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Beirne Roose-Snyder

@beirners.bsky.social
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Sports fan. Bemused parent. Many thoughts on LGBTQI rights, abortion, HIV, SRHR & the law. She/her

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h
I cannot over emphasize how wild it is that this isn’t a top story constantly. Any other admin, yes. This one? They’re causing death and suffering in so many novel ways that in terms of body count and scale, this actually credibly ranks lower
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. “The choices that Trump regime has made since 1/2025 have increased the number of people who die in the field and in custody,” immigration atty and investigative journalist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The Indian Question" now joins "The Jewish Question" as a shorthand for a dream of ethnic cleansing. As with the mass purge of Haitians, Christopher Rufo again seeks to play a central role in this descent into ethnonationalist fascism.
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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 27/09/2026
Palestinian death toll in Gaza war rises above 74,000 www.independent.ie/world-news/p...
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Palestinian death toll in Gaza war rises above 74,000
Gaza’s Health Ministry said another 175,068 have been injured since the war erupted on October 7, 2023
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
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Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026
can you imagine if any foreign brown person were dumping this much money into our elections?
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's CNN, MSNow and Politico's legal motion against the WH ban on them. The evidence of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination is all these quotes from the President saying, repeatedly (in essence), "I don't like their viewpoint." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The DOE is “taking the first step toward removing the ABA’s authority to accredit law schools, said David Barker, assistant secretary of education” The DOE’s “recommendation goes…to a panel that reviews accreditors, which then makes a recommendation to…[DOE official] Nicholas Kent.” Gift link. 1/
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Attacks Bar Association’s Power to Accredit Law Schools
The move escalates a feud with the nation’s premier legal organization.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reminder to check your voter registration, then keep checking it. if you’re registered to vote by mail, check and recheck regularly that you still are, and then get your ballot in as soon as possible once you receive it.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour in jeopardy after opening acts all quit in support of Macklemore
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Ed Sheeran's tour in jeopardy after opening acts all quit in support of Macklemore
The rapper, who was opening for the British talent, was dropped for making a pro-Palestinian speech onstage on September 5.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really hard to overstate just how central AI video slop is to the broader authoritarian project. It allows people to visualize fantasies without having to pay the social costs of such actions, while desensitizing people about the act itself. It's 4chan on steroids w a veneer of respectability.
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Congressional Equality Caucus @equality.house.gov · 14/09/2026
Over the weekend, the Turkish government targeted LGBTQI+ organizations & human rights defenders in its latest crackdown on the LGBTQI+ community Freedom of expression & freedom of association are core human rights that should never be undermined, especially by the government.
Turkey detains dozens after sweeping raids targeting LGBTQ+ groups. Read more at the link in our bio.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chuckling at the almost touching pointlessness of gifting Donald Trump a Michael Longley poem. Like playing Bach to a waffle iron.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Powerful op-ed by Senator @kim.senate.gov: "Delaney Hall is working exactly how it is intended to — as a purgatory to indefinitely hold detainees in poor and often dangerous conditions, with no progress in court, until their spirits break and they agree to self-deport."
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Opinion | The abhorrent conditions inside Delaney Hall are only part of the story
We are witnessing blatant disregard for human welfare, seemingly all to enrich Donald Trump’s corporate allies and sustain an inhumane agenda.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A billionaire-backed Christian nationalist movement is turning apocalyptic theology into state power, using Project 2025 to embed religious control across government, education, & media, as figures like Russell Vought & Pete Hegseth advance a sweeping push to remake U.S. democracy into a theocracy.
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Climb Every Mountain: How Christian Nationalism Seeks to Conquer American Democracy
A billionaire-backed Christian nationalist movement is rapidly infiltrating multiple facets of American life. Known as the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” Christian nationalists and their allies behind Proj...
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A new State Department grant program would direct nearly $5 million to organizations across Europe promoting anti-immigrant narratives and “Western civilizational heritage.” The initiative extends Project 2025's authoritarian agenda beyond U.S. borders.
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State Department Plans $5 Million Push for ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ in Europe
The Trump administration is launching a nearly $5 million State Department program to fund organizations across Europe that promote anti-immigrant narratives, Christian nationalist rhetoric, and the d...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
i think it is cool that neo nazis run government social media accounts
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Lompoc Indivisible 🙅‍♂️👑 @lompocindivisible.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Children as young as five are being exposed to white supremacist propaganda on Roblox, where a teen-led white supremacist group calling itself the “Blueshirts” stages virtual neo-Nazi demonstrations, recruits young users, and turns gameplay into a pipeline for radicalization.
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Online Neo-Nazi Group Using Children’s Video Games For Recruiting And Propaganda
A disturbing trend is emerging on Roblox, a platform with tens of millions of young users: online white supremacist groups are using children’s video games to recruit and spread propaganda. The “Blues...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/09/2026
In a North Carolina, a pastor is challenging a longtime Republican sheriff who has been investigating for profiling Latino residents long before Trump. Learn more about this upcoming election shaped by fears about immigration enforcement.
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A North Carolina Sheriff and ICE Ally Faces Accusations of Racism—and a Challenger This Fall - Bolts
Sheriff Terry Johnson, who is battling for a seventh term in Alamance County, was investigated for profiling Latinos long before Trump. His opponent says he’d rebuild trust with local immigrants.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Missouri AG inappropriately spends $167,000 in state funds on abortion PSA ahead of November vote www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Missouri AG spends $167,000 in state funds on abortion PSA ahead of November vote
Missouri’s attorney general says the PSA provides consumer information. Abortion-rights advocates say taxpayers are funding messaging tied to the November ballot fight.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/09/2026
This is low-level propaganda that elides the real story, which is that the younger candidate in this race is an anti-trans clown and the older candidate is one of the Senate's strongest progressives. Please vote for Markey in MA, friends. The old guy is the only choice here.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1...
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1,328 people arrested by ICE in Maryland and Virginia over 2 weeks, DHS says
More than 1,300 people were arrested, and not even half, according to DHS’ own numbers, have been charged or convicted with crimes.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
Mandated Islamophobia “The board members will debate a recommendation that students learn about early Islam through the lens of “the Prophet Mohammed’s brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes, the normalization of slavery, and the taking of female captives as harem slaves.”
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Divisive rewrite of Texas social studies set to conclude
Final debates on proposed changes will come after years of deliberations about race and religion in the classroom.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We don’t debate people’s civil rights period www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...
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Ed Markey Defends Transgender Athletes in Massachusetts Senate Race (Gift Article)
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Poll trutherism is the foundation of election denial www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ABOLISH ICE NOW
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
including a 10 match ban for Paredes. love to see it tbh www.nytimes.com/athletic/752...
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Argentina players, staff banned for combined 21 games after World Cup final brawl
The lengthiest suspension sees Leandro Paredes banned for 10 matches, while Nahuel Molina has been suspended for seven games.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Some university executives are not simply complying with the Trump Administration; they are skillful entrepreneurs who are exploiting and advancing the government’s agenda for their own gain." I will be calling them "authoritarian entrepreneurs" from now on.
Screenshot of article which reads: Where I saw some limited success in slowing the attacks, it seems that others saw an opportunity to upend US higher education’s status hierarchy and advance individual and institutional ambitions. Executives who take up this strategy might be thought of as authoritarian entrepreneurs.

A kind of policy entrepreneur, authoritarian entrepreneurs are leaders who exploit the opportunities made available by the Trump Administration’s authoritarian politics to influence outcomes in ways that advance their own, often narrow, goals. To be clear, authoritarian entrepreneurs do not have to be authoritarians themselves, and it doesn’t even require bad intentions; only the willingness to engage in enterprising activities that accommodate and advance authoritarian agendas in order to advance their own.Screenshot of article which reads: While the Trump administration and its MAGA counterpart state governments present the most direct threats to academic freedom, authoritarian entrepreneurs pose a more difficult challenge. Status seeking is endemic to higher education, and it is proving hard for campus leaders to set aside individual ambition for common gain. Authoritarian entrepreneurship is likely cropping up all over higher education, and beyond.

When you read the Compact 2.0, you might find some overlap between your own thinking and the questions posed by the administration. Shouldn’t we address how to ensure academic integrity in the face of AI? Isn’t controlling costs for students and families a good thing? These are indeed, in a neutral context, worthy questions. But the context is not neutral. Entertaining the Compact 2.0 legitimizes the Trump Administration’s clear design to impose their ideological preferences on higher education. As academic faculty and staff, it is important to keep in mind that authoritarian entrepreneurs will use the seeming appropriateness of some aspects of McMahon’s letter to draw their campuses into an exercise that subordinates academic independence to Trump’s political authority.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Russell Vought should be impeached, and Stephen Miller can and should be impeached too. The Constitution does not limit the term “civil officer” to Senate appointed officers.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 17/07/2026
I’m still waiting for my Republican colleagues to speak out about the ICE killing in Maine.   Joan Sebastian Guerrero did everything by the book, and now he's dead and his child will grow up without a father. Where is their outrage?
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/07/2026
like I dunno, if I were a strategist in a functional opposition party I might pay smart and creative people to make viral TikTok and Instagram videos pointing out Republicans are illegally turning U.S. local broadcast TV into a right wing propaganda machine but that's just me
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FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs
FCC chairman claims power to repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Beirne Roose-Snyder @beirners.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In honor of the Argentina/England semi -final of malice, I’m resharing this Bloom County classic.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I mean, a federal judge just ordered formal sanctions against this nominee *this same week* What the hell are we doing here?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-orders-sanctions-against-blanche-says-trump-tried-to-manipulate-the-judicial-process-with-irs-settlement/ar-AA27PGnj
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My cover story for The NY Times Magazine, in partnership with @propublica.org, shows how Florida is executing more condemned prisoners than all other states combined. DeSantis just signed a new death warrant. TWO men will now be executed on the same day, July 28. www.propublica.org/article/flor...
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Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
They just keep killing people and lying about it. Everybody involved in this criminal organization needs to be prosecuted.
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Beirne Roose-Snyder @beirners.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I think the use of (and threat of) UK defamation laws by TERFs is an incredibly important story, and one that other countries with closing civil society space need to pay close attention to.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.
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