Mark C. Walton

Mark C. Walton

@chileboy.bsky.social

Progressive, Lover of People, Music, Science & Tech, Tequila New and improved! (Or not.) 🇺🇸 🇱🇧 Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇺🇳 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌎 Us

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Tom Moran (ex-StarLedger) says Rep Tom Kean Jr's latest campaign commercial "wins the prize for the most vicious and dishonest political attack I’ve seen this year." And its claim about @rebeccabennettforcongress.com is "easy to disprove." "This is how the man rolls." #VoteKeanOut #NJ07

tommoran3.substack.comKean’s smear campaign...And what political lies say about us.Politicians who tell obvious fibs think it will work. They may be right.

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🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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In this video, The Intellectualist examines whether economic inequality in the U.S. today is worse than pre-revolutionary France. Using Federal Reserve, CBO data, and economic history, we reveal a shocking answer: the wealth gap in America is worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uXY...

youtube.comWhy America's Economic Inequality in 2024 Is Worse Than Pre-Revolutionary FranceIn this video, The Intellectualist explores a report by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019, that...

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Anthropic’s filing appears to partly walk back the co-founders’ pledge to commit 80% of their personal equity holdings in the AI startup to philanthropic causes. Those acts, the filing suggests, are “voluntary, revocable expressions” that “do not constitute binding obligations.”

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump DOJ ILLEGALLY fired prosecutor Maurene Comey, ordering retroactive reinstatement and backpay. The judge ripped the DOJ’s defense as bordering on “frivolous” and rejected its sweeping claims of executive power.

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If she wins a full term in November, Fire Thunder would join a growing number of Indigenous women successfully seeking higher office across the country. In Montana, the success of these candidates is a result of decades of women-led organizing on the ground.

19thnews.orgKatie Fire Thunder’s campaign could help Montana seat a record number of Native womenThrough grassroots organizing, political leadership and behind-the-scenes mentorship, their wins have been decades in the making.

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People died in ICE custody because their medical claims never got paid. Guess who just got a $982 million contract extension. The company ICE hired to process those claims took nearly a year to start doing it.

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Republican Byron Donalds makes ONE point I agree with: Black voters aren’t a monolith. Many are conservative, and BOTH parties need to earn our votes. He knows what Black voters want to hear. But his record tells a different story. Let’s get into it. 🧵

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Brazil just reminded the world that fascists can be defeated at the ballot box. Our turn comes November 3. Let’s make it fucking hurt.

I guess it's unsurprising that right-wing pundits are intentionally characterizing Obama's Cheesecake Factory comment as a dig against the restaurant - and by extension its patrons - rather than who they know the actual target to be.

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Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social

Roberts *explicitly* stated that POTUS has immunity even for directing a “sham” prosecution or one with an improper purpose or motivation. He can also promise to pardon anyone who follows his orders. As AG says, what’s the downside, for anyone?

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“Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen.” 🙄 Trump and his allies are *openly* floating using the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines or ballots in order to upend an election they expect to lose.

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Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns | Few people in the history of the world are more responsible for this preventable catastrophe than Donald Trump. Care about coral reefs? Vote for Democrats and not Republicans.

news.mongabay.comNearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warnsNearly every shallow-water coral reef ecosystem on Earth is at high risk of ecological collapse by 2075, according to the first coral reef assessment of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE).  The…

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Hey friends, I just joined the nearly 24 million Americans who already voted! My ballot is cast, but the work isn’t done. There are still voters to reach and 10 days to go. 🧵 #BlueWaveIn10Days

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That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

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👀 A massive flood of money now controls our politics, including and especially because of the Supreme Court. This animation illustrates the problem perfectly. Make your plan to vote early, bring two friends, and consider volunteering to help others vote. Democracy is counting on you! #VoteEarlyDay

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“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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This is 🎯🧪 From a pancreatic cancer researcher in my circle Lately, we have been seeing so many miracles in cancer treatment. We celebrate. That is because we had a great infrastructure that operated efficiently. I don’t want to live in a time when these wins are far off in the rear view mirror.

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🚨BREAKING: Democrats have asked a federal judge to move quickly in their lawsuit seeking to stop the White House from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution and demanding that states remove voters from registration rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDemocrats ask judge to fast track lawsuit to block Trump admin’s midterm threatsThe lawsuit challenges the administration's attempts to “intimidate and coerce election officials who aid and urge registered voters to cast ballots.”

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It is already a federal crime to send troops to a polling place. Trump knows that. Ten states are preparing for him to try it anyway. Make every member of Congress say it out loud before Nov. 3.

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Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living

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Donald Trump has sent his DOJ cronies to file a bullshit lawsuit to try to steal a Senate election in Alaska. They will fail. When we fight, we win.🗳️⚖️💪

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I'd say the concerns expressed by the interviewees in this poll are solid, and that they barely begin to describe the full scope of the problem. For more, look at the judgment in New Mexico v Meta, the case that just produced a $25 billion award.

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MAGA Republicans know they can't win on their record alone, so they cheat. This is a sad, scared and last ditch attempt to stop Mary Peltola from becoming Alaska’s next United States Senator.

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When Oversight Democrats visited the ICE detention facility in Adelanto, what we saw was nothing short of horrific. Detainees are being held in atrocious conditions, despite the fact that the vast majority of them have no criminal record. We must deliver real accountability.

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NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”