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Jesus follower. Avid reader. Aspiring writer. Casual gamer. Cat lover.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence. This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
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Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My very smart colleagues are doing excellent coverage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today. I would urge you to follow along with local sources familiar with the area and the residents here.
startribune.com
Live: Mayor Frey blasts ICE in fiery response to fatal shooting
The mayor called for calm after a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in south Minneapolis. ICE said the agent acted defensively.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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NPR @npr.org · 20/10/2025
Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.
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American farmers are hurting. Trump's trade war is making it worse
Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/10/2025
There are no kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Every now and then I still just sit back in amazement that so many folks practically worship one of the weirdest people to ever live.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/10/2025
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
gelliottmorris.com
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Our crisis in America is political… But it is also deeply spiritual. There are people using the Christian faith to camouflage their bigotry. And many Christians are defending very unChristlike things. So it’s great to see so many people out today at No Kings protests making it plain.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Greenberg: I have got something to say to Mike Johnson who spent all week smearing regular Americans. There are nearly a dozen No Kings protests happening across your district today. Since you have not been doing your job for over a month now, I bet you have got time to stop by.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Case in point: the South isn't perfect (no region is), but folks would do well to remember that gerrymandering and voter suppression make our region look redder than it actually is. NY gave us Trump and CA gave us Reagan. Regional politics aren't simple, and writing places off can't be the move rn.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/10/2025
NEW: For years, religious groups have applied for a special government program that helps secure worship spaces. But this year, DHS changed the conditions — such as apparently requiring grant recipients to cooperate with ICE. Now, faith groups are voicing outrage. religionnews.com/2025/10/17/f...
religionnews.com
Faith groups reject new Trump security grant rules over ICE, DEI
(RNS) — Earlier this year, DHS unveiled new conditions for grants faith groups use to protect their communities, including requiring recipients to cooperate with immigration enforcement and refrain fr...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
100% co-sign. This is not me being a "mean girl," this is my concern and disgust at the platforming of dangerous people in a time of rampant health misinformation.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
remember jd vance standing in a supermarket in the egg aisle blaming biden for four dollar eggs next to a sign that said $2.99 a dozen then blamed his own kids for eating 14 eggs every morning
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 11/09/2025
No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left.

Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
Blaze Media
https://www.theblaze.com
Exclusive: Assassination suspect Vance
Boelter tells STUNNING inside ...
Aug 12, 2025 - Vance Luther Boelter told Blaze News he shot at Sen. John Hoffman and his wife only after they laid hands on him and his shooting arm.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us." —Robert Hayden
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
He pardoned a bunch of people that committed political violence
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 10/09/2025
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 10/09/2025
Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday. to.pbs.org/3VK0r3I
pbs.org
Three people critically wounded in suburban Denver high school shooting, authorities say
The shooting happened around midday at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Citing DEI concerns, the Trump administration has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. Their funding had previously been approved through Sept. 2028. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
propublica.org
Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.
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Trey Ferguson @pastortrey05.com · 10/09/2025
Loving an enemy is wanting better for them than they want for themselves, recognizing that your welfare is intertwined. Nobody is free until all of us are free. Nobody is safe until all of us are safe.
newsweek.com
Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to ...
The conservative founder of Turning Point USA made the comments following a mass shooting in Nashville last week that resulted in six deaths.
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Tony Ho Tran @tonyhotran.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
cnn.com
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
100% true.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Do you how bad you have to be for the Kennedy family to say “maybe working on government isn’t for you bub”?
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
theatlantic.com
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Kilmar “addressed a crowd gathered at ICE’s Baltimore field office in Spanish, telling other immigrants, ‘God is with us, and God will never leave us,’” @jackjenkins.me reports. “God will bring justice to all of the injustice that we are suffering.” religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o... #FreeKilmar
religionnews.com
Clergy rally to defend Kilmar Abrego García as he is detained by ICE
BALTIMORE (RNS) — 'God is with us, and God will never leave us,' Abrego told the crowd. 'God will bring justice to all of the injustice that we are suffering.'
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
John Shin, a well known and respected violinist from South Korea, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Utah for violin performance, was detained by ICE. John Shin has been a violinist and teaches students in Utah. He is being detained in Colorado.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:
irs.gov
IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service
IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 01/08/2025
Today's jobs report shows what many Americans already knew: despite record highs in the stock market, the “economy” is not working for ordinary people. Rather than accept reality & try to address it, Trump chooses to fire the bearers of bad news. This is what authoritarians do.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Family of Virginia Giuffre re: Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer "It's w/ horror & outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker G. Maxwell has received.. Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children.. she should never be shown any leniency"
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