iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tactical Onions Vendor @inkana.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

shutdown will end roughly 2 hours from now

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The most sacred clause in the Constitution may be the war making clause. Our founding fathers are turning in their grave watching this Republican Congress allow one man lead us into a disastrous, incompetently run war.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Broadly: the danger of nuclear risk and escalation with AI is not concentrated in giving presidents a bad machine advisor urging escalation. Instead, that risk is in automating any Stanislav Petrovs out of the chain of launch, as you need *restrain* to respond to sensor error indicating odd launch.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"The children’s mother called the school early Thursday to tell them she’d been detained and asked school leaders to bring the kids to her at the Whipple Federal Building ... because there were no family members ... to care for them. “We had to deliver them to a detention center,” Kuhlman said.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Worth every second

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

CNN: You're seeing people really trailing these law enforcement vehicles and throwing snowballs…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Chuck Schumer: The Trump administration lied to me in three separate briefings about their plans for Venezuela. The Democrats: WE DEMAND A FOURTH BRIEFING IMMEDIATELY.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

“Look at these scumbags — in the car with guns with a baby in the back.” What are we doing?

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Let's play "spot the outlier" on four different LLMs from the major labs:

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible.
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"In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter,
J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing:
Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

sometimes as a nation you just have to choose between funding free school lunch or concentration camps for day laborers

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“He stole money from the bank, which is at odds with a law that bars people from stealing money.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today

@BFriedmanDC on X: This is an ABC/BBC poll of *Iraqis* over time, from 2004-2008. It does not include 2002-2003 when Iraqi support was highest.

U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2004: 49/39
U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2008: 49/50

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YouGov
Do you approve or disapprove of deploying National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement?
Conducted June 10, 2025

YouGov surveyed 4309 US adults

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's incredible these people are trying to set up a military dictatorship with 40% approval ratings in the oldest democracy in the world. Good luck, motherfuckers!

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"The head lawyer of a human rights group representing the families of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported from the United States has been arrested. Ruth López, an outspoken critic of Bukele, was detained under an order which accused her of “embezzlement”."

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Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested

Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. The war in Ukraine affected scientists’ ability to get funding and materials; we worried that our male colleagues might be conscripted. That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future. I fear that if I return to Russia I will be arrested.

I am hesitant to comment broadly on what it’s like for scientists now in America because I have only limited information about what is going on outside of this detention center. What I do know is that my colleagues, many of whom are, like me, foreign scientists, are terrified of being detained or having their visa status revoked.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/04/2025

If the Trump Admin was able to illegally abduct Kilmar Abrego Garcia and send him to El Salvador in 72 hours, then they can sure as hell bring him home in less than that. Their foot-dragging on complying with court orders is unacceptable. They need to bring Kilmar home NOW.

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The Trump Admin must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home NOW

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/04/2025

Vandalize a library? Take over a campus? Do all kinds of crazy things?

Headlines:

These are the 381 Books removed from the Naval Academy library

Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University

Laundry list of crazy things: IRS cuts, tariffs, CECOT, RFK Jr., showerheads, leaving NATO.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Immigrants allegedly getting disappeared by Trump based on accusations that they are gang members without any due process, under an act that hadn’t been used since Japanese internment camps. 👇🏽🧵 This is what @RepTimBurchett is blindly defending. x.com/l_toczylowsk...

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Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Update from today in the NYT: "The judge said there was reason to believe U.S. Customs and Border Protection had willfully disobeyed his previous order to give the court notice before expelling the doctor. He ... ordered the federal agency to respond to what he called 'serious allegations.'”

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Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"Yesika Palma sobbed as she spoke about her brother Jose Daniel Simancas, a 30-year-old construction worker, and how it felt to think of him being treated like a terrorist when all he’d done was attempt to come to the United States in pursuit of a decent job." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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U.S. Claims Immigrants Held at Guantanamo Are “Worst of the Worst.” Their Families Say They’re Being Unfairly Targeted.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune have identified nearly a dozen immigrants who have been flown to Guantanamo Bay. Government officials have refused to release the names of detainees or provide details...

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