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Cat aficionado, husband, father, grandfather, uncle. OH 26, MA 33, IL 19. McGovern Dem. Breast cancers. Pace/defib wearer. New pastimes: Google Photos & Ancestry. Boris above. Loonie swimming.
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"Whatever dark power Trump has that has enabled him to become president twice while being quite literally one of the most morally despicable human beings on Earth, it’s not easily duplicated by your average Republican candidate for Senate, House, or governor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Hundreds of lawyers are spending election week in war rooms & courthouses, ready to file at a moment's notice More than a dozen national firms are in it w/ @democracydefendersaction.org & our complaints are already written Bring it on More @financialtimes.com👇 -TN
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Blatantly illegal. Rubio needs to be hauled in front of Congress when we finally get a Congress. www.washingtonsun.com/administrati...
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Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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Kara Swisher says she would fire Jan Crawford if she ran @CBSNews(max) over her now-deleted tweet helping the fake attacks on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social “She could not even get the basic journalism of what was said right”
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This election is not really a choice between two parties. Nor will it be a choice between the “left” and the “right.” The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top VS. more wealth and power in what used to be the American working middle class. Some thoughts 👇
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Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, injuring several people, including American journalist Heidi Levine, and setting fire to cars and olive trees. Israeli army on the scene shot one Palestinian in the leg. Oren Ziv reports @mekomit.bsky.social
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“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency...” "It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said... prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...
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“Today I was brutally attacked by … at least 50 masked men and slingshots …. “I was attacked, pushed to the ground. … Luckily I had my flak jacket and helmet; otherwise I probably wouldn't even be here because they kept kicking me and kicking me, probably like 50 times.”
Heidi Levine in the hospital recounts the settler attack this morning (Video: West Bank Activist Andrey X)
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Shocker: Financial criminal president is kneecapping enforcement of financial crimes
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The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Erik Prince's mercenaries wounded in Africa on a private contract are being treated at Walter Reed—at least 20 of them—just as if they were US uniformed service personnel. Outrageous. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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