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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Two men hold power and solidarity fists in the air on either side of a sign that reads, "Racism is so American that when you protest it people think you are protesting America."
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department
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Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center
Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
little fascists everywhere www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
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United employee at SFO threatens to call ICE on Mexican American passenger: ‘You don’t act like a citizen’
A viral video shows a United Airlines employee invoking ICE during an escalating confrontation with a passenger over a ticketing problem at SFO.
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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Kudos to the advocates who helped win this landmark Supreme Court victory for data privacy. 🗽
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We can't go numb to this. We can't let this become normal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:
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Live updates: ICE agents involved in deadly shooting in Biddeford
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I left mine: I simply noted that four different executive orders (three of which have been determined to be viewpoint discrimination) do not provide the basis for ignoring over forty different statutory frameworks enacted by Congress to provide grants.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Before J6, Lindsey Graham called the governor of Georgia and pressured him to steal the election for Trump. He was a traitor. Nothing else about him matters after that.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Corporate Media presents US a fantasy world (where are institutions are holding and MAGA Republicans represent the views of "Real Americans") that is completely disconnected from both reality and their consumers.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Look, if one side is openly pro corruption, and the truth is somewhere in the middle, this is what you get bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is just getting comical, we're witnessing innovations on the frontiers of journalistic absurdity
Cnn: Diplomatic breakdown: The flare-up is threatening a fragile agreement between the US and Iran as they near the halfway mark of a 60-day window to negotiate a deal.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mark Zuckerberg hates Climate Change, unless he is causing it with his $300m Yacht that uses as much Diesel as 2000 cars.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A bridge to fascism. Just stop.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You can’t keep saying the Republicans are an existential threat to democracy and two seconds later pen an ode to Lindsey Grahams corpse and think people will believe you are honest
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So relatable: "Good men...seem relics of better times..., not emulated because they're not in fashion. The misfortune of your century, that virtue is taken as unusual and malice as the norm!"
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Houstonians marched through the streets of Downtown demanding: ICE OUT OF HOUSTON, ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! JUSTICE FOR LORENZO!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "1 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 12/07/2026
This week in Palestine: - Israeli settlers demolished a Palestinian elementary school - Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital - Israeli forces turned a Palestinian home into a military post Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns across Palestine — zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
From a 2017 article I wrote on Graham and Trump: "Graham may be remembered as the Republican who once saw the light -- and then decided to extinguish it." www.fastcompany.com/40507354/wit...
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With Trump, The GOP Is Playing A Game Of Diminishing Returns
An expert on authoritarian regimes thinks Lindsey Graham's recent tweet promoting Trump's golf business is a bad sign of things to come.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/07/2026
Sanctuary laws help clarify that police and prosecutors seek to protect the safety of all residents. A Brennan Center friend-of-the-court brief shared that perspective from a group of former law enforcement officials. bit.ly/4eRniF0
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Court Says Local Police Can’t Be Forced to Spend Resources on Federal Immigration Enforcement
A friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Brennan Center argued that Boston’s policy, which describes where and when city officials will work with ICE, makes cities safer.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham’s obituary—written while he was very much alive by @saletan.bsky.social
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Live your life in such a way that no one you are close to mourns the death of fascists.
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 12/07/2026
Okay, after much deliberation since about 75% of what I draw has patterns of one kind or another, I have chosen this Wyandotte chicken because I don't think I've reposted it as much as some of the others I was considering and also I just love it #ArtRepostJuly The theme is #pattern!
Digital drawing of a striking white bird whose feathers are all edged in black, creating a stunning pattern. It has a red comb and wattles and a golden eye. It is holding a tiny bouquet of flowers with pink, blue, and white petals in the colors of the trans flag.
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Concerned Citizen @citizentara.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A proposed rule fueled by Trump’s conspiracy theories would require the USPS to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—and give them the power to hold those ballots hostage. Urge them to say NO and help protect voting by mail: act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
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Don’t Let Trump Sabotage Vote by Mail!
In a new proposed rule, the USPS would be required to keep a list of voters it believes should be allowed to vote by mail—as well as the power to stop those ballots from being delivered. Urge them to ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Anyway, join the Left(s) where we may be neurotic but we are also creative and many of us have a sense of humor and whimsy.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/06/2026
TPS protects those who'd face danger if they're forced to return to their countries of origin. Many have been here for decades. They're regularly vetted & are part of our communities.   Now, SCOTUS is letting Trump send law-abiding TPS holders back into harm’s way. Shameful.
Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration


The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrants at the southern border.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 25/06/2026
The Trump administration's national counterterrorism strategy does not mention the far right. Two weeks later, two teens citing Great Replacement theory allegedly killed 3 at a San Diego mosque. @pwbeck.bsky.social and @jacobware.bsky.social explain the implications of the strategy's blind spots.
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At a Mosque in San Diego, Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy Falls Flat
The administration’s strategy trades an accurate assessment of the threat landscape for political rhetoric.
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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!
A rectangular sticker featuring a long arm stapler on a light purple background. Below the sticker are the words “I only got into zines for the money”.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
i couldn't be more supportive of the effort to keep public money out of the hands of a Texan billionaire
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KMJeezy @kmjeezy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They are installing their own people in order to use the military to keep themselves in power and I need people to wake up about it.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/06/2026
Yeah that's worked out great so far hasn't it
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Lieu deBeau @lieudebeau.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
T1.0 showed how fragile even US Constitution was when ICE began openly targeting US citizens for no legitimate cause. Even before those well televised Portland BLM protest unmarked citizen ceasures, ICE officers were being weaponized against political advocaries within #GOP & country at large.
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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Protester sues after 'point blank' blast of pepper spray outside Portland ICE facility
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Protester sues after 'point blank' blast of pepper spray outside Portland ICE facility
Leilani Payne was 19 on Oct. 2, 2025, when she protested federal policies.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 05/06/2026
A Portland woman filed suit Friday against a federal officer, alleging he doused her in the face with pepper spray in October in retaliation for complaining about another officer’s treatment of a protester outside Portland’s ICE building. theoregonian.visitlink.me/fUdsDs
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026
Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 04/06/2026
Ex-Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino recently mingled with Hitler admirers, avowed racists, and far-right politicians at the “Remigration Summit.” It seems as if Bovino, derided by his political opponents as “Gestapo Greg,” might be leaning into his nickname.
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Greg Bovino’s Retirement Plan? Go Full Fascist 
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Police have imposed a ban on entry within a half-mile radius of Delaney Hall. They have set up roadblock checkpoints and surveillance cameras in the area.
Police have imposed a ban on entry within a half-mile radius of Delaney Hall. They have set up roadblock checkpoints and surveillance cameras in the area.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Andy Kim: Nothing's improved since Minnesota—except private prison profits
We spoke to the Senator pepper-sprayed outside ICE's Delaney Hall detention center.
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Śẻήơɼ Wơƙẻ Ảś Pɦưƈƙ 🇺🇲 ✌️ ❤️ 🚴 🤿 🚣‍♂️ 🌈 🇺🇦 @senorwokeasphuck.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If the response from Democrats to family members and neighbors being thrown into concentration camps is to mobilize the police to attack people trying to stop these atrocities - then they are on the side of the concentration camps. www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New — I talked with @katmabu.bsky.social the morning after a judge dismissed all charges against her and her co-defendants thanks to extreme government fuckery about what comes next, the crazy rumor mill and setting a precedent for telling ICE to fuck off. Our convo here:
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Kat Abughazaleh shows us how to fight fascists
Q+A with one of the Broadview Six, who had all charges dropped against them after grand jury misconduct.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
The Pope has spoken out for the protection of immigrants, and against the Iran war. Now he's launching a papal letter on AI. Tomorrow, he'll be joined by an Anthropic co-founder, religious leaders, and theologians in an address about safeguarding human dignity in the AI era.
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Is Pope Leo joining the anti-AI resistance?
Opposition to the technology is growing in the US. Can the first American Pope make a difference in his first encyclical?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
Amid Meta's mass layoffs and a hard pivot to AI, one engineer posted a scorched-earth farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board. We got our hands on it.
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Exclusive: Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
The tech giant made thousands of engineers train their AI replacements—then fired them.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Promises made, promises kept
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
Family is one thing, but poorly Photoshopped images of himself looming over Greenland are another.
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Donald Trump is too busy posting weird memes to go to Don jr.’s wedding
Family is one thing, but poorly Photoshopped images of himself looming over Greenland are another.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.
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The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
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