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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026

"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2

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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student

“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BREAKING: EPA is launching a study of water contamination that will, for the first time, test for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Anti-abortion groups consider it a major win that could pave the way for restrictions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

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POLITICO Pro: Abortion opponents claim ‘tremendous victory’ as EPA tests water for abortion pills

The new study will test for trace amounts of chemicals, pesticides and drugs — including ones used to induce abortions — in drinking water in multiple cities.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/07/2026

Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Woohoo!! My minicomic as syllabus for my new Comics in Education class is live!! Took forever. I put everything I could into it & thrilled how it all came together. Class is off to a great start & excited for where we're headed! Download/print your own on my site spinweaveandcut.com/comics-in-ed...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Mari- homeless. Still Indigenous. @wordglass.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation. 1/13

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/08/2026

The Rule of 7 is that thing you maybe have heard that said consumers need to hear about your brand 7 times before they decide to take action on it. This rule was crafted in the 1930s.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the things I'm most proud of is my report on Yayoi Kusama, which highlighted the work of @dexdigi.bsky.social. He has a PhD in East Asian Studies from Cornell, is fluent in Japanese, lectured on Japanese culture, and is also an incredible journalist: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

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Yayoi Kusama Expresses “Deep Regret” For Anti-Black Statements Ahead of Exhibition at SFMOMA

The artist issued the remarks just before an exhibition on her work opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

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Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Entertaining history of the US from an Native point of view with Native comedian Tai Leclaire @tai-leclaire.bsky.social youtu.be/Uw3C_hkt8PE?...

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How America's Foundation was Built on Propaganda

YouTube video by PBS Origins

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ruling against TPS for Haitians, the Trump justices on the Supreme Court have set a new impossible standard for proving discrimination against non-whites: if there is any other reason *in addition* to the racism, the racism doesn’t count www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

“This Court sees race when it wants to, and blinds itself to racism in most other cases,” Melissa Murray, a law professor at NYU, told me. “It’s hard to imagine how egregious the statement would have to be to be considered ‘overtly racial’.”

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you’re as horrified by the fascist regime’s attack on the rights of Haitian immigrants as I am, here’s one way to help. Demand your Senators vote for a bill extending their Temporary Protected Status at this link. The bill already passed the House (with 10 Republicans voting for it)!

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Send a letter to your US Representative to protect TPS for Haiti

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#ResistanceRoots Frances Gabe was born on this day in 1915 near Boise, Idaho. She was an inventor and artist who designed, built and lived in the world’s first self-cleaning house. Her story is a mix of brilliant engineering, radical feminist history, fierce independence and creative rebellion. /1

Frances Gabe. After her divorce, she combined her initials (Grace Arnholz Bateson) plus an E to create her new last name. Armed with complete personal independence, she retreated to a wooded plot of land in Newberg, Ore., to build her self-cleaning house. She had a fierce determination to prove that domestic drudgery could be engineered out of existence. Photo credit: Lily Benson.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Posting this for a specific audience here.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Plants have been reproducing their own way for hundreds of millions of years. So why do we keep describing them in human terms? Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE #EduSky 🧪

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026

Just cross posting this horrific intel from an independent journalist who has been on the ground in NJ for the last few days: www.threads.com/@hereswhykev...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026

"The ICE agent's version of events would not have come under such scrutiny had the federal government not gotten greedy and charged Aljorna and Sosa-Celis with assaulting a federal officer who was performing their official duties. And that’s where things started to fall apart." — @snipy.bsky.social

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How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies

Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/05/2026

ICE flights. Wednesday, May 13, 2026. (Yes, that is a Myanmar deportation. Those people were very likely tortured on arrival.)

An ADSBx map of North and South America, the Pacific Ocean and eastern Asia showing 28 planes doing dozens of flights branching out from Louisiana and Texas toward northern cities (round-up flights), Central and South America and Asia (deportation flights), and going between ICE detention hubs (shuffle flights).

A closer view of previous map showing North, Central and South America.

A close-up view of ICE Air hub Alexandria, LA, showing dozens of flight lines going in every direction of the page, like evil tentacles.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11/05/2026

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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Everlee Has Disappeared

Everlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

You’ll find the names and stories of the victims as best as we at L.A. TACO could research them. We hope this list offers a moment to remember these individuals. The full list: lataco.com/ice-death-tr... By Memo Torres, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Ramirez, and Odessa Hairapetian

Art of two skeleton hands in red handcuffs holding on to cell bars.

The headline reads “Here’s Every Single Death Linked to Immigration Enforcement Since Trump’s Raids Began”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

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Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

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Chase Taylor-Carter @chasecarter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Big news! We're offering a big bundle of subscription to different independent media websites. These are all very cool people who have been working with me to conceive of whatever is next for worker-owned journalism. Half-off subscriptions for a month, and your existing Rascal sub is comped!

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I refuse to deplore "political violence" when it is made so explicit that it is the adjective, not the noun, that troubles the people so openly weeping and rending their garments right now. Either we all have a ticket in the Victim of Gun Violence Lotto or none of us do.

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THE ADJECTIVE AND THE NOUN | Gin and Tacos

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew

Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 22/04/2026

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. I have so many questions! apnews.com/article/sout...

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Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to pay informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups...

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 08/04/2026

REMINDER: ICE Executed Renee Good 3 Months Ago. She Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against | Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies. #AbolishICE

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OPINION: Renee Good Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against - Bucks County Beacon

Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies.

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