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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Likely explains the Emirati announcement about severed economic relations.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tonight BBC radio 4 ran an hour-long advert for “suicidal empathy” (the idea and book) on the Moral Maze, describing its author simply as a Canadian professor, without mentioning his enthusiasm for Great Replacement ideology nor calls for civil war in the UK. That does not seem ok.
Elon Must amplifying a tweet by Gad Saad “There will be civil war”

Musk’s comment: Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when Tweet from Gad Saad:

What you are seeing in Britain is precisely what I have been warning about for decades. It is not rocket science. If you take two cultures that are fundamentally antithetical to each other, you'll eventually find out that progressive coexistence is not going to work well. There is 1,400 years of unbelievably clear data that Westerners are choosing to ignore. Read chapters 6 and 7 of The Parasitic Mind and it will all become clear for you. Cure yourself of Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome. See the world as it is rather than the Unicornia that you wish existed.
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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump running up the deficit is 100% ass-backwards. He’s not borrowing money to spend it on investing in productive adaptations for America’s future, or for counter-cyclical relief from a recession. It’s all for self-gratification and to make it impossible for Democrats to take care of people.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Keeping an eye on this:
Anonymous
@YourAnonCentral
X.com
A mass exodus appears to be underway in Russia, with reports of thousands fleeing amid growing fears of a new mobilisation. At least 20,000 have fled in the last 24 hours. Panic is spreading.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/08/2026
The question is: why did Natalie Harp resist applying for a security clearance? What doesn't she want anyone to find out? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov claimed that Russia is fighting a holy war and threatened the world with extinction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSRM...
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Vladimir Solovyov claims Russia is fighting a holy war and threatens the world with extinction
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Declined to seek a security clearance” was simply not a thing before the One Special Boy. You didn’t have a choice about these things. The media did not write those words normalizing illegal things. And then we simply decided nothing - not laws, not norms, not the Constitution - mattered anymore.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 19/08/2026
🚨 Big changes to the PSB Tracker! Instead of focusing solely on warehouses, we pivoted to track ICE's unprecedented buy-up of private prison space, too. This new tool focuses on all jail space ICE has bought, for how much, and from whom. Old data is still available from the dropdown.
tracker.projectsaltbox.com
ICE Warehouse Tracker
Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The brutal math for the next administration (or we find ourselves well down the road to becoming Italy)
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NYT ran this article on Harp way back in November 2024. One can be a public figure without talking to the cameras! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
Devoted Aide Who Keeps Good News Flowing Will Follow Trump to the White House
Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president.
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juliacurlee.bsky.social @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Had a great conversation with @timmiller.bsky.social on @thebulwark.com podcast...life goal unlocked. NSFW for Tim's several well-justified F-bombs on my behalf :)
youtu.be
Trump’s White House Needed Her. They Didn’t Want MAGA to Know. (w/ Julia Curlee) | Bulwark Daily
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You can be certain flock cameras are watching you go grocery shopping.🛒 This is at a local Safeway..
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/08/2026
Rumors of “Nerd Reich” shortage sweep nation. Hurry hurry hurry—grab it while you can! 🤪 Offer won’t last. Don’t miss your chance—buy it now!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Incredibly glad someone is talking about for-profit prisons. When I had a friend inside, he got too little food, forcing him to supplement from a commissary with money put into his account from folks outside. The prices were astronomical, bleeding funds from inmates' communities. It was appalling.
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J.M. DeMatteis @jmdematteis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451...and AI is the fire.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We need jocks from '80s movies to rise up and wage war on AI glasses.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lawrence: The way you’re campaigning and the language you're choosing, you must know, is inviting Donald Trump to unload all the resources possible to defeat you. Ossoff: Well, the White House is obviously deeply offended when it's pointed out that they've broken every promise they made
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ok I was only in Canada for a few days last week so I am by no means an expert but my main takeaway from a few days hanging out in Canada and talking with Canadians is that no Canadian is going to buy anything from America for at least the next 150 years.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jake Laperruque, a Tech Policy Press fellow and deputy director of the Security and Surveillance Project at CDT, says there's no real evidence automated license plate readers like Flock are driving crime down. The real danger is what mass video surveillance becomes next, he says.
techpolicy.press
Unless Flock is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow Even More Pervasive
Automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems are facing a moment of public reckoning in the US, writes Jake Laperruque.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thread that is worth the read ⬇️
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Gaslit Nation @gaslitnationpod.com · 20/08/2026
Data centers are the billionaire class. Listen to Gil Duran discuss his new book The Nerd Reich and how to stop the fascists before it's too late www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes/ne… #DataCenters #NerdRich
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/08/2026
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. (Published April 2025)
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Not sure this detail got picked up broadly but Natalie Harp’s brother said today that Trump is not the first president she has been fixated on (he said she wrote letters to George W.)…she is a real crazy cake
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She didn’t have a clearance but she was the gatekeeper for phone calls from foreign leaders. Im sure this was all well documented too in compliance with the Federal Records Act and Presidential Records Act.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“You can’t trust Mark Zuckerberg with kids” — @byjacobward.bsky.social quotes what sounds like incredibly damning testimony from former Instagram exec www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDUD56Vm/
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Damning stuff from the states’ star witness this morning - no wonder Meta tried to keep him off the stand. Read the day’s full breakdown at TheRipCurrent.com! (Link in bio - please subscribe!) #meta #...
TikTok video by Jacob Ward
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Remember how Megyn Kelly said that Kamala Harris "slept her way" into politics by invoking her past relationship with Willie Brown? Well, she's now extremely outraged about Jon Ossoff saying Trump likes to "travel with Natalie." You should definitely take her comments very seriously.
Ossoff was clearly implying that Trump is having an affair w/his staffer. He was so determined to disparage Trump, he didn’t give one thought (or worse, he did) to how this would affect Natalie. Forever. 
 Don’t let the Democrats tell you they are for women. It’s a lie.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/08/2026
1. It's wild to unskeptically quote a big Sam Altman claim like this a month after a major media outlet quoted a bunch of sources calling him a sociopath who simply says whatever people want 2. I'm fascinated with Altman's consistent shtick where he pretends he isn't a core part of the problem
"In exclusive interviews last week, Altman told TIME and Sources that the slowdown was not caused by a single “smoking gun,” but rather a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” as AI capabilities advanced faster than researchers had expected. The decision to tap the brakes should not be interpreted as evidence of any imminent catastrophe, he said. “Getting AI safety right,” Altman told me, “is more important than any company’s momentum.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I must be getting old because I've seen this Dems attacking each other right when it matters most thing way too many times. When we're all on the same team is when we win elections. Purity tests, Dems tearing down Dems, protest votes, and being angry with anyone with a different view is how we lose.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Nazis made a special effort to include gays and lesbians in the Holocaust, but now it's illegal DEI to notice that historical fact.
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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 18/08/2026
It should probably be a bigger deal, but the US government is apparently just stealing oil from Venezuela and has been for months. What happens to that oil? Shouldn't that be a matter of public record?
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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Christian nationalist Joel Webbon says hospitality is meant for other believers. If the social welfare state collapses, he says, the church will have to tell "feminist pagan women" on hard times, "You starve. Glory be to God. You starve."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is awful.
thesun.co.uk
Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home'
FORMER Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in south London, The Telegraph reports. Mr Arday, 41, was found “unresponsive” at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoo…
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"There's a lack of trust. It's just not there," said one military veteran in Congress JUST FILED: Trump's worsening political crisis on national defense issues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmg...
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Hegseth PANICS as Texts EXPOSE The Truth!
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
There's a lot to say about the latest media take on Sociology. But I just have to point out that the NYT isn't doing Sociology (or arguably society) any favors here by labeling inequality a "left-leaning concern."
Critics of the discipline say that it is now too hyper-focused on left-leaning concerns like inequality. That word appeared 186 times in the 165-page conference program.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This whole thing is really disturbing. I don’t know of any previous case in which the government subpoenaed a reporter for asking a question, let alone a question that not even the government has suggested implicated classified information. 1/
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
THIS is the Social Security election. Republicans are calling the program a scam. Democrats are fighting to strengthen the program and make sure it's around for generations to come.  Senators elected this fall WILL decide the future of Social Security.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/08/2026
If you read this story yesterday, you know the lengths the regime has gone to retaliate against Minnesotans who dared stand up to protect their neighbors. In fact—since the ICE surge began, over 400 people have been arrested for their efforts to observe or protest ICE in Minnesota
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🧊✈️ ICE AIR 24/7 ‼️ 😲 This GlobalX jet (N316NV) has been running around-the-clock human trafficking ops since Tuesday morning, between Harrisburg, Washington, and San Diego. ⚠️ Yesterday in San Diego, the tower reported seeing smoke from one of the front tires when the plane landed. It kept flying.
Map of the US showing a plane repeatedly crossing between Harrisburg, Washington, and San Diego
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
And let me just cut to the chase for all y'all conspiracy nutters out there
NO, THEY ARE NOT THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THESE PLANES. 

One final note: Since, I am regularly asked if ICE is throwing people out of planes into the ocean, let me be clear that I do not think these flights are evidence of this conspiracy theory. 

Yes, these types of planes can be opened in midflight (unlike civilian ICE planes). Yes, they are flying over the ocean. Yes, ICE's appetite for cruelty does not appear to have a limit, and members of the military have so far shown no signs of refusing to comply with the Trump administration's other criminal orders, like destroying fishing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. 

However, I think this conspiracy can be safely ruled out here for on simple reason: The civilian airport at which they are landing. If the military were throwing people out of the plane and left no survivors, they would land at the air base in Soto Cano so as not to draw attention to their lack of a human cargo. If they were throwing people out of the plane and left survivors to be deported upon landing, well, we would have heard about it by now.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🧊🪖✈️ GILLIAN BROCKELL: On Aug. 8, the ICE-flight tracker who goes by “JJ in DC” spotted a C-130 doing an apparent Honduras removal route, and saw that it was the fourth such flight the aircraft had done that week... I subsequently found 22 more round trips on 11 different planes ⤵️
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
Final update for now with info on the most alarming part of the original statement of work, which asked the charter airline contractor to also help DHS establish foreign "detention centers" in "host countries." Will update if Eastern answers the f*cking question. gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...
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BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'
ICE charter airline Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of passenger jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct d...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/08/2026
Congrats to these HSI ICE agents. They played themselves.
“…heavy-set female approximately twenty-five (25) years old spoke about operational security. The female warned attendees not to say anything in the meeting that you would not say to an ICE Agent. The same female stated she had recently started a "Coffee Club" where people can get to…”
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nice update from Gillian on ICE handing out a $215 million no-bid contract that appears related to my story last month. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...
theredoubt.net
Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: The US Air Force has done dozens of secret ICE flights to Honduras since early June, in the largest and most regular use of their aircraft in Trump's second term. Read it here now, or read it in NYT six months from now. gillianbrockell.com/the-air-forc...
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The Air Force has been doing secret ICE flights to Honduras for months
At least some of the flights were third-country removals, human rights group says.
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