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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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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. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thanks to everyone who chimed in the other day with more stories about living or traveling abroad and being shocked at how little medical care costs in almost every other country but here. www.welcometohellworld.com/it-truly-doe...
While traveling back from Costa Rica a friend got food poisoning overnight, before our flight. I said we'd have to wait until we at least connected in Miami before you can see a doctor. Checking in at the Costa Rica airport, a worker saw how sick she was. I explained we were heading back to the states and would get help there. The worker said no, she doesn't look good, let me call for the "airport nurse." They treated her with mild medication, no charge, and we made our flight.
My buddy had a kid in Hong Kong soon after moving there. They paid a total of $30 as that was the fee to have an English speaking doctor.
I was in Budapest with a friend. She got hit by a guy on a bicycle, fell down and hit her head. She showed signs of a concussion so we went to the ER. In and out within an hour, including a CT Scan and a doctor speaking perfect English to explain everything was fine. $25 USD. 
About two years ago a friend of mine broke his foot in Australia and the X-ray and everything cost about $50, no insurance required. Then when he got back to the US his insurance wanted him to pay about $10k for a stimulation machine.
I once had international travel insurance and it cost €7 per year. I had to go to the hospital in Türkiye. I had a single room, was given medication that the health insurance company hadn't paid for at home, I had a translator at my bedside in the hospital and didn't pay anything other than the €7.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 11h
It’s wild how this is just unambiguously a crime and no one cares. Like there’s no nuance to this. She all but took out a sack with a dollar sign on it and said “hey can you do a crime please”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14h
This needs to happen 👇
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 18h
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h
difficult decisions who could have foreseen what could have possibly been done alas
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Skydance CEOs Acknowledge Layoffs Will Be Coming After Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger: Read the Full Memo
Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially merged into Skydance Corp. And the top leaders have notified the new company's staffers that layoffs are in the offing.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18h
A real The Terminal situation here: a man deported by Trump to the African kingdom of Eswatini was finally released to his home country of Laos, but got stuck in an international airport terminal for nearly 60 hours this week due to problems with his paperwork. @gillianbrockell.com has the story.
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Third-Country National Stuck in Airport for Days After Release From African Prison - The American Prospect
Finally out of the prison Trump expelled him to, Phone Chomsavanh’s fight for freedom hit one more snag.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19h
Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:
arstechnica.com
Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Love2026 @love2024.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Something always hateful & Lies.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22h
The main lesson of the last 25 years of the GOP holding power is that they are totally incompetent at governing & everything breaks & many people die as a result (Katrina, wars, Covid, ICE, etc). Ask yourself if that ever appears as the central frame in media coverage of politics & the two parties.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 07/10/2026
Caught in the crosshairs are the millions of Americans who depend on a well-functioning public Postal Service, from small businesses that rely on affordable postage to seniors who need timely delivery of medications. prospect.org?p=145911
People hold signs to protest against the privatization of the Postal Service
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/10/2026
Collins voted against the war because she knew Fetterman would "yes", and her "no" vote was a safe bet just for show.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
After elected officials joined community members in protest over the 17th District incidents, ICE still returned. A witness sent us a photo they captured of masked agents yet again using police property for their operations on Sept 10 in Logan Square:
a black chevy tahoe with its door open behind a fence. a man in a baseball cap and a hoodie walks beside it to another black SUV
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
In one violent incident on August 1, immigration agents in CPD's 25th District station lot boxed in an ICE observer, ripped her from her car and moved her to one of their SUVs to detain her. We asked for security footage from that morning. It shows ICE agents in full view of local police:
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ICE agents box in and detain observer in CPD's 25th District parking lot on August 1, 2026
YouTube video by unraveled
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Whatever it is, I'm sure it won't be illegal enough for @duckworth.senate.gov to favor impeachment proceedings.
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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The first plagiarism machine was actually the first primordial RNA strands on the early Earth... those bastards thought they could just freely steal genetic information
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It infuriated me when @hrc.org was endorsing Collins in the past for this very reason. I quit donating to them years ago when I witnessed more triangulation type politics from them and focused on local organizations that had spines and good ethics.
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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 06/10/2026
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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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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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some say @nytimes.com is a shit show. Gee we don't know from decades of law if this is illegal or not. 🤷 "And some have said they could violate federal laws for using taxpayer funds for “publicity or propaganda purposes.”"
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And some question if arrests tied to Flock alerts are constitutional; warrants aren't needed to search plate-reader data in Illinois. “It seems these tools are used as a means of circumventing Fourth Amendment rights,” said Matt Chapman, of the Lucy Parsons Lab, a local digital privacy rights org.
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Flock license plate readers turn Chicago suburbs into ground zero for bitter fight over surveillance
Cops have been accused of tapping into Flock's sprawling network to stalk people, while activists have been charged with vandalizing the company's cameras. But as some municipalities have jettisoned t...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It‘s utterly unconvincing when Susan Collins tries to pretend her vote for Kavanaugh wasn’t a betrayal of women’s right to bodily autonomy.
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No reason to impeach this, right @duckworth.senate.gov?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want to read more for yourself, including detailed analyses of individual cases and lots and lots of stories from survivors and perpetrators about how they were treated, here’s a link to the book:
bookshop.org
On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
Sure. There are journalists who are so thirsty to be fancy (or desperate for any job) that they’ll complain for years about being dicked over by NYT and then leap at the chance to work there. But not everyone. And I think that number of refusers grows as NYT’s misbehavior does.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The @nytimes.com had to quote a politician because the reporter and editor isn't aware that Trump through that statement isn't deranged and dangerous? Why exist NYT?
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) 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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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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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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you turn your military around and flee from an advancing adversary equipped with weapons you're unable to defend against, that's retreating. I'm not sure we've seen anything like this in the modern era.
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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base (Gift Article)
According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Uncharacteristically, NYT editors decide they will report Trump's taunting the Iranians to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, but they bury it deep inside the paper.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/10/2024
When legacy outlets present both sides of a story to "let the reader decide" it falls on other people to highlight certain details. Details like how the cop who got a Nevada woman arrested after a 2018 stillbirth thought she was a bad mom and then—while the woman was in prison—took her fetal remains
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Cop Who Got a Woman Arrested for Her Stillbirth Kept the Fetal Remains
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is no sacred ground that he won't defile if given an opportunity. No one in politics ever cared though. "Support the troops" was just a cudgel to beat Dems with. Didn't mean anything to the people pushing it. bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
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alphacharliebravo @alphacharliebravo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does ethnic cleansing count as an accomplishment? They've made some progress there.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Chicago Todd @chicagotodd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hey now. Let's all look forward, not back! Tammy "No Impeachment" @duckworth.senate.gov is totally on board with this.
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey Mayor Johnson, instead of tapping influencers to please voters, may I suggest you TRY DOING BOLD THINGS AS THE CURRENT MAYOR to please voters?
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