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Politics, Pop Culture

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@magareportcards.bsky.social

Robert Aderholt wrote a bill that eliminates job training, then bragged about bringing $22 million home. www.magareportcards.com/blog/aderhol... #MAGA #Alabama #RobertAderholt

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎

@lcv.org

We're just ONE WEEK away from Election Day 🗳️ These 24 candidates are the Worst of the Worst running at the federal and state/local level, having consistently sided with polluters to support policies that raise costs and poison our air and water. Spread the word and help us hold them accountable!

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American Oversight

@americanoversight.org

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Across the country, election administration is being reshaped in ways that give election deniers more control. In Arizona, groups aligned with Trump’s agenda are pumping money into the state and the Trump admin itself is working with state and local officials. americanoversight.org/investigatio...

americanoversight.orgChallenges to the 2026 Midterms in Arizona - American OversightPartisan forces — from local officials to the Trump administration — are threatening elections in the state.

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Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

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ProPublica

@propublica.org

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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SaveAm.

@saveam.bsky.social

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Hegseth Humiliated by Zelensky’s Scathing Message www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti... via @@YahooNews

yahoo.comHegseth Humiliated by Zelensky’s Scathing MessageDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been chewed out by a major international ally. The 46-year-old former Fox host was on the receiving end of a dig from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on M...

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Freedom Writers Collaborative

@fwcollaborative.bsky.social

DOJ says it filed superseding indictment in error ahead of 'spicy' hearing

dlvr.itDOJ says it filed superseding indictment in error ahead of 'spicy' hearingOvernight, President Donald Trump's Justice Department dropped a superseding complaint that now alleges former FBI agents Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides obstructed justice. When court began, things were expected to get "spicy," characterized one lawyer. As Lawfare's Anna Bower explained, the case began last week when the Justice Department filed a criminal complaint saying that it made false statements to Congress about its involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Floris' lawyers filed a motion to dismiss after issuing a brutal takedown directed at the DOJ. Typically, when the DOJ indicts someone, they go to a grand jury, present the evidence and the grand jury decides whether to indict or not. Indictments happen so frequently this way that there's a running joke that a "grand jury can indict a ham sandwich." In this case, no grand jury approved an indictment. Bower explained in her thread that they can file felony charges only with a grand jury indictment. Tuesday, Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui called a preliminary "probable cause" hearing, which Bower said "often involve cross-examination of government witnesses." That means the agent who swore on the affidavit that their account was the truth will be called to answer questions. When the court added the additional complaint overnight, some legal analysts couldn't help but notice that it was unsigned and unverified. "An extremely poorly-written superseding complaint affidavit, at that," complained 21-year federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega. Moments before the hearing began, a "notice of error" hit the docket saying that it wasn't adding a "superseding indictment." Instead, it said, "Filings were entered in error, as this filing is an Amended Complaint, not a Supereeding, and needs to be processed by the Clark's Office and sworn by the judge before being filed on the docket." The same moment that the accidental filing hit, the motion to dismiss also was uploaded to the docket. Floris' lawyer made it clear that they took the "accident" seriously, but that they take the case as a whole seriously as well. "The unsigned, unsworn document reflects an apparent effort by the government to fix deficiencies in their original complaint; switch out the law enforcement officer attesting to the allegations underlying the complaint; and add a second meritless charge under 18 U.S.C. § 1505—another felony that, pursuant to the U.S. Constitution, requires indictment by a grand jury in order to be sustained," the motion said. "The government’s last-ditch filing before the pre-scheduled preliminary hearing in this case is not merely procedurally improper and substantively deficient," the filing added. "It represents a serious abuse of the criminal charging process, a troubling disregard for the judicial safeguards governing the initiation of criminal proceedings, and a calculated effort to evade judicial scrutiny and shield the government’s allegations from adversarial testing at the scheduled preliminary hearing."

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Roy Cooper

@roycoopernc.bsky.social

Michael Whatley is running for two reasons: to get rich, and because the President told him to.

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CREW

@citizensforethics.org

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President Trump's second term pardons and clemency orders have erased at least $119 million in unpaid restitution to crime victims, including small businesses and community banks. One of many concrete harms of Trump's corruption...

cbsnews.comIn Trump's pardon economy, crime victims lost out on at least $119 million in restitutionSmall businesses and retirees are left empty handed as fraudsters, some represented by Trump allies, win clemency.

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#TuckFrump

@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

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ESPN's Pat McAfee blasted for comparing himself to Charlie Kirk #TheHill

twp.aithehill.comESPN’s Pat McAfee blasted for comparing himself to Charlie Kirk

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Senate Democrats

@dscc.bsky.social

Susan Collins voted with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Maybe that’s why she can’t name a time her vote made a difference in standing up to Trump.

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LiL'Silver

@officiallilsilver.bsky.social

Lynne Walz officially leading Jim Pillen 43% to 40%, with 17% of voters either undecided or voting for third parties. With early voting underway across the state, our grassroots coalition has put us ahead of an incumbent governor by three points.

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American Bridge 21st Century

@ab21.bsky.social

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“There’s been a lot of concern that data centers consume a lot of water [...] the answer is that they don’t.” The Trump administration is so loyal to Big Tech that it denies what communities can see and claims data centers don’t use much water.

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American Bridge 21st Century

@ab21.bsky.social

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At a Trump rally today, Monica De La Cruz complains about the people in power "making a fortune." Donald Trump and his family have made billions from his time in office. #TX15

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Tristan Lee

@tristanl.ee

My contribution to Cheesecake Factory discourse: Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang members assaulted a mixed-race family. I identified one of them because he worked at a Cheesecake Factory and their Instagram page posted pictures of him. He has a back tattoo with SS bolts and phrase "Aryan Soldier"

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Florida Chris

@chrislongview.bsky.social

you went to yale law school asshole

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"