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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Surely they've suffered enough?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

MS NOW cap of polling showing 66/30 positive/negative for "REACTION TO POPE LEO URGING PEACE, REJECTING WAR"

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is embarrassing

Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell of The New York Times for “The Protocol,” their comprehensive investigation of youth gender medicine, exploring its origins and uses, helping to illuminate one of the most controversial health policy debates of our time.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/03/2026

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

In recent days, AMA communications to the New York Times have requested a correction on their part to reflect the actual language the AMA used in response to their inquiry. Additionally, a letter to the editor has been submitted requesting a public correction—this was neither a policy change nor was it an endorsement of a position taken by another medical society. In addition, during Congressional testimony in mid-March, I had the opportunity to set the record straight stating to the Subcommittee on Health of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that there has been no change in AMA policy with respect to access to and provision of gender-affirming care. This will appear in the Congressional Record.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

day one in mamdani’s new york

a guy wearing a “i ❤️ ny” cap reading the qur’an in one hand and the communist manifesto in the other

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantly

Her proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/06/2025

I am getting multiple reports that the Trump admin is NOT complying with the court order requiring passport updates for transgender people. Some passport agencies are being told not to give trans people passports with their correct gender marker, for now.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”

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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 22/05/2025

🚨 The US House of Reps have now PASSED their budget bill that includes a BAN on Gender Affirming Care for Medicaid for ALL AGES. This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass. Call your Senators!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/05/2025

BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Jon Stewart mocks Democrats' CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER meme, saying "the Democrats could have filibustered to maybe extract *anything*, but ... they just fucking didn't. If that was the strategy all along, just let people know. Don't make a whole theatrical production of choosing fighters."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The problem with Connolly as top Democrat in charge of oversight isn't just that he's 74. He is way too Washington brained. Nowhere in this statement on Trump's firing of 17 inspectors general does he explain what they do

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

kcur.org

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

“Advocates” say? Or the data SHOWS? If it’s the data, just say that. Like, physicists don’t SAY the earth is round. Physicists just share the data SHOWING the earth is round. Enough of this “one side says” stuff if one side has the actual data.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Dallas Express reports that sitting 81-year-old congresswoman Kay Granger is secretly residing in a memory care and assisted living facility. Granger hasn't cast any votes since July, isn't answering phone calls and vacated her physical office sometime before Thanksgiving.