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Avedon Carol (in that order)

@avedonsays.bsky.social
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Old-school blogger, and grumpy with it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
In December 2025, USCIS announced that DHS would stop collecting biometrics related
to USCIS immigration applications for people in its custody. ECF No. 14-2; ECF No. 14-3 at 2-
3. In its press release, USCIS said that going forward DHS "generally will not take biometrics of detained aliens unless they are in removal proceedings and have a pending application or petition filed with the Executive Office for Immigration Review." ECF No. 14-2. That means DHS would continue to collect biometrics only for certain applications for relief, including those that can be made to immigration courts (which fall within the Executive Office for Immigration Review), but not for applications for many kinds of immigration status, including the plaintiffs' applications
(which must be submitted to and determined by USCIS). See 8 C.F.R. § 245.2(a)(1) (adjustment
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is a link to the CourtListener page. I've purchased all of the relevant documents to make them available to anyone here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/74798...
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Oldsmobile @oldsmobile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rays Up
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Smiling Stingray Gliding in Aquarium
ALT: Smiling Stingray Gliding in Aquarium
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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art · 08/10/2026
Humanity reached the stars because she dared to build the path. Margaret #Hamilton, the #MIT pioneer whose bulletproof #software saved the #Apollo 11 #moon landing and who literally coined the term #SoftwareEngineering, has passed away at 90. Rest in glory among the stars. #SheShed
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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
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FKFTSH @fkftsh.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
This is the thing with extremism. You need to let leftists be extremist. The people who call you a deranged communist will simply invent reasons if they're not given them. But even if you don't agree with extremists, we push the overton window left and make you seem more reasonable by comparison.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/10/2026
This is what government software can be again if we get the yahoo cowboy dudebros out
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
truthout.org/articles/tla...
truthout.org
Tlaib, Democrats Call for Israel to Release Palestinian Doctors From Detention
Israel has killed over 1,700 Palestinian health care workers in three years of genocide in Gaza.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
truthout.org/articles/va-...
truthout.org
VA Ballot Measure Would Restore Formerly Incarcerated People’s Voting Rights
The state permanently disenfranchises people with felony convictions unless pardoned or successfully petition one.
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🍝pastapilled🍝 @pastapilled.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
I cannot shake the feeling that centrists and "liberals" who constantly decry the far left as being too extreme must love the status quo. if they hated the status quo as much as I do, they wouldn't do persistently try and reign in those who challenge it
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three years of nightmare, and it doesn't end. It doesn't end. We are all irreversibly damaged.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like many many Israelis and Palestinians I am still waiting for that horrible day to end.
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Avedon Carol (in that order) @avedonsays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, no, "Chester Bea Arthur" wins hands down!
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The Man Who Would Be Damn Hell Ass King @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maybe we shouldn't base society on catering exclusively to the 6 worst people on the planet
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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 03/10/2026
Dramatic skies over Kinneil House, Bo'ness :) #scotland #moody #history
An aerial view of historic Kinneil House surrounded by vibrant autumn trees under a dramatic, cloudy sky. Small tents, visitors, and a straight walking path line the spacious green grounds in front of the stone estate.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Don't they have enough?? All these little weeny billionaires do is suck up our resources and leave us with nothing." ICYMI - South Park calls out billionaires for data centers and resource extraction👇
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
npr.org
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Chester Bea Arthur @danrareegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Regardless:
Far Side comic where a cat is plastered to a window looking out at a collision between delivery trucks for Bob's Assorted Rodents and Al's Small, Flightless Birds
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Avedon Carol (in that order) @avedonsays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the first time I have seen your utterly inspired screen name; "Chester Bea Arthur" is a work of art in itself.
Gary Larson cartoon: Boneless Chicken Ranch
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Real soldiers don’t need medical treatment. They just rely on their testosterone to heal them.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Move by concerns that international observers from the OSCE would document his efforts to manipulate election results, Trump has ordered that none of them be let into the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/10/2026
A third group of faith leaders have sued the Trump admin over restrictions on clergy access immigrant detainees. Others were brought by Protestant groups or individual Catholic leaders, but this one was filed by the Archdiocese of St. Louis *and the archbishop.* religionnews.com/2026/10/07/s...
religionnews.com
For the first time, a Catholic archbishop sues Trump over access to immigrant detainees
(RNS) — The lawsuit accused the Department of Homeland Security and ICE of instituting policies that violate 'core constitutional values.'
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
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Adam Russell Taylor @revadamtaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please check this out and consider taking action. The stakes are exceptionally high.
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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Margaret Sullivan: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/a-biting-c...
margaretsullivan.substack.com
A biting critique of the New York Times that may change what you read
Plus: Something for which I’ll forever be grateful to Joe Biden
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I used to be able to use my religion as armor when I trumpeted my deeply-held bigotries, but it doesn't work anymore! 😭"
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
While this hearing didn't proceed, it's clear the Trump admin is continuing what a judge has called a "vindictive prosecution" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As I said from day 1, if they can do this to Kilmar, they can do it to anyone. We'll keep fighting this political persecution.
nbcnews.com
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia hearing on his deportation case is suddenly canceled
The government was moving to vacate a preliminary injunction preventing ICE from detaining and deporting him, while his legal team was trying to make the injunction permanent.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Avedon Carol (in that order) @avedonsays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And yet, all those people said he was smart.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Democratic US Senator Calls Establishment-Controlled Democratic Party ‘A Failed Enterprise’
Brad Reed Oct 06, 2026 [This article was originally published by Brad Reed at Common Dreams and is republished here under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).] A Democratic senator who has…
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Avedon Carol (in that order) @avedonsays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here we go again. You do have to wonder why we have any regulations at all.
Andrew Griffith, her shadow chancellor, will on Monday promise
"the most ambitious deregulation project in a generation", vowing to cut the cost of housebuilding, scrap environmental bodies and back plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport.
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It sure is funny how all the people who whistleblow about rich people and megacorps "die by suicide", isn't it?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cocchiarella: You said that you do support a moratorium on data centers, but if there were to be one that had to be built, Mar-a-Lago seemed as good a place as any. Nixon: They have a huge golf course that it can be dropped onto.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026
Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/10/2026
Hi government employee here, who has visibility into how things worked before 2025 and since: This is correct. Rebuild government, prosecute DOGE and Trump officials, and think about contracting reform later.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Walter Alvarez @walter2864.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BlazingSaddles
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
LIKE ALL FASCIST PIGS, the Trump Crime Family and corrupt Republicans who protect them establish a hypocritical double standard of Justice. All Trump’s have committed exponentially more corrupt, CRIMINAL abuses of power for self-enrichment than Hunter Biden ever did, and WHILE DJT IS IN NOW OFFICE!!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If USA Today is indeed unilaterally putting source interviews in some sort of database, in their entirety, allowing them to be cherry-picked by other reporters—and *AI*(!!)—that is journalistically indefensible and no one should ever talk to them again. Is this true? Is it Gannett wide?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Medicare should be able to negotiate every single prescription drug price in this country.
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