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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 18h
US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries www.ft.com/content/68fd...
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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries
Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Damning new reporting on the breadth of Trump's deportation operation that follows up on two scoops from The Handbasket last year: the State Department's creation of the Office of Remigration and monetary agreements with "third countries" to accept refugees from elsewhere.
washingtonpost.com
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr is now in the child trafficking & abuse game. Undocumented children kidnapped by ICE at Mullen's direction. RFK Jr is shipping children from around the US to TX in unlicensed facilities to ensure they have no no legal representation, abused & victimized www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 18/09/2026
Attorney Alexa Sendukas represents many unaccompanied children in ICE custody and tries to reunite them with relatives in the U.S. She has started to see a startling tactic: Federal agencies are using the children to trap and detain the adults who come to detention centers to pick the kids up.
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ICE is using migrant kids as ‘bait,’ a Texas lawyer says • West Virginia Watch
Attorney Alexa Sendukas represents many unaccompanied children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and tries to reunite them with relatives in the U.S. She has started to see a startling…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/09/2026
Good morning. Pennsylvania reports that an 18-year-old from Mifflin County died from complications of measles, including a rare, severe neurological condition that causes inflammation of the brain.
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Pennsylvania teen dies from measles complications, health officials report
An 18-year-old with measles died from a rare and severe neurological condition that causes inflammation in the brain.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is what people voted for. Then they complain endlessly . . . and vote for it again. Geez people, look at what is actually happening, not what you're being told, and recalibrate.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and TexasAn ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/08/2026
This is fascism.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
stripes.com
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration is recruiting active and retired military lawyers to represent unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation after ending contracts with a network of more than 800 nonprofit and legal aid attorneys. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump fired the attorneys for migrant kids. He’s recruiting military lawyers.
Stripping the contracts of experienced lawyers is dismantling vulnerable children’s safety net, critics say, increasing their chances for deportation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/08/2026
Ken Paxton’s office helped bury records involving hundreds of lab animals, including at least 100 dogs subjected to painful testing. Now, Meidas News has obtained disturbing photos and video of what he fought to keep hidden.
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Ken Paxton Helped Bury the Records on 400 Tortured Lab Animals.
Ken Paxton is no stranger to cover-ups. But one episode that's gone largely unreported is the fact that Paxton's own office actively helped conceal evidence of
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“I don’t know how to do it,” one indigenous child said through a translator, referring to the asylum application that the immigration judge asked him to complete in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.” documentedny.com/2026/08/06/u...
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11 Years Old. In Immigration Court. Alone. No Lawyer.
More children than ever before are being forced to face immigration judges by themselves without legal representation, advocates say.
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Letters from A Psychotherapist @jemoyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/08/2026
THREAD: A couple of thoughts on Natalie Harp. First, I'm so glad that people on our side are concerned about her and her mental health. It's because we have hearts and empathy and we aren't sociopaths. We're good people, and I love that about us. But I think we are also right to be angry. 1/
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: An attorney says his client suffered a brain bleed and traumatic brain injury after a violent ICE apprehension, then woke up in a hospital with no memory of what happened. His family didn't know where he was for days. Now his lawyer is demanding answers.
meidasnews.com
Lawyer Says ICE Detainee Suffered Brain Bleed After Violent Apprehension, Was Guarded by Agents Instead of Given Private Medical Care
MeidasTouch has obtained a detailed narrative from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, describing a violent apprehension by immigration
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/08/2026
Alito made up to $2.9 million from fossil fuel assets while serving on the top court. Yet the justice won’t recuse himself from key oil and gas cases. “His impartiality may be reasonably questioned in terms of his affinity towards the industry that has helped build his nest egg."
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Analysis: Samuel Alito has made up to $2.9 million from fossil fuel assets while serving on the Supreme Court
Yet he won't recuse himself from key oil and gas cases.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
That's a big kick in the guts. Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k. Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k). Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 05/08/2026
So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
quiverquant.com
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/07/2026
EMMER: The economy is starting to work for everyone NEWSMAX: I do have to still point out that there are many Americans on both sides of the aisle who are feeling financial strain. What's your message to them? EMMER: I'm going to push back on that. Nobody is talking about 99 cent eggs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
Markwayne Mullin says he’s making “mandatory” changes to elections, including requiring states to “scrub” their voter rolls
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Gregg Abbott has been Governor of Texas since 2015 and has spearheaded abortion bans, deaths of immigrants, & locking up immigrant kids. 📌Texans need to vote Gina Hinojosa for governor in order to protect our rights, freedoms and history. #GinaHinojosa #AbbottFailsTexas @ginafortexas.bsky.social
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls
“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/06/2026
Trump is refusing to sign a bipartisan bill that would address the housing crisis unless the SAVE America Act (designed to rig elections) is passed. This isn't governing, it's a hostage situation. Republican, Dem, or Independent this should piss you off.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fox Corporation is buying Roku for $22 billion. Roku sits in more than 100 million global streaming households. Fox owns Fox News, Tubi, and NFL and MLB broadcast rights. Fox now controls the hardware in your living room, the platform you use to access it, and your viewing data. Follow the money.
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