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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The crowd for Turnstile’s show was fired up for James Talarico 🔥
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Colorado’s Kyle Clark reports Tina Peters is out of prison and again trying to help Trump overthrow our democracy and steal the next election. jared polis care to comment?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After Australia relaxed its restrictions on abortion pill prescriptions, the number of Australian pharmacies stocking MS-2 Step (mifepristone and misoprostol) increased by almost 50%. Deregulation of abortion promotes safer and faster healthcare!
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Abortion pill access jumps almost 50% after Australia eases restrictions for pharmacies
The number of pharmacies stocking the MS-2 Step medication increased from 2,228 to 4,107 after rules relaxed in 2023
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls
Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In Trump’s second term, ICE has arrested more than 8,500 children. Many of those children have been detained in locations where lawyers and family members couldn’t find them, such as hotels and hold rooms in office buildings. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 07/10/2026
Stunning reporting from ProPublica: Over 500 documented cases of U.S. citizens being detained since the start of this Trump administration. This could be any of us. Disband Trump’s rogue immigration militia. projects.propublica.org/american-citizens-detained-dhs-civil-rights/
Collage of ICE detaining U.S. citizens. Text overlaid reads: “‘I’m a U.S. Citizen, Please Help Me.’” Below, it states, “ProPublica reports over 500 documented cases of U.S. citizens being detained under this administration.”
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, federal agents have detained at least 70 American children. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member. | ProPublica projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Around 75 people imprisoned by Geo Group "have launched a mass hunger strike against their prolonged detention and facility’s conditions...The hunger strike appears to transcend nationality, language and race, according to the detainees’ video, letter and report." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike
At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia. Yes, you read that right. And we cannot trust RFK Jr. and the Trump administration to be prepared to deal with this. We need a Democratic public health doctor in the US Senate.
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Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia
Administration is "aware, monitoring the outbreak, and assessing options," an official told Axios.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/10/2026
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely wild story from the WSJ: Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her Senate confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she asked a Trump donor for $100,000 to pay an American Express bill—in a way that “wouldn’t leave a paper trail” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
October 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026
On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on vote-by-mail: "Maybe the president thinks everybody can just take the escalator down and cast their ballot in their basement, but that's not how it works in rural America, that's not how it works in rural Washington."
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They call it development. But development doesn't trigger droughts, starve farmers, and drive gorillas to extinction. That's ecocide. #CongoBasin
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Deforestation is not development. It turns carbon sinks into carbon sources, wipes out gorillas and forest elephants, and helps dry out the farms downstream. In 2025, non-fire primary forest loss in the DRC hit a record.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
The Trump administration is having its own lawyers face off in court against *other administration lawyers* in cases representing unaccompanied migrant children. Sound like a conflict of interest?
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
While in ICE detention, Martin Soto organized a hunger and labor strike to improve conditions inside the facility. He was released after eight months on Tuesday.
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Martin Soto went out for diapers. He came home eight months later.
The asylum seeker, who led a hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE facility, was released with an ankle monitor late Tuesday.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Like he's ever used a lawnmower...
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Nebraska MAGA Rallygoers Erupt In Cheers After Trump Makes Bonkers Claim About Lawnmowers In Surreal Rally Clip
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
In one set of trials of shock gloves carried out by the US Army in 2024, the electric gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers. They then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Page One in Raleigh:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026
Death penalty states are incredibly secretive about every step of the lethal injection process. Why?
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Everything you've been told about lethal injection is a lie
Death by drugs is brutal—and designed for political optics. Christa Pike's failed execution pulled back the curtain.
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Alcina @alcinah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just wow.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A walking advertisement for a wealth tax
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is child abuse masquerading as due process.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Why did ICE just spend $16.7 million on electric shock gloves? @hurwitz.bsky.social investigated. Watch:
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now that phase one of @hcrichardson.bsky.social's wonderful "250 to 250" project has wrapped, I'll share all the videos (one per day) for which I wrote scripts. Some were recorded nearly word for word; others underwent much-needed editing for clarity & brevity. Here’s Tulsa’s Black Wall Street.
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Black Wall Street, Narrated by Kahlil Greene
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026
Ahead of a pivotal midterm election defined by concerns around surging rent and gas prices, student debt is emerging as an affordability issue some voters say is being overlooked.
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Soaring Student Loan Bills Add to Voters’ Affordability Squeeze
More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meanwhile, earlier today Pete Hegseth bragged about how he fired 20% of the country’s generals, weeding out the ones he and Trump find disloyal to their agenda And while I hope to G-d these things aren’t related, I’m terrified that they are
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/10/2026
in July an ICE agent killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. just 6 months prior, agents abducted 100 people in 3 days during "Catch of the Day" I joined Mainers monitoring an ICE facility despite harassment, making memorials, protesting Congress, and caring for their neighbors @us.theguardian.com
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ICE got ‘quieter’ – then killed a father in Maine. Now watch groups are shifting their tactics too
ICE-watchers get creative after the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, as Trump’s immigration crackdown takes a more secretive approach
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“About half of U.S. adults now say they are ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ concerned about being able to fill their tanks, up from 39% in July. About half are also highly concerned about being able to afford food.”
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Ryan Smith @rysmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I guarantee the goal behind this is to turn chaplains into commissars. Whether that succeeds is a different question. Also, expect every non-far right Christian chaplain to get the boot in record time.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has already promised that it will flout any law attempting to ban the gloves.
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California bans ICE’s favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said the agency “will not abide” by any state ban.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ Hundreds of Russian soldiers near Lyman surrendered because they were starving and drinking their own urine, according to first-hand accounts from frontline soldiers. The officers are said to have taken the radios and ran away, while ordering the men not to retreat. ⬇️
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
The second Trump administration has tested legal aid groups more than ever before. Here's how they're surviving.
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration’s attacks—barely.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Things are looking so good for Democrats that candidates once thought to be in tough races—like Roy Cooper and Jon Ossoff—can probably put their feet up and sip some boba tea." A few longish-shots to keep an eye on:
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More Democrats Who Can Win Red America
Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Last fall, Trump welcomed the president of Poland with a White House flyover that just happened to disrupt a press conference underway nearby for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
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From birthday celebrations to murderous dictators, Trump brings out the jets
The President's military flyovers are torturing DC-area residents.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US tells France and Germany to release emergency diesel stocks or face possible US diesel export ban - Three Sources Close to The Discussions.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 01/10/2026
The project is at the center of countervailing forces: local activists primed to confront environmental miscues, neighbors familiar with historical injustices, and a web of players who thought they’d find plenty of sellouts. Instead, community members are taking them on. prospect.org?p=145637
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
".. Groceries are just like kind of out of control," said Bethany Lnenicka, 41, who operates a small farm in Fairfax, Iowa. "It's just one thing and the next week it's another thing. It's just insane. And of course your income doesn't go up." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans blame President Donald Trump for persistently high prices, while only about 2 in 10 approve of his handling of the cost of living.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
“This is one of the most tangible acts of resistance you can [do].” — “Lena,” an underground activist, on why she smuggles abortion pills into the US
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Inside the clandestine network of abortion-pill mules
“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
@pennbarker.bsky.social reacts to Pete Hegseth overhauling the school curriculum for DOD schools: “We are in the middle of a war…And the fact that the Secretary of Defense is focused on censorship of the DOD schools…This is not the job of the Secretary of Defense.”
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
The first couple days of my sons’ lives were filled with immense joy alongside the anxiety and uncertainty every parent faces.   I introduced the NEST Act to make sure new parents are supported with the supplies they need, especially in our most vulnerable communities.
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 01/10/2026
The Pentagon having Jake and Logan Paul address our service members is so on brand for this administration. Our service members take an oath to defend the Constitution and serve our country, not a political party, politician, or influencer.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interview with Sarah Kendzior youtu.be/zswl1DlgKtc?...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
“No agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.” Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
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Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind
We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup
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