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@bluetsu.bsky.social
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Traveler. Writer. Teacher. Poet. Speaker. Listener. Voter. Resister… in every order!🍷💫

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13h
Congratulations to this year’s @macfound.org fellows! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/a...
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2026 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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🇨🇦 🦋LaFerrari17🦋 🇨🇦 @aperta17.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I feel like this tweet doesn't get talked about enough.
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The world is watching the US government run for-profit Concentration Camps on American soil in real time... in 2026. When is anyone going to be brought to justice for these human atrocities? Why is CONGRESS allowing it?
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Texans are good with clawing out a window in their prison instead of pushing against the clearly unlocked door…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Now this is a concert. 🎵
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026
WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...
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U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility
Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
This is some disgraceful and authoritarian shit that happens in Hungary and Russia… and Trump’s America. @pbsnews.org is a national treasure.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Traveling? Be aware that US Customs might demand to see what’s on your phone upon entry. Here’s some advice on how to handle the problem. GIFT ARTICLE
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Phone Searches at the Border Are Up: How to Protect Your Privacy
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 06/12/2025
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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FunnyTechGuy 💙 @funnytechguy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Link to Forbes article in case NYT was paywalled: www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Trump Billionaire Transition Donors Revealed: Here’s Who Gave $14 Million
The transition team had previously garnered controversy for refusing to sign an agreement that would have required them to publicly disclose the names sooner.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Breaking: Ghazala Hashmi wins Virginia Lieutenant Governor race, flipping the seat from red to blue. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs. Our new ad just aired during Survivor.
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Moses Mike Johnson out here living his best life freeballing in the Hitler cesspool… Now where’s that Grindr Antifa General with the receipts? 🤬
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"All public high schools and districts can register with The Atlantic to give their students, teachers, and administrators unlimited access to TheAtlantic.com while on campus at no cost: all articles, full magazine issues, podcasts and audio articles, Atlantic Games, and the complete archive."
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Trump sold-out Afghanistan to Taliban terrorists. And freed 5000 of the worst, inc. the leader (2019)
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
NEW: Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its deportation case against the children's hospital chaplain. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
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Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providin...
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 18/09/2025
What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.
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DeeEmmy @deeemmy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Link to access Vanity Fair article free: archive.ph/rxP0Q
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/09/2025
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social (Published Oct. 2024)
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Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/08/2025
Proud to announce that we’ve been nominated for six Online Journalism Awards, including General Excellence in Journalism! Here's a thread of some of our amazing stories that've been recognized this year. 🧵
awards.journalists.org
2025 Online Journalism Awards
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Heartbreaking For the crime of working
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….” A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam www.12news.com/article/news...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
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Jay Burns @jayburns.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"Jasmine Crockett reminded America that sometimes, the strongest woman in the room isn’t the one with the microphone. It’s the one who doesn’t need it." viralstoryusa.noithatnhaxinhbacgiang.com/chien5/were-...
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“We’re Not Cleaning the Streets — We’re Erasing the People.” — Karoline Leavitt Tries to Attack Jasmine Crockett, But Garrett Haake Shatters Her Confidence With a Single Fact at the White House Podium...
The subject: The recent deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. to forcibly clear homeless encampments and conduct street-level “stabilization
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/08/2025
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories. This week, we published that list.
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Horrific www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025
NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...
nurse.org
VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included
The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...
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GOP Senate chief changed consent law as relative faced rape charge involving 13-year-old
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. Newsweek reported a Salt Lake City Tribune piece that Senate President J....
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/08/2025
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
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He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
America, we are now a lawless shithole country governed by a nasty old tyrannical pedophile.... every single person ever convicted based on an FBI investigation should now have their case reviewed based on this obstruction of justice.🤬🤬🤬
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025
One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted. These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
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‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈
Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This reminds me of when I read Matthew Desmond's "Poverty By America", which was just as riveting and infuriating. It made me feel sick, helpless and complicit in contributing to the problem but helped me gain perspective about policies that I should/can support. I'm still coping...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
LENOIR CITY, TN — pregnant fiancée of an American lost her baby in ICE detention after they denied her prenatal care after pleading for help for days. (@ltgovmcnally & @lowellrussell21’s district) Unimaginable cruelty. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
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