“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if people tolerate growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself.” FDR

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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
Three Democratic female candidates for Congress have been hit by cars over the past few days. Peltola, a woman running for Congress in TN, and a woman running for Congress in OH.
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Three countries. Three defeats. Let's do this U.S.A., #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
The far far far right is losing elections. And voters appear to be losing patience. First Viktor Orbán in Hungary, after 16 years in power. Then Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil, where voters rejected another attempt to return the Bolsonaro dynasty to the presidency. Now Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia, whose authoritarian grip on the country has been broken by a student-led democratic movement. Three countries. Three defeats. And across the Atlantic, Donald Trump’s Republicans are bleeding support. When a billionaire receives another enormous tax cut, somebody still has to pay for public services. And that somebody is you! There is only so long you can convince ordinary working people that making the extraordinarily wealthy even wealthier is somehow an act of economic patriotism. There is something else these defeats suggest. People are growing tired of politicians who admire dictators, attack democratic institutions, manufacture enemies and treat public office as their personal property. It is 2026. Most people want competent governments, affordable lives and a future for their children. They have remarkably little appetite for aspiring wannabe strongmen.
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Right Wing leaders defeated at the polls: 🇨🇦 Pierre Poilievre: Apr 28, 2025 🇦🇺 Peter Dutton: May 3, 2025 🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán: Apr 12, 2026 10/25/2026 🇷🇸 Aleksandar Vučić 🇧🇷 Flávio Bolsonaro Next Up: 🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu: 10/27/2026 🇺🇸 Donald Trump 11/03/2026 All Gas. No Brakes.
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Watch this before you vote.
Pedo- Protecting MAGA: they not like us. One week. All Gas. No Brakes. No Fucking Mercy.
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
Trump melts down over a joke about gold fixtures while the people he mocks get no such outrage. Thin-skinned about his own image, indifferent to everyone else.
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
Seems smart. ‘Cause if there’s one thing a trillionaire needs, it’s one more bought-and-paid-for politician.
🚨 LEAKED: In a fundraising appeal, Mike Rogers told potential donors, "When you stand with my Senate campaign today, you are directly shielding Elon Musk" from potential investigations into the harm caused by DOGE cuts. Rogers asked for donations so he could "protect Elon."
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White Sox letting John Schriffen go
They should hire Zach Zaidman. Everyone LOVES him.
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Paxton is such a skunk. Phew!
It should never be forgotten that Ken Paxton was a leader in the coup to nullify the election of Joe Biden. He filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to challenge the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin even though he was the AG for Texas. His suit was quickly tossed by the Court. On January 7th Paxton claimed the insurrection of the previous day was the work of antifa. This lie was quickly disproven. On the 7th 46 state attorneys general disavowed the violence of the 6th in a letter to the Acting Attorney General of the U.S. A few days later three more AGs sent their own letter in condemning the violent insurrection. Only Ken Paxton failed to sign either letter.
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting starting in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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The way Europe has reacted lately with all the riots and not just France, but Albania,Belgium,Italy,Spain,& Portugal. Less destructive, Greece and Germany. It had to have extra fuel beyond reason and no surprise if by Russia's influence operation.
NEW | 🇷🇺 The Russian bot campaign around France’s riots started about six weeks before the riots did. Doppelganger was already pushing French grievances from early September. 🧵1/10
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
In case facts still matter
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
SITUATION EXPLAINED: A months-old startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers used AI agents to break into Anthropic in under 12 hours. • Cathedral found paths to Anthropic's meeting transcripts, salary and job-offer details, and Slack messages about its advanced models • It got in through weaknesses in third-party business software, after days of failing to break into Anthropic directly • Anthropic says no customer prompts, Claude responses, source code, or model weights were touched, and it cut off access the same day • The test was authorized under Anthropic's bug bounty program, but Anthropic says Cathedral didn't disclose all of its activity • Cathedral is valued at $1.4B with backing from a16z and Sequoia, and 3 federal agencies already contract with it • Its co-founders include Luke Farritor, who helped decode the ancient Herculaneum scrolls with AI @theojaffee: "If a bunch of kids who have just started a company can do this, then potentially the Chinese aren't far behind. Aren't far behind? If anything, they're far ahead."
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PMC COVlD Update, Oct 26, 2026 🔥44 states with COVlD outbreaks (see Alt) 🔥Double wave peaks, both at an estimated 950,000 new daily infections 🔥6th week in a row of massive CDC upward retroactive corrections going back to early July THREAD (1/4)
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
🦔Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK, according to a company memo Business Insider obtained. People who accept leave at the end of the year with terms similar to Microsoft’s standard severance, which ran up to 39 weeks of base pay in its layoffs earlier this year. It follows a retirement buyout Microsoft offered to about 9,000 employees earlier in 2026. My Take Buyouts let a company shrink without the headlines that come with layoffs, and Microsoft’s memo calls this giving employees “more ways to shape their next chapter.” Microsoft keeps spending heavily on AI data centers, and payroll is the cost it can cut fastest. American Express cut about 5% of its staff last week and said it needed to “prepare for AI,” and the same reason keeps showing up whenever a company trims headcount. The people most likely to take a buyout are usually the ones who can land a job somewhere else, so companies often lose some of their best people first. Everyone who leaves also walks into a job market where big companies barely hire. More of big tech will copy this before year-end, since it cuts costs quietly and keeps the word layoff out of the news. Hedgie🤗
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin released a new Committee staff report detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence. The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat, may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s. These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women. With one exception, these accounts of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling. Witnesses speak consistently of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped. They give similar accounts of the competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of young women.
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Mary Coates ⚖️ retweeted
🚨Out of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, 5 of them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence: • Beatrice Keul credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey on vulnerable young women and girls; • Stacey Williams, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein in an office at Trump Tower; • Jill Harth, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party where Epstein and Trump were the only men present; • Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor; • A Jane Doe, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to his exposed penis. Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein’s crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or made) these women available for sex. •Two Epstein survivors, “Jane” and “Kate”, told FBI that either Epstein or Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated their availability. Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors called them to testify as government witnesses, subject to probing cross- examination, against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial. • Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage girl potentially victimized by Epstein.
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin released a new Committee staff report detailing evidence involving 11 women, five of whom directly accuse Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault in Jeffrey Epstein’s close company or presence. The report concludes that, based on the available evidence and witness testimony, Trump and Paolo Zampolli, who until recently served as a senior Trump Administration official and diplomat, may have been co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy to traffic and abuse young women in the 1990s. These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women. With one exception, these accounts of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling. Witnesses speak consistently of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped. They give similar accounts of the competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into their shared pursuit of young women.
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