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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 09/10/2026
Apply TODAY ➡️ benefitscal.com
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BenefitsCal. Together, we benefit.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want to read more for yourself, including detailed analyses of individual cases and lots and lots of stories from survivors and perpetrators about how they were treated, here’s a link to the book:
bookshop.org
On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new investigation by Marilyn W Thompson for the Guardian reveals Sir James Goldsmith's early warning about Jeffrey Epstein, establishing a new timeline for when people first became aware of his predatory behavior www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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British billionaire warned Epstein was a ‘sexual deviant’ decades before FBI closed in on the abuser
Sir James Goldsmith’s links to Hilton Head, South Carolina, adds to mystery of Jane Doe 4, who claimed she was abused by Epstein in the 1980s
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
See what it’s like to travel in the occupied West Bank, for the nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/experi...
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there. www.wired.com/story/experi...
wired.com
Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
With big No Kings protests coming today, here's what the last one accomplished. Politics is more than just elections, especially with aspiring authoritarians trying to reshape civil society. Community solidarity, institutional spine-stiffening, electoral gains, an increasing vibe shift, and more.
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7 Things the No Kings Protests Accomplished
The political emergency isn't over, of course, but who thought it would be. Here are seven things this weekend's protests accomplished.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2026
IT’S NO KINGS DAY! Show up. Speak out. Share photos of your signs and rallies across the country. Stay safe. Stand strong. March for our democracy.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings is international! Hope to see U.S. citizens and allies abroad out protesting!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/03/2026
Are you ready for the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen? Across all 50 states and dozens of countries, millions of people will gather tomorrow to reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us for a historic No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
(between images of a map showing the over 3,200 No Kings Day events planned for Saturday) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
NO KINGS.
MARCH 28
NOKINGS.ORG
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📊 Research is clear: when 3.5% of a population sustains peaceful protest, authoritarian regimes fall. We need 12 million this Saturday, March 28th. We can do this. We the people have the power! #WeSayNoKings
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/03/2026
We need world-historic numbers tomorrow. To defend our democracy, protect our neighbors, and make it crystal clear that Americans will never do kings, we must be louder than ever. Find your local protest and help us make No Kings Day an inescapable roar of nonviolent defiance. 👇
nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/03/2026
No ICE. No war. No Kings.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Earlier this week, Idaho became the latest state to push back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s campaign to seize the private voter data of every state. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/eve...
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Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data
“Election officials across the political spectrum stood up to protect state sovereignty and voters’ security, regardless of partisanship,” voting rights advocate David Becker told Democracy Docket.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for 'carry your papers' law in southern Arizona azcir.org/news/2026/03...
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Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for 'carry your papers' law
Border Patrol in southern Arizona cited more than 100 people for not carrying their immigration documents in 2025 as part of Trump administration efforts to revive decades-old immigration laws.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
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Joe McLaughlin @joemcl.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Back to the future with RSS! Per @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/r...
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Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/03/2026
Firefox does some kind of mysterious calculation to determine whether a page can be displayed in Reader View, but you can override this with the Activate Reader View, which adds a Reader View toggle for every page: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... 32/
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Activate Reader View – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Activate Reader View for Firefox. This add-on adds a button to the toolbar. Clicking on it activates the Reader View even if the icon in the address bar is not present.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Baturday Bat World Sanctuary
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Interesting hand signal from Pete Hegseth this morning
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Immigration Vigil Thursday, Feb26, 2025 ICE Headquarters 26 Federal Plaza, NYC Rise and Resist held a silent vigil today, as we do every Thursday, calling out ICE for abducting immigrants without due process. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud: ABOLISH ICE!
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/03/2026
♥️And that's why Alysa Liu is Oakland royalty. In 2026 in the face of rising racism, fascism, and misogyny, a woman that speaks comfortably about Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, and Abolish ICE Gold medal is cool and all, but do you have your own stank face mural of you flexing that gold medal?
A dope mural in Oakland of Alysa Liu making stank face and flexing her fold medal.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Trump is not a man remotely bothered by mass death. He simply does not care. Again, such insouciance might not be new when it comes to America’s thirst for war. But carrying it so openly and inelegantly is something else entirely.
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
To be clear, Herrera is not just an edgy idiot. He simps for every single failed white supremacist movement. He’s a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans & he loves LARPing as a soldier for Rhodesia (the failed “white republic” in what is now Zimbabwe). He’s the ultimate Lost Causer
Brandon Herrera dressed up as a loser who lost the American Civil War Brandon Herrera dressed up as a loser who lost the Rhodesian Bush War
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 07/03/2026
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist www.texastribune.org/2026/03/06/d...
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of
misinformation fueled his primary loss:
"The truth didn't matter"
The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his
alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.
BY GABBY BIRENBAUM
MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL
REPUBLISH SHARE
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 06/03/2026
Iran acknowledges they are targeting AWS and Azure data centres. "The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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	Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities this week in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack.

Fars News Agency, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said on Thursday that Iran targeted Amazon and Microsoft facilities in recent drone strikes.

Experts say Amazon’s facilities were likely targeted by Iran. Microsoft said it had not experienced any outages in the region.

The strikes mark what is believed to be the world’s first military attack against the US “hyperscalers” that dominate the global cloud computing market.

That could create a chilling effect on the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s plans to spend billions of dollars on local AI infrastructure in the coming years, a crucial plank of the oil-rich states’ efforts to diversify their economies.

“The Iranians view data centres as part of the conflict,” said Matt Pearl, a director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Iran destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf that risks further straining the region’s ability to counter future attacks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Iran Hits Key US Radar, Deepening Gulf Missile Defense Woes
Iran has destroyed a key $300 million radar system crucial to directing US missile defense batteries in the Gulf that risks further straining the region’s ability to counter future attacks, according ...
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blvckscience.bsky.social @blvckscience.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There is something seriously wrong with Lindsey Graham. He is an alarmingly bizarre individual. He’s clearly just as deranged as Trump.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
WSJ: To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks, meeting with members of the country’s intelligence agency...He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran
Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There have been some very bad developments today.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
After spending the day talking about college football, Trump heads to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/03/2026
The U.S. made this class of stunningly stupid, pudding-soft MAGA parasites who have managed to move through life without ever encountering genuinely meaningful pushback. This led them to starting this wildly dangerous war in Iran - and looks like their reality distortion field is no longer working.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
MPD used an extensive locksmith set to break open doors in the USIP building—included knives. At one point in the footage, there were two knives on one lock simultaneously, creating what appeared to be a dangerous situation. Fortunately no one was hurt.
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
After the DOGE group showed up but before MPD arrived, the USIP building had been placed in lockdown mode, meaning all interior doors were locked and elevators were no longer operable. So once in the building, MPD needed to manually break down interior doors to give Trump's team full access.
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/03/2026
The enforcement of laws against homeless people is costly. Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County spends ~$169/night to jail inmates — and more if they have significant medical needs. By comparison, the city’s year-round emergency shelter costs $44/night.
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Albuquerque’s Mayor Said Arrests Were “Not the Solution” to Homelessness. Yet Jail Bookings Have Skyrocketed.
Under Tim Keller’s leadership, the city has increasingly criminalized conduct associated with homelessness, causing a growing number of people on the streets to be arrested and jailed.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
"This isn't a border checkpoint. This is your neighborhood. ICE is now running facial recognition on phones — stopping people on the street, scanning faces in real time. What happens when the algorithm is wrong?"
motherjones.com
A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/03/2026
U.S. citizens are trapped in the Middle East with no clear information and no way out. Donald Trump's response? “It happened all very quickly.” This is a complete failure. I'm pressing the Trump administration for a plan to evacuate Americans now.
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‘It’s like the Day of Judgment out here.’ New England residents trapped in Middle East as war escalates. - The Boston Globe
“There’s nothing you can do but just sit and pray and hope nothing happens,” said Hassan Mourad, who arrived in Beirut last week on business.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/03/2026
Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war. “We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
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CA Health & Human Services @calhhs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Today, @governor.ca.gov announced the groundbreaking of the Los Angeles County Care Community, a state-of-the-art behavioral health campus that will transform six vacant buildings into a unified mental health & housing community providing 162 housing & treatment beds.
CalHHS Secretary Kim Johnson, Department of State Hospitals Director Stephanie Clendenin and Department of Health Care Services Director Michelle Baass participate in the groundbreaking of the state-of-the-art behavioral health campus in Los Angeles County.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Senator Markey 🎯
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🎯🎯
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