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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 16h
On Friday, ICE detained a Maine father on his way to visit his deaf son at school. This breaks my heart. Susan Collins gave ICE a blank check. Families like this one are paying the price. Senator, spare us your “concern.” www.sunjournal.com/2026/10/13/s...
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Saco father detained by ICE at jetport on way to visit deaf son
Nguinamau Celestino, an asylum seeker originally from Angola, was detained by immigration officials Friday.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12h
🚨WE ARE HIRING Thanks to subscriber support, @levernews.com is now expanding our newsroom. We are hiring: - Director of Audio & Video - Social Media Producer - Video Field Reporter - Multimedia Producer - Senior Investigative Reporter Find jobs at LeverNews [dot] com [slash] jobs & pass it on
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 14h
Join “The Next Governor Project” Team! Fill out the form at the link below, or email zoe@350colorado.org with any questions. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 06/10/2026
“They can literally burn alive.” Bornean orangutans are losing their homes to the most severe fire season that Indonesia has seen in decades. As El Niño worsens and the climate crisis escalates, how can we protect these animals and their homes from destruction?
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amendment 82 may seem like it is about upholding the rights of the humble consumer, but in reality it is a bid by the fossil fuel industry and large corporate polluters to future-proof their profits and keep Colorado locked-in to a dirty industrywithout regulation.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026
AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.
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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
As Yom Kippur came to a close this evening, I was privileged to join my friend, Ruth Messinger, at a break fast in her home. It was an honor to celebrate this moment of renewal with many of our Jewish neighbors. May it be a year of justice, joy and peace.
Mayor Mamdani, Ruth Messinger, and two children hold challah bread.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Me 🤚
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Community members will have the opportunity to voice their concerns about potentially selling the city's mineral rights. A virtual session will take place September 19th (2pm-3pm). You can join the virtual session at that time using this link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/2977671...
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Join a multi-organization effort for an interactive event in Adams County, CO on Saturday, September 26th from 12:30-3:30pm MT to see the issues of fracking firsthand! RSVP: secure.ngpvan.com/FepEAl0cokSa...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 14/09/2026
we’re living inside the movie we made
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As a new NFL season begins, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. Watch.
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The Sports Stadium Scam | Robert Reich
Billionaires have found one more way to fleece the public: sports stadiums.And if we don’t play ball, they’ll take our f
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
RSVP for the Rally and Press Conference: actionnetwork.org/events/bould... Register for the Webinar: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Brett C. is concerned about what a large-scale oil and gas operation could bring to his community. Weld County has scheduled the hearing on the Century Fracking Pad. Applications for Intervention are due by September 11th. Visit centurypad.org to take action.
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barbk-g.bsky.social @barbk-g.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Her body temperature was 106”: How heat is killing Americans in their homes - NPR
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join a multi-organization effort for an interactive event in Adams County, CO on Saturday, September 26th from 12:30-3:30pm MT to see the issues of fracking firsthand! RSVP Link: secure.ngpvan.com/FepEAl0cokSa...
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Coloradans depend on our national forests. Your voice matters! In 2001, 1.6M public comments helped secure the adoption of the Roadless Rule. Together, we can protect it. Comments are due on September 21st. Use this toolkit to get started: tinyurl.com/4bx5pc7r
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/08/2026
The Trump administration has been looking into ways it could cede a roughly quarter-mile strip of land inside Yosemite to Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a real estate investment company. The proposal has the “full weight” of the Interior Department’s backing, which is causing friction with park staff.
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Trump Admin Eyes Deal to Give Away Yosemite Park Land to Real Estate Firm
The White House has been in talks with the firm since the spring of last year.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On 8/25 in Wisconsin near the line 5 reroute construction site, an empty semi truck backed into the pipeline and ruptured it. Releasing a yet unquantified amount of natural gas liquids, and leading to nearby homes being evacuated for safety.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 29/08/2026
Today's water-cooler fun facts: August 27th saw the 21st consecutive daily record global temperature, more than 1.80°C above the pre-industrial baseline, more than 4.35 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 daily mean, and more than 0.25°C above the previous daily record.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"The solicitation seeks 5,500 detention beds in four regions on contracts running 10 years each: 1800 beds in central Pennsylvania, 1500 near Denver, 1500 near Seattle, 700 near Miami..." www.projectsaltbox.com/p/mobile-det...
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Mobile detention sites, courtrooms inside the jails, and a clause saying state law does not apply. What ICE's new detention solicitation reveals
A contract solicitation posted Friday covers vans that hold people at arrest scenes, courtrooms inside private detention centers, and a clause declaring state law inapplicable.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record. -Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social
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The Lever @levernews.com · 27/08/2026
We dig into it on this week's Lever Time: www.levernews.com/the-billiona...
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https://www.levernews.com/the-billionaire-building-the-democrats-new-machine/?utm_campaign=lever-time
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The Lever @levernews.com · 27/08/2026
A billionaire-funded network says it just wants Democrats to win. But Lever reporting shows it’s handpicking candidates, targeting progressives and building a corporate-aligned power center inside the party — with 2028 in its sights.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Let this great tragedy wake us up to our new reality. Abolish the fossil fuel industry or be swept away.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Questions of national sovereignty and country borders are rendered irrelevant when the glacial ice shelves collapse and walls of water wipe out entire cities. Climate collapse is coming for every country on Earth.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court is not being obtuse. They're being evil. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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The Supreme Court Is Helping Trump Rig the Midterms
Trump’s order limiting mail-in voting is patently unconstitutional—but that didn’t stop the court from giving it the green light.
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
SM Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company, is backing out of a multimillion-dollar mineral rights deal with the Town of Erie after facing significant community pushback. What kind of precedent does this deal reversal set for other frontline communities in Colorado?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The fight over data centers is happening in your backyard whether you know it or not. Where will you stand?
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Data Centers Are Becoming A Big Problem For Big Tech—And Trump
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 13/08/2026
Heatwaves are forcing farmers to see their harvest ruined. This is NOT normal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia
South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 12/08/2026
ICE has targeted legal observers, protestors, and just ordinary people on their way to work or to drop their kid off at school. This won't make anyone safer and in fact just gives ICE another dangerous tool to target citizens and immigrants alike. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Published Tuesday; living it Sunday: aqi is so bad thanks to a local fire I have to close all the windows in a high-desert house with no air conditioning. "...the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very color of sunlight into something grimly unsettling.
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We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory boreholes, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ODNR acknowledges toxic, injected wastewater left its target formation and reached producing wells in Washington County. Migration threatens local drinking water. What will its GOP supermajority master do about it? @ccbecker271.bsky.social @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
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Civil Liberties Defense Center @cldc03.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
CLDC In The News: Oregon corrections officials are punishing our client for their political beliefs, for things that are First Amendment protected. Learn more in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/08/04/m...
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BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
A misconduct report before the transfer noted that Malik Muhammad, a Black Lives Matter protester, was critical of Israel in communications from prison.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 03/08/2026
Get the stories powerful interests don’t want you to see — delivered straight to your inbox. Subscribe to LEVER DAILY: www.levernews.com/el-sayed-cha...
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Progressive Abdul El-Sayed Challenges "Electability” Attacks
In an exclusive interview days before the Democratic primary, the Michigan Senate candidate says that his party is more concerned with him winning than losing.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 04/08/2026
I’m leading an amicus brief to the Supreme Court with Senator Whitehouse to allow states and local communities to hold Big Oil accountable for knowingly contributing to and lying about climate change. No immunity for Big Oil.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/08/2026
BREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Another detainee dies at controversial NYC-area ICE facility
Edwin Lopez Cornejo died Aug. 1, his family said. Cornejo's mother blamed her son's death on him not receiving medications needed to treat his diabetes.
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Safe & Healthy Colorado @safehealthyco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The oil and gas industry has used deceptive tactics to exert outsized political control in Colorado. The Union of Concerned Scientists documented four basic disinformation “plays” in the state. Source: Colorado Targeted by Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Playbook www.ucs.org/sites/defaul...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 24/07/2026
These Democrats need to hear from the constituents they betrayed.
(above images of Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Vicente Gonzalez, Adam Gray, Jared Golden, Henry Cuellar, and Don Davis) INEXCUSABLE
These six Democrats voted with House Republicans to pass the NDAA — with the SAVE Act and a US-Israeli military merger attached to it.
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