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Alfred King

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Communications and PR leader, writer, content creator. Occasionally take photos and do yoga. For progress, even with the uncertainties.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h
A delusional wannabe autocrat who believes he is an autocrat.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13h
Israel has systematically demolished 48 of the roughly 60 villages in southern Lebanon—most of it has happened since a ceasefire was reached in April.
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Israel Has Demolished Majority of Villages in Southern Lebanon—Mostly After the Ceasefire
Defense Minister Israel Katz has bragged that Israel was destroying "not one house at a time," but "the entirety of those villages."
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 16h
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
Chris Pratt: Knives OutBetsy Palmer: Friday the 13thMatthew Lillard: ScreamMasato Hagiwara: Cure
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 15h
Kash Patel’s FBI wants a UFC training contract without competitive bidding. The price is redacted. The bureau has taught combat techniques since at least 1948. Apparently, decades of expertise can’t compete with the possibility of meeting someone famous. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kash Patel wants to give your cash to his big strong friends
The FBI has decided that it needs to hire UFC fighters to train its agents. No really.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h
"Originalism" is like any other RW ideology: it's a skin suit, to create a pretext that there are consistent principles involved. The more power they gain, the less they need the skin suit. Thus Alito's "conception of law that is unshackled by restraint and focused solely on conservative victory."
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Zombie Originalism
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h
Trump's DHS raids Rep. Omar's home because of paperwork filled out by her late father in 1995. The Trumpists are desperate. But loyalists at powerful agencies of the executive branch will obey orders. Desperation is dangerous. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
Elon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...
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Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN Politics
Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h
POLITICAL RETRIBUTION Federal agents raided Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home this morning. A sitting member of Congress who has repeatedly been targeted by Trump, now facing a federal investigation over immigration paperwork her father completed when she was a child. A CHILD.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 20h
Same knee surgery, twice the price: Hospital monopolies push up healthcare costs
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Same knee surgery, twice the price: Hospital monopolies push up healthcare costs
This article first appeared on KFF Health News. More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. While knee replacement procedures have become standard, however, the prices […]
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."
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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 20h
Inspired by the Menominee Tribe and Reservation in Wisconsin, the game tasks players to respond to floods, fires, droughts, and other extreme weather events. Who says learning about climate change can’t be fun? yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/boar...
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Board game helps players learn about climate impacts on tribal communities » Yale Climate Connections
Inspired by the Menominee Tribe and Reservation in Wisconsin, the game tasks players with responding to floods, fires, droughts, and other extreme weather events.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h
French police detained a 14-year-old suspected of opening fire on his middle school principal and a teacher with a hunting gun that he hid in a guitar case, wounding both in a rare school shooting, prosecutors said.
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French police detain teen pupil suspected in school shooting in which 2 were wounded
French police have detained a 14-year-old suspected of shooting his middle school principal and a teacher.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h
Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation – reports
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Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation – reports
Video posted by Fox showed what appears to be law enforcement in HSI jackets at Omar’s DC residence Federal agents searched Representative Ilhan Omar’s home Monday morning as part of a criminal fraud investigation, according to reports in the Associated Press and Fox News that cited a statement from the department of justice. A video posted by Fox showed what appeared to be law enforcement in HSI jackets at what Fox News said was Omar’s Washington DC residence. Continue reading...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how you write a headline.
Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price
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Egberto Willies, Politics Done Right @egbertowillies.com · 11/10/2026
Trump’s $500 and $90 Checks EXPOSED: The Election-Year Accounting Gimmick Americans Must Understand Trump is sending $500 and $90 checks to select Americans before the midterms. Here is why these taxpayer-funded payments are no substitute for real economic relief.
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Trump’s $500 and $90 Checks EXPOSED: The Election-Year Accounting Gimmick Americans Must Understand
Trump is sending $500 and $90 checks to select Americans before the midterms. Here is why these taxpayer-funded payments are no substitute for real economic relief.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
State House Candidate Owns Undisclosed Property Being Used for Video Gambling Lee County Republican Charles Taylor is listed as the owner of a property that hosts video gambling that was not disclosed on ethics forms.
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State House Candidate Owns Undisclosed Property Being Used for Video Gambling
Lee County Republican Charles Taylor is listed as the owner of a property that hosts video gambling and was not disclosed on ethics forms.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/10/2026
I need smart glasses. How else can I monetize every second of my life? | Dave Schilling
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I need smart glasses. How else can I monetize every second of my life? | Dave Schilling
They’re the latest technological innovation no one asked for – now with added consent issues!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The feds think bigger green spaces are better, but mini ones make a big difference. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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The giant power of tiny parks
The feds think bigger green spaces are better, but mini ones make a big difference.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fox asked Judge Sean Lugg to throw out Gavin Newsom’s defamation lawsuit. He refused, and wrote that it’s “reasonably conceivable” Fox knew something when it hit air. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-heros-we...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hackers posted personal details, including home addresses, on 3,615 people they say came from Trump Mobile’s files. They say they warned the company. The reply was six words long. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-heros-we...
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 11/10/2026
How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy. open.substack.com/pub/confront...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dear People On Medicare, BEFORE you vote. Go to medicare.gov & check your Part D RX plan for 2027 vs. 2026. Mine went up 3x the amount in a YEAR. That is Donald Trump & RFK Jr. REMEMBER that when you cast your ballot!🗳️💙
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Prices would’ve DECLINED without the tariffs” 😕 The Trump Tax is real
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 09/10/2026
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It looks like Sen Roger Marshall is using taxpayer funds to pay his campaign staff. The scam is unprecedented.
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Roger Marshall’s complicated history of blurring the line between taxpayer dollars and campaign cash • Kansas Reflector
In a joint investigation, Kansas Reflector and MS NOW obtained audio recordings, photos, videos, screenshots of text messages and calendar items from 2020 — when Marshall first ran for his Senate seat...
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Jonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After pressure from the DC Board of Elections and Election Protection organizations, a spokesperson for the Guard said that they are addressing this specific incident, and that National Guard members are "directed not to monitor or secure polling locations" www.washingtonsun.com/metro/nation...
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D.C. Elections Board Asks National Guard to Stay Away From Ballot Drop Boxes
Guard members were seen standing next to a drop box in Foggy Bottom this week.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
FTC chair say he's proud of the Trump admin's efforts to protect "white American men from discrimination" www.huffpost.com/entry/ftc-ch...
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FTC Chair Says He's Proud Of Efforts To Protect 'White American Men From Discrimination'
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson said the quiet part out loud.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Since taking up his post in April 2025, Huckabee aide David Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present Netanyahu in a favorable light.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 08/10/2026
It’s stupid little things like this that can take outlier races like #MN01 and bring them the attention they need to make them flippable in a wave. Finstad’s team thought they’d get away with a little AI. Now it’s a story. Via @jbendery.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-re...
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GOP Rep. Brad Finstad Runs Attack Ad That Erases Critical Voter From Photo
“What a poor decision,” Beth Benike said of her congressman altering her photo with Democrat Jake Johnson to make a fake image of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump AI czar Jay Clayton: "People talk about 'you have to slow it down to have safety.' It's actually the other way around ... I think's a false dichotomy in that there's a tradeoff of speed and safety"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins "does what Trump needs her to do to enact his agenda, and sometimes casts a protest vote—but only if she can prearrange it to be meaningless. She is a snake disguised as a muppet."
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Susan Collins Is the Living Worst
The most despicable Republican is actually the “reasonable” Republican.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
!!! Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/10/2026
Fuel shipments to Russia: More than 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, were shipped from South Korean ports to Russia’s Far East in July and August, according to a Guardian investigation using port records and ship-tracking data. Seven tankers made 14 voyages, including vessels under sanctions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
"Whatever conclusions reached by the commission of an octogenarian crank and two billionaires, they'll be handed off to Hegseth, who believes wars are won by whichever side can do the most pushups, and whose obsession with creating an all-white, all-male military is dragging DoD down by the day."
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“Project Meridian” is the stuff of satire
Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey walk into a bar ... and are given the keys to the DoD.
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COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congress was told they knew nothing. The public was told the investigation was thorough. The files say otherwise. The Cover-Up's new Contradictions Tracker puts their denials next to the government's own documents. bit.ly/4ebFWqb
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The Cover-Up | Substack
A newsletter from COURIER following the money and investigating the power players of the Epstein Class, in and outside the government—all in pursuit of accountability for one of the biggest cover-ups ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Republican congressional nominee Brandon Herrera laughed and joined in as podcast hosts spent an extended segment joking about necrophilia and sex with dead bodies. And it somehow got more disturbing from there.
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“Hot Pocket with a Cadaver”— GOP Candidate Joked About Necrophilia
Brandon Herrera joined in during a podcast segment where hosts discussed having sex with dead bodies.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of various cities in Spain to demand help for renters, after lawmakers rejected a package of emergency measures aimed at tackling the nation's housing affordability crisis. to.pbs.org/4yy3XQD
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What to know about Spain's housing protests sparked by an 87-year-old woman's eviction
Public outrage over the eviction of an 87-year-old woman has put Spain's progressive government under immense pressure to tackle the nation's entrenched housing cost crisis.
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The Vote Is The Antidote @emilyvote.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026
Pete Hegseth just unveiled six initiatives he says will reshape the U.S. military for years. Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social takes them one by one and asks the question Hegseth still hasn’t answered: How, exactly, will any of this make America safer? lnk.thebulwark.com/4jpnDBF?utm_...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 05/10/2026
Right wing political ads war of the “dangers” of “Shariah Law" and how it'll make us the United States of Islamerica. (Came up with that on my own, you’re welcome). This is all nonsense. Read & share my piece on the Truth About Shariah to counter MAGA propaganda. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-truth-...
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What is “Shariah Law?”
As the right wing media and political ecosystem spread fear and disinformation--he’s a breakdown of the actual facts about Islamic Shariah
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After seeing the Society of Professional Journalists vote to adopt an updated Code of Ethics I helped develop, I came away with a renewed sense of hope and concern for the state of modern journalism. READ: loom.ly/vzydwRI
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Lessons on the state of journalism delivered by the SPJ and Texas Tribune Festival
As the Society of Professional Journalists votes to adopt updates to an ethics code I helped develop, visits to two conferences talking media led to important lessons on the state of the industry.
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