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Carleen

@carleenml.bsky.social
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Primarily progressive politics and books. "You are living an exciting new chapter in the book on tape of your life." -Moira Rose

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026
This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?
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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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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think it's important for Americans to understand that the rest of the world is making plans without us. We're about to be trapped and isolated inside the walls Trump is putting up literally and figuratively.
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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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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/09/2026
New from Meredith McKelvey, Max Mazoch and Oisakhose Aghomo: Camp East Montana is a notoriously dangerous and corrupt immigrant detention center under the Trump admin. Experts say ICE lets the contractors who run these centers operate with almost no oversight.
texasobserver.org
ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Too bad Mitch’s name wasn’t Dianne Feinstein otherwise the New York Times would have printed 88 stories a week
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Again, I know I sound like a broken record, but general fucking strike. We have actual concentration camps in the USA and everyone in a position of power expects us to just keep working.
seattletimes.com
Green card holder, 76, with Stage 4 cancer held in Tacoma ICE facility
Family members and community supporters are seeking Loreto Javar's immediate release and demanding he receive proper medical care while living at home.
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The Capybaron, Seasonally Spooky @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There once was a hitman from Sweden Who was, on the motorway, speedin’ His mark goes unwhacked, For in ironic fact, The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Carleen @carleenml.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'be a shame if something happened to it.'
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The regime is manufacturing the “surge” by destroying legal aid for unaccompanied immigrant kids. Officials refused to renew the contract for groups that had long provided that service, which is required by law. Then they gave a ton to the disgraced Our Rescue for the job, which has no experience.
prospect.org
Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/08/2026
It’s all of them. From what I’ve heard behind the scenes, Delta is the worst, but it’s all of them. bsky.app/profile/gacy...
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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
‼️OVER 140 PEOPLE IN DETENTION ARE ON A HUNGER STRIKE‼️
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
WHCA: oh pretty plz sire come to our news cotillion we swear we won’t roast you; we respect the office and want a cordial relationship built on mutual respect and, President: I’m putting you on the death plane with the gay one and the Cuban one, buh bye losers
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There is an entire political movement and party that openly wishes to mug you, take things from you, rip food out of your children’s mouth, laugh at you, and if they feel like it which they often do, brutalize you and your family, and then go on tv and smear you or your memory. they want you to…
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump just gave a massive contract to Our Rescue to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. That's the group that does international anti-sex-trafficking stings, whose founder was dramatized in Sound of Freedom and who left because he himself was accused of sex trafficking his own employees.
prospect.org
Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You could not in your wildest dreams come up with a better metaphor than Harry Potter fans forcing the desecration of real remains to spare fictional ones
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Carleen @carleenml.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
this is weird, because my maga mother informed me if Trump didn't win there would most definitely be WWIII.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Always finding creative new ways to be cruel and make people wish they’d never bet on America.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“I’m staying in the race because, thanks to President Trump paving the groundwork, sexual assault and violence against women is widely and openly accepted now, so there’s really no reason to drop out.”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“To make our settlement with the Gambino Crime Family more equitable, we have limited its immunity from consequences for committing crimes to only the family members most likely to murder.”
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Carleen @carleenml.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don't know how any of this works, but why can't Governors or state legislatures somehow hold back money going to the feds. Why is this lawless wild west way of governing only okay working in one direction.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Frog hotels IG: @_pollinatorsreserve Snohomish, WA
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
nytimes.com
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reminder the Tates are repped by a lawyer w/only a VERY LOOSE relationship w/reality who played a key role in mythologizing Jan6ers & you should assume anything he says is in service of same. You should also ask how Andrew is tweeting from what he claims is SHU, where people don't have Xitter.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
To be very clear: no amount of time is appropriate for children to be in immigration detention. The testimonies they give in this legal brief illustrate why: guards are selecting children for torment, including repeatedly intruding on girls' showers, ripping up kids' coloring books ...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Again, we simply are not seeing the same scope, scale, or tone of “this is an epic failure that we will cover in a way that will end this presidency” approach that the national media took to covering Joe Biden’s not-100%-surgically-clean implementation of the thing everyone said they wanted in 🇦🇫
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
nytimes.com
New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
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Ev @evandroiden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is my favourite part.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
CEOs got a 25.6% raise last year. Workers got 1.3%. The economy isn't just broken—it's rigged.
cnbc.com
In the U.S., CEO pay grew 20 times faster than workers' wages in 2025, says Oxfam
A new report from Oxfam found that CEOs' earnings continue to grow even as workers' wages stagnate.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Same. The Republican Justices are gearing up to just finish off the Voting Rights Act for good.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/04/2026
I know this lady husband name not “dick tips”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.
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Carleen @carleenml.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Pravda Universe.
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Charles Leerhsen @leerhsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Why is Trump curing Jon Stewart?
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“Vouchers” are a scam by Christian Nationalists to funnel secular tax dollars into for-profit Christian churches running businesses called “private schools”
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
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