iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two essential people to read and follow, who speak from both professional expertise, and having worked in the belly of the beast.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

7. (Not even 9/11 could interrupt the narrative. He famously lied about his building being the tallest in downtown Manhattan after the Twin Towers came down.)

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For the GOP, scotus is now the rich dad with political connections you call to fix whatever becomes a problem.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I lay out why Elon Musk, Katie Miller, Mike Lee and others on the right are lying about the AfD, the far right, the far left, and more, in just 60 seconds. Time for a debunking - and a 60-second rant!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2026

“We should be watching to see whether Trump's own family takes a piece of this thing." A leading oil scholar breaks down the Trump administration’s new oil deal with Venezuela.

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Trump's Venezuela deal helps his rich friends—and that's it

Some CEOs will make a fast buck. Gas prices won't change.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NEW: Gerrymandering opponents urged the Supreme Court not to restore a Republican-backed congressional map in Missouri for the midterms, arguing that the “adequate and independent state ground doctrine” renders the case unreviewable by federal courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Gerrymander foes urge Supreme Court not to revive GOP map in Missouri

A voting rights group files its objection to Missouri GOP's appeal to the Supreme Court asking it to greenlight a gerrymander without voters weighing in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day let's recall that corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting—and they deduct it from their taxes, so you're paying the bill. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. www.epi.org/publication/...

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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance

Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/09/2026

A tale of two Labor Day messages today

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trump’s Truth Social account celebrated the success of the fascist AfD party in Germany:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
[chart of German election results]
1.02k ReTruths
4.6k Lik.. 9/6/26, 1:40 PM

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Don’t believe the lies you hear about immigrant and undocumented workers. The real villains are the powerful corporations that want workers fighting one another while they rake in record profits at their expense.

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Trump’s Lies About Immigrant Workers, Debunked

Don’t believe the lies you hear about immigrant and undocumented workers.The real villains are the greedy corporations t

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” the federal prosecutor wrote about being told to not pursue civil rights charges against an ICE agent. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could.”

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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026

Smirnov’s false report to the FBI fueled the GOP’s absurd effort to impeach Biden and provided ammo for the ludicrous MAGA mantra that Biden was the head of a crime family.

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Why is Trump’s DOJ still helping the Russian-linked liar who smeared Biden?

The continuing saga of Alexander Smirnov.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lake America

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is going to ruin a lot of college towns slowly.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026

Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“.. Rafael Ramírez, who was president of PDVSA from 2004 to 2014, .. said that the deal reached with Washington represented ‘the greatest looting in our country’s history.’” @financialtimes.com 🇻🇪 www.ft.com/content/b3c9...

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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026

Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.

Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/08/2026

And if Canada's resource rich multicultural parliamentary democracy weren't enough of an ideological threat, there are more practical rob and steal reasons🤷🏿‍♂️ White nationalist fascists can't run economies. They can't. They crash them. Then they invade their neighbours. This has all happened before.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

NYT normalizes robbing Venezuela at gunpoint.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW EPISODE: I breaks down where the fight is headed next, from courts in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., to another likely showdown at the Supreme Court, and why Trump's own side built the legal doctrines that could end up sinking the rule. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bN5...

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Trump Wants You to Think This Fight is Over. It's Not.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW: Rep. Joyce Beatty's reply to the Trump administration's filing in the Kennedy Center case calls DOJ's filing — which suggested they might tear down the Kennedy Center if they don't get their way — "delusional." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tellingly, Defendants do not dispute that their prior efforts to emblazon the building with
President Trump's name may have irrevocably damaged the Center's historic marble façade.
Instead, Defendants now openly threaten to do further damage to this sacred memorial if they do not get their way in emblazoning that historic marble with Trump's name once again and renaming the grounds for him. In their words, astonishingly, if the Court prevents them from returning President Trump's name to the Kennedy Center, they will "be required to" demolish the Center and build "a large outdoor amphitheater" as a "replacement." Id. at 2; see id. at 3 (suggesting
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ruling for Plaintiff will "probably" require "the construction of a new, but very different kind, of venue").
In plain English, Defendants have not-so-subtly said: "What a nice Kennedy Center you
have here. What a shame should something happen to it." This is a breathtaking assault on the
rule of law. It is delusional. And it must stop.

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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 26/08/2026

The 11 pro-Israel Democrats attacking Hasan Piker have benefitted from a combined $14.3 million+ in spending by AIPAC and the Israel lobby.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The James Talarico campaign has asked a court to unseal transcripts of a pair of years-old depositions given by Ken Paxton as part of a messy securities fraud dispute. "The right of Texans to see these depositions matters more than ever."

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Talarico campaign asks court to unseal Paxton depositions

The petition seeks the transcripts from two rounds of testimony Paxton gave as part of a legal clash that entangled his financial adviser and former business associates.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“It’s wrong. All of it. The Senate needs to pass the House-approved 3 year TPS extension for Haitian refugees. Immediately.” — @repgreglandsman.bsky.social, who is tracking this stuff, says to @zeteo.com today

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is just out and it's great (I got to read the UK edition, which came out earlier). The revolution of our time in biology is the recognition of interconnection, symbiosis, and arguably there's a social and imaginative revolution along the same lines....

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2026

Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on Wednesday to discuss how they should be regulated—a potential make-or-break moment for nascent industries that have struggled to establish themselves as credible and legal.

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Trump's White House business shindig will be a cesspool of financial conflicts

He's welcoming leaders of crypto firms and prediction markets—industries he's deeply invested in—to discuss regulation.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There's a big unknown here: In these documents, DHS refers in passing to something called "Operation Keyhole." What is that, you ask? DHS won't say. As one lawyer tells me: "This suggests there’s broader surveillance underway that we have yet to learn about.” 7/7 newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have worked extensively with Utah victims of trafficking and sexual assault and please believe me when I say Ballard isn’t just problematic. He’s been accused of perpetuating the trafficking he pretends to oppose for profit and power and is complicit in the abuse of survivors.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Colombia suffered a 7.4 magnitude earthquake yesterday. Today, Colombia officially recognized Israel’s “sovereignty” over the occupied Golan Heights. (I’m not saying these two events are related, but it wouldn’t surprise me if US aid to Colombia were being conditioned on this announcement.)

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#Attention | Colombia recognizes
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Colombia reconoce la soberanía de Israel sobre los Altos del
Golán
Ante la persistente inestabilidad regional en Oriente Medio y considerando la importancia estratégica de los Altos del Golán para la seguridad de Israel, el Gobierno de Colombia reconoce la soberanía israelí sobre este territorio, así como el derecho de ese Estado a protegerse frente a amenazas externas.
Durante décadas, Israel ha enfrentado desafíos de seguridad persistentes y de carácter existencial a lo largo de sus fronteras. Estas amenazas se han intensificado de manera significativa en los últimos años, culminando en los horribles atentados terroristas del 7 de octubre, que pusieron de manifiesto la gravedad y la naturaleza cambiante de los peligros que enfrenta el pueblo israelí.
En este contexto regional de seguridad, Colombia reconoce que el mantenimiento del control y la soberanía de Israel sobre los Altos del
Golán constituye un componente esencial de su defensa nacional y de su capacidad para proteger y salvaguardar a sus ciudadanos.
Con esta decisión, Colombia reafirma su compromiso con la búsqueda de una paz estable y duradera en Oriente Medio.
Este comunicado se publica de acuerdo al compromiso adquirido por ambas naciones, el pasado sabado 8 de agosto.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What happened and "changed our children?" The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990s that and included autism as a covered disabilities. Schools had to report how many autistic students they served. Who was a cosponsor of that bill? RFK Jr.'s uncle Ted Kennedy.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/08/2026

AI data centers don't create jobs. They kill jobs. And if you want to beat China, try green energy. That's where the future is. These people are so stupid.

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AnimalSpirit @animalspirit16.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Nothing like making up fake research projects to steal taxpayers’ money.

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