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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/03/2026
The next time Trump tries to push US allies into line, the German government intends to be better prepared. Officials are mapping vulnerabilities in US supply chains to identify points where EU partners could apply pressure, sources say. Read more: bloom.bg/4rZdps6 📷: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg
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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Depression is linked to a genuine pessimistic bias rather than a realistic view of the world
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Depression is linked to a genuine pessimistic bias rather than a realistic view of the world
Challenging the idea of depressive realism, new research shows that depression causes an active pessimistic bias. People with high depressive symptoms consistently underestimate the likelihood of positive events actually occurring in their everyday lives.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/03/2026
Helium hitch: Why US-Israel war on Iran could cause MRI scan delays aje.news/p7jkw1
Helium hitch: Why US-Israel war on Iran could cause MRI scan delays
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 26/03/2026
Safa Sefidgari was able to enter the U.S. in 2024 with a student visa. By the time her husband tried to join her, the Trump travel ban made it impossible.
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As an Iranian couple mourns the loss of their newborn, the travel ban keeping them apart adds to the pain
Safa Sefidgari was able to enter the U.S. in 2024 with a student visa. By the time her husband tried to join her, the Trump travel ban made it impossible.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 26/03/2026
People have come to hate social media, even if they’re heavy users of it. Social media use is dissipating, and polling also often shows concerns about its effects and the desire to live without it. prospect.org?p=136015
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Social Media’s Endgame Moment
Even users don’t like it. So when you ask juries to render verdicts, they’re inclined to punish the platforms.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 26/03/2026
High-earning couples who consistently pay the maximum into Social Security during their careers stand to get the biggest benefits in retirement.
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Social Security benefits can top $100,000 a year for high-earning couples. A new proposal would cap them
High-earning couples who consistently pay the maximum into Social Security during their careers stand to get the biggest benefits in retirement.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tbf I think the CIA might have local expertise in this sorta thing
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NOW: There are about 200 local faith leaders and congregants gathered at the Central United Methodist Church and holding an interfaith procession to the ICE Phoenix Field Office where they will hold a vigil for Alex Pretti.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
fuck off into the wild blue yonder, @theatlantic.com, "sharper focus" THIS IS WHO HE ALWAYS WAS. He told you he would do exactly this. HE IS DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO.
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Peter Gunite @petergunite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
An all out attack on the murder victim. This is the end result from us letting them get away with everything
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We’re going to keep denigrating all of you helping the lives of the #veterans I’m supposed to serve until morale improves. (Also a great recruitment strategy for the critically short staffed VAs around the country, A+)
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The murder of Alex frame by frame. If you look away, you are complicit. If you remain apolitical you are a coward. No paywall on thi article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article)
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are "unlawfully present" will "no longer be U.S. citizens at birth."
They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives.
There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
MSP Tribune: After latest MN shooting, a sense of exhaustion and fear www.startribune.com/ice-minneapo...
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After latest Minneapolis shooting: Anxiety, exhaustion and deepening fear
The shooting on Eat Street added to tensions that have been building since federal agents launched a surge in immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Moral depravity comes instinctively from JD Vance. This immediately after he traveled to Minneapolis to incite ICE and CBP officers to use lethal violence against innocent protesters.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/01/2026
This was Alex Pretti at work at the VA honoring a veteran who had passed. This is who they're trying to falsely smear as a terrorist and assassin.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 24/01/2026
Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.
Alex Pretti, VA ICU nurse, murdered by ICE while observing
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
What a beautiful human. Another devastating loss to society. I will fight in his memory and in the memory of all those who have been lost.
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Zach Rosenberg @zachinflight.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The Bellingcat analysis of the incident is, as usual, authoritative and dispositive. Read the entire thread. bsky.app/profile/bell...
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Your HHS tax dollars at work:
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is what Trump's ICE Gestapo does on their day off. They just switch costumes. The White Nationalist Patriot Front was at the National Mall on Friday. Like all good Nazis, their response to protestors was, "Are you Jewish?" Trump's America
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Read the excerpts. This is how bad it’s gotten. And thank God for the judges that are still defending the rule of law.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/01/2026
🇺🇸 Republicans pump their midterm chances as polls show Trump slump Ahead of the US midterm elections, the Republican Party is working hard to project an image of unwavering loyalty to President Donald Trump, despite his declining popularity in the polls.
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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@swin24.bsky.social’s piece for Rolling Stone from the inauguration last year sums it up perfectly, I reference it all the time
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Everyone Who Was Supposed to Protect You From This Failed Miserably
Donald Trump will now be the president again. A colossal failure by every Republican, Democratic, legal, corporate, and media institution got us here.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Republicans' Big Ugly Bill gave billions of dollars to "supercharge" ICE—and the cuts to your healthcare are what's paying for it. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Trump's ICE force is sweeping America. Billions in his tax and spending cuts bill are paying for it
One budget expert says the GOP’s big bill is “supercharging ICE” in ways Americans may not fully realize. There are few restraints on the spending, which lasts through 2029, when Trump's term ends.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/01/2026
Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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DHS ICE memo 1-21-26
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 14/01/2026
In apparent references to Renee Good, multiple agents have asked protesters: “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?”
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Federal Agents Keep Invoking Killing of Renee Good to Threaten Protesters in Minnesota
In apparent references to Renee Good, multiple agents have asked protesters: “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?”
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/01/2026
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Iran threatens attacks on U.S. bases if Trump intervenes over protests as death toll rises; At least 116 people have been killed since demonstrations broke out across Iran two weeks ago www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...
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Iran threatens attacks on U.S. bases if Trump intervenes over protests as death toll rises
At least 116 people have been killed since demonstrations broke out across Iran two weeks ago, according to figures from the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NYT: Trump's appointees to the court of appeals vote for the Trump admin 92% of the time (113 for 12 against)-a much more lopsided split than judges appointed by other Republican Presidents (68% for 32% against) or Democratic Presidents (27% for 73% against). (& he's doing wildly illegal things)
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10/12/2025
It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress, though the move does have strong support among the scientific, medical, and public health communities.
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Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
He’s the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety,” Stevens said.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
CNN’s Decision Desk has projected Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the City of Miami, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in control of the officially nonpartisan office. Her win will be another win for Democrats in Trump’s first year of his second term, according to CNN.
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Eileen Higgins Projected to Win Miami Mayor Race, Ending Nearly 30-Year GOP Hold
CNN projects Democrat Eileen Higgins as Miami’s next mayor, breaking a decades-long GOP streak as early returns show her leading the runoff.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#ResistanceEarth Trump’s EPA has removed mentions of human-induced causes of climate change from its websites. An EPA spokesperson said the agency “no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult.” No, it takes orders from a man bought and paid for by Big Oil. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
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EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit.
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SayItToMyFace💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
US signs pact with Kenya under 'America First' global health plan So we don’t have money to support US citizen healthcare but we have $1.6B to support Kenyan healthcare. This is not me being anti-support for Kenya, but it’s almost as if the Republicans aren’t really America First Afterall! /1
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US signs pact with Kenya under 'America First' global health plan
The U.S. will provide more than $1.6 billion to Kenya's health system under a new five-year agreement signed on Thursday, the first such agreement reached under the Trump administration's overhaul of ...
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm looking to speak with people who receive their health care through the ACA marketplace and are worried about their premiums rising next year, for a story for @theintercept.com please email me at Jessica.Washington@theintercept.com
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 08/11/2025
Climate denial didn’t spread on its own. Exxon paid to export it.
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‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South - Truthdig
With Brazil about to host COP30, evidence emerges of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Opinion Editorial Board

The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025 Opinion Editorial Board

Wes Moore embarrasses

Maryland with his gerrymandering ploy The Democratic leader of the state Senate deserves praise for resisting pressure from the governor. Today at 6:45 a.m. EST
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
As Americans go hungry, Trump’s out golfing on your dime using your tax dollars. Don’t worry, it’s only about $3–4 million per trip.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I missed this from @nbcnews.com @natashakorecki.bsky.social: Immigration agents tear gassed a 2-year old girl in Chicago. See the story below
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Conventicle Act 1664 (16 Cha. 2. c. 4)
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Prism @prismreports.org · 08/11/2025
“This administration wants to hide its abusive, Orwellian behavior, but we are fighting back.” Legal groups sue Trump admin over use of Israeli spyware on immigrants, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. Policing agencies are using military-grade tech to track, monitor, & target immigrants & activists.
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Legal groups sue Trump administration over use of Israeli spyware on immigrants
Civil rights attorneys are seeking documents disclosing details on the extent of ICE’s use of invasive Israeli spyware to target immigrants
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𝓛𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓾𝔁 @lefaucheux.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Can’t stress enough that Hungary is relatively poor kleptocracy.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The AI build-out is truly staggering. Taiwanese exports of information & communication products (basically, semiconductors from TSMC) have risen from $10-11bn per month to $27bn in the space of a year. That's over $300bn annualised and roughly a fifth of total US equipment investment.
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