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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Join the Action Call to hear what’s next and how you can be part of the campaign to elect Justin J. Pearson to the U.S. Congress and join our movement for justice rooted in love. Wed, Aug 12 at 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CDT act.votejustinj.com/win

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Jim Crow 2.0 isn’t coming, it’s here. Yesterday, hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama to continue the fight for voting rights that are under grave assault. The bridge isn’t just a symbol. It’s a call. Get on the bridge.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/05/2026

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/05/2026

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

So powerful journalists, lobbyists, politicians hid, ran, pressed against walls. Secret Service & protocols activated. Then all went home. The daily reality of children, teachers & parents? They don't get protocols or security detail. And not all go home. It's the GUNS. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Last Night They Hid. American Children Call It Tuesday.

Washington felt ninety seconds of terror. Students, teachers, and parents live it without a security detail, an exit plan, or a way back.

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Evan @onwardandupward.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

CURRENT MOOD

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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 07/04/2026

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.” —Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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Americans of Conscience Checklist @aocchecklist.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Following public backlash and criticism, some companies have rejected or canceled sales or leases of warehouses to ICE for use as immigration detention sites. Learn more from @vera.org then take action in the latest #AoCChecklist Open the 1st comment 🔗 ⤵️

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026

[Exit Murderer.]

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KP @kevinpowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

They can’t be actually flying around the originals can they? Come on

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot. To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.

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Clarence Thomas Just Struck Another Blow to Black Power

In his majority ruling in a sleeper case about mail delivery, Thomas opened the door to a new way for Republicans to suppress the Black vote.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 15/02/2026

In the wake of a flood of DOGE directives, Executive Orders, and memos, the pace of changes to the federal workplace has been difficult to record & understand. That’s why we built a tool to track changes, help us advocate for, rebuild, & revitalize the civil service. civilservicearchive.org

We've made it easy to find and understand the policy changes affecting how our civil service works. Learn more at civilservicearchive.org

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IRIS Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences @siueiris.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Join us on February 14 from 10:30 to 1:30 in the IRIS Center to celebrate #DouglassDay! We’ll transcribe a portion of Douglass’s correspondence and learn more about his life and legacy. (There will be cake too!) Sign up at bit.ly/iris-douglass

A flyer for the IRIS Center’s Douglass Day celebration. The event is co-sponsored by the IRIS Center, the African American Literary Studies program at SIUE, and the Community-Oriented Digital Engagement Scholars program. It will take place on February 14 from 10:30 to 1:30 in the IRIS Center, which is Peck Hall 2226. The national event is presented by the Library of Congress and the Center for Black Digital Research.

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Pam Brisse @pamdorra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

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Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today

Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont in his State of the State address: “ICE, everywhere you go uninvited, violence follows. Go home! We’re keeping our Connecticut safe without you.” Huge standing ovation from Dems; GOP stays seated, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora shakes his head.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/01/2026

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

An extraordinary document. Read it. “Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”

On January 8, 2026, petitioner Juan T.R. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.' The Court issued an order requiring respondents to file an answer no later
than January 12, 2026. See 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (requiring judges to either "forthwith award
the writ" or order the respondent to show cause, within three days, why the writ should not be granted).

Respondents failed to answer. Accordingly, the Court granted the writ in part
and ordered respondents to afford Juan a bond hearing within seven days or, failing
that, to immediately release him from detention. ECF No. 4.
Respondents neither held a bond hearing within the required time nor released
Juan. ECF No. 6. The Court then issued a show-cause order and scheduled a hearing at
which it ordered the personal appearance of Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE"). ECF No. 7. The Court noted,
however, that if the parties filed a stipulation indicating that Juan had been released, the
Court would cancel the hearing and would not require Lyons to appear. Id. The parties
have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will
cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear.
That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an
appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of
ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined
to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by
extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that
should have appeared on this list were omitted.
This list should give pause to anyone —no matter his or her political
beliefs— who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in

January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The
Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future
show-cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government
officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this
Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are
overturned or vacated
Juan asks that the Court schedule a hearing at which he may present evidence
and argument concerning the hardships that he has suffered as a result of respondents'
failure to abide by the January 14 order. See In re Tetracycline Cases, 927 F.2d 411, 413
(8th Cir. 1991) ("Civil contempt sanctions may be imposed for either or both of two
distinct purposes, to coerce compliance with a court order, and to compensate the
complainant for actual losses sustained by him as a result of the defendants'
contumacy." (quoting In re Chase & Sanborn Corp., 872 F.2d 397, 400-01 (11th Cir.1989))).
The Court will not schedule a hearing at this time. If Juan wants to seek monetary
sanctions, he may file a properly supported motion to that effect.
ORDER
Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the hearing currently scheduled for Friday, January
30, 2026, at 1:00 pm in Courtroom 15 (MPLS) is CANCELED.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New @runforsomething.net program alert: We're launching the Future Candidates Cohort, a free 4 week live virtual program for young leaders who want to run in 2027, 2028, or beyond. The deadline to apply is 2/16! runforsomething.net/future-candi...

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Future Candidates Cohort - Run For Something

Future Candidates Cohort Applications open: January 19, 2026Deadline: February 16, 2026 Session 1: Wed., March 4 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 2: Wed., March 11 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 3: Wed., March 18 a...

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/01/2026

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14

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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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/01/2026

Singing

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Huge win here by @aclu.org. Similar to a court order we and our partners obtained recently in Chicago in a similar case. It's important not just because of the order itself, but because it creates a forum for accountability for federal officers who violate it who can now be held in contempt.

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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Exceptional cover of Woody Guthrie's "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" by Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Chorus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa...

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Resistance Revival Chorus with Rhiannon Giddens "All You Fascists Bound To Lose"

YouTube video by Resistance Revival Chorus

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Everyone knows Rosa Parks, but fewer know it was Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old, who first refused to give up her seat and sparked a movement. Colvin has passed away at 86. I spoke about her during the commencement address at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social RIP www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2...

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Ian Bassin ’98, Hon.’25: “You Will Decide Whether Democracy Endures”

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in. DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

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