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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026

I told ya she did it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not only that, but if he were to actually skip it, that would immediately be used to attack him as well. This is bullshit all the way down and nobody should be giving it the time of day

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Trump was impeached in 2019 for attempting to extort Zelensky. After taking office the second time, he sent Scott Bessent (nephew of Rep. John Jenrette who was imprisoned after the FBI's Abscam sting) to do it again.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ohio Republicans in disarray (took long enough to reach this boiling point)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.

Harris County District Attorn... • X.com
@Harris CountyDAO
We can confirm the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van tested negative for narcotics/ illicit drugs.
We are not commenting further on the test results, as the investigation is pending.

Harris County District Attorn... 9.1h O
We have notified Salgado Araujo's family because we felt they had the right to know.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Can I make a reasonable ask? What if we take Gen Z going into Scientology buildings fads but instead it is a search for the fate of Mitch McConnell?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026

“After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.”

npr.org

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When I die, you should give my job to my brother and not my sister. It’s the logical choice.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

NYT: Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
The president’s move to open new business ventures, rather than eliminate potential conflicts, defies a long-held tradition.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Mayor of NYC, actual Knicks fan, pays for shitty seats while Trump, who could not give less of a shit, sat in the owners box while disrupting real fans.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting

It signaled it plans to only send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

—Guy gets a potato egg and cheese taco —republicans decide to make it a campaign issue —they call him vegan instead of vegetarian even though vegans don’t eat eggs or cheese, because vegan sounds “worse” —guy isn’t even vegetarian, he just likes tacos

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

dailykos.com

Mike Johnson is House speaker only because of illegal GOP gerrymanders

Discover how partisan gerrymandering secured GOP control in Congress and shaped national politics—find out more in this in-depth analysis.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

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Fubar 🇨🇦 @captainfubar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is just unconscionable man

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.

46th St & I-35w, 175 E 46th St, Minneapolis, MN 55419, USA
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As I was leaving my home, I hear cars honking near the top the of bridge. People screaming and whistling, I got in my uber and drove out. My uber driver mentioned that they were standing on top of the bridge and doing a check point and stopping people.

46th St & I-35w, 180 E 46th St, Minneapolis, MN 55419, USA
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4 vehicles pulled over a man in a red van on 46th over 35. Agents in Police US border patrol vests surrounding vehicle checking papers

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Opinion Editorial Board

The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

Opinion Editorial Board

Wes Moore embarrasses

Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Baileys voted for Zohran Mamdani.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In political news, Trump has diarrhea. You’d think that’s not political but somehow it is.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight. That is not a foundation of our democracy.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In case you don’t already know, the wealthy are coming for you, me, all of us.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“Your President” jokes that wrote themselves Your President is so fat that he got on an escalator and it died of its own accord. Your President is so dumb that he couldn’t read a teleprompter so they didn’t turn it on.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Why are people writing on ammunition now? Did we run out of paper because of the tariffs? Is it a new TikTok trend? It’s an unlikely medium that is definitely strange and suspicious.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What if the rapture happened a long time ago but only Amelia Earhart made the cut?

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Democratic Party should change the mascot to something more interesting than a donkey. How about an Octopus? Maybe a Badger? Perhaps a Mouse? Last resort might be a Dodo.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Saw a lot of posting earlier about political violence and my first thought was people were paying more attention to Nepal today but that turned out to not be the case.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I’ve mentioned this before but how come nobody is currently running for US President in 2028? Stake a claim, dare them to end elections, all that good stuff. If you want to be against the current administration, get to it.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Frost: On one end, we have the big ugly law. And then on the other, we have the federal government occupying our cities.. It's not two different things. It's the same damn thing. These aren't things that distract from one another. This is the thing to enable the other thing,

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

People need to understand what's happening today: Trump sent the FBI to investigate one of his most prominent critics, and then threatened to military occupy multiple US cities. He's trying to become a full dictator who makes it illegal to oppose him.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

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Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home

Video appears to show an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with he...

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Why isn’t there anybody competent declaring a run for President already? Put yourself in a position to be a contrast to what we already have. Look into running something like a shadow cabinet.

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AVriches @avriches.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I have not posted anything original in a while so uh… here ya go? I mean, I think it’s safe to say where I’m generally focused based on what I like and repost, but in addition to that I’d like to add we shouldn’t forget about Ukraine in the current events whirlpool of hell.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

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