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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent…
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Masked gunmen threaten elementary school kids. Are they Feds? Or are they extremist posers? Unclear. Either way, horrifying hoodline.com/2026/09/colo...
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Turman Elementary Colorado Springs ICE Incident Alarms Parents
Masked men with guns confronted kids walking to a Colorado Springs elementary school. No agency has confirmed who they were.
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are on the road to victory to deliver for Tennessee! Here's our roadmap 🚗 One important pit stop along the way! Update your voter registration by Oct. 5th. Find a rally near you! act.votejustinj.com/road-to-victory Register to vote: vote.org
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Road To Victory Rallies - Justin J. Pearson for Congress
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Are you planning to write a newspaper story about the Big Bend wall we're building that DHS says it's not building? Then you're under arrest... by the construction contractors. The charge? Undesirable journalism. In fact this is kidnapping, a felony.
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‘Bearded Man’ detains journalists for hours near the first segment of border wall erected in the Big Bend
Man tells deputies he works for the wall contractor A Big Bend Sentinel reporter, a photojournalist and a Sierra Blanca activist were blocked from leaving a remote Hudspeth County private road for mor...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NASHVILLE — Rep. Behn says the developer @GovBillLee is trying to keep secret as they hand over 10 acres by the Capitol in downtown Nashville without competitive bids is connected to the Elon Musk tunnel Project👇🏽 ( 🔔 meeting 2pm today)
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Al @albaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abolishing them isn't enough
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With your support, our teams are patrolling every day — on foot and by air — to help ensure elephants like this aspiring tusker are protected and have a safe home in which to roam. Donate at: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/donate
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a hare standing upright facing left looking right  against a pink background with star shapes
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
ICE cannot be reformed. It must be abolished.
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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
cc: @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social, might be an interesting study of how slopcode web UX creates admin burdens across federal government (although I imagine staggered rollout/etc)
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Climate guy @justinjpearson.bsky.social within striking distance in TN-09! 📈 We’d frame this new poll either way, but it’s extra sweet to see the gap collapsing in a district where the GOP redrew maps 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳. Can we count on your help beating TN's map-rigging Republicans? JanePAC.com/Pearson
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lucrative “pardon industry” has emerged around Trump’s White House, with brokers charging up to $3 million to pursue clemency. 70% of Trump’s clemency actions bypassed the normal DOJ process—rising to 92% when Jan. 6 cases are included. He granted clemency to dozens of people convicted of fraud.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A sex worker told jurors Monday that her boss gave her a mission back in 2022, as well as a message. The mission: Get a photo of CBP officer Luis Uribe. The message: Free sex once a week “not to harm our girls.” From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
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CBP officer was offered free sex acts to stop gunpoint rapes, sex worker testifies
The woman took the witness stand Monday and explained how her boss in China had sent her to a lunch meeting with a mission and a message. Her mission: Secure a photo of U.S. Customs and Border Protect...
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell to the Grim Reaper
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DHS is torturing transgender people in its gulags www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/12/i...
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ICE Treatment of Transgender Women Reversing Years-Long Practices
Women said they face harassment and lack proper medical care.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If the road through the park dies, the project next door dies with it. That’s the whole deal. Tell your Representatives to kill the road.
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 13/09/2026
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
Eric Trump said Ireland loved his father. And Ireland...you did not disappoint. They practicing yoga to call that man a cunt.
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 11/09/2026
Hi don't use VoteSafe dot org Elon Musk created it to capture all your personal data for his pro-fascist super PAC
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Al @albaxter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
His plan is nearly complete 😂
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
David Huerta showed up to an ICE raid on his members. He yelled at agents. He gave them the middle finger. They put him in the hospital and charged him with a felony. 13 months later, they quietly dropped it. The arrest was the point. open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
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Al @albaxter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Terrible road crew but awful adorable 😂
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Al @albaxter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Heads up, Texans!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
MEMPHIS — @LeviAIsmail: “How does a search warrant turn into 100 people zip-tied and loaded up onto buses? I have a lot of questions.” #UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Texas trooper pulled over a work truck for window tint. The passenger was an American citizen born in Denver. Four days later the government put him in Mexico. What finally made them read his birth certificate took five months. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-told-...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
RFK Jr. just cancelled a bunch of grants that are fundamentally aligned with MAHA priorities, including fresh produce delivery and home visits to assist women who’ve just brought home a new baby. Why? Because these grants focused on underserved populations. Can’t have that, can we?
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-politely-re…
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just when you think you couldn't hate him more.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Gina Adams, artist of part (non enrolled) Ojibwe heritage, sews text from the 'American Indian Treaties' onto quilts, highlighting the deception and violence used to marginalize Native Americans in the formation of the US #WomensArt
Quited artwork with hexagon shapes and text covering the surface
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Al @albaxter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Still boycotting for good reason. Beware!
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. — Alanis Obomsawin
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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On November 3rd, we will answer the call for justice, fairness, and opportunity for every person in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District. We have a few steps to take to get there. [Thread 1/2]⬇️
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It should have been him.
Image of Dolly Parton, looking great as always, tastefully dressed in white, guitar in hand.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A big chunk of Gary, Indiana has been without power for two weeks. Reno, Nevada just evacuated a third of its residents because of wildfire. And President Trump is leaning over a laptop with his Natalie feverishly working on an AI generated meme of Mark Carney in baby clothes being spanked.
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
GOP’s hemp ban is leaving Tennessee with a budget shortfall & not enough funding to address the nearly $60 billion infrastructure backlog Join us for stakeholder call about the state of hemp & how we can use this election to push for #Pot4Potholes RSVP: forms.gle/EZsrDNyStATW...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: New docuseries exposes ICE's cruelty. Masuma Khan went to a routine immigration check-in and was imprisoned. Her story is told in Episode 1 of Fractured, a docuseries on the human toll of ICE enforcement. Watch the full episode at fractured-stories.com
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Fractured — The Stories of Those Left Behind
Fractured is a social media series documenting the emotional, financial and societal impacts of ICE/CBP actions. Capturing the stories of those left behind.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every day, something gets my blood boiling.🤬 Thanks to Trump, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered. And they're lying about it. Karma's running late. www.rawstory.com/wild-horses/
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Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'
Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopte...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The DOJ demanded the private records of nine million Minnesotans. The reason they gave a federal court: one man, charged with casting one ballot. Sixteen of DOJ's own former lawyers filed against them. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW: An activist called far-right lawmakers "bullshit" over a proposal to cut nearly half of all polling places. Eight days later, he was in jail. (Gift link).
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He Cursed at a Public Meeting. Then He Was Arrested.
Police charged Fort Worth resident E. J. Carrion with disrupting a meeting, a Class B misdemeanor, after his public comments. He says that won’t stop his activism.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
AI companies doing this to train their models while also destroying the last physical copies of said books to prevent fact checking on their hallucination machines designed to warp the truth should scare you. It is a literal war. Books vs the side that wants to make "Alternative facts" a thing.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 13/08/2026
Masks, racial profiling, surveillance technology, unused body cameras, weaponized vehicles, and now... electrocuting shock gloves? The unchecked fatal violence and excessive use of force by ICE must be stopped. Call your reps. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/ice-ma...
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Fight Unlawful ICE Enforcement Tactics ⭑ 5 Calls
The Trump administration has made it a priority to expand and accelerate their relentless campaign of immigration enforcement, which has led to …
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camofarc.bsky.social @camofarc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social describes the rump 90% reduction in area of the nat’l monuments Bears Ears & Grand Staircase–Escalante for a Canadian uranium mining company. To get a sense of the desecration & harm, please visit bearsears.patagonia.com 1/2
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I spoke to Heidi Beirich earlier this summer about how the Trump administration — which just arrested her — was inspiring Europe’s far right: www.theredoubt.net/how-america-...
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How America emboldened Europe's far right
Heidi Beirich, an expert on right-wing extremism, says Donald Trump has emboldened those pushing for "remigration."
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