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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2026
NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com
propublica.org
This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/02/2026
This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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MELLYmed @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Warning And advice In the thread #Mm
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
'Four days before Trump’s '25 inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars.... The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.'
wsj.com
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
7um Jing
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.
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Jason Wilkinson @jwiki.dev · 18/10/2025
No Kings march Durham
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#ShouldBeFrontPage but isn’t 8/2/25 Billionaires via their Republican minions have terminated the CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting). The last major media system not controlled by media oligarchs or profit-driven model. NYT Grade: F 1/n
NYTimes zero mention of CPB
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
“The data, obtained through public records requests, show that at least 60 percent of the centers analyzed had reported serious pregnancy complications, suicide attempts, or sexual assault allegations.” Beyond haunting. How do the ghouls doing this sleep at night? www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
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“BY DHRUV MEHROTRA AND DELL CAMERONSECURITYJUN 25, 2025 5:21 PM
‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
A hand holding a phone with the image of an ambulance against the aerial view of an ICE processing center and person...”
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
NOTE this is "Trump's War on Iran." Not "with" - that implies mutuality. And not simply "war" nor "attack."
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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
Job standing in front of a carBradford, job and two friends hanging at dodger stadium Bradford and job sitting in his carBradford, Job and two friends hanging
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
(90% is not hyperbole)
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 16/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A GOP congressman from N. Carolina appears to have violated the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of "Liberation Day"-timed stock purchases from which he profited after quickly selling. From me in @fortune.com: fortune.com/2025/06/16/t...
fortune.com
Exclusive: Congressman Tim Moore failed to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of personal stock purchases made around Trump's 'Liberation Day' in a potential STOCK Act violation
Moore did not publicly disclose a dozen stock trades that he made throughout April until Friday, which is well after a federal deadline for doing so.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
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Zachary Fryer-Biggs @zachfb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
military.com
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I don't like it when @profjessblankshain.bsky.social freaks out. Not a good sign for the health of civil-military relations.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.
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FLIP NC @flipnc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We're not celebrating until it's officially official, but this is GREAT news!! As the (conservative, Trump-appointed) judge writes, "You establish the rules before the game. You don't change them after the game is done."
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bribrough.bsky.social @bribrough.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Justice Allison Riggs won her race for NC Supreme Court, and with this ruling she is one step closer to having her victory certified. And, we will NEVER FORGET Jefferson Griffin's cynical attempt to disenfranchise thousands of voters. Free and FAIR elections Foreverrrrr⚖️
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Most local governments still haven't seen a nickel."
smokymountainnews.com
Losing ground: Six months after Helene, local governments still haven’t been paid
Most days, Brandon Rogers has dirt under his fingernails — a badge of honest labor. Owner of a small auto repair shop on the outskirts of Canton, Rogers usually wakes up, puts on some sturdy workwear ...
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/04/2025
Great work by @justcalma.bsky.social here! Of course I love getting cited again but there are lots of great quotes throughout from people who know the space www.theverge.com/environment/...
theverge.com
The EPA cracked down on Tesla and SpaceX. Then Elon Musk and DOGE took over.
Who’s left to hold Musk accountable?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
An important win by Allison Riggs, the Democratic justice & candidate in the 2024 North Carolina supreme court race: a federal appeals court pauses state courts' order that helped her GOP opponent's bid to overturn Riggs' win in November.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2025
fighting tears
a screenshot of the first several paragraphs of the quote-skeeted article, with the following paragraphs highlighted in yellow:

“If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”

On Wednesday, just days before her wedding, 25-year-old Hassouna was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit her home in northern Gaza. Ten members of her family, including her pregnant sister, were also killed.

The Israeli military said it had been a targeted strike on a Hamas member involved in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"You are sucking up to a tyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible. You are collaborators."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
AOC: How can anyone possibly make an objective vote on healthcare, energy, or war when their personal wealth is tied up in pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense company stock?
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/04/2025
My tiktok is filled with people (some in China) explaining how your favorite luxury brands are all actually made in China and often times they'll add some random finishing touch in a European country to get like a made in Italy label
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Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
$45 billion over 2 years. That’s $22.5 billion a year. They’re gutting medical research and basic science to fund for-profit prisons. It’s been said that societies are what they build, and in Trump’s America it’s concentration camps.
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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“It’s Nike, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, and other American conglomerates that benefit most from global trade, not the factory workers making a few dollars a day.” www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
404media.co
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
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Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I just want to say that Trump and this administration CAN BE DEFEATED. They are fascists but they are idiots and they are massively overreaching. If we stand up to them, we will defeat them. United we stand - DO NOT COWER!
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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This would be a good time for national news sites to promote the folks on the ground in NC, doing the work: @ncnewsline.com @downhomenc.bsky.social @beaconmedia.bsky.social @theassemblync.bsky.social
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bribrough.bsky.social @bribrough.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some questions that Mike Waltz and the others must answer: 1) How did he preserve the thread and others for PRA 2) What phones were everyone using 3) What kind of security do those phones have 4) WHERE were they using those phones 5) What else is on the phones 6) Why was Joe Kent included
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Logged onto twitter and saw that a young journalist I've been following for the last year and a half has been killed, via his final message posted on his behalf by his community. Was a primary source of news for so many. I recall many times over the last months feeling relief that he was still alive
Hossam Shabat's final message, posted on his Twitter page
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