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Happy Mother's Day messages and tributes
cultureHappy Mother's Day messages and tributes
Thousands of Bluesky posts send greetings, photos and poems celebrating moms and caregivers today.
Bird Of The Day, theme 'Raptors', alt 'Paridae'
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Remembering Julia Ward Howe, original Mother's Day advocate
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Ted Cruz says 'Trump accounts' are personal Social Security accounts
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Sen. Ted Cruz argued that proposed 'Trump accounts' would function as personal Social Security accounts, raising privatization concerns.


Carolina Hurricanes sweep Flyers, advance to Eastern Conference Final
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Jackson Blake scored twice, including an overtime winner, as the Hurricanes completed a 4-0 series sweep of Philadelphia.


Brice Turang walk-off gives Brewers sweep of Yankees
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Turang hit a 411‑ft, 104.1 mph walk-off homer off David Bednar in the 9th to complete Milwaukee's three-game sweep.
static.klipy.comBBC Laura Kuenssberg panel questions Richard Tice over Farage gift
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2026 NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago
sports2026 NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago
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BAFTA TV Awards 2026, Adolescence leads winners
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SNL cold open, Matt Damon returns as Brett Kavanaugh
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static.klipy.comTrump pledges 'Election Integrity Army' for 2026
politicsTrump pledges 'Election Integrity Army' for 2026
Trump says Republicans will deploy an 'Election Integrity Army' in every state for the 2026 elections to protect votes.


Lib Dems propose working with 'like-minded' parties at Birmingham Council
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Liberal Democrats publicly invited like-minded parties and independents to form a governing pact after Birmingham elections left no overall control.
Barcelona vs Real Madrid, LaLiga title‑deciding Clásico
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Nadine Dorries defects to Reform UK, appears on BBC panel
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Former Conservative minister tells the Daily Mail she has joined Reform UK and declares the Tory Party 'dead' during media appearances.
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omni.meLabour MP Catherine West vows to challenge Keir Starmer if others don't
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Trump pledges 'Election Integrity Army' for 2026
President Donald Trump announced he will deploy an "Election Integrity Army" in every state for the 2026 midterm elections. Trump said Republicans already had an Election Integrity Army in every state during the 2024 election and promised the 2026 version will be "much bigger and stronger." Trump framed the operation as a way for Republicans to protect votes and preserve "the sanctity of each legal vote." The pledge could increase Republican monitoring, prompt more legal challenges, and heighten tensions at polling places, affecting how elections are administered and perceived.
Trump says Republicans will have an “Election Integrity Army in every single State” this November
Meaning a bunch of armed pardoned insurrectionists
What?!?! Okay America this has gone far enough.
Nothing to see, just the President inciting civil war on a Sunday.
He’s so awful at planning everything that I don’t see this “army” being effective either.
I don’t care if they point a gun at my head. I am voting.
So a bunch of doughy, aggro paramilitary trolls who all work for a president with a murder fetish will be at every voting location. What could possibly go wrong?
It's cool, man. I'm gonna go vote and they can stare me down all they want.
When you "win" an election by lying, fraud, misrepresentation, misinformation and miseducation, combined with theater tricks, it's the same as rigging an election.
Can @marcelias.bsky.social sue him for defamation?
The Gravy Seals will be everywhere?
Maybe someday we’ll realize we’re at war
We show up anyway. We vote.
He’s threatening to cheat just like he did last time! No more Mr & Ms nice guy, America!! 😡
Marc Elias went 63-1 against Trump campaign lawsuits contesting the 2020 election results and has won four cases argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.
All he's going to do is unleash thousands of Will Stancils. For neighbors then, for ballots now.
Sounds like Nazi ICE voter suppression & threats.
Quick reminder that Donald Trump's Approval Rating is 33%, and he's well aware that the only way his party can prevail in November is by cheating 🙄.
Republicans will not even ALLOW elections. They will merely declare Republicans won every election and the corrupt Supreme Court, Congress, and trump will agree. Then they will tear gas and kill those of us who dare to take to the streets to complain. This is what Republican autocracy looks like.
Big 👏 👏 to @ericholder.bsky.social who clearly lives rent-free in that degenerating nasty head! P.S. From here on in, Every seat, every win by "them" will be questioned as illegitimate.
The Trump Regime has no idea of the fire they lit to conquer them. The sleeping giant is going to swallow and spit.
It sounds like Trump is going to make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states
They better like getting their asses kicked.
See! He had an army in every state to ensure he’d win. That’s why he wanted Tina Peters out. He cheated and he’s going to do it again.
Did he win all of the swing states in 2024 though? 😬
"During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote." See, stuff like this has me again/1
Articles of impeachment on Jan 6, 2027.
I will flip them off at the polls as I vote for Democrats ,then moon them and say “kiss my ass MAGA fucks”
Mofo did not win popular vote. He cheated his way to an electoral majority. I wish today and every day for a great fiery chasm in the earth to open beneath him.
gonna chalk this one up to demented bluster
Big talk from a guy who couldn't even get Minneapolis to knuckle under and had to slink away.
And we’ll have an army of blue voters to snatch power from their fascist little hands and start holding them accountable for their bullshit.
trump and "election integrity" is an oxymoron. As he constantly berates all people & entities that pointed out his past electoral "cheating" defending himself and his cabal as completely guiltless... May he be reminded... www.acslaw.org/projects/the...
Oh my god he’s insecure. He probably didn’t even write this and he’s so insecure.
Trump is telegraphing that he doesn’t plan to have free and fair elections starting in ‘26. Democrats and true Americans need to mobilize and overwhelm his efforts this fall. If Hungary can defeat an authoritarian, I have to believe America can too.
Sounds bad and it is potentially bad but he's been saying this shit every election and midterm year since he was first elected.
Rage bait from the ChiefTroll in the White House
Here we go … Who could have predicted this?
EVERY time he says he won by a huge margin/landslide/won the popular vote SOMEONE must remind him (and America) of what's real.
He will lose. Angry voters will climb right over any army that prevents them from casting their ballot.
Projection at its best...His synapses stopped clicking a looong time ago.
He means he will be enabling white supremacist groups, ICE and the Texas and Florida National Guard to interrogate and intimidate POC voters at ballot boxes and booths in every swing state and every Blue state. We've been expecting this. #AMPHIFA 🐸✊
Oh, so he’s also saying this election will be “fair” so when the GOP loses their majority, he better not cry that it was rigged. Hint: he will anyway.
Translation: Trump will have voter intimidation thugs depressing the Democrat vote.
Republicans and “election integrity“ in the same sentence is some special kind of bullshit.
Simple arithmetic. More people voted against Trump than forhim.
They don't know the meaning of integrity.
This has been part of the plan all along. They can't keep power with just one terrible antidemocratic maneuver alone, they need gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and finally voter intimidation.
Why isn’t every politician and media responding hourly in a similar but factual fashion to the world with a decade of these posts? His constant repetition of lies gets the attention and becomes “credible” to his supporters. Normalizing this just because 77 Million MAGA do, is a problem in the USA .
“The Democrats are totally unhinged…” is my favorite part.
What Army?? Republicans have no support in Democrat states
This is the mind of a very sick person. What we can do is help the 9 southern states under attack. We are not going back to Jim Crow. Every dollar helps.
an “election integrity army” is just a voter intimidation squad. we all know who they’ll be targeting. if you can, sign up to be a poll worker or observer in your county right now—they’re recruiting, and we need people inside the process
And this is exactly why I’ve signed up to train as a poll watcher.
He “won” the swing states cuz Muskrat manipulated the votes. Musk admitted it!
Well there it is Something to ruin mother's Day from Trump He's trying to incite Civil War Nothing like it My God
Fun Fact 1: Art. I, Sec. 4, Cl. 1 of the Constitutions says states control elections. Nowhere in Art. II (executive branch) is any mention of election admin. Fun Fact 2: There is in fact an "Election Integrity Army:" The close to 2 million election workers spread over 175K polling places.
Read: Mob Enforcers "Vote the right way or else"
In other words, Ice is coming to the elections near you.
Only a full blown asshole believes Senate Minority Leader Sideshow Bob is a Palestinian sympathizer…
Sounds scary - but we also know Team Trump is (fortunately) very lousy at execution. Methinks this is just bluster.
Would you have ever believed we would have a president that writes trash like this?
Why can’t he just go away already!?!?
Voters in VA cast their votes and this dipshit was celebrating a court overturning their will. What a joke.
what yall think all that ICE funding about facial recognition scanning was actually about immigration?????🤣 🤣 🤣
Exhibit A for voter intimidation.
People need to walk THROUGH those a-holes if they try to stop people from voting. Local police need to keep an eye on those "EIA" fools & arrest any of them who break the law. PERIOD!!
Yes! There will be FAIR elections this year, but they will have *NOTHING* to do with you or your goon squad! #RepublicanGoonSquads
This isn't gonna end well for anyone
He gets worse and not one repug cares. I used to think there was a good one but other that Massey I don’t think so.
Okay but if we're not doing mail-in voting that's going to require the entire 30% of Americans who allegedly support the President and I really don't think that's either plausible or possible.
Well, like most of his plans, it'll probably be a big fat failure of execution. We can hope for that.
I'm an election worker that supervises multiple polling sites. That "army" was poorly trained, but rabidly aggressive about procedures they knew nothing about. Not looking forward to November and dealing with another set of these goons.
Can this threat or statement be challenged in court before it happens in the midterms? How about it, anyone know? I assume Trump would use his ICE storm troopers as his Election Integrity Army in every state. SCOTUS aren't States are in charge of elections and not the Federal Government?
Absolutely NOT. He has zero role in elections. States have that power.
In Australia's turgid national anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair', 'fair' at the time of composition was a reference to whiteness, not equity.
They can’t even get enough bodies to staff ice. More ramblings of a demented moron. He knows they are fucked come mid terms and he’s panicking. He’s single-handedly destroying the Republican Party and Republican sit watching it happen.
Army is a specific choice
“Army”? Somebody preparing for a war?
Don’t miss what preceded that stmt! He claims that the GOP already had an “Election Integrity Army in every single state” in 2024!! Did the media cover this in 24???? It sounds like they should have.
I will not matter. The nation will throw out the trash. Of course the pricator will cheat, lie and scam before, during and after the election.
Narrator: the election was not fair, nor was there integrity involved. Donald Trump declared Republicans the winner before 34% of the vote was tallied and upon an %80 completion of votes a majority Democratic wins, he declared that cheating was involved and ordered those votes thrown out.
WTF is an election integrity army and how many Proud Boys is it comprised of
Democrats bring your ar 15s or weapon of chpice when you go to vote Stop letting them intimidate you
It should probably be called an election enforcement army
As many as they can afford to pay
It's something your community needs to shoot on sight. It's an invasion.
Trump: “During my Historic Election in 2024 […] the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger.”
i forget how chuck schumer became palestinian
$20 he calls the election rigged if they flip one of the chambers.
Were the election integrity army the ones who were calling in those bomb threats to Democratic precincts?
I work in a public library in California with a ballot drop box. Our security guard can’t even sit near it while it’s open lest anyone feel intimidated. So I don’t think this “army” nonsense is going to fly here. Or anywhere else I hope.
"all Americans should have their voices heard by casting a vote" -didnt he tell voters they would never have to vote again during his campaign?