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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

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Choctaw Nation Buys Former Big Lots Warehouse, Closing Off Oklahoma ICE Detention Site

The sale is the second time in months that a large Oklahoma warehouse pursued by ICE for detention use has instead gone to another buyer.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

If you don’t already, I highly recommend following Ken Klippenstein to stay informed on U.S. National Security, and the attacks against American Citixens. Also, if you haven’t already, reading Project Esther is a MUST. It’s the follow up to Project 2025. open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

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"No Kings" Protest (and Arrests) Begin

NSPM-7 is already being used to detain protesters over speech

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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

There we go. From the New York Times: “But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.”

Mr. Bukele, in a social media post, even crowed that "Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the 'death camps' & 'torture," was "now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!" But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“The FDA may choose not to publicize an outbreak, including when the cause is unknown or when officials are still working behind the scenes with the companies responsible” This feels like the food borne illness equivalent of the disastrous covid policy “if we don’t test there’s no pandemic”

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A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

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ChildRapeSurvivor @childrapesurvivor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Use the 5 Calls App to call your Representatives every day. Ask them when children at school be left alone? Why is "Homeland Security" investigating First Graders? Why won't they let their names or badges to be recorded? Will these children receive "Due Process?" @franifio.bsky.social

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Chaichi is boiling @chaichichay.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The old saying of "all govts lie," seems so very quaint: "Netanyahu blew Macron off, saying there would never be a Palestinian state...a reward for terrorism...[and] the Oslo...Accords of 1993...promised a Palestinian state by the end of that decade"

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally. Short version: Nope. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

NEW: One important thing to understand was that the US economy was trending bad *before* the tariff announcement. The horrors to come are being placed atop a rickety foundation. And some warning signs of a true collapse are present. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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The Economic Consequences of the Tariff War

The economy was already stalling out before Liberation Day. A trade war on the entire world will only make everything worse.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/04/2025

Major alert: Montana may be about to pass a major anti-trans bill that charges parents with felony endangerment of a child if their child is on trans youth care. It would apply to parents just passing through the state, visiting. Would be the first law of its kind to pass anywhere. Vote is TODAY.

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Montana SB164 | 2025 | Regular Session

Bill Text (2025-04-08) Revise offense of endangering the welfare of children [(H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading]

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned. Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

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Chaichi is boiling @chaichichay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"There has been no repeat of the 2020 August electricity outages now that the state’s battery capacity has grown so much. It just needs to grow six-fold to enable 100% renewable electricity."

New technologies are now emerging, as well. The California Energy Commission has just awarded a $100 million project for a “5 megawatt (MW) / 500 megawatt-hour iron-air battery storage project is the largest long-duration energy storage project to be built in California,” according to the agency’s web site. The battery can go on releasing energy for 100 hours in a row. California batteries now typically discharge over 4 to 6 hours.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

NEW: There's no reason to act like Trump is pursuing a trade policy or an industrial revitalization strategy. These are just sanctions, imposed to intimidate countries and companies into submission like they're universities or law firms. They're what a mob boss would do. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions

Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.

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Chaichi is boiling @chaichichay.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I've really become enamored with a strong Yorkshire tea brewed with cardamom, fennel, clove and saffron. That particular tea blend really lends itself to spicing.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 23/03/2025

Boob job, penis enlargement, face lift, pec implants, hair removal, fillers, nose job, butt lift... Cis (non-trans) people are the main users of gender-affirming treatments I've never seen a GC person argue against this If you only have an issue when trans folk do it, that is a YOU problem

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/03/2025

“Black South African children like Irvin drew and wrote about the apartheid security forces and its tools—dogs and Casspirs—chasing and shooting at them in their schools, streets, and homes. By the 1990s, the Casspir had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression.”

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Excellent piece by two dear friends @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social & @themorningsnows.bsky.social about the cyber truck & its uncanny similarities to the Casspir, the tank by which the Apartheid regime brutalized Black south Africans during Elon's childhood. 1/ slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Elon Musk Wanted the Cybertruck to Look Like “the Future.” But It Reminds Us of One Particular Past.

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Because I've seen some discourse lemme explain a thing. When I say, "burn it down" this isn't gleeful accelerationism - it means we need a whole new structure because the foundation of this one is rotten to the core. Renovations won't do it. Certain institutions need to be totally REPLACED.

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Sèafra @woodward.ca · 16/03/2025

Just a reminder that Israel continues to commit war crimes on a massive and disgusting scale.

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

BEGGING U.S. citizens to take an honest look at the human rights abuses baked into US imperialism and draw obvious conclusions about what has been happening domestically much longer than just recently.

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C L Who @clwho.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Most people don't realize this but writing was invented for bureaucratic reasons. It was not about story telling, it was not about religion, it was about how much grain they had and how they are moving it.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Spreadsheets of empire”. A look at state archives from ancient Girsu during the era of the Akkadian empire founded by Sargon c.2300 BCE. They show the inner workings of empire (red tape), and moments in the lives of people, like those who swept floors in temples www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is a great piece. One thing it’s important for folks to recognize is that the right has been working to whitewash the way US history is taught and publicly discussed for over a century now. What’s relatively new is how aggressively they’re using the power of the federal government to do it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/03/2025

we love campus free speech. we need to let weird middle aged freaks go to the center of campus to yell at students about how they are faggots. but the second students start saying controversial things like “children shouldn’t be bombed” we must deport them

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This whole going after green card holders thing is absolutely trying to soften going after naturalized citizens. They want a White America. That means pushing Black & brown people out of all high ranking positions & getting rid of immigrants who make up American diversity.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/03/2025

the notion of “inherent power” is anti-republican in the lower-case r sense. runs totally counter to the notion of a divided government of enumerated powers

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025

LMAO BROKE ASSES

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/03/2025

Oh neat, March 28 is national "Smash Your Amazon Echo Devices With A Hammer" day.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A friend just sent - shared without comment 👀

Columbia hears plea for expelled student is the title of the article from 1936, underlined text reads that the student was expelled for anti-Nazi demonstration

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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Chaichi is boiling @chaichichay.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

But Wall Street needed the number to go up, and the American people don't have numbers that work that way, so...

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 14/03/2025

This is America: plainclothes agents who refuse to give their names or say what agency they’re working for handcuff and take away a legal permanent resident in an unmarked car.

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Daniel J. Vecellio @sciencedjv.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.

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Surviving This Hellscape @bhean-teine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

* Canadian business woman transported to and detained in Arizona detention center * No criminal record * Facing no charges * Previously crossed w/out issue when applying for a Trade NAFTA, or TN, work visa. * Reported inhumane conditions #MomSky vancouversun.com/news/bc-woma...

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B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3, and is pleading for help. Read more.

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Chaichi is boiling @chaichichay.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Harkening back to his slumlord roots

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