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Redwood @aowenredwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis.... It’s the billions v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher.
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A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Redwood @aowenredwood.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is, quite simply, evil. @murray.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repemilyrandall.bsky.social
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Opinion | RFK Jr.'s AI pilot program is a trojan horse for privatizing Medicare
The program, underway in six states, simply repeats the same flawed tactics that already delay care, frustrate patients and cost them more money.
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Redwood @aowenredwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse
Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.
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Redwood @aowenredwood.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"That’s why my view on Washington’s proposed tax on very high incomes is simple: if I’ve found myself in the position of making that much in a year, I can afford to contribute a little more to the place that helped make that circumstance possible."
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Opinion: You couldn’t pay me to leave Washington state, and I’d pay more to stay
My view on Washington’s proposed tax on very high incomes is simple: if I’ve found myself in the position of making that much in a year, I can afford to contribute a little more to the place that help...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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SOME HEROES WEAR HARD HATS
JIENTE NC
Indiana construction worker Jason Haney hid a giant "Where's Waldo" cutout all over his work site for the children in a nearby hospital to find.
Once he received word that they'd found him, he moved Waldo to a new location so they could start looking for him again.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 25/02/2026
I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/02/2026
Aliya Rahman attended Trump's State of the Union address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar. She was arrested and ejected from the gallery for simply "standing up" in protest.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 24/02/2026
As is so often the case, this interview of former NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, by @davidforbes.bsky.social, is once again highly relevant to current events. Sweeney breaks down, in detail, how anti-trans bigotry's pushed from the very top of the company.
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'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.
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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What Minneapolis residents did to push back against ICE agents looks a lot like what civilians do in war zones to protect one another from human rights abuses. Research suggests that’s not a coincidence, @betcy.bsky.social and @charlicarpenter.bsky.social write.
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From War Zones to Minneapolis, ‘Civilian Self-Protection’ Proves Its Value
Many tactics used in Minneapolis are akin to civilian efforts to protect each other from human rights violations in wars or highly repressive situations.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It's not hyperbolic. It's not conspiratorial. The presidential-controlled Justice Dept covering up victim testimony of alleged crimes against a child by the US president is the most atrocious scandal in US history. There should be blanket media coverage & bipartisan demands for Trump's resignation.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.
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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator
Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/02/2026
"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now. This is the country you live in." JVL and Tim Miller on what they saw in Minneapolis.
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Ian Johnson @mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
NPR+MSNOW are reporting FBI interviews with allegations against the president can be proved to have been specifically removed from Epstein files released He allegedly "punched her in the head" when she was aged 13 Epstein survivors will be in the public gallery at the State of the Union
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The woman who directly named Trump in her abuse allegation claimed that around 1983, when she was around 13 years old, Epstein introduced her to Trump "who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out."
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Every time you get COVID-19, your risk increases for Long COVID, organ damage, disability, & more, & there’s no way to know which infection will be the one to cause it! Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19. Learn more about Long COVID: www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...
text says "There’s no way to know which COVID-19 infection will cause long-term illness. Each new COVID-19 infection increases your risk of organ damage, Long COVID, and disability, even if you have no other health conditions that you know of, and even if your previous COVID-19 infections were mild or had no symptoms. Protect your lifelong health by protecting yourself from COVID-19, no matter your age or health history. Wear masks. get vaccinated. keep indoor air clean.” Graphics on the side illustrate people getting sick repeatedly until eventually they end up with long-term illness.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/02/2026
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social www.404media.co/this-app-war...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨👀 "The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds."
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Shameful.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is what I was writing about last week at Law Dork. This is what our government is doing right now. This is one of the outcomes of Singal, The Atlantic, and The New York Times’s “work” over recent years. This is the hate they unleashed. And empowered.
lawdork.com
Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The US President Donald Trump is credibly accused of raping children
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨 MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: Moderna’s single-shot flu + COVID vaccine delivers strong 6-month immunity in early trial One dose of mRNA-1073 produced durable immunity against matched flu and SARS-CoV-2 strains a potential game-changer for respiratory virus protection.
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Redwood @aowenredwood.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
"Modern Conservatism’s allegiance was never to democratic principles, but to upholding what its leading intellectuals in the 1950s explicitly defined as the 'natural' or divinely ordained order, to defending (white, Christian) 'civilization'”.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 24/02/2026
When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/02/2026
“To not acknowledge the unique effect of a racial slur is a form of indifference to the suffering of others. The problem of being indifferent to the suffering of black folk while also imploring folks to have empathy for Davidson cannot be understated.” — @nubluesnick.bsky.social
nublues.beehiiv.com
For Your Consideration: On BAFTA and the Indifference of Antiblackness
Let us consider the scene again: Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan present an award at the BAFTA ceremony. As they read from the teleprompter, they hear John Davidson involuntarily scream out the n-...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 24/02/2026
From hotels and golf courses abroad to pushing his TrumpCoin — Trump has profited more than $1.8 BILLION since coming into office. Donald Trump is using this presidency to make himself even richer. The corruption needs to end.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The DoD now has more money than it knows what to do with. Imagine if we spent that money on healthcare or housing instead. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK
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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions. www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Chakrabarti: We’ve basically created a federal jobs program to terrorize people through ICE. What if we used that instead to actually develop things — to build things people want? It’s the same with foreign policy. We’re spending all this money dropping bombs in other countries—no one wants that.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23/02/2026
Access to gender-affirming care for trans youth is increasingly restricted as more clinics turn their backs on young patients in need. Also, adult care looks increasingly under threat. Get prepared for what's coming - read Leading Off this week.
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Vanderbilt Ends Adult Trans Surgeries, More Clinics Cut Trans Youth Care — Assigned
Leading Off: A wave of clinic closures creep towards the erosion of adult transition care in the US, with transmasculine underwear also threatened with restrictions as trans people are targeted in al...
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/02/2026
And the hits just keep on coming... during Black History Month.
Wow that was really racist
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The alleged gunman shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday was identified as Austin Tucker Martin: • 21-year-old white male • Trump supporter • self-identified Christian • golf course illustrator • came from a Republican family • lived with Trump-supporting parents • from small town North Carolina
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Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and big Trump supporter
Austin Tucker Martin, 21, believed the president was a ‘strong leader,’ sources say, but became increasingly concerned by the prospect of a government cover-up and powerful people ‘getting away with i...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 23/02/2026
ICE activity continues to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families, despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents. Students attend school remotely, staff monitor arrival and dismissal, and leaders wonder when they can resume normal school operations.
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Minnesota school districts say federal agents still causing daily disruptions
School leaders say that ICE activity is continuing to interrupt daily life for students, staff and families despite the announced end of the two-month surge of federal immigration agents.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This too…
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22/02/2026
What the fuck we have a rapist pedophile president.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Every child deserves to protected from preventable diseases - it is their right to health
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It's no coincidence the Epstein files are full of billionaires; yet we were told to look for monsters in drag shows and border crossings.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.
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“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.”
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Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Stop saying Trump wants to "nationalize elections." What he said was: "We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many—15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” "Take over the voting" and "nationalizing voting" is very different from the more sanitized language.
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