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Forrest Flores

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Idaho Capital Sun @idahocapitalsun.com · 29/09/2026
An Idaho judge dismissed a lawsuit from a Boise daycare and parents that sought to block enforcement of a state law that bans daycares from requiring vaccines or medical treatment.
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Federal judge upholds Idaho law that bans vaccine, medical treatment requirements in daycares • Idaho Capital Sun
The ruling upholds an Idaho law that bans daycares, businesses, governments and schools from mandating vaccines or “medical interventions.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 28/09/2026
A strange situation with the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine during its incursion into the Kursk oblast. 1/8
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Grist @grist.org · 28/09/2026
After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in
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After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in
All the claims on the 1.2 million acres appear to have been filed by small-scale miners in Utah with an interest in uranium.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's a headline for you cmarmitage.substack.com/p/big-balls-...
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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government's model employee.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't wait to hear Matty Taibbi wail about censorship.
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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can watch the trailer here:
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The insanity is really hard to take.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Gavin Newsom will never be President.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren: "He loves dictators ... I think this is the president really saying to the leader of China, 'Don't hurt me. You know, I just want to just honor you in every way I possibly can.'"
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Series from Trump's 1st term, hanging 'suicides' BLM leaders, etc
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thought this was newsworthy enough to post a Twitter screenshot
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
300+ Wendy's restaurants file bankruptcy because Trump's tariffs have made beef too expensive www.themirror.com/lifestyle/fo...
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Wendy's faces 300 closures across 15 states due to crippling beef prices
One of the largest franchisees operating 314 outposts of Wendy's across the country filed for bankruptcy partially due to record-high beef prices linked to Trump's tariffs and agricultural issues
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An @DoorDash driver. They are hunting brown people. #AbolishICE
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When Trump there’s something wrong with a country that allows [media criticism of him], he’s really saying there’s something wrong with America. That’s the central feature of the whole thing: The government answers to us." @kristyparker.bsky.social nails it here: newrepublic.com/article/2156...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tomorrow's FT has been released, with the Kremlin's decision to flood western markets with forged dollar payments in the lead. The story is broad across Europe, but no US outlets are touching it so far.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reports in Iran: 'he Minister of Interior, emphasizing that the relations between Iran and Pakistan are strategic and deep, stated: "Following bilateral agreements, the existing borders between the two countries will be opened 24 hours a day, and a new border crossing will also be opened in Kohak."'
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A Russian Pantsir air-defense system in combat position, with its radar active, deployed directly above a busy Moscow highway near the Moscow Oil Refinery. (55.6518692, 37.8362733)
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is noteworthy. Again, no compelling evidence supports the COVID lab leak theory. The furin cleavage site present in SARS-CoV2 was perceived as unusual, fueling the lab leak theory. But now we understand that other bat betacoronaviruses have it. 🧪 www.chemistryworld.com/news/does-th...
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Does the discovery of a new coronavirus upend the Covid-19 lab-leak hypothesis?
Sequence found in Sars-CoV-2 had never been seen in another bat coronavirus until now
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026
CNN: US is preparing a large-scale military operation against Yemen's Houthis in retaliation for their strikes on Saudi Arabia, with the Camp David meeting held to review Yemen strike options, shortly before Trump left for the White House.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's the Haberman interview. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Maggie Haberman Says Trump’s Inner Circle Is Counting on Pardons
The longtime Trump chronicler and New York Times reporter talks about the midterms, the president’s “un-reality bubble,” and his frustration with the war in Iran.
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ElizabethC 💙🐸 @econklin44.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan reveal how Trump plans to use "sweeping" pardons, emergency powers, & total defiance of subpoenas to strip Congress of its oversight. Read more here: www.alternet.org/trump-lame-d... #ProudBlue
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026
Rod Dreher, an extremely weird man, is evidently responsible for JD Vance's evolution into, ah. whatever it is he is now @elongreen.bsky.social wrote an incredible piece about him in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/hillbilly-bl...
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Hillbilly Blasphemy
In an April 2022 post headlined, “Tears at Golgotha,” the conservative author Ray Oliver “Rod” Dreher Jr. blogged about an unwelcome email he had received from his wife. Though he wrote the post from ...
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Federal repression is heating up. Organizers in multiple states have been raided and arrested in the past week. This is surely not the end of this terror. The state wants to make us afraid. Solidarity and action is the only way through this.
Trump's DHS
Announces Raids on
Antifa Cells in
MinnesotaJustice Department Targets Michigan Palestine Solidarity Activists With Federal Charges
The charges follow escalating repression by the University of Michigan against pro-Palestine students since 2024.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 19/09/2026
The Washington Post exposes the Pentagon’s hidden casualty list: At least 4 more U.S. troops died during the Iran War than publicly acknowledged. Unforgivable. lincolnsquare.media #IranWar
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s really so insane. Words mean things, @washingtonpost. If we buy something for you we didn’t “sell” it to you. This isn’t rocket science.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'd love to see every Minnesotan Republican asked to take a stance on this...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FT: Venezuela is nearing an arrangement to relocate $4 billion of its gold holdings to New York.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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