Karen Elder
@karenelder.bsky.social
Star Trek, Stargate; linguistics, languages (current: Spanish). Current: reading "Lost Horizon". đź”± Tridents up!
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social has conducted more than 400 focus groups with thousands of Americans across the political spectrum. Democratic voters have a clear message for their party, she writes:
Voters Have a Message for Democrats
Fight harder.
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The Supreme Court should protect the election too. The First Circuit just set the table and made it easy for them. joycevance.substack.com/p/an-update-...
An Update: The First Circuit Protects Voting By Mail From the Trump Administration
Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Talwani’s injunction that prevents the administration, at least for the midterm elections, from putting its plans to interfere with mail voting...
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Every once in a while, Trump tells the truth, such as when he told Republicans to "cheat like hell" in the upcoming mid-term elections. He knows that they is the only way his minions stand a chance.
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
Our greatest strength is our ability to summon people to a common purpose, to learn from our mistakes, to sustain alliances built on trust, to substitute humility for swagger, and to persuade citizens that something larger than themselves is worth serving.
A Letter to Myself on 9/11
No man—and no country—can live life in reverse.
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Here's a take. Why Trump's $5,000 bribe fiasco presents some good news. • Republicans are publicly trashing the idea, perhaps because they sense how weak he is ATM.
“Anthropic said it had disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists who used its leading artificial intelligence models to conduct research that could have helped develop biological weapons.” AI. What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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“I guess that’s the point. It is all bullshit. Everyone knows it. And no one cares. Do you think even the mouth-breathers in that arena believe there’s a $5,000 check waiting for them at the end of the rainbow?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Democrats Should Embrace the Trump Dividend and All Its Bullsh*t
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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I thought Hegseth assured us his Department of War™️ had obliterated the Houthis a year ago, after expending billions of dollars worth of weapons we’re now running short of?
Chris C@x-minus-t.bsky.social · 22h agoYemen's Houthis reportedly seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha - BBC #USNews #Politics #NationalNews
Front-month Brent now +5.7% on the day, trading just a few pennies below $107. Low-$100s oil isn't really enough to move the needle for the aggregate US economy, but boy howdy are people going to be pissed gas is ripping again.
A reminder: Charlie Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they share his racist, phobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, supremacist sentiments. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-shamef...
The Shameful Christian Idolatry and Fraudulent Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
As news of his shooting first broke, the Jesus-washing of Charlie Kirk’s life by Conservative Christians began almost immediately.
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ABC forced to fold its tent and not run the Kimmel interview w/ Talarico based on patently unlawful megaton threats from the FCC to Kimmel and everyone. It's a story that may fade fast, but it's a total abomination and proof of authoritarian inroads that this could happen in USA. Outfuckingrageous.
I know the world is largely busy with other issues while Russia intensifies its attacks.We’re very grateful to journalists&everyone who still follows&shares about horrible war crimes ⬆️A shopping mall in Pavlohrad,Dnipropetrovsk region,was struck.4people were killed&at least 60 more were injured
Russia is deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure across Ukraine,killing& injuring people. It’salways very painful for me to compile these posts,if I'm honest.I think about the amount of pain and suffering that Russia is inflicting on us,of the cruelty and injustice of this war
"The CIA director looks reassuringly normal. But normal is the wrong test. A CIA director must be measured against the office’s demands: independence, intellectual honesty, and willingness to tell a president what he does not want to hear."
The CIA Director Is a Failure
John Ratcliffe has mired the agency in politics—and possible illegality.
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Barbara Keating died aboard one of the planes that hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center. Her remains were finally identified last year, and her family is gathering for a long-delayed funeral. n.pr/4hklm99
Barbara Keating died in the 9/11 attack. She's finally being laid to rest
Barbara Keating died aboard one of the planes that hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center. Her remains were finally identified last year, and her family is gathering for a long-delayed funeral.
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Star MAGA streamer Matt Tardio allegedly tried to force a fan back to his hotel room for sex. Cops wanted a kidnapping charge. But Tardio had an explanation: antifa gave him a laced joint that made him act crazy. My latest False Flag for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-influ...
MAGA Influencer’s Defense: Antifa Got Me High
When a pro-Trump streamer was caught on camera coercing and harassing a woman, he blamed a suspicious joint.
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The reason why they think their voters are this dumb and gullible is because they are.
Overnight: Judge Clark denies Hoskins' extraordinary request to stop the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him in contempt: "Numerous considerations counsel this Court against enjoining a state court of last resort, particularly before it even conducts a hearing" Contempt hearing 10 am local time
The rebuttal to Trump's GOP convention will be given by a gas pump
Why Gas Pumps Are Trump’s Kryptonite
We finally found a technology that can fact-check Donald’s lies at scale
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Got this text just now: “President Trump just authorized a $5,000 check for William Kristol - but you need to confirm your official approval in the next 10min.” With a link to some GOP site I’m not linking to. Trump’s policies and politics aren’t working. It’s down to a promised check in the mail.
MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal
This deep dive from @rothschildmd.bsky.social into the reaction to the 9/11 terror attack on the early internet is absolutely fascinating Among other things, it highlights how pretty much nothing has changed in 25yrs in how people react to major news events online. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...
The Secret History of 9/11 | Mike Rothschild
This is my second piece to commemorate 25 years since the biggest event in the history of the mainstream conspiracy - the 9/11 attacks. For
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Very quick and unanimous action from Supreme Court. On the one hand reflects the weakness of the District Court decision; but on the other, I think it reflects the Court’s awareness that it’s getting really late in the election season to be messing around. That’s a somewhat good augury for USPS case
Over the past month, diesel is up almost 70 cents a gallon and gasoline is up more than 25 cents
There is no bigger difference between Josh Turek and Ashley Hinson than Social Security. Ashley Hinson voted to cut Social Security. She's the first member of Congress from Iowa ever to go on record on a roll call vote to cut Social Security by $452 million. #IASen
Josh Turek calls for lifting Social Security tax cap to boost solvency
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Josh Turek says he wants to eliminate the cap on Social Security payroll taxes to extend the program's solvency.
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