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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/03/2026
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This is an enraging, heartbreaking story.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
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Pulp & Politics @pulpandpolitics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/02/2026
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Trump v. United States is an illegitimate decision.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. Remember this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now. Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.
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Second ICE detention warehouse confirmed in Georgia
Georgia’s immigrant detention network is expanding into Hall County, according to Oakwood city manager.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2026
i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
He lied at the National Prayer Breakfast to take credit for a prisoner freed who was actually freed during Obama. You heard that right — Lying 🤥 at 🤥 a 🤥 prayer 🤥 breakfast 🤥 www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
In November 2020, the (dumb, baseless) theory was that this involved Smartmatic. It’s useful to reiterate that no matter what lies the incessantly lying Gabbard offers, there’s no evidence that there was anything suspect about the election AT ALL, much less Involving some conspiracy linked to VZ.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u... Siri, what happens when you kill the Chinese soybean market, end USAID food purchases, harass the labor pool, impose tariffs on inputs, kill ag research and support, and actively oppose wind and solar, which could offer farmers some financial diversification?
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Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Another reason to not buy US produce: 'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms www.commondreams.org/news/trump-d...
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'MAHA-Washing': Trump EPA Set to Reapprove Dicamba Despite Pesticide's Harms | Common Dreams
“The fact that we’re here again after two failed attempts to fix this broken pesticide shows that Lee Zeldin and his army of industry lobbyists are utterly incapable of protecting the public,” said on...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
So back in June Alex Padilla was tackled and detained by ICE for trying to ask a question at a press conference. The story from the administration was he attacked her. Fast forward 7 months, Maxwell Frost attacked, Ilhan Omar attacked. Not a peep from the media about "turning down the rhetoric". 🙄
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2026
remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/01/2026
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/12/2025
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Are farmers going to be on welfare for all 4 years of this Trump term, or just for 3 years like the first Trump term? We get you like voting for government handouts, but we are $38 trillion in debt.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We're doing pogroms in America now
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool. It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Trump fall asleep numerous times at Tuesday's cabinet meeting yet corporate media barely covered it. I can't even imagine the coverage if Biden had fallen asleep at a cabinet meeting!!
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 23/11/2025
Trump has been bashing wind power for years. He’s now cracking down on its use in the United States — and it’s costing people jobs and causing energy bills to skyrocket. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Vendetta Against Wind is Gutting Jobs and Raising Prices
Unionized workers are fighting Donald Trump's attacks on wind energy. In Baltimore, they're preparing for the “Green Workforce of the Future."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
An extraordinary, beautiful, and heartbreaking piece by writer & environmentalist Tatiana Schlossberg (Caroline Kennedy’s daughter). My prayers go out to her and her family. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“After Aceituno again told the agents he was a U.S. citizen, they finally threw him out of the van…[And] the agents had taken his car keys. (Aceituno voted for Trump in 2024 because of the border and the economy. He now calls it ‘the worst decision of my life.’)” www.thebulwark.com/p/baker-past...
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A Baker, a Pastor, and Charlotte’s Stand Against ICE
How everyday people are reminding the nation what it means to be American.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Thanks RFK and Trump.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/11/2025
Anybody who thinks thousands of agonizing deaths is a fine price to pay for saving a fractional amount of government spending is unworthy of being listened to, let alone being given political power www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...
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This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done
A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas: "It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🔥 @RepJoeNeguse: “Most of 🇺🇸 will find this REPUGNANT. These senators are guaranteeing themselves million-dollar paydays.” Bipartisan horror at @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn’s greedy money grab snuck inside the funding bill— rewarding themselves for getting investigated.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Justice Gorsuch said what Mike Johnson is saying here is false. Johnson has abdicated the tariff authority vested in Congress by Article 1 to the president - something no other Speaker has done in history. He is selling out the institution he is supposed to be safeguarding. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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