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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
“.. when the strong dominate the weak, the weak try to become strong. .. That can mean alliances with enemies. .. It can also mean that a foolish world once again endures the high cost of forgetting what it’s like when great powers go to war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 17/12/2025
An audit conducted by the Tennessee Comptroller found in northeast Tennessee, children spent an average of 18 days housed in government offices during the same six-month period. One child spent 104 days in an office.
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Despite improvements, DCS continues to fail Tennessee children, audit finds • Tennessee Lookout
An Tennessee Comptroller audit outlines new and persistent failures in caring for abused kids by the Department of Children’s Services.
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law. This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
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Brian Kaylor @briankaylor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
MAGAchurch leaders like to claim Trump is leading a revival of Christianity in US. However, Gallup just reported a large drop in religiosity in US that's one of largest decade drops ever seen in the world. news.gallup.com/poll/697676/...
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Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World
The 17-percentage-point drop in U.S. religiosity over the past decade is among the largest declines measured in the Gallup World Poll.
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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 07/11/2025
“The patient was not vaccinated against measles and reported a recent history of travel”
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/10/2025
Donald Trump is clearly willing to do whatever it takes to stay in power, regardless of what the Constitution says. He “has always told us exactly who he is,” J. Michael Luttig argues. “We have just not wanted to believe him. But we must believe him now.” theatln.tc/lcyBbEUr
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hi All, Latest piece out in The Atlantic--Why The US Is On Track To Lose A War With China. The US has failed to understand both power and war for most of the last few decades, and it has left the country able to win battles, but generally lose wars. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China
Modern warfare is decided by production capacity and technological mastery, not by individual valor.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“HEPATITAS” 🤡
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The pattern here is personalism. Trump views the federal treasury as a discretionary fund for dispensing patronage and largesse; he regards the White House as his private property; he regards DOJ as (literally) his personal lawyers, & the military & law enforcement as his personal security team.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/10/2025
NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
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Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next
We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –- "
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
When the supply of available homes goes down relative to demand, prices increase. This is one of the best established findings in housing policy, and policymakers who don't center this aren't going to fix the housing crisis.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The best explanation of the authoritarian playbook that I’ve read lately.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Please don’t let your parents poison their hearts listening to people like Brian Kilmeade.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2025
AXIOS: Inflation ticks up to the highest since '21. Manufacturing shrank 6 months running. Unemployed workers exceeding jobs. If Biden had numbers like that, you'd be on Fox saying, 'What's going on'? LUTNICK: So, the economy that Trump owns starts at the end of this year A: Doesn't work that way!
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Lord have mercy.
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RNS @rns.org · 09/09/2025
OPINION: Evangelical parenting resources lead many to get caught up in frameworks like Wilson’s. religionnews.com/2025/08/13/h...
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How Doug Wilson’s child-rearing tips baptize parents into Christian nationalism
(RNS) — The theologies espoused by Wilson and company are not theoretical — they have a far-reaching, destructive impact.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Clear-eyed @ezraklein.bsky.social on the stakes: "We are in the authoritarian consolidation stage of this presidency... This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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David Posey @dagopo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This Nashville pastor has been memorializing cyclists with ghost bikes. The latest is on Bell Road.
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A Cyclist Died Here: Bell Road
Who counts as a cyclist? How stereotypes hamstring our movement towards robust multimodal infrastructure. Remembering Larissa Houston with a ghost bike on Bell Road.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This is evil. 👇
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
With housing costs on the rise, and the city expected to again fall woefully short of building the number of units needed in the next decade, Nashville officials are pushing a series of localized and countywide zoning changes. In some cases, neighborhoods are pushing back.
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NIMBYism and Nashville's affordable housing shortage - Nashville Banner
Nashville residents clash with developer over new zoning for affordable housing. Concerns about traffic, green space, and property values arise are common.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“[T]hey just look at me dumbfounded because obviously none of them are thinking about this. They're just trying to be lackeys for the president, and they don't recognize how dangerous that is.”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
TN Ledger coming in hot with the absolute worst take on the Nations rezoning:
The Chickasaw Nation once inhabited the land, and James Robertson and tribal leaders met there to sign a pact in 1783 giving the Chickasaw Nation the land until that pact was rescinded.

Many current residents might feel they are getting the same treatment as the Chickasaws. Current zoning (five houses per acre) is being chipped away. At least three different neighborhood associations have released statements critical of the rezoning bill, which would shift the properties to RM40, thus allowing 40 units per acre.

By the way, the bill, proposed by Rollin Horton, the Metro Council representative for the area, would encompass 620 acres, about half the size of the Hermitage. Horton is about as popular with many Nations dwellers as Andrew Jackson was with those living in the Nations during his reign.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It is really difficult to have a constructive relationship with state leaders when they blatantly act in bad faith.
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We should not have to live like this.
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Emily Belz @emilybelz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
absolutely chilling read www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Canada Is Killing Itself
The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The FDA has just told Pfizer that they may not renew the approval of their COVID19 vaccine for children for the 2025-2026 respiratory season. Moderna’s vaccine is only approved for kids with a health condition, so this means there would be no COVID19 vaccine for all kids under 5 years of age.
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Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA
Email obtained by Guardian says Pfizer was told approval may not be granted, meaning Moderna may have to fill gap
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
FRIEDMAN: “If the behavior this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.” ‘1984’ is upon us. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An important point from my colleague @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Trump Shoots the Messenger
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2025
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
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Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
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We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/07/2025
“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts:
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How John Roberts Built the New American Presidency
The country is witnessing the creation of an all-powerful institution, and one man is responsible.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
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Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night | Opinion
If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, this bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/07/2025
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy
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‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency failed to answer two-thirds of calls from survivors because Noem had let the call center contracts expire on 5 July. It took her until 10 July to renew the contracts
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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tern @arctic-tern.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“A year shy of becoming a high school graduate in the United States, the teen’s life — and opportunities — completely changed in the span of five days. ‘I’m confused,’ Sontay Ramos said, her voice breaking. ‘I don’t know. I’m just really sad about everything.’” 19thnews.org/2025/07/ice-...
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She was a rising senior on the honor roll. ICE just upended her life.
Nory Sontay Ramos thought her immigration check-in was routine. Five days later, she and her mother were swiftly deported to Guatemala — a country she barely remembers.
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Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Not a lot of talk on here today about DHS's genuinely blasphemous recruitment video but man. I'm sorry to link to X but it has to be seen to be believed. x.com/DHSgov/statu...
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Homeland Security on X: "Here am I, send me. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/mRvL6VmGqt" / X
Here am I, send me. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/mRvL6VmGqt
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