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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h
Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸
This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. 

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order. 

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This goes from the interviewer trying to tie him the Muslim brotherhood to her defensively saying, no, she is not cheerleading the war.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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Bob Liebman @bobliebman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... #elections
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Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections
The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration wanted NYC to explicitly turn away trans veterans from a shelter so NYC was forced to turn down funding for it because it would violate city and state law. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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NYC turns down $1.3 million for homeless shelter due to dispute over transgender veterans
The city says the federal government would have required them to exclude transgender veterans from seeking shelter beds at the Borden Avenue Veterans' Residence.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 03/10/2026
@nader.org on five reasons Trump might actually resign.
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Five Reasons Trump Might Actually Resign
Trump, having lost much of his leverage, knows he can’t even appear to accomplish much in 2027 and 2028.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Marshall has mis-timed the market. We are still 6-14 months out from the amnesia cycle of this white reconstruction. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/emi...
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Eminem Fans Slam ‘Spineless’ Collab With MAGA Star
The rapper teamed up with Donald Trump’s buddy for a new song.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Richard Shaner @rick77-jqa6.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Has Gone After a Mailman and a Cyclist. Who’s Next? (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is trawling to find perpetrators on whom to pin conspiracies. Ordinary citizens are being ensnared.
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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The high cost of fuel is battering owner-operator truck drivers, who help deliver food, construction materials, medical supplies, electronics and other goods across the country.” Oddly, Trump’s most effective war is the one he’s fighting against us, the United States of America.
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Truckers Are ‘Just Trying to Hang On’ When a Fill-Up Tops $1,000 (Gift Article)
Truckers are among the hardest hit by the soaring cost of diesel fuel. High prices are forcing some to stay on the road for months and others to park their rigs.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Emma Daly @emmadaly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wonder what the "they should come here legally" crowd will have to say about this Legal Immigrants Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Trump’s Bill www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Legal Immigrants Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Trump’s Bill (Gift Article)
Many immigrants without green cards will no longer be eligible for the health insurance program for low-income people.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Renée Good’s family filed two federal lawsuits on Thursday, nine months after she was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross amid the Trump administration’s violent occupation and mass deportations campaign in Minneapolis.
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They called her a domestic terrorist. Now Renée Good’s family is suing.
The family alleges wrongful death and deprivation of civil rights.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth announced a new "Office of Religious Affairs" at the Pentagon. In doing so, he invoked a "heavenly king," attacked Secular Humanism, and declared that the military’s "real battle is spiritual." The Christian Nationalist coup continues. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth is centralizing religious power inside the military
Hegseth’s explicitly Christian defense of a new Pentagon religious office leaves non-religious service members on dangerous ground
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iRamona @iramona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Get me a tiny violin for poor Chief Justice Roberts www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Leo @saluki-68.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump’s Luck Is Finally Running Out www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Luck Is Finally Running Out (Gift Article)
Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s rare that I get to write about something straightforwardly funny and joyful, so covering these absolute queens was a delight www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/s...
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On Breakroom Chronicles, Safeway Workers Serve Nostalgia During Their Lunch Break (Gift Article)
The viral social media account Breakroom Chronicles, created by two Safeway employees who lip-sync ’80s and ’90s pop favorites, is bringing campy joy to millions.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Always remember, it's not just Trump. This is Public Enemy No. 2: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
Linda Greenhouse
By Linda Greenhouse

Ms. Greenhouse, the recipient of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008.

Chief Justice John Roberts has accomplished so much of his agenda that it’s not easy, as he begins his 22nd Supreme Court term, to think of what unfinished business might remain.

Affirmative action is dead. Roe v. Wade is a fading memory. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in shreds, rendered incapable of serving its original mission of preventing states from undermining the political power of minority citizens. The executive branch agencies known collectively as the administrative state have lost their independence, with the president now able to fire nearly all agency heads for any reason or no reason at all. Federal judges are no longer to defer to an agency’s interpretation of its own authority, instead being told to decide for themselves the validity of agency regulations. Historical claims that fly under the banner of “originalism” have frozen the government’s ability to regulate the ownership of lethal weapons.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ariana Figueroa @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find Story by @jonshorman.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am doing a series of articles (“Therapeutic Window”) for the Science desk at The New York Times. The first article is about whether ADHD is better understood as a disorder of “attention” or something else: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/s...
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What If A.D.H.D. Isn’t About Attention at All? (Gift Article)
Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.
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Elizabeth Holmes @jasoniannone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At least 24 people shot, 6 killed, by federal secret police.
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At Least 24 People Have Been Shot At by Federal Immigration Agents Since Last Year (Gift Article)
Many of them have been shot in their cars. Six have died. Here are their names and what we know about the circumstances.
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torriearnold.bsky.social @torriearnold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Scott Hudson @scotthudson4.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most of us don't need a reminder of how truly evil Russia invasion of Ukraine is & has been, but it is important to remember what it means in reality. Russia lost the war it had envisioned over 4 years ago. Now all it can do is destroy what Putin can't have. Assholes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...
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The Rescuers Keeping Two Ukrainian ‘Fortress Cities’ Alive (Gift Article)
Emergency workers have to move fast after Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine. Another could come at any moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner think the way to negotiate with these barbarians is to offer them business deals.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community to help spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it. Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from the americancancersoc.bsky.social and find a screening location.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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Donald J. Drumpf @realdonaldrumpf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Come back Chris Wray, all is forgiven! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is just staggering. Keep in mind that Gaza was one of the most densely populated places on earth *before* the war. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (Gift Article)
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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crrbio.bsky.social @crrbio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A World War II-Era Feud Is Threatening a Pivotal Alliance for Ukraine
Both Poland and Kyiv say their common foe is Russia, but they can’t agree on how to untangle their own painful past.
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Tracey Roberts @taxonomer.bluesky.social @taxonomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“A single facility can use over 50 megawatts of electricity. Virtually all of that electrical power is converted into thermal energy — waste heat — that must be ejected into the atmosphere. That’s roughly the amount of heat generated by 54,000 homes.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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blueskies2day.bsky.social @blueskies2day.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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What Israel Knew Before October 7
A conversation with Vivian Salama about her exclusive reporting that Egypt’s top spy warned of the coming attack.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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cuzjimmy.bsky.social @cuzjimmy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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A Quiet ICE Surge That Unfolded ‘Everywhere All at Once’ This Summer (Gift Article)
A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.
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Ellen Greaves @ecgreaves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Susan Collins corruption scandal made the NYT. The fretting must be INTENSE. She and her team are not used to this kind of scrutiny and it shows: Weeks Before the Election, Susan Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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Weeks Before the Election, Susan Collins’s Ties to a Fund-Raiser Are Under Scrutiny (Gift Article)
Scott Reed, a longtime Washington lobbyist who has a close relationship with Senator Susan Collins of Maine, leads a super PAC backing her campaign.
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Zone 6b, still growin @here4thecookies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Opinion | How Trump’s Iran War May Sink Republican Midterm Chances (Gift Article)
The president might be supercharging what already looked like a blue wave.
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