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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026
What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!
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Image shows pen and ink drawings of an ICE agent peeking around one side of the word ICE and a determined looking person holding up a cell phone as if to record peering around the other side.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ALSO...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“‘Many senior engineers believe it’s inevitable we’re going to have a massive data breach as a result of Hatch.’ Muse is called ‘Hatch’ internally and in Meta’s codebase.” @404media.co
404media.co
Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“prosecutors had also obtained roughly three hundred [‼️] photographs of Martinez’s and Ruiz’s cars from Flock ALPR cameras throughout Cook County,” over a 30 day span.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Reese Ourso @reeseourso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is all theater. Looks like she votes with Trump on immigration policy. She enables Trump’s immigration enforcement. Another GOP hypocrite.
Border and asylum policy, DACA, deportation practices, ICE
enforcement, and the treatment of immigrants and refugees.
SCORED ACTIONS
× Voted YES on the SAVE Act requiring citizenship proof to vote — a voter suppression measure (H.R.22)
× Voted YES on the Laken Riley Act expanding mandatory ICE detention for immigrants (H.R.29)
× Voted YES on $10B in ICE funding expansion in the DHS Appropriations bill (H.R.7147)
× Voted YES on a resolution thanking
ICE for enforcement operations (H.Res.488)× Voted YES on a bill criminalizing illegal entry as a federal felony (H.R.3486)
× Voted YES on Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act — creates criminal penalties for fleeing federal officers near the border; signed into law (H.R.35)
× Voted YES on Standalone FY26
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act funding ICE detention and CBP enforcement.
(H.R.7744)
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Unfortunately,) Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
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Patrick Smith @pksmid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On tomorrow's Say More, we're talking with Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke. Listen at 10am on 91.5 or wbez.org and call in with your questions for the county's top prosecutor at 866-915-9239.
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Michael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yet another example of "there is no AI, only exploitation of labor".
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026
i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Extremely important story. Predictive policing is a euphemistic way of saying DHS is doing pre-crime, because of its improper access to your data. As @jakelaperruque.bsky.social says here, this takes a sledgehammer to the concept of probable cause of the commission of a crime. It can’t be reformed.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reform advocates: Why Illinois should reconsider its $1.1 billion prison project www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/07/o...
chicagotribune.com
Reform advocates: Why Illinois should reconsider its $1.1 billion prison project
Illinois has already tried and failed to improve inhumane prison conditions with expensive design projects such as the Joliet Treatment Center.
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Aya @ayathetigerrr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: no. amnesty.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Gail T. Smith @gail-cbip.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Pardon_...
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Tell Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to Pardon Keshia Golden
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
“We apologise for the Princess Diana page one headline DI GOES SEX MAD, which is still on the stands at some locations. It is currently being replaced with a special 72-page tribute issue: A FAREWELL TO THE PRINCESS WE ALL LOVED.”
Statement published by the National Enquirer, August 31, 1997
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/08/2026
NEW: Meltdowns, threats & FOP influence have marred the fight for civilian police accountability in Chicago. Some police district councilors question the future of the body they serve on as they battle CPD interests to get things done. The fault lines run deep. From @zoetakaki.bsky.social:
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Civilian oversight blues: inside Chicago’s ongoing police accountability meltdown
Chicago has a new community police oversight body that emerged in response to the historic 2020 protests. According to those elected to serve, however, it’s already full of cops.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
People who are pro-union but not in unions themselves always ask me what they can do to help the labor movement. Here is one thing. Very easy but meaningful.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...
local12.com
Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart
A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
miamiherald.com
Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026
An experimental mRNA vaccine allowed people with high-risk melanoma to live longer, cancer-free, in a large, closely watched trial, the pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck announced Wednesday.
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Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
Moderna and Merck say the experimental vaccine prevented the return and spread of the cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.
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Side-Eye Cyd @objectivecyd.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
Receipts: atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/13/a...
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'Don't Sweep Under the Rug': At Least Six Black People Found Hanging, Families and Communities Question Quick Conclusions from Police
At least six Black people have been found hanging in publicly reported cases across the U.S. in 2026. Several deaths were quickly classified as suicides,
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
These are the people who gave 35 M to Northwestern and then shortly thereafter they said they were closing African Studies
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
extremely rich considering how the admin arrested Don Lemon when he covered a protest at a church, alleging that he was part of a conspiracy to violate churchgoers' religious liberty ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
ballsandstrikes.org
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Prosecute Its Way Out of Bad Media Coverage
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort threaten more than just their First Amendment rights as journalists.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I know there’s numbness to the authoritarian drumbeat but this is rubicon-crossing. DOJ subpoenaed years of records from some of the largest unions in the country, infiltrated protest groups & tried to engineer a takedown of the institutional left in MN/nationwide. It is making COINTELPRO look tame
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh I'm 100 percent doing an episode on this guy for Past Lives. Killed by a trebuchet during a castle siege? That's a story we're telling.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is much how America stole what is now California, New Mexico, Nevada, and Arizona.
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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
no amnesty
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
futurism.com
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them
didtheyghostyou.com
Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company
Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.
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Baltimore Banner Sports @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com · 20/07/2026
“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.
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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good morning, have you sent a letter to our bosses?
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/07/2026
One of the most important reasons to tax 100% of wealth beyond a few million bucks is that they do this kind of shit with it
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
propublica.org
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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