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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 25m
Today Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Read more about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: bit.ly/4yB3yfM
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Nobel Peace Prize 2026
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 5h
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
Trump made 517 personal trades of stocks, bonds, or other financial funds in August — including purchases between $1 million and $5 million each in Microsoft, McDonald's and Comcast stock.
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SpaceX, Palantir, McDonald’s: Trump Made 517 Personal Financial Trades in August
Federal records detail the president’s latest stock and bond spree.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 5h
ICE following same playbook as in Minnesota. Is Trump looking to declare martial law in time for mid-terms?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h
ABOLISH ICE.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impeach his ass too 👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
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Hegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public Spectacle
The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h
Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking Chair Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith on the behalf of his GOP committee members — especially for Republican Eric Schmitt. The letter also demands Grassley turn over the underlying records Schmitt used during the hearing.
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Democrats call on Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith for basketball gaffe
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 20h
Fuckface told a Nebraska crowd that Iran taking out Los Angeles and San Diego would be a very small price to pay, and one columnist couldn't find it on the front pages of the Times, AP or NPR. If Biden had said it, what would cable be running right now?
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'Lost his mind': Alarm sounded over Trump's grotesque remarks
Critics erupt over shocking remarks as the White House scrambles to defend the stunning outburst.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13h
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R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7h
We’re getting a Kimberly Guilfoyle “Pay my credit card” scandal because they want you to forget the real scandal was Kimberly Guilfoyle at a table saying “we can do that to any country we want, we can do that here” referring to Greece and the impending collapse of the Romanian government.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h
Didn’t Trump already get in trouble for inciting violence on January 6th? Isn’t he inciting violence here again?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
This was a choice. Remember this.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 5h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: Willie Nelson endorses James Talarico: “I've gotten to know James Talarico. He's a good man, who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote and vote for James Talarico.“
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 6h
Medieval. And just plain evil. We are living in dystopian times.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19h
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ExxonMobil's own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 6h
Watch this… it is so obvious he is putting on a performance, lying like we’re all idiots, and believes he can commit any crime he wants. SCOTUS created this monster.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
“There was a child in the car” Abolish ICE. theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity. My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich
The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
NEW: We knew in April that DOJ was investigating Hutchinson. Now NBC reports they are seeking a grand jury indictment for lying to Congress. The thing is, she didn't lie to Congress. She testified truthfully about what someone else told her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h
The Pentagon says it plans to livestream an execution. Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, scheduled for December 3. Turning a government execution into a livestream should alarm everyone.
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
When Trump calls for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, and his crowd of MAGA faithful cheer in response, we witness the completion of a process of psychological transformation associated with totalitarianism. Urging physical harm to fellow citizens has become a test of fidelity to the Leader.
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The most shocking part of Trump’s comments is what our reaction says about us
Listening to the president at a rally these days is a mix of deja vu and word salad, but his decade-long project of division remains abnormal and dangerous
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 7h
The FCC is too busy attacking Kimmel and has no time to do its actual job.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h
ABOLISH ICE www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Person shot during encounter with ICE agents in New York City, source says | CNN
A man was shot during an encounter with federal immigration agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Police Department.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23h
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 12h
Absolutely 👇
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
propublica.org
Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 13h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 7h
Our government is beyond corrupt. Everything they do is to enrich themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22h
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
Jesus Christ, I didn't think we'd actually get to the "public executions" stage of Trump's project to roll back the last 100 years of societal development.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h
What the hell are we doing⁉️ Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people at Fort Hood. He deserves to face justice. But Pete Hegseth turning a firing squad execution into a livestreamed spectacle is nuts.
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 11h
And the exorbitant gas prices are due to a war that we didn't want.
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 12h
I'm sure he's all trussed up between the body armor and the incontinence diapers.
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 12h
How much more can we take?
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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 12h
The policies of the anti-science Trump Regime have frozen innovation in this country. We are a third rate nation. wapo.st/4emN4Aa
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Trump touts innovation ‘golden age’ amid funding cuts, researcher exodus
The administration wants to shift science money from universities to private firms. Lawmakers and others have pushed back.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what  you can do:

1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.

2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC

3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
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