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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Because of course. Trump launches Iran strikes with unproven statements | via @politifact.bsky.social 'Could Iran ‘soon’ hit US with long-range missile? Experts doubt Trump as US bombs Iran.' www.politifact.com/article/2026...
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Trump launches Iran strikes with unproven statements
The US and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. President Donald Trump said Iran could soon have missiles capable of reaching the US, but a 2025 federal government assessment said that’s years away.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Autocrat much?… Trump Says He’ll Deploy National Guard to Washington and Take Control of D.C. Police | via @nytimes.com 'He claimed there was a public safety emergency, even though the city’s crime rates have fallen sharply. Trump suggested his action might be expanded to other cities.'
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Live Updates: Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/07/2025
Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social reports, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months:
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Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians | via BBC News '"A Palestinian man dropped to the ground motionless. And then the other contractor who was standing there was like, 'damn, I think you got one'. And then they laughed about it."'
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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
'An absolute betrayal of working families.' — @ocasio-cortez.house.gov G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says | via @nytimes.com 'Analysis from the nonpartisan CBO found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts…'
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G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025
Chris Murphy: "This is the most deeply immoral piece of legislation I have ever voted on in my entire time in Congress."
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We mustn't become numb to this slaughter. 74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food | via AP 'One airstrike hit Al-Baqa Cafe in Gaza City when it was crowded with women and children, said Ali Abu Ateila, who was inside.'
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74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship | via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
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DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Republican Senate tax bill would add $3.3 trillion to the US debt load, CBO says | via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/cbo-...
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Republican Senate tax bill would add $3.3 trillion to the US debt load, CBO says
The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2025
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#FridayThoughts tl/dr: Breathe. 🧘🎐
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The assault on academia notches another victory as they *criminalize* DEI. #RESIST 🎓✊ University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration | via @nytimes.com 'The DoJ had demanded that Ryan step down in order to help resolve a civil rights investigation…'
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University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The announcement about cutting off trade talks with Canada is a huge distraction from the GOP budget bill that is on its way to slashing Medicaid and Social Security so the mega-rich can get another tax cut. 'Thank you for your attention to this matter.' 🙄
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/06/2025
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/06/2025
Rights groups are pleading with the European Commission to intervene against Hungary’s potential use of facial recognition technology to identify attendees of the banned Pride this weekend in Budapest.
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Pressure piles on Brussels to act against face scanning at Budapest Pride
Commission silent on criticism from lawmakers and rights groups over use of artificial intelligence.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm. We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/06/2025
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/06/2025
I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Opinion: Instead of defending budget bill, GOP touts one that doesn’t exist, by Catherine Rampell | via @washingtonpost.com 'Republicans have resorted to fabrication because most voters reject their bill’s regressive measures.' wapo.st/4naTi9c
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Opinion | Instead of defending budget bill, GOP touts one that doesn’t exist
Republicans have resorted to fabrication because most voters reject their bill’s regressive measures.
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Klaatu Prime @blackhelicopter.org · 17/06/2025
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/06/2025
Senator Mike Lee posts prayers when a Republican has an allergic reaction but posts jokes when a Democrat is murdered in their home. He’s going to Hell.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/06/2025
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.” ‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities | via @politico.com
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‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities
The Reagan-appointed judge ordered the NIH to restore funds for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The larger context, and with it, the longer-term damage. The worst thing Trump is doing to the economy isn’t tariffs, by @genesperling.bsky.social | via @washingtonpost.com
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Opinion | The worst thing Trump is doing to the economy isn’t tariffs
Fidelity to blind justice and institutional integrity made the U.S. economy exceptional. No more.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Ironic, or horrifying, that MAGA folks have been calling govt employees 'jack-booted thugs' (and 'the gazpacho police') for decades, and are now turning that into reality. It always comes back to projection, doesn't it? 🤔
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What the actual fuck, America. Shame on US. 🤬
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Quick calendar reminder: This Sat, 14 Jun, is #NoKings Day! Find yours: NoKings.org
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Watch the video of ICE agents pursuing a man at a farm in Ventura County. Who will work on the strawberry fields when the immigrants are deported?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
They're getting ready to escalate again. ICE prepares to deploy tactical agents to several Democratic-led cities | via @nbcnews.com 'The Special Response Teams (SRTs)… have been ordered to deploy in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, northern Virginia and New York.'
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE prepares to deploy tactical agents to several Democratic-led cities
ICE is preparing to deploy its Special Response Teams to five cities run by Democratic leaders, two sources familiar with the planning of the future operations
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Resisters: THIS Saturday, June 14! 🗣️ #PassItOn If you're appalled by the cruelty, corruption, autocracy, etc, you 'n yours need to SHOW UP — we NEED this one to be the biggest yet! Find your event: NoKings.org Cruzers- 10am, San Lorenzo Park — c u there! 🌊🌴 #NoKings #PeacefulProtest #RESIST ✊🇺🇸
Placard for: No Kings mass protest, June 14, 2025
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Remember: Nonviolence is the way, and not just for moral reasons. It's also about twice as effective. From 2014: Melt the Guns, an interview with Dr. Erica Chenoweth | via @goodtimes.sc www.goodtimes.sc/melt-the-guns/
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Melt the Guns | Good Times
Study reveals the growing success of nonviolent techniques for political change When it comes to making positive social change, nonviolence works better than violence—particularly when the objective i...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This administration's ICE raids are making us all less safe. No one benefits but the demagogues.
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Seems every day we get new stories of people being killed trying to get food. Gaza health workers say four killed by Israeli gunfire near aid centre | via BBC News www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Four killed by gunfire near Gaza aid centre, local health workers say
It is the latest deadly incident to occur near aid distribution points set up by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Nightbird @nightbird39.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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abicht.bsky.social @abicht.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
'Freedom is everything. I pray for freedom for the whole world. For the war to end in Ukraine, and Russia, and Sudan and Gaza. I think war is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.' — Harold Terens, 101, US veteran D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of landings | via @apnews.com
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D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of landings
Veterans have gathered on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We have an official ruling
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
WE NEED TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE BOTH SIDES HERE
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/06/2025
NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.
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