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Invisible Old Broad

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Politics junky. Feminist. CollapseAware. CovidAware. #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #FuckThePatriarchy #Vote #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
In one set of trials of shock gloves carried out by the US Army in 2024, the electric gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers. They then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
BREAKING: Former President Barack Obama endorses Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine: "Troy Jackson is running to be your next senator and I'm proud to be on board" Obama cites Jackson’s record on wages, drug prices, school meals, and abortion rights as Democrats target Susan Collins' seat.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4h
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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ctrl+alt+RESIST @ctrlaltresist.com · 3h
The framers studied Athens so we would not repeat it. Rubio studies it for photo ops while the tyrant he works for does the demagogue part back home.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 3h
The less funny thing about “Athenian democracy” is that it was built on slave labor, denying citizenship rights to foreign residents, and the subjugation of women. On the other hand it had ostracism, which we should adopt. And Aristophanes. Aristophanes is funny.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h
You will never guess what happens when you deplete the labor force with foolish, destructive and self-defeating immigration policies. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-d...
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A direct care worker visa policy to support the aging US population | Brookings
Tara Watson offers a proposal for a temporary employment-based visa, the H-1D, for direct care workers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
in case it's not clear this is a commentary on the defenses I'm seeing from some surprising quarters of Trump daydreaming about cities in California getting nuked
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1h
Crooked Susan Collins took thousands of dollars from a medical company before giving them a $4.5 million contract. This is now her 3rd alleged pay-to-play story in the last 2 weeks. bit.ly/47LYauM
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NEW: Collins Took Campaign Cash From Pharma Executive's Family in Potential Straw Donor Scheme - Maine Democratic Party
Zeteo: Collins <3 Contractor Cash
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
ICYMI, last night a federal court in Arizona ordered ICE to "facilitate the return" of an Egyptian man currently imprisoned incommunicado by the Equatoguinean government. Mr. Soliman was sent to Equatorial Guinea with no notice. ICE refused his request for a torture screening.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 07/10/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "we are trading the health of our world's ecosystems for the right to upgrade our smartphone every year ... it is an insane situation, and it can't go on." www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-fate-o...
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The Fate of the World: A history and... book by Bill McGuire
Buy a cheap copy of The Fate of the World: A history and... book by Bill McGuire. Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late. A warning and a rallying-cry. 'Read it and weep, or read it and...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h
The problem is he believes this.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12h
In a TV interview in San Antonio, Trump nonsensically said he talks about LA and San Diego "all the time" b/c "those seem to be the the most prominent because of location and I'm talking about through [sic] missiles." But Iran is closer to the East Coast than the West. youtu.be/wODdAIelBh8?... 1/2
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EXCLUSIVE: One-on-one interview with President Trump
YouTube video by News 4 (WOAI) San Antonio
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11h
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the Apollo project who ultimately led the 100-person team that guided Armstrong and Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, dies at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 06/10/2026
It's official — seven of ICE's 11 warehouses are now available for sale through Cushman & Wakefield's dedicated fedwarehouses.com auction site.
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ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market
The properties were among 11 warehouses ICE bought for $1.07 billion to expand detention capacity. Seven are now being marketed for sale at a steep discount.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tapping sign bsky.app/profile/hamm...
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nbrockmann.bsky.social @nbrockmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I hope he does worry about this. I hope the pharaoh Akenhaten appears to him in sweaty dreams and tells him how after his own reign they decapitated his statues and scratched his name out of hieroglyphs carved in stone. The people will gladly tear down his monuments, by hand if we have to.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
we are totally going to find out kash patel made him a honorary fbi agent at some point and has been back pedaling ever since
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Kimbo0oly👻 @onesassymisfit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every day brings a brand new sentence of horror
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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experimental22.bsky.social @experimental22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sam Alito is a Nazi determined to impose his retrograde religious beliefs on all Americans by any means necessary. He is helping to construct an authoritarian American government that can impose them by violence. He is an open enemy of freedom.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love the Maine accent. Here’s a link to some oral histories taken in the 1950s where a reaaaal Downeaster tells the story of “Tall Barney” Beal, a near-mythological Paul Bunyan-esque man who lived in Jonesport, ME in the mid-19th century Century. media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_object...
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[United States, Maine and Rhode Island, 1956] - Media Collections Online
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: Getting closer. "It's strange to live through these hot days, watching our leaders fail us and the media barely mention what's happening. Lately, newspapers offer mere hints that something is amiss on our planet." electricnotes.news/p/el-nino-di...
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The El Niño Diaries #1 — The Ants
Dispatches from 100° days, in October
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John Walters @thevpo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Scott administration's new emergency housing program is not only inhumane, it may well violate the law. The admin has never covered itself in glory on the issue, but this is a new low. thevpo.org/2026/10/06/s...
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Scott Administration Policy on Sheltering the Homeless Hits a New Low
The battle over Act 143 has taken place largely out of the public eye, due in large part to our media’s failure to cover a highly consequential dispute between the Scott administration and th…
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 06/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING Y-AXIS 🌊🌡📈 Record warm waters in the main El Niño region reached >30°C for the first time in the @noaa.gov Sea Surface Temperature dataset. We've ain't seen nothing yet of the impacts this will have around the world.
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Matt Sutkoski @mattweathervt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Matt's Weather Rapport: It turns out the first person who discovered #climatechange would be a problem was a woman named Eunice Foote, in 1856. Women who make big discoveries are often overshadowed by men, and that happened here. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2026/10/its-...
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It's Always Women Who Warn Us, And Men Who Take Credit Or Cover It Up: A Climate Change Discovery Story
Eunice Foote was the first scientist to figure out that  increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to global warming. She did th...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
As the reflectivity (albedo) of Earth continues to set new record lows, more of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth system, increasing the amount of energy available to heat the oceans, atmosphere, and land, and to melt ice.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Btw: Tom Tiffany, running for Governor of Wisconsin, is chairman of subcommittee on federal lands. He wants to destroy this rule. He's also got a 100% pro-Trump voting record in Congress. So, after you weigh in against this rule, chip in to help David Crowley beat him, and sign to volunteer.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule
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The Roadless Rule
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A day after Trump said his super PAC would pay for those propaganda ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did *not* plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jackson's little chuckle and "what are we doing here?" gesture at the end are both perfect
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
In a normal world, the 26 Republicans up for election in our target districts would condemn Trump for his treasonous comments last night. But they won’t.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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🅲🅸🆅🅸🅻 🅳🅴🅵🅴🅽🆂🅴🗽 @musiccomposer.com · 07/10/2026
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump asked for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhIe...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/10/2026
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has an idea for deciding who qualifies for Social Security: Let AI decide. meidasnews.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers Said A.I. Should Be Used to Determine Social Security Eligibility
The GOP Senate candidate from Michigan has a long history of trying "decimate" benefits for millions of Americans
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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