"While #WNC dug out from Hurricane Helene, our congressman was booking rooms at the Bellagio, cancelling constituent town halls for dinner dates, and offering, in writing, to skip votes in the House of Representatives so he could mow a young staffer’s lawn..." @davidbwheeler.bsky.social #asheville

BREAKING: The Chuck Edwards texts are worse than you think. RESIGN CHUCK. NOW!

House Ethics documents show Edwards offered to skip votes, cancelled a town hall for a date, and hid a Vegas trip from his own staff.

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"For the autocrat, whose only interest is in being feared and obeyed, being humanized is anathema. Thin-skinned would-be dictators cannot stand the idea of being laughed at because laughter takes the wind out of their puffery, shrinking him back down to size." @kaliholloway.bsky.social

Our Court Jesters Are Disappearing Just When We Need Them Most

In this authoritarian moment, we need defiant comedy more than ever.

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"It is an apparent effort by the New York Post to surreptitiously justify the original July 26 cover and its baseless claims ... "the [Post] has continued to promote the anti-Mamdani petition... it has published seven more articles about the petition in print and online." @juddlegum.bsky.social

UPDATE: After the Mamdani 9/11 smear, a cover-up

Media outlets pushed a false narrative about the number of family members of 9/11 victims who signed a petition targeting Mamdani — and then covered their tracks.

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“Elon came into our community without the consent of our community to build toxic data centers. So we fought back against the largest hyperscale data center in the world. We forced them to get permits they didn’t want to get." @justinjpearson.bsky.social #TN09

Nurses are the heroes of our timeline Trust them #medicareforall

National Nurses United@nationalnurses.bsky.social · 5d ago

What an incredible day of action fighting for guaranteed health care! ✊❤️ Nurses and activists took action at more than 100 congressional offices across the U.S. to send a clear message to our elected leaders: Medicare for All and nothing less!

The party of pedos, rapists, and abusers Protecting their own

Rep. Max Miller accused of violence against women going back to high school

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If you need $60mill in dark money to win a primary Your electability in zero Stop #AIPAC @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for Senate in #MI #medicareforall #freepalestine @nlanard.bsky.social @motherjones.com

How Michigan became the most expensive Democratic primary ever

Outside groups have now spent more than $60 million trying to help Haley Stevens beat Abdul El-Sayed.

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Hey #FL25 @oliveralarkin.bsky.social won't send your tax dollars to fund genocide or disappearing your friends and neighbors while millions of Americans lose their healthcare #DSA #AbolishICE #MedicareForAll

DSA candidate polling ahead of corporate Democrat in battleground FL25 #oliverforcongress

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@thenation.com "...from his effort as mayor to kneecap the Chicago Teachers’ Union ... to a disastrous accord with Elon Musk’s Boring Company to create a transit tunnel.... look no further than Emanuel’s plutocratic governing record in Chicago." @chrislehmann.bsky.social

Rahm Emanuel’s Losing Record

The Democratic establishment’s golden boy has shifted the party to the right and lost ground in crucial elections.

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"Zuckerberg is also aggressively integrating AI into Meta’s suite of apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which collectively have over 3.9 billion monthly users. In short, how Meta’s AI products are trained could have enormous impacts." @noelsims.bsky.social

Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet

This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.

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@noelsims.bsky.social @rebeccacrosby.bsky.social "Despite having no degree in history, Barton calls himself a historian... has pushed the view that the founding fathers never intended for there to be a separation between church and state... work has been rejected repeatedly by actual historians."

The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade

Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...

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Genocidal maniacs using our tax dollars to fund their war crimes and ethnic cleansing #BDS #ApartheidIsrael

BDS movement@bdsmovement.bsky.social · last wk.

This is Israel’s deliberate policy of ongoing Nakba. To maintain business as usual with the genocidal state of Israel or any of its complicit companies and institutions is to be complicit too. We need you to channel your rage, frustration, and grief into effective, strategic BDS action now.

@thenation.com "For the first time in a long while, New York has a mayor who shows, in his words and his actions, that feel-good politics can be far from frivolous. In a country founded in part based on the pursuit of happiness, other leaders might consider doing the same." Katrina vanden Heuvel

Zohran Mamdani and the Politics of Joy

And it’s backed up by actions and initiatives that seem designed to genuinely foster a joyful city.

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Elmo killed millions of children @legaleagle.tv

Elon Musk Just Threatened a Lawsuit He's Going to Lose

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Karen Bass defends cops shooting rubber bullets and tear gas at their own community Let's get somebody who cares about #LosAngeles for mayor #nithyaraman @mollyknight.bsky.social

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City Hall promised once-in-a-generation reform, but when it came time to act, they punted every significant reform. Los Angeles has studied reform long enough. The political establishment has made it clear that they it will not reform itself. We need change now.

"Rather, the 300 figure that organizers shared with the New York Post was an estimate based on how they believe the petition spread before it received much publicity... "Galante is a registered Republican who donated $250 to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2019." @juddlegum.bsky.social

The truth about the viral 9/11 petition targeting Mamdani

“We don’t have a list”

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@coribush.bsky.social can't be bought She's the true progressive candidate in #MO01 committed to #AbolishICE and stopping Trump’s #gestapo from terrorizing our communities @justicedemocrats.com

Cant Be Bought

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So desperate to be loved So fucking unloveable

Elon Musk Crashes Out in Awkward Interview

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Florida Where democracy goes to die @angieforfl.bsky.social @nativelandpod.bsky.social

Angie Nixon Arrested For Confronting the Governor

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I don't know who needs to hear this But the folks fighting for the most vulnerable Are the good guys #FreePalestine #Wicked #TaxBillionaires

Bye Elphaba

Alt: Bye Elphaba

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Uncle Clyburn making sure Black folk stay in line: Want healthcare? Offended by #genocide? Shut up and vote @hearmeoutonthis2.bsky.social #MedicareForAll #FreePalestine #IsraeliHaley

7/26/26: Haley Stevens has James Clyburn shaming black voters and white frmale content creators

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"A private school operator could, therefore, run the school out of their home and use the voucher dollars to pay down a mortgage. They could purchase a building specifically to run a school... and then sell the building at any time..." carolinaforward.bsky.social #NCpols #vouchers #edsky

How the State Spent $600 Million in School Vouchers — Carolina Forward

The voucher program keeps getting bigger

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Dem Rep @thanedar.house.gov has voted for every single bill that Dump and the #Crypto lobby have brought to Congress, helping DJT make over $1 billion off it since taking office @justicedemocrats.com @donavanmckinney.bsky.social doesn’t take a dime from Crypto or corporate PACs #MI13 #MedicareForAll

Donavan McKinney for Congress

Democrat Donavan McKinney is running for Congress in Michigan's 13th District.

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When you're the most famous Zionist comedian piece of shit

Jerry Seinfeld’s Worst Take Yet

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Elmo "is a classic sort of man, one who never got over the wounds of a childhood of feeling ugly and unlikable, only to grow up to be even more unlikable in his obvious need to seem cool... he’s a man who is brilliant, if you ask him." @artlust.bsky.social

AI Odyssey or In which you see how you’re smarter than Elon Musk

Elon probably hates you.

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@thenation.com "Little Marco, whose oversize shoes are a perfect metaphor for the hapless schlump... has revealed that the central source of 'Far Left Terrorism'... Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame, radio host Amy Goodman, mayors like NYC’s Zohran Mamdani,.. [Code Pink's Medea Benjamin]..."

Marco Rubio’s Cuba Fantasies Are More Dangerous Than They Seem

The Secretary of State is a modern-day Joe McCarthy, brandishing a list of supposed Cuban influence agents.

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@nicholsuprising.bsky.social "Albanese... reported to the UN Human Rights Council that Israel’s actions in #Gaza amounted to #genocide,.. Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet Inc., were enabling and profiting from the occupation of the Palestinian territories and the Gaza genocide." @thenation.com

Francesca Albanese Won’t Back Down

Talking to the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories about genocide, standing up to the hatred of the establishment, and ending war.

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Dems in Congress are hosting a #MedicareForAll shadow hearing — a walk-thru of what it will look like when we finally have the votes, featuring expert witnesses @nationalnurses.bsky.social Pres Jamie Brown, RN, will explain how our health care system is broken and how #M4A will fix it.

"ICE did not need additional funding in April to purchase body cams... [BBB] provided ICE with $75 billion in additional funding — with few restrictions. Since then, ICE has been sitting on tens of billions of dollars in unspent funds." @juddlegum.bsky.social

ICE is lying about body cams. These documents prove it.

"As soon as they had funding they bought them"

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Want to know how your senators and rep voted on Palestine? @uscpr.bsky.social

Congress Scorecard 2026 — USCPR Action

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