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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

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Brian Kemp signs law making many metro Atlanta races nonpartisan

The law applies to most local government races in Democratic-dominated areas. A court challenge is expected.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It's called Vitamin K specifically because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, named it "Koagulationsvitamin" and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in chemistry for identifying its role in coagulating blood. Literally what it does, what it's for. Produced in the body. To coagulate blood.

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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"The SPLC indictment is part of the wider plot to retcon an organization that spent half a century tracking, infiltrating, and litigating against violent white supremacist groups into an organ for “manufacturing” racism where there was none."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Quite literally Nazi propaganda.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

A few days after the incident in which Amalia lost consciousness, Marcano brought her back to the clinic at Dilley. A staffer measured Amalia’s blood-oxygen saturation—which, in a healthy individual, is between ninety-five and a hundred per cent—and found that it was in the low fifties. “Such a low amount of oxygen going to the brain can, if it’s long enough, kill off parts of the brain—it’s really, really high-stakes,” Prantik Saha, a pediatrician who reviewed Amalia’s medical records, told me. “It’s shocking that this level of callousness and omission of care could occur.” Amalia was taken to a local hospital, where it became clear that she needed care beyond what the facility could provide. She was transferred to a larger hospital in San Antonio, where she was given five diagnoses: Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, pneumonia, and an ear infection. She received supplemental oxygen and intensive care.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

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Geechi 🐘 @thedakari.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My newest #Substack is live! I discuss the role automobiles, multi-hyphenates, and culture play in Jordan Brand's renaissance 🚘 Jordan Brand's Road to World Domination tinyurl.com/55uh3ejz

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Jordan Brand's Road to World Domination

Driving the ethos of greatness beyond sports

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/02/2026

DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas. Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe. This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/02/2026

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

For decades, Texas let drillers spread staggering amounts of radioactive and PFAS-ridden waste on the fringes of the nation’s fourth largest metro area — while making it virtually impossible for the public to know where. Absolutely fucking insane story from @saulelbein.bsky.social today

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Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.

Then an elementary school was built on top of it.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/02/2026

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

"I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right, right around where we live"

"I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution," Ruohonen continued, "and it allows us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of grey. It's clear."

"I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity and respect for others that they don't know, and helping them out," Ruohonen said. "And we love Minnesota for that.

"And I want to make it clear that we are out here, we love our country. We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to be here today. And that doesn't change anything.

"Because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship, and we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values. That compassion, that love and that respect."

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I am such a sucker for "animal ends up on the court/track/field/pitch"

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Muse @the-muse.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Oh no. This will be used terribly.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We’re gonna win they’re gonna lose

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

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David Dennis Jr @daviddennisjr.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Black history month PSA: depicting Black people as apes and monkeys is racism.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There is clarity in second-term Trump increasingly confessing that many items on his to-do list—demanding tribute from universities, especially Harvard; claiming he might “take” Greenland; declaring he won an election that he knows he lost—are nothing more than efforts to boost his wounded ego.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

“great replacement” is a white supremacist conspiracy theory that has been cited in NUMEROUS mass shootings including buffalo topps and el paso walmart furthermore, what we are seeing in MN is a direct result of that hateful racist rhetoric manufacturing consent and democrats should be saying that

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Nothing even remotely like the modern system of tightly restricted international borders existed in biblical times.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I love when the members of Congress - both Dems and Republicans - about things like whether ICE should have to use judicial warrants or be banned from deporting citizens like they're new. These things are already the law! ICE just isn't following the law.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026

straight up Gestapo shit

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus story you probably learned as a dinosaur-obsessed kid is substantively wrong!

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

It is literally impossible to dox federal workers for the same reason it's not doxxing when McDonalds management asks workers to wear name tags Every single person in the United States government works for us. We are management and we need to know who our employees are

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2026

oh they are going to rip each other to shreds as it becomes clear that the country has decisively turned against them

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We're not dismantling this immediately?

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD

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Mike Golic Jr @mikegolicjr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Perfection Preparation" was an A+ episode of JJK. like John Wick meets Kill Bill in anime.

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/01/2026

pepper spraying someone in the face from inches away while they are already restrained on the ground should get you fired and land you in jail, no exceptions

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

if the Indiana Hoosiers just won the college football national championship, in football, you can make a difference in your local politics

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

There’s a wickedness to the program.

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Alex Raus @alexraus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Project Insight seems to be up and running, absolutely horrible. Gotta stop this before helicarriers start deploying.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Thank you for the admission, time to abolish it.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Next week, we're starting serialization of a new chapter on the Permian Red Beds of Texas, which means Dimetrodon, "pale-ant-ology," river sharks, detours into the Bone Wars, visits to the best little Permian museum in Texas, and a lot more. You can follow along on Patreon!

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Writing Books on The Wild, Old and Dead

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm also trying something out here: if you aren't sure whether or not you want to subscribe, you can purchase individual weekly entries as they come out for about $3 each. ($5 a month gets you pretty much everything.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026

Trump thugs are killing, brutalizing, and torturing American citizens. That is not an “immigration crackdown.” It’s domestic repression and occupation.

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demon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 13/01/2026

ICE agents are fucking stealing and selling peoples’ PHONES

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/01/2026

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

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