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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving. here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/01/2026

Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage. Read more: wapo.st/4qGOx8M

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 23/01/2026

When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

“Training’s not going to fix this,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas). “This is really going to be a deescalation of people thinking they can harm agents or get away or evade. It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 24/01/2026

Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Anna @annaharv.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

How many “Free ________” stickers am I going to need to put on my water bottle this year? Jesus Christ.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

When liberals secured a majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2023, they changed internal procedures—over the objection of the conservative chief justice, who claimed they were taking away her power. Today the justices released MESSY details about the affair... www.wicourts.gov/sc/rulhear/D...

BRIAN HAGEDORN, J. (concurring). The Wisconsin Supreme
Court is composed of seven justices who are supposed to be members
of the same team. Unlike trial courts, when we act, we do so
collectively. To accomplish this, over the last 175 years, this
court has established various practices and traditions, both
formal and informal. These practices ensure all voices are heard,
create clear lines of decision-making authority, and establish
consistent and neutral processes to govern our case-deciding and
administrative work. Some of these are reflected in formally
adopted Supreme Court Rules, and some in our Internal Operating
Procedures. But the true currency of a court like ours is trust.
When trust is broken like it has been here, every aspect of our
work suffers.
¶2 This all began in the summer of 2023 when four justices
wished to make significant changes to how this court functions.
Fair enough. These modifications could have been pursued through
a process built on collegiality and mutual respect. Instead, my
colleagues pursued a more destructive path.
¶3 The morning our then-newest justice was sworn into
office——August 1, 2023——my four colleagues at that time set off to
reshape our court and the operation of the court system. They had
apparently engaged in significant discussions in the months prior
and decided to force through these changes during our summer
recess, and to do so via email with or without the input of their
other colleagues. They issued a press release triumphantly
announcing that these changes were all about transparency,
accountability, and inclusivity. This was true in the same way

Pearl Harbor was a strike for peace in the Pacific. I will not
rehash every detail (Justice Ziegler's excellent writing recounts
much of the history), but the reader deserves a taste.
¶4 The first shot sounded when my four colleagues fired the
Director of State Courts, who functions as the CEO of
administrative matters for the entire judicial branch. Without
following any established process, one of my colleagues sent an
email proposing that we fire our Director and install a new, preselected interim Director in his place. This happened through
email, over the course of two business days, while the Director
was out of town on state business, during our summer recess. He
never received a performance review indicating concerns; he was
simply told his employment was over. This came just months after
some of these same colleagues emphasized the importance of having
all justices participate in hiring key staff.
¶5 Later that same week, my colleagues proposed dramatic
changes via email affecting both our case-deciding and
administrative responsibilities. The email invited justices to
attend a new, unscheduled meeting of the court later that week to
discuss the proposals. One justice said she could not be there;
another objected to the meeting as outside our court calendar.
The meeting would go forward no matter what, we were told. I
implored my colleagues to reconsider, to treat their fellow
colleagues with the respect they would want if circumstances were
reversed. They refused. The meeting went on as expected, and
with only four members present, they voted to fundamentally remake
our court.

¶7 Among their changes, my colleagues radically altered the
role of the chief justice. They created a new, three-person
administrative committee (on which the chief justice would
ostensibly sit) to take over nearly all of the chief justice's
most important administrative duties. And they did so in the face
of serious objections that these changes violated the Wisconsin
Constitution, which says the chief justice "shall be the
administrative head of the judicial system." Wis. Const. art.
VII, § 4. One justice who in the past championed the
constitutional role of the chief justice suddenly changed course.
Again, these actions stripping the chief justice of powers she had
exercised for as long as anyone could remember were proposed via
email, and were voted on a few days later during an unscheduled
meeting of just four justices during our summer recess. Not
exactly transparent, accountable, and inclusive.
¶8 Another significant series of amendments to our internal
rules involved modifying the way we consider certain kinds of
cases, essentially making it much easier for this court to expedite
cases coming to us outside the normal appeals process. Why the
change? As everyone understood, my colleagues had the not-sosecret goal of swiftly hearing particular politically charged
cases. This was all by design.
¶9 And how did this experiment go? Not well.
Administratively, it was not clear who was in charge. We
experienced significant breakdowns in communication amidst a lack
of clarity about who was doing what. Our staff was often caught
in the middle of a court that did not have established lines of

communication and authority. And when the Director of State Courts
was unceremoniously fired for what many perceived as political
reasons, it sent a shockwave through the system. Furthermore, my
colleagues' changes were not one and done. Throughout the past
two years, they continued to modify the court's procedures in a
similar ad-hoc fashion, often after realizing problems with their
earlier ill-considered changes. This only added to the confusion.
¶10 Finally, at one of the court's internal conferences this
past June, my colleagues shifted course. One of the four announced
she was "withdrawing" her prior votes from the past two years
(which, by the way, is not a thing) with the idea that every
disputed change was now, all of a sudden, reversed. What changed?
Again, it was no mystery. My colleagues wanted to take power away
from then-Chief Justice Annette Ziegler. Such a move ensured that
my colleagues would run the court through the administrative
committee. Following the April 2025 election, they concluded they
would have the votes to elect a chief justice of their choosing
and have a block of votes to support her, so they no longer needed
to seize those powers. This is not a cynical take. It is exactly
what happened.
¶11 What's past is past, however. I have no desire to hold
this against my colleagues, and I am grateful they have changed
course. In fact, I was happy to work collaboratively on many
operational changes reflected in this order, most of which I

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/11/2025

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

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A Battle with My Blood

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/06/2025

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

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Pensacola Politics @changethesystem.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Mayor Baraka from Newark, NJ holds a press conference detailing how GEO Group has opened an ICE detention facility without permits or inspections. They can’t even verify if there are detainees inside because GEO Group is refusing to allow city officials inside.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States. Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab. Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. My story for @propublica.org

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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/05/2025

Trump Vows To Reopen Joann Fabrics As Prison theonion.com/trump-v...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/05/2025

Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The most jarring element of these deportations (to me) is that people are carrying them out. Nobody in charge stopped them from happening. That feels obvious but also extremely chilling to me when directly considered.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/04/2025

The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.

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The Trump Administration’s War on Children

The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

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News 3 Now / Channel3000 @channel3000.com · 24/04/2025

Milton High School is looking to add an animal science facility with the support of the school's Future Farmers of America Alumni.

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Milton High School looks to add animal science facility for hands-on learning

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 19/04/2025

Sethy Seam, who was 16 when sentenced to life without parole, received clemency last year, and left prison in January after 27 years: “A lot of kids had hard lives. They did 25 years in prison, and now they’re a whole lot different. They need hope, too.”

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In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom - Bolts

After North Carolina's previous governor granted clemency to people sentenced to life in prison as minors, others with juvenile life sentences are hoping for a new administration that also believes in...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/04/2025

Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 09/04/2025

More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

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The List Keepers

More than 40 years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the full scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to access.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/04/2025

Newark is the third U.S. city, and the first in New Jersey, to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in school board elections. The change came after a yearslong student-led campaign. boltsmag.org/newark-...

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Newark Teens Gear Up for School Board Elections After Voting Age Extended to 16

This month for the first time, 16- and 17-year olds will help decide Newark’s school board members thanks to a measure passed last year, just the third reform of its kind in the nation.

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Film Updates @filmupdates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Jack Lowden is in talks to star as Mr. Darcy in the upcoming Netflix series adaptation of ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.’ (variety.com/2025/tv/glob...)

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Michael Barajas @michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“‘Legal’ and ‘illegal’ are not stable categories of belonging” a very helpful exchange here on the vast network of local and for-profit lockups that jail immigrants, how that system evolved, and what to watch for as conservative officials promise to expand it boltsmag.org/the-past-and...

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The Past and Present of Immigration Detention: Your Questions Answered

A historian of migrant detention responds to questions from <em>Bolts</em> readers on the vast network of local lockups that jail immigrants, and how it

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Michael Squires @mgsquires.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In theory, storage programs for belongings that cities remove from homeless encampments are supposed to protect people’s property rights and make it easy to get their possessions back. In reality, they rarely accomplish either objective. www.propublica.org/article/home...

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Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.

Storage programs are meant to protect people’s property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of citi...

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I saw @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social posting some useful advice about organizing a couple days ago & this morning I was searching for something else in my photos & found this also-useful passage from his book, Elite Capture.

For those who defer, the habit can supercharge moral cowardice, as the norms of deference provide social cover for the abdication of responsibility. It displaces onto individual heroes, a hero class, or a mythicized past the work that is ours to do in the present. Their perspective may be clearer on this Or that specific matter, but their overall point of view isn't any less particular or constrained by history than ours. More importantly, deference places the accountability that is all of ours to bear onto select people-and, more often than not, a sanitized and thoroughly fictional caricature of them.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

only using x for my banking moving forward

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