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Politics watcher and opinion writer from California

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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 21h
“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” Yeah, mark your calendar for November 4th.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The revenge prosecution & persecution of Jack Smith, Trump putting his name on President Kennedy’s memorial, Trump’s efforts to ban new outlets whose reporting isn’t to his liking, court orders he didn’t want his administration to comply with. This is a smash and grab, & we are the victims." 👇
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The revenge prosecution & persecution of Jack Smith, Trump putting his name on President Kennedy’s memorial, Trump’s efforts to ban new outlets whose reporting isn’t to his liking, court orders he didn’t want his administration to comply with. This is a smash and grab, & we are the victims." This.👇
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When Mark Twain coined the term Gilded Age, he was mocking the Golden Age. He ripped into the greed, corruption, and extreme inequality of post-Civil War era. Gilding referred to applying a thin layer of gold foil over cheap material. Any wonder why it’s Don the Con’s favorite period in US history?
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"If you’re not really that committed, as a matter of principle, to a bottom-up theory of change, then you will find it nonsensical to cede some control in order to gain more power.” Read TNR, then come back for @doctorow.pluralistic.net redux & a clear view of where we go from here. Fie DNC.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This question, yes. But so much more in this rich and wide-ranging conversation with #FOIA master, @jasonleopold.bsky.social.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
"Surveillance is not safety," EFF's Rindala Alajaji said, via @nbcbayarea.com. "That’s why EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are suing the city of San Jose on behalf of SIREN and CAIR - because in a single year, San Jose PD ran over 250,000 warrantless searches on this location data."
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'Surveillance is not safety': Protesters push San Jose to shut down Flock camera network
Protesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Second, the Republican appointees’ understanding of “harm” has lost all meaning, as actual, physical harm is ignored while intangible “harms” to government agencies and programs and policies are now paramount." Clear-eyed and coherent indeed.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor US midterms fuels fears of serious election-related human rights concerns. This is the first time the US has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections.
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Attorney General just announced that the DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Federal District judges in Minnesota -- all but one of them, in fact -- because they did interviews with the NYTimes for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump’s Midterm Message: - We have the best murder (?) - We have the best poverty (?) - North Korea can have nukes - He’s done a shitty job as President Will this resonate with voters???
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Trump: "We have the best murder"Headquarters C @HQNewsNow
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Trump: We have the best poverty in the history of our countryAcyn
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Q: You said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Why not? North Korea can have nuclear weapons.
Trump: Ahh because you had a different president.
Kim Jong un. He's a friend of mine. He likes Trump.
I like him. As long as I'm around, he's going to be fine. You know why? He respects me.Headquarters {
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Trump: I've done a shitty job as president
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tour of the #Ukraine museum in Berlin is fascinating in this episode of @thetelegraphnews.bsky.social episode of Ukraine the Latest. youtu.be/5W9yy8Z-Qa0?...
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Huge mushroom cloud over Russia as ‘savage and sickening’ strikes hit Kyiv | Russia-Ukraine war news
YouTube video by Ukraine: The Latest
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This convo w/ @adamconover.net and @reckless.bsky.social cracks open the platforms' #enshitification of entertainment. It's the peak culmination of breaking unions & an industry with expert specialization & driving everything to individualistic libertarian extremes. www.theverge.com/podcast/9914...
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YouTube ruins everything
Comedian Adam Conover explains the state of TV today
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@jimmykimmel.com skit from Thursday is purely brilliant. youtu.be/62seWBgV0RQ
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Jimmy Kimmel mocks Natalie Harp in hilarious segment
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen News
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Where should solar get built? 99% of the article focuses on preserving desert habitats & ancestral lands, but the solution is to plan solar farms in the built environment where we've already wrecked ecosystems, not wreck new ones. I'd like to learn more abt the feasibility of this at scale.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Back when Trump was a candidate in 2015, I subbed Trump into the lyrics of a song from the popular children's musical play Dear Edwina. "Frankenguest" is the story of a petulant party guest who causes mayhem to call attention to himself. The antidote? Ignore him. Better late than never.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/09/2026
Christa Pike was sexually abused and raped from the time when she was a toddler until almost a year to the day before she was arrested in 1995 at age 18 for murdering fellow teenager Colleen Slemmer when the two attended a job training program for troubled youth in Knoxville.
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Generally, few white voters in the South will cast a ballot for a Black candidate, so losing these districts effectively wipes out Black power at every level of politics. “The issue is whether a person like me can return to Congress to represent...the disenfranchised & the have-nots.”
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This makes family separation and children in cages from Trump 1 seem like benevolent child's play. The scale of atrocity going on here is staggering to comprehend; it's not as overt as literal gas chambers, but it's the exact same mindset. This is the high-budget version of what Hitler did.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Sons of father shot by ICE: We still haven’t gotten straight answers from DHS about what happened. What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity?
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Too many great quotes in this essay to choose just one. Observation, not prophesy. "...many...R's...enabled Trump...while assuring their Dem colleagues that...their inevitable primary challenger wld be worse. How, exctly, is hard to say. What would they do? Vote to overturn a democratic election?"
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“From this pt fwd, all US docs & hopefully the world’s will be changed to use the term ‘super’ as opp to ‘artificial,’” Trump said. “So it’s super intelligence.” It'd be a test of influence on the 🌏 stage. “Let’s see if I have any power. Maybe I do & maybe I don’t." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Trump Threatens Annihilation in Iran in UN Speech and Lays Out Winner-Takes-All Vision (Gift Article)
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/09/2026
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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‘Orphaned' by floods, more than 500 Nepali children face uncertain future
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This just in? "May be"? The UN sounds like the congressional Republicans. No one wants to face the crisis the globe is in because of Trump nor be the one to step forward to stop it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eliot Jacobson: Yesterday's Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly (preliminary) was a record 3.047°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, beating the previous record of 3.034°C set on November 19, 2015.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A US citizens out on a stroll to the local drug store, suddenly and inexplicably brutally assaulted by a officers of Trump's secret police, who beat him senseless, throwing him to the street and then nonchalantly drive away. Evanston Now has documented the entire incident.
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Victim in ICE stop was walking to pharmacy, witness says - Evanston Now
Agents drove off, leaving the man bloodied on the pavement.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash driver in Austin, then took him from the hospital into federal custody with the bullet still lodged near his spine. @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social reports on the latest ICE shooting and what happened to Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez afterward. lnk.thebulwark.com/4jmoPp0?utm_...
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The hugging face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence." I love how @doctorow.pluralistic.net demystifies. We just need to keep our hats on as we navigate this time in history.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you haven't already read this, read this. Try very hard to put on your 2018 hat when learning that the president's son received hundreds of thousands of dollars of emoluments from Russian oligarchs would have been earth-shattering impeachable news. Yeah, Hunter Biden, Burrisma, scumbag. But wow
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Marshall’s generation understood that instability abroad would eventually reach American shores, while secure societies created prosperity. That was the insight behind America’s vision for a postwar world order: It was never about domination and control, it was about peace and stability.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you value going beyond the headlines and infuriating snippets of Whitkoff, Kushner, and Trump to truly understand what's going on in #Ukraine, I can't recommend the Ukraine The Latest podcast from The Telegraph enough. Pulitzer-prize material every day. open.spotify.com/episode/3l1a...
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'We'll throttle your war machine': US lawmakers finally pass major Russia sanctions bill
Ukraine: The Latest · Episode
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yikes, what?!
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is chilling-- and not a surprising reaction from a regime that's conducting an active genocide. This kind of authoritarian crackdown cannot stand.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children. n.pr/4j86NXt
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Pediatricians raise the alarm on the effect of Trump's immigration crackdown on kids
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is a chilling--and vital--read. "The nuclear arsenals of the liberal alliances are the only effective counterweight against anti-liberal nuclear aggression around the world. Liberals & allies must shake off their optimistic amnesia about nuclear weapons & reengage with clear eyes."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How can they justify leaving right now? Diesel costs just hit an all-time high. Our nation is at war. The bond market is quivering. The urgency of AI regulation has come to a critical moment. Congress should be working overtime. Instead Speaker Johnson sent them home.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not hopium: Vote like your life depends on it. It's the magic superpower of America. "Looking to 2028, it will be harder for Republicans to try to overturn the election results if Democrats are in total control of key swing states like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Serious question: Which of the bipartisan bills on AI and/or data centers that Dems are rushing to collaborate with Republicans on (thus helping Rs get distance from Trump) is the current Republican president prepared to sign?
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Rep. Sam Liccardo @liccardo.house.gov · 16/09/2026
The gold squares represent each day Congress voted. Wouldn’t you love a job where you only work seven days in three months?
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The visuals behind this work are sobering.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dear Dems and libs: Stop helping Republicans muddy differences between the parties on AI and data centers by acquiescing to the "bipartisan opposition" frame. Rs are laughing at you while polls show Rs now leading Ds on these issues. Instead, tie Rs directly to Trump's AI/data center malevolence.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is captivating. "These are the chickens of the [1980s Soviet-Afghanistan war] coming home to roost." Trump is releasing a lot more chickens on top of Biden's, trump's, Obama's, and Bush's chickens. Not to mention Israel's. 🐓
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
About 12.5tn tons (11.3tn metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice 5 ft (1.5 m) deep across the continental US, according to a major scientific report. A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet’s
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sounds like an international armed conflict.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
More than shareholder value. Shared experience. Imagine a better future where human competition is to provide each other with a better experience vs. the cheapest & most mass produced by slave labor. Revive the human experience--by humans, for humans.
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566unicorns.bsky.social @566unicorns.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This should be big headline news and a major scandal. This is the effect of "flood the zone." In the before times (before Trump broke--DOS attacked--the media), the press being denied access & credentials revoked from a public event would be a major headline-grabbing scandal. But now Rome burns.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
there has not been a Democratic Supreme Court in 57 years. I don't think people have really processed what it would mean to have a majority D court. 1
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