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Attorney, mom, cat lover, defender of democracy, snarky AF

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 07/04/2026
Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
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Teen who went to photograph L.A. 'No Kings' rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says
Tucker Collins, an 18-year-old freshman at USC, attended a 'No Kings' protest in Los Angeles on Mar. 28. He ended up getting shot in the eye with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and is now blind.
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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org
Press statement From Islip Forward:

At approximately 9:30 a.m. this morning, federal agents were documented using infrastructure located on the property of the Central Islip Fire Department Station 2, at 110 Wheeler Road-without prior authorization to be on or use that space.

When a volunteer with Islip Forward approached to document the activity, federal agents threatened the volunteer with arrest for alleged trespassing, despite the agents themselves operating in an area where no prior permission had been granted.

Immediately following this interaction, the Central Islip Fire Department took swift action to protect its property and the public. Temporary restrictions were implemented, including closing the gate to the area being used and preventing external access.

The use of municipal fire department property for federal enforcement activity—without authorization-and the subsequent threat directed at a community volunteer raise serious concerns about transparency, overreach, and respect for local institutions.
We are deeply grateful to the volunteer firefighters of the Central Islip Fire Department for their decisive and responsible response.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
ICE using handicap hang tags?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 30/01/2026
Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Case in point. bsky.app/profile/mike...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Seems like a good video for his trial
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There’s no reforming this
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Virginia House of Delegates approved a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment Wednesday that would allow lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts mid-decade, a significant step toward countering nationwide GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Virginia House passes amendment allowing redistricting to counter GOP gerrymanders
Read more here.
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/01/2026
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
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Bree Fram @breefram.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth. This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/12/2025
Zelenskyy calls Russia’s claim of a strike on one of Putin’s residences a “complete fabrication,” a lie designed to sabotage diplomacy, justify more attacks on Kyiv, and excuse Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He warns the world must not stay silent as Russia tries to derail peace.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"In 1,000 days of war, Russia seized less than 1% of Ukraine's territory and failed to achieve its strategic goals." - Finnish President Stubb. He also noted that the Russian economy is stagnating: zero growth, exhausted reserves, high interest rates, and inflation.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee. Will Jordan release the video to the public? If not, why not?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Dear everyone in Congress (including @chrismurphyct.bsky.social): Please make it easier for people to find and embed your videos -- perhaps a parallel page to your press releases on Congressional site or ensure all your vids are on your YouTube site. "Thank you for your attention to this matter"
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Trump Administration's latest rationale for killing striken seamen was that they knew that two men had survived the initial strike but that they "needed to sink the vessel" so they fired again. That is the EXACT same defense Heinz-Wilhelm Eck used after WWII. He was found guilty and executed.
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Pentagon knew boat attack left survivors but still launched a follow-on strike, AP sources say
The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hegseth is very transparently blaming a Navy admiral for his own decision. Let this be a lesson for every other military officer: The Trump administration will issue unlawful orders, then blame you for following them.
@PeteHegseth on X: Let’s make one thing crystal clear: 

Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.

America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/11/2025
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press "Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BREAKING: Judge McFadden has *granted * the AP’s injunction against the White House’s ban on access to the Oval Office and East Room.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/12/2024
Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Remember the accusation that Harris was being fed questions by another network? Always projection with Trump.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/12/2024
F*CK CITIZENS UNITED Next time Dems are in power, we need to have a bill like this here. 📌 Australia’s Labor Party has proposed capping political donations at $20,000 per candidate to prevent billionaires from buying elections.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 11/12/2024
Here's how CNN covered Luigi Mangione's note: "This manifesto, these rantings and ravings of an individual that obviously has some aberrant thoughts in his mind and that's why he put it down on paper. So all of that is certainly very disturbing."
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Really American @reallyamerican.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points. Absolutely brilliant. H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/12/2024
McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half-century, thinks judges who are unretiring after Trump’s win lack integrity. Good grief! newrepublic.com/post/188982/...
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Hypocrite Mitch McConnell Complains That Democrats Are Too Partisan
McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half century, thinks judges who are un-retiring after Trump's win lack integrity. Good grief!
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
When someone’s own mother calls them an “abuser of women,” my god. That’s not just “different views,” or something to which the president is entitled “deference.” That’s a clear sign of someone who should not be in a position of power and it’s precisely the Senate’s job to guard against that.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One attribute of personalist regimes is the use of family members rather than people with experience of competence
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/12/2024
It's also true that there will be so much of this kind of thing - fraud on a completely new scale - that our underfunded media and our shattered attention spans might find it hard to cope. People are already used to the next administration's corruption and it's not Jan 20 yet
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David Turnbull @dturnbull.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Then / Now. Just despicable.
Screenshot of a Manu Raju tweet quoting Sen. Mullin on Matt Gaetz from Oct 4, 2023.Screenshot of Aaron Rupar tweet of Sen. Mullin answering a question from CNN's Jake Tapper about Trump picking Matt Gaetz as AG.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Gonna try another old-Twitter-style thread, since the last one got a lot of engagement. This time about a topic some people have raised, but needs more attention: the likelihood that Trump's tariffs will become an engine of immense corruption 1/
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
/2 So Trumpism is about scorning and ridiculing norms of courtesy and civility and saying “fuck your feelings” and calling people low-IQ and retarded and enemies of the people and vermin and encouraging violence and then saying “how uncivil not to shake my hand.”
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
BREAKING: Attorney for teenager at the center of Matt Gaetz sex trafficking allegations says "She was a high school student and there were witnesses." Calls upon Ethics Committee to release it's report which Miami Herald/McClatchy sources say is "highly damaging."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This one is not funny at all.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Letting American kids die of measles to own the libs. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
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