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"[Texas Gov. Greg Abbott], who is running for his fourth term next month, has consolidated power ... One of the methods he's used to do that is issuing executive orders and disaster declarations that allow him to shift funds, suspend regulations and award no-bid contracts at times of emergency."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 4h

"Republicans, who hold every statewide elected office, supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature and six of the state's eight congressional seats, seem to have ... found the limits of their power. At the ballot box, voters have overwhelmingly rejected major pieces of the party's agenda[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 4h

"Trump would love to eliminate one of the most effective progressive voices in Congress."

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"I feel a gaping wound ... in our collective conscience[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 4h

"The danger does not stop with you. Your sources can become targets, too ... For many sources, the risk of being exposed outweighs whatever trust they may have in your reporting. Behind bars, resources are scarce, and access to information is tightly controlled."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2h

"Israel restricts the parts and materials needed to make and repair [prosthetic limbs]. Some children in Gaza have outgrown their limbs and are waiting for new ones. Others never received one ... [O]ne in five of [the more than 5,000 Gazans who have lost limbs since October 2023] is a child."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19m

"The published plan doesn't specify what ... agents will do while in the field, but it does indicate that they will analyze classified and nonclassified information to create 'network, link, and relationship' analyses. Such research examines not only a specific person, but also their connections[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2h

"Trump also directed his ire against the free press ... Reporting on leaks is critical for holding government officials accountable. The Pentagon Papers case in the 1970s, for example, divulged how 'lies were the foundation of U.S. policy' in the lead-up to and during the Vietnam War[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 2h

"Workers have seen zero progress on affordability compared to January 2025 ... Real wages are essentially stagnant as workers' leverage has declined and prices have risen. It's no wonder workers feel left behind[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1h

"[Axon's] Fusus [surveillance platform] enables police to link security cameras, automated license plate readers, doorbell cameras, police dash cameras, drones, and body-worn cameras to a central hub that can use AI ... [T]his integrated system rapidly expands the reach of police power."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1h

"[O]nly new hires have been notified of the change, meaning the vast majority of corrections officers continue to operate as if their only obligation is to call a nurse ... Jail administrators were still working out a plan to distribute paper copies of the new handbook [after] nearly [8] months[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1h

"[ICE] now civilly detains about 7,700 women and girls, not for any crime, but simply because they are facing deportation. ... [F]acilities that hold women are disproportionately operated by private companies, which don't have the same level of transparency and oversight as public facilities."

prisonpolicy.org

Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026

198,800 women are behind bars in the U.S. See the report that shows where they are locked up and why.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1h

"[T]his future-focused stuff is an attempt to make sure that regulation is not targeting the things that people are actually feeling and that would actually restrict what the chatbots and the AI companies are doing right now ... [T]he potential is severely overstated."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1h

"Wanda Bertram, a spokesperson and researcher for the Prison Policy Initiative [(@prisonpolicy.org)], a nonprofit criminal justice think tank ... said prison operators in other cases have used the defense that, without prior knowledge of an act of violence, there isn't much in the way of liability."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"The brutality is the point. The torture is the point. The murder, not only state-sanctioned but state-celebrated, is the very point. But it's not just Trump, and it's not just Republicans. ... [M]any Democrats persist in their absolute fealty to the punishment system."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"[US service members] are seen as being totally outside the reach of Japan's domestic law enforcement. ... [T]he Okinawa assembly 'passed a similar protest resolution and opinion statement in 2024 when a series of sexual assaults by US servicemen in Okinawa came to light.'"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"[NYPD] was one of the first to create a specific policy around the shooting of moving vehicles in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the killing of an 11-year-old boy ... [NYPD] has had notable shootings of moving vehicles since the policy was adopted, including Sean Bell, who [NYPD] shot 50 times[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"According to a UN report released in February 2026, at least 92[%] of housing units in Gaza were estimated to have been destroyed or damaged between October 2023 and October 2025 ... [A]rchives that preserve the records of the city and the memory of its residents have also suffered severe damage."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Paris Lee was shot six times and killed by Samuel Ward Jr. ... [Ward] refused to take the stand unless he was allowed to call Lee's gender into question, explicitly stating that he thought he would be judged more harshly by jurors for killing a presumed-cisgender woman than a transgender [woman]."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Martin [Soto] was abducted by [ICE] while buying diapers for his 11-month-old ... Martin was held in solitary confinement for four months, from mid-May to mid-September. During this time, Gabriela [Soto] experienced a miscarriage, which she says was due to the stress of her husband being detained."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"ICE has detained more than 8,750 kids since Trump retook office. ... [A] baby and two other young children were held without their mother for around 10 days. No one in their family could locate them. The family later learned the children were kept in a hotel room before they were [deported]."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"[96%] of women on death row had experienced gender-based violence before arrest, 80[%] have intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, and 90[%] have no prior conviction for a violent felony. Chamberlin checked all of these boxes. ... [Her] trial was marked by demonizing gender stereotypes."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Hawaiʻi is losing its lush and unique biodiversity at a rate seen hardly anywhere else, earning it the depressing distinction of being known as the 'extinction capital of the world.' ... [K]illing an animal no longer counts as violating the [Endangered Species Act] unless it was done on purpose."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"[Aide David] Milstein, who has been in his role since April 2025 ... 'has blocked reporting [on Israeli activities] from being sent, rewritten cables to deliver a different — sometimes opposite — message from the original, and delayed approving drafts until the topic was no longer relevant.'"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"In 2025, when I went before the parole board—no misconduct, all programs completed, even a DOC recommendation for parole—they told me I was part of a security threat group. The group, according to them, was named 'the abolitionists.' They denied me parole on that basis ... I maxed out my sentence."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"ICE arrested more than twice as many children during the first half of 2026 compared to the same time period [in 2025]. Starting with Trump's return ... child arrests climbed steadily through July, the latest full month with available data. That month, more than 1,100 children were arrested."

themarshallproject.org

Tracking Trump’s Immigration Crackdown on Children

How many kids has ICE arrested, detained, and deported under the second Trump administration?

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"AI summaries also routinely include outdated information, mentioning clinics that no longer offer abortion care, for example... [C]risis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are notorious for spreading abortion misinformation, were cited as sources in AI-generated summaries [regarding abortion access]."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 44m

"Nowhere among these measures is the institutional change that students demand ... [T]here is no mention of reforming Cornell's corrupt judicial system or an independent investigation not led by the Board of Trustees."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The overwhelming majority [of US jurisdictions] did not require any public reporting of a death in custody, making it difficult for journalists, advocates and lawmakers to identify patterns that would prevent future deaths in custody, like ... preventable deaths from treatable illnesses."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The [Federal Aviation Administration] refused to release information that would show SpaceX's estimates of where debris fell during the [3] rocket failures ... [T]he references to Disney and Club Med guests' video suggest SpaceX did not have a full picture of where the debris landed without them."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"[I]n recent years, raw dairy products have contributed to numerous outbreaks of pathogenic diseases, such as salmonella and E. coli. ... As illnesses have surged, high-level lawmakers and government officials, including [RFK Jr.], have championed the industry instead of curbing it."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"About 200,000 more Virginians may ... be able to vote this year, after a federal judge ruled that people with certain felony convictions should never have lost their right to vote in the first place."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"[M]y children will ask me about their lives ... I don't know what I will tell them. I don't know whether I will say that the whole world is like Gaza, or that Gaza is the only place where children face this fate."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"[Some] companies were granted Pentagon contracts for the first time after Donald Trump Jr. or Eric Trump joined their teams. ... Trump openly bragged that his status as the president gives his children access to 'inside information.'"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"No one can say who the victims [of the US's drone strike] were. But if the pattern of the following years is any guide, many were likely civilians, like the thousands of victims who came after ... During the Obama years, Afghanistan officially became the world's most drone-bombed country."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"[A]bout 472,300 people [in the US] enter prison gates each year, but people go to jail more than 7.6 million times a year. Some have just been arrested and will make bail within hours or days, while many others are too poor ... and remain in jail until their case is resolved."

prisonpolicy.org

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026

The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

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prisonpolicy.org

Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026

198,800 women are behind bars in the U.S. See the report that shows where they are locked up and why.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Gazans have been struggling to access water and to access food. They have been facing significant public health hazards ... [Gazans a]re reminded that the Israeli Air Force is still hovering all around different parts of the Gaza Strip, and that the IDF is still hunting Gazans[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"[Palestinian physicians] continue to be held in inhumane conditions ... Among [those detained] is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, whom the Israeli government has arbitrarily detained since 2024 and tortured to the point of near-death after previously murdering his son and brutally attacking his hospital[.]"

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"[Jared] Kushner's role as a 'special envoy' for [his father-in-law Trump's] administration allows him to dodge financial disclosure requirements otherwise required from those in high positions within the federal government ... [Kushner] first attained his status as a billionaire in September 2025."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"[O]nly 448 hectares, or 3[%] of Gaza's farmland, were both accessible and undamaged as of June 24, 2026. Much of the accessible land ... could no longer be farmed without repairs. A UN assessment published in late 2025 found that 89[%] of orchard trees had been damaged."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"[S]tate voter roll data may have been entered into Palantir's ELITE app ... used by ICE to identify, prioritize, and locate targets for deportation."

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Between 2018 and 2024, there were over 1,200 reported instances of sexual violence on campus. Only [7] of those cases resulted in expulsion ... [T]here were dozens of arrests, even more suspensions, and in one case a deportation, all stemming from students protesting against [Israel's] genocide[.]"

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