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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out that under Mamdani, the mayor’s office has signed off on every single deployment of the NYPD Strategic Response Group since becoming mayor, except for last week’s appearance at the UNGA protests. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Inside Mamdani’s fraught effort to rein in the NYPD unit he pledged to end

The mayor has quietly required the NYPD to seek his office’s permission before the unit conducts arrests.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Islamo-Gauchisme” is a French right wing concept. Once again, the Americans are lagging about five years behind their biggest influence

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The worst part of Bonta caving on the Paramount merger is that it's a big flashing signal to every other company that there is no antitrust enforcement in America and you can bully your way into getting whatever you want. It's a monumentally bad decision.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

By far the biggest crash out of 2026 and if you didn’t pay attention to Bovino’s euro tour earlier this year where he palled around with a bunch of Neo-Fascists, here’s your reason to revisit that episode now bleeding-edge.ghost.io/bovinos-fasc...

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Bovino's Fascist Coming-Out Party in Portugal

Former Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Gregory Bovino lets loose his inner Himmler in an expansive interview with European Fascists

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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's a good time for somebody to call out Big Oil the way John Ossoff called out Natalie Harp.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I reviewed Gil Duràn’s new book on tech-fascism and Silicon Valley’ panoply of hard-right ideology so vividly on display here since 2022. Give it a read -“ The Nerd Reich” is a unique book that steers readers through the obscure and, frankly, insane ideologies of SV’s oligarchs

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good piece and I’m not saying that because several of my older investigations are featured here

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some obvious errors here but this is clearly bad and part of the XRW’s revenge campaign for the SPLC’s effective targeting of hate groups - which absolutely includes Kirk’s TPUSA

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Cyber attacks- Minnesota 😡👇🏼

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Manhattan Institute has always been a stalking horse for authoritarian shit. Now more than ever

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.com

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If a Muslim did this they’d be in Gitmo indefinitely

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)

dannykatch.substack.com

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Historic achievement in: now they tell us

Iran's New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S.
Intelligence Says
The previous supreme leader had renounced nuclear weapons. U.S. spy agencies believe his son is more interested in building a bomb.
5 MIN READ
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

People are impersonating ICE here in Clackamas County, Oregon. Sooner or later the funniest and most predictable thing you can imagine will happen.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Idk man kinda feels like they’re more interested in Israel than America to me and we should start treating these entities accordingly

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Derek Chauvin was a field training officer for Minneapolis PD. More training won't help unaccountable right-wing thugs be decent. If you want a phenomenal dive into a microcosm of this problem, you would do well to read @awinston.bsky.social's book "The Riders Come Out At Night", about Oakland PD.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/07/2026

Footage shot from aboard a ship owned by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization showed the U.S. Coast Guard and New York Police Department vessels directing the tall ship away from New York Harbor's Sail4th 250 parade on July 4. reut.rs/4gX4oxR

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The Brennan Center for Justice sued the Trump administration Thursday seeking records on whether the Department of Justice has created lists of voters for states to remove from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Pro-voting group sues Trump DOJ over its alleged voter purge lists

Brennan says DOJ sought extraordinary power to tell states which voters to remove from the rolls — and now wants a court to force the Trump administration to disclose whether it has already created th...

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Always amusing to watch these characters show their ass

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing a new system she says is "actively" and "haphazardy" purging "non-citizens" from voter rolls using inaccurate data. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The president of the Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association is defending the plainclothes cop who showed up to a high school anti-ICE walkout while armed and tried to bait students into assaulting him so he could arrest them. Wild choice for an op-ed in the Republic here.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New: it appears ICE is buying immigrants' tax identifiers through a data broker. ICE has repeatedly tried to get this sort of data from the IRS. Judges have repeatedly blocked that move, calling it illegal. Now it looks like ICE is just buying related data instead www.404media.co/ice-appears-...

404media.co

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court or...

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 16/06/2026

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

wired.com

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is not reporting. It’s profiteering

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Early warning systems like this are a scam and a way for Internal Affairs to not work or claim they can’t work without more money

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers. After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...

sltrib.com

2 former city employees in Utah face federal charges for allegedly helping someone evade ICE

Two justice court clerks heard ICE was at their courthouse, so they ushered three people out the back door, federal prosecutors allege.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The sad part of this World Cup is how not just Trump has poisoned the USMNT’s presence - but also Pulisic’s MAGAtry & the conspicuously Christian displays by so many of the current squad.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The NBA finals remind me how fucking disgusting NYC’s upper crust really is. Eat the Rich. Knicks in four

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

wired.com

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just like gang laws and surveillance practices, the media also revels in targeting “marginal” populations with new phrasing, framing and delineations of “correct” society and behavior. The Platner saga is going to be taught for years in journalism schools and sociology courses

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The rag was always pretty sad but it’s been amazing to watch it turn into OANN-lite

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WIRED @wired.com · 03/06/2026

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability. www.wired.com/story/uk-gov...

wired.com

Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.

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William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸 @marxinhell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This one has been coming for a while. The implication was very explicit in the criticisms directed by liberals at disruptive Gaza protests.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Your regular reminder that Martin Luther King would have been called a terrorist, and indeed would probably have been arrested and charged with terrorism, if that vocabulary had been as prominent then as it is now. They threw everything else at him.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/06/2026

Peaceful protest branded as "civil terrorism," brought to you by the Manhattan Institute. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...

“Today’s left-wing agitators deploy random acts of lawlessness designed to inconvenience and disrupt as many civilians as possible, hoping to pressure them to get the government to change course. This tactic is reasonably described as a form of terrorism, though the activists aren’t murderous like al-Qaida or Hamas—they don’t use guns, bombs, or threats of unpredictable bloodshed. Instead, they engage in civil terrorism,” wrote Manhattan Institute legal policy fellow Tal Fortgang, a recent New York University law graduate who lambasted students protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza for “Jew hatred.”

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WIRED @wired.com · 03/06/2026

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

wired.com

Elon Musk and America’s Far Right Stoke Anger Over Murder of UK Teen

Influential figures, including Nick Fuentes, have been accused of “hijacking” the murder of Henry Nowak to push a racist agenda.

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