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Caleb Barrett

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h
The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h
I'll vote for you for President if you run on this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
that’s right
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The same people warning about “sharia law” are the ones demanding live streamed executions, book bans, baring journalists from the White House, eroding women’s rights, rounding up people in our streets, and legislating the Bible in schools, all in the name of “Christianity.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This infuriates the hell out of me.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A live look at the Leopards Eating Faces Party convention
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the perfect distillation of a certain kind of “centrist” pundit whose loyalties really lie with the far right. It is ok to *be* a Nazi, but pointing out that Nazism is unforgivable.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against ‘indoctrination,’ and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I hate fight videos. but I'll make an exception for this one
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spouti.bsky.social @spouti.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Offered a different price, as though it’s just another choice-laden retail experience. This should be illegal. Imagine driving up to the gas pump/fast charger and it changes the price because (insert a million reasons) just for your vehicle.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 09/10/2026
There should be a political party that wants to stop this and punish the people doing this
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You know what? Good. We have spent years making the state killing of people both seemingly antiseptic and invisible. This makes the brutality of the state killing in our name naked and undeniable. They think they are being macho edgelords. I think it will horrify more than anything.
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Pentagon says it will livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter
The execution would be the U.S. military’s first execution by firing squad since World War II.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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whereiswiseoldowl.bsky.social @whereiswiseoldowl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think veterans in San Diego have thoughts bsky.app/profile/koja...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely incredible reporting on the people who have paid the steepest price for Trump’s occupation of Memphis, the parents whose children have been shot and killed by the National Guard hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Deadly Invasion of Memphis
A Black city tried to rein in abusive policing. Then Trump’s task force arrived.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This just happened at the Iowa debate. Moderator: Aren't you worried about a nuclear Iran? Josh Turek, who never walked due to his dad's Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, said this from his wheelchair: "I'm an example of the generational consequences to these forever wars."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@revealnews.org asked election conspiracist J. Christian Adams to provide evidence to back up his outlandish claims of rampant voter fraud. Instead he pulled a Trump and walked out of the interview. You need to listen to this www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.
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kemalmquist.bsky.social @kemalmquist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paxton has to be one of the most evil men in the country. Many children will die because of this. Pediatricians will flee Texas because of this and children will die from causes that have nothing to do with vaccines because there are no doctors to care for them.
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Caleb Barrett @calebbarrett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops.”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court's term. My yearly print preview of all the things the Republicans will take away from us this time, is now avaialble on Al Gore's Internet in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The People vs. the Supreme Court
This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.
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PacifistCell @peacefulbrevard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is SO COOL! And it's free. Popular Information is releasing PaidForBy.info, a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail — and who is paying for it. All you have to do is take a photo of the front and the back of the political mailer and upload it.
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the 2nd of the 10 meditations I recorded not long ago in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They are thoughts that came to mind in a place which has been under constant attack by missiles and drones for more than four years. The topic this time is small acts of courage. snyder.substack.com/p/small-cour...
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Small Courage (Kharkiv Meditations, 2/10)
Kharkiv Meditations 2/10
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.
Przeworski, Democracy and the marketDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/09/2026
The best defense we have against the flu is the flu vaccine. The flu kills a lot of people every year. It seriously sickens even more. Now is a great time to get the flu vax
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So @jacobgeller.com sexually assaulted someone and UNC let him back on campus after a semester. If you're wondering whether or not that Cornell story is much more common than you think the answer is yes and the reason is because universities don't care if women get raped. So they don't report it
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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: We dive deep into Trump "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast. I'm so excited about this. You will hear Vought - on tape! - in a way you haven't before. Pls listen — and subscribe to PAPER TRAIL www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...
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Who’s the Shadow President?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
ICE has expelled people from all over the world to Costa Rica every Thursday or Friday since April. Last week's flight was canceled due to the First Circuit's ruling in DVD vs. DHS. But with SCOTUS's outrageous stay on Tuesday, this week's third-country removal flight appears to be in progress.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's this incredible doc called Scratch about the DJ movement and one section is about crate digging and finding the perfect break no one has heard before. It's an art form. It's about taste. It's stitching together something new from something old. Here's DJ Shadow.
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DJ Shadow featured in the movie Scratch (2002)
YouTube video by Aaron Coe
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
Vacating a stay of execution, and without even a word, is in-sane and horrific (Yes I know they've done similar shit before, that was wildly fucked up too)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is nothing at all in the Constitution about how many Justices there must be, let alone that Congress must fund a building, clerks, etc. If the Wizards want to play Calvinball with the law & the words in the Constitution, then Congress can & should play hardball with all the stuff that isn’t.
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Caleb Barrett @calebbarrett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries is Eddie S. Glaude Jr’s newest book. As with his other books I’ve read, I really enjoyed this new book. He clearly articulates how most Americans have a “storybook” version of our nation’s history. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Annivers…
The New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again in…
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