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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18h
This thread illustrates, in horrifying detail, that when the media uncritically reports statements of the Trump administration, it's not just failing in its job, it's actively contributing to the evils the administration propagates.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. (Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 14h
did anyone ask him how jessica tisch allowed the officer who murdered win rozario to retire with full disability benefits instead of facing accountability? does that count on the scoresheet of uprooting corruption? is that lowering crime?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17h
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 19h
nobody wants this shit
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 21h
this is clearly a man who has needed an ass-whoopin' for a very long time, but has, unfortunately, never gotten it
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Kennedy Center is on the verge of destruction; the members of its board, filled with foreign policy grifters and billionaire wives, serve as a kind of cheat code for understanding the crimes of Trump 2.0. A great taxonomy to the staging behind the scenes: prospect.org/2026/10/13/k...
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The KC Mafia - The American Prospect
Behind Trump’s private equity–style bust-out of the Kennedy Center, a pack of billionaires and MAGA grifters have planned bigger heists, from Hollywood to Western Sahara.
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
x.com/dmodoscutter...
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
if you're advocating for a salary cap, you are anti-labor. siding with the bosses? in this economy? embarassing and ignorant
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Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version) @jontayler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Insanely funny and revealing for MLB to run Super PAC-style "MLB needs a salary cap!" ads on the broadcast during a postseason series between two teams that finished bottom five in payroll
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WaPo published my letter, but first they censored it. Here’s the story . . 1/
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Photo of Amy Klobuchar with BROW FURROWED in a Dark Souls title overlay
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
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Opinion | What Happens When You Can No Longer Fight a Wildfire? (Gift Article)
This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is very sad. A very important part of one of the best series of all time and by all accounts a good advocate disability rights.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
These weak ass mofos. "In a statement, US House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other members of the party's leadership in the chamber said the raid was "deeply disturbing and raises serious questions" about the weaponization of the federal government against Trump's enemies."
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Peter @plawman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Woke up to another email from the Brooklyn Dems stop the steal caucus fraudulently presenting Nikki Lucas as the Party Chair. She’s not, they know she’s not, and this should be another exhibit in the contempt proceedings. The more desperate the tantrum gets the more convinced I am there’s crimes.
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026
this is community 🪴
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The IUPA is the only police union member of the @aflcio.org. In 2020, the AFL rejected calls to kick IUPA out. Six years later, the AFL's convention was a celebration of the Minneapolis resistance to ICE, while the IUPA convention celebrated ICE as a partner. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-infiltr...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
Having legislative leaders hesitant on impeachment while the executive branch is targeting Ilhan Omar and LaMonica McIver is also… really something.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As I wrote this summer, New York has recently become one of the states with a state-level cause of action for violations of the Constitution. If and when Oscar Belga is released (or, potentially, while detained), he could under this law individually sue the ICE agents involved in his shooting
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This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts
One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The DOJ under the Biden administration opened an investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar in 2024 to scrutinize her finances, campaign spending and interactions with a foreign citizen. The investigation appears to have stalled for lack of evidence. Full Story: bit.ly/4qEqgA3
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
She condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A new statement from @maketheroadny.bsky.social says that Oscar Belgal, the man immigration agents shot in NYC last week, hasn't eaten since Thursday and still has the bullet in his neck. He urgently needs surgery, but instead, the government has him locked up in solitary.
New York, NY –– The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York, counsel for Oscar Belgal, issued the following joint statement in response to the deplorable conditions Mr. Belgal has endured while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, including solitary confinement, lack of access to food, and inadequate medical care despite a bullet remaining lodged in his neck and his urgent need for surgery: 

“Since Mr. Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE agents on Thursday, with his five-year-old child in the car, he has endured horrific conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a facility federal judges have described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane,’ where officers have been characterized as ‘contemptuous of human life and dignity. All the while, a bullet remains lodged in his neck.

“Mr. Belgal is living through an unimaginable nightmare. While he is currently in solitary confinement, a bullet remains lodged in his neck, the left side of his face is numb, and he can barely hear out of his left ear. Doctors have told him he urgently needs surgery, but that the procedure was too dangerous to perform Thursday evening without a specialized surgeon present. Although he was instructed to return to the hospital this week, he has been left in the dark about whether that surgery will even happen. He is also suffering from a shoulder wound caused by shattered glass during the incident.“Rather than receiving the urgent medical attention, care, and compassion he desperately needs, Mr. Belgal reports being confined to a solitary cell, where he is forced to relive the terrifying moments of being shot. He says he has not eaten a single meal since Thursday and has been told that the only water available to him comes from a bathroom sink.

“The deliberate indifference Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed toward Mr. Belgal when he was shot on Thursday, and the treatment he has endured in detention since, are further examples of the cruelty and disregard for basic human dignity that have long defined this agency. We will continue to fight for Mr. Belgal’s immediate release from detention and to ensure that he receives the medical care, due process, and basic human dignity to which he is entitled under the law.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Any Democrat that bugs Trump is suddenly going to be accused of crimes. Dictator playbook 101 and if the mainstream media plays along they are complicit. I’m not optimistic
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."
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How do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer Bartov
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable
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Issa Amro @issa-amro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After midnight, 6 Israeli settler stole lemon tree and my neighbours olives 🫒, the army did nothing to stop them and k called the police, the police didn’t come or cared. In the first video, you see the soldiers withdrawing together with the thieves.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. 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.
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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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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An important investigation. What Homan did in the Biden years was much worse than the Cava bag. www.texasobserver.org/border-911-m...
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Border 911: The Misinformation Network Profiting Off the ‘Invasion’ Narrative
Dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds have been spreading propaganda and laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
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Opinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.
Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats.
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
kalen deboer is gonna have a heart attack
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annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social @annmadeinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
lol! loser lane kiffin!
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🚨Sen. Gustavo Rivera caught two plain-clothed ICE agents who claimed to be investigating a shooting carried out by their colleagues in the Bronx. However, they appeared to conduct the investigation in highly illicit manners.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read this thread
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NYPD keeps insisting it’s not working with ICE in the narrowest scope of not literally participating in kidnappings but then goes silent when people present evidence of ICE using their precincts/parking lots, of NYPD doing crowd control. Big difference in technical and de facto assistance.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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ryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️
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