on the trip literally to the highest bidder: by auction.

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Many of you are asking how you can help me in these final days before the election. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."

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The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

propublica.orgKen Paxton's Trust Gave a $600,000 Infusion to a Convicted Fraudster's CompanyThe blind trust's investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general's financial ties with the very type of business executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates.

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Little does he know that the biggest crowds he’ll actually draw will be around the world. I hope that day is soon.

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This young lady understands that in a Democracy the power resides with the people, not the Orange tyrant that’s squatting in the White House. Let’s get the vote out and create the biggest #BlueWaveIn7Days it’s time to take our country back. Make a plan and let’s seal the deal!🗳️

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The Trump administration is exploring a new concession to Russia: lifting sanctions on the country’s flagship government investment fund, long viewed by U.S. officials as one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence. - NYT

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I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

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At least 18 early voting centers in rural Alaska have not opened as of Friday, state Sen. Bill Wielechowski says. The commonality? All the affected areas have at least a 60% Alaska Native population — with nearly a dozen having Alaska Native populations upwards of 90%: https://demdock.com/4yTW5Ze

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The "Dems for Mike Rogers" effort is, in part, indirectly funded by the Mike Rogers campaign itself. GLCF (Great Lakes Conservative Fund), which provided the majority of the funds spent by TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" thus far, received $751,801 from Team Rogers in 2026. bsky.app/profile/cons...

Conspirador Norteño@conspirator0.bsky.social

TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" has filed their Pre-General report with the FEC, revealing that nearly all of their funding comes from one of two right-wing Super PACs: GLCF, which has contributed $4,100,000 to date, and Moms for Safe Neighborhoods, which forked over $750,000.

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Juan Ciscomani wants you to believe he’s bipartisan and independent, but his record says otherwise. You can't rebrand a 100% rubber-stamp voting record.

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Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

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Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

New Brazil rules: share Dr. Andrews’ new ad 10x more to counteract negative GOP attacks👇 #LFG bsky.app/profile/dran...

Dr. Annie Andrews@drannieandrews.com

This is what putting South Carolina first looks like. I’m honored to have the support of two former governors — Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges. We may not agree on everything, but we share a belief that matters most: S.C. deserves leaders who will always put its people first.

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So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org

A pedestrian who was nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver in Midtown this summer only learned later — after weeks of silence — that the NYPD had closed the 'open-and-shut case' without finding the perpetrator. buff.ly/Otq7uXf

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The El Paso firefighters are back in their 👠! Yesterday, they completed the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event to stand against violence toward women. What an amazing group of men, and they looked great doing it! 👏🏽 #SheShed

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#GoodTroubleSquadron #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 In what unusual & unexpected ways will Republicans use to disrupt voting? Here's one from Brazil; shut down bus service on Election Day in cities likely to vote for your opponent! Expect the unexpected!

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

BREAKING: Lula calls for arrests of Mayors, who shut off bus service on election day in key Brazilian strongholds. Voting has been extended two hours till 7 PM paydayreport.com/breaking-lul...

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Republican Shellie Flockhart, who called Iowa Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott "dangerous" for kids, actually pleaded guilty to endangering kids herself after authorities said she drove drunk with her children in the car in 2017.

washingtonpost.comWoman in ad who said a Democrat endangers kids pleaded guilty to endangering kidsShellie Flockhart, who called Iowa Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott “dangerous” for kids, pleaded guilty after authorities said she drove drunk with her children in the car in 2017.

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An OC, CA group with ties to tech wiz kid Palmer Luckey is funding push of Vivek Ramaswamy’s despicable campaign ads attacking Amy Acton Luckey has built a large weapons manufacturing plant outside of Columbus, OH with loads of tax breaks compliments of Ohio’s GOP www.latimes.com/california/s...

latimes.comMystery Ohio news site boosting Ramaswamy's Amy Acton ad tied to California GOP nonprofitAs Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy came under fire for releasing an attack ad featuring his Democratic competitor Amy Acton's estranged mother, a mysterious news site was runni...
Larry Tenney@larrytenney.bsky.social

Palmer Luckey is Matt Gaetz’s BIL and is in bed with Ohio Republicans who have given him sweetheart deals to build a massive weapons factory near Rickenbacker Airport outside of Columbus. In March, Luckey was awarded a major cumulative DoD enterprise contract of up to $20 billlion

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Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

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Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

newsfromthestates.comColorado priest from Uganda released after 13 months in ICE detention in AuroraAfter 13 months in an Aurora immigrant detention center, where he became reliant on a wheelchair as his health deteriorated, a Ugandan priest who has lived in Colorado for more than 25 years was relea...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 @rolandsmartin.bsky.social encourages Black voters to back @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “We cannot play games with this election.”

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Lonnie Rouse worked at the Hanford nuclear site for nearly 20 years. It was so toxic, he said, that the floor once melted the rubber off his boots. Now he needs 24-hour care. The DOE has appealed his workers’ compensation claim more than 20 times.

propublica.orgNuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to de...

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In August 2026, the U.S. Forest Service proposed to end the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Overturning this policy would open these protected public lands to commercial logging, new road construction, and industrial mining. *The regime says it's for routine maintenance 🙄

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Right, so, male influencers are being sent out to tell Black people that resisting data centers is wrong actually because people don't understand how to really measure their water use. It’s an appeal to scientific expertise intended to intimidate Black people.

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All of the “deport them all” kind of people don’t realize they are being used by billionaires. The social security trust fund will be depleted sooner since less people will be contributing as Trump deports workers. truthout.org/articles/tru... #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

truthout.orgTrump’s Mass Deportation Push May Cut Retirees’ Social Security by $2k AnnuallyThe program’s insolvency date was already pushed up to 2032, partly as a result of mass deportations.

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The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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URGENT! 🚨 🚨 Vote by mail ballots in NC are being rejected because people forgot to seal the inner envelope. I’ll tell you what’s going on and how to fix it. Please spread this video everywhere.

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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

propublica.orgMeet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax SystemSusquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...

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Q: “Do the sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?” TRUMP: “You’re a fresh person. A horrible little reporter.” Trump lashes out at another female reporter @albamonica as she asks about Trump’s support for Vivek’s disgusting attack ad weird Epstein’s bestie wouldn’t care about abuse😕

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@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Can you and your team contact the parents of the 18 schoolchildren this Somali man saved and either do interviews or organize a press conference? We can’t trust local media to highlight this and we need to counteract MAGA’s disgusting narrative bsky.app/profile/thet...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

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The violence of "border security" isn't always as obvious as a gun in someone's face.

Last month, US border agents detained Paige Adamson, a Canadian green card holder, at a BC crossing, accusing her of entering to vote illegally. Facing a deportation hearing, she feared detention so much she avoided seeking medical care. A month later, she has died.

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🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday said the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) might launch more California-style lawsuits to block states from counting ballots for the midterm election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comBlanche threatens ‘a number of states’ with California-style voting lawsuitsBlanche’s comments come amid the DOJ’s unprecedented assault on the Golden State’s election system.

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This is an important point and one way we should use this VF article. Even if the most damning part -- the bank accounts -- is not true, we do know Kushner is a literal agent (financial advisor) to the Saudis and UAE. How the hell is he running negotiations?

Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social

5. The instinct that lets you look the other way and/or encourage putting Kushner in charge of Middle East negotiations is the same that puts Betancourt in the middle of the theft of Venezuelan oil. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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As public opposition to data centers (and the dirty energy that powers them) keeps growing, Democrats would be extremely foolish to hand Big Tech developers and the fossil fuel industry a massive sweetheart deal. They should vote NO on the so-called permitting reform bill.

foodandwaterwatch.org185 Groups Slam Permitting Reform’s Sweetheart Deal for Data Centers"Congress must reject this cynical industry-backed effort to force data centers on America and get to work on protecting

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You can hear her head hit the floor. Utah deputies slammed data center protester Aspen Azalea to the ground after a public meeting. She says she suffered a concussion. A freaking concussion. After a public meeting. Protest tonight. Info in thread. More fascism that we need to get loud about.

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This young woman voted in Abilene and the lines were long. It took about 45 minutes and the poll workers tried to say she wasn't registered. She made them check and check again, it turns out she was an active voter and they "didn't have it updated.”

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Unruly and unkempt gangs of youth radicals are ambushing and harassing young women in parking garages to force them into publicly accepting their militant extremist politics, we can no longer afford to be permissive to such people and we need law and order to firmly discipline them

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that numerous “debate me bro” & man-on-the-street orgs have spawned out of Phoenix recently clearly trying to mimic the TPUSA content blueprint & it’s just the most bottom of the barrel pro-rape rhetoric & straight up harassment like this from Liberty Under Fire USA:

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So Marine Corps vets who were poisoned only get compensated by the draft dodger if Republicans win. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

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Zeteo@zeteo.com

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