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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The world the tech bros are building. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do. www.gadgetreview.com/virginia-dat...

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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not to mention that we could’ve gotten plenty of diesel fuel-and cheaper, too-without helping Putin kill innocent Ukrainians. But now, the stain of their blood will forever remain on the hands of Trump and his soulless, hypocritical acolytes in the Republican party May they rot in hell

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026

Jane Doe’s 2024 report never received the caliber of care it should have. That process has only belatedly begun to happen now. We owe it to her, and the accused, to let that process play out. A former district attorney goes deeper:

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No, You Don’t Know That Jane Doe ‘Changed Her Story.’ No One Does.

We do know that Jane Doe’s 2024 report never received the caliber of care it deserved.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No AI for kids. Full stop.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In the November elections, to be radical is to be pragmatic.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Bingo!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I haven't been this impressed with a candidate in a l-o-n-g time. If @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the future of the Democratic Party, we are in VERY good shape.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 20/06/2026

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals…

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Dilley Trailer Prison is making $13.1 million every month. In America, it is now the norm to commodify child suffering and allow private investors and companies like CoreCivic to profit from the imprisonment of innocent children. Dilley must be shut down so we can #FreeOurChildren.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Endorse!!!

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The time to do something is now, and we must act.

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annaforse-af.bsky.social @annaforse-af.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There is something surreal about seeing post after post of "Congress must act" written by congress people. You are congress!!!

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Jessica @jessica-rn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 31/03/2026

"There is nothing in American history that compares to the horrors of chattel slavery and the Trail of Tears. But damn if the echoes of both can’t be heard when it comes to these federal concentration camps."

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The Echo in Trump’s Detention Camps

From the Trail of Tears to slavery to Jim Crow, America has been awfully good at violence toward fellow humans.

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penelopepiztov @penelopepiztov.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/02/2026

This is a campaign of retribution. Trump is weaponizing the entirety of the federal government to punish blue states like Minnesota. These cuts will be devastating for veterans, families with young kids, folks with disabilities, and working people across our state.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/02/2026

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 06/02/2026

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

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Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests

Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

A final but especially important reason that popularism has put the United States at greater, not lower, risk of authoritarianism is the Democratic Party’s overly cautious use of institutional authority and political power beyond elections. Popularism doesn’t just urge candidates to check the polls before making a campaign decision; by defining politics down to poll-watching, it trains leaders to check with polls before governing—any use of their legislative and administrative power. Successful opposition parties in authoritarian environments around the world don’t do this: they engage in politics in order to wield power, not just to win or maintain it. But in the United States, the opposition party sees elections as its only tool, even as the regime repeatedly and brazenly threatens electoral integrity. The implicit pitch is “at least if you vote for us, you keep the right from governing.” Examples of Democratic squeamishness about power abound. The Democrats have just now begun to engage in partisan gerrymandering, fifteen years after Republicans used it to tremendous gain. And Democratic politicians who call Trump a dictator have voted for nearly all of his nominees in the Senate.

In this, Democratic leaders are the ultimate popularists—waiting to use their institutional power until it is overwhelmingly clear that public opinion is on their side. The results have been disastrous. Most consequential was the hesitancy of the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland to swiftly and aggressively prosecute Trump for the coup attempt on January 6, 2021. That’s exactly the opposite of what Lula’s government has done to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil after Bolsonaro’s own coup attempt. As seen across more than two dozen other countries that convicted or banned from office national leaders for constitutional violations and crimes since 2010, this is not an impossible task.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2026

Jeffries: "We cannot trust the Department of Justice. They're an illegitimate organization right now under the leadership of Pam Bondi and the direction of Donald Trump."

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annaforse-af.bsky.social @annaforse-af.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This administration needs to pay for the economic devastation they have wrought upon Minnesota. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

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Dispatch from the occupation

What life is like in Minneapolis now

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/01/2026

Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU

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Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota

YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?” Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection. And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The brutality of state force is in the streets, it’s on video, and it’s being defended at the highest levels of government. If we do not act now with united, powerful resistance, the normalization of militarized state power will become irreversible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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