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Fisheries conservation is my gig. It will probably be the least of what I discuss here. All opinions expressed here are my own.

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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump's Freedom 250 celebration in DC is planning to fire off 850,000 fireworks on July 4th. That would best the current world record. It would also be 42X more than the 20,000 fireworks typically used in DC. All of this while starting the show at 11 PM nearly 2 hours later than usual.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.
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Dave Draeger @davedraeger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
the last few years have been an exercise in failing to socially limit vice. turns out a certain amount of hypocrisy and puritanism was actually load-bearing.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/07/2026
Human-caused climate change is increasing the risk of hotter temperatures, including these dangerous heat waves. Watch the entire distribution shift to the right. I'm afraid these headlines about record heat are only going to become more common. 🌡️ Visualization by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
latimes.com
'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Any Agency Head Who Doesn’t Make John Roberts Wealthier
It is very important for presidents to be able to fire agency heads at will, unless that agency is very important to John Roberts.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2026
Tierra Walker knew that abortion was illegal in Texas, but she thought that hospitals could make an exception for patients like her, whose health was clearly on the line. At 20 weeks pregnant, she died of preeclampsia. (Published January)
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Women With High-Risk Pregnancies Have Limited Options Under Abortion Bans
Our reporting has found that abortion bans generally don’t include exceptions that cover health concerns pregnant women with chronic conditions can face — or if they do, doctors aren’t using them.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
“Gonyea was working as a poll worker Tuesday afternoon at the Central Library on Salina Street when agents called to meet with her … She said she did not want to meet them outside alone. ‘I’ve seen the news, especially in Minnesota,’ she said. ‘And I didn’t want anything to happen to me at all.’”
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Scientific American workers put out a statement about the magazine's sale & firing of 15 employees: "We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting." www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...
wgaeast.org
WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If being against fascism in the United States can get you sentenced to 50 years in prison then that makes the United States...
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Are We The Baddies Bad
Alt: Are We The Baddies Bad
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Native rough fish story by @lollardfish.bsky.social in today’s Star Tribune! Like our favorite living fossils, PRINT media is persistent and probably even more relevant in these AI times 📰👍
News paper image of a story on native rough fish in Minnesota, including Shortnose Gar.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Look at this figure showing the global distribution of ocean temperature profile observations and contributions from major countries from 2005 to 2023. Without the US, we're flying blind.
Seven world maps (a–g) displaying global ocean temperature profile observations from 2005–2023, colour-coded by platform type: profiling floats (PFL, grey), animal-borne platforms (APB, light blue), expendable bathythermographs (XBT, red lines), CTD casts (orange), drifting buoys (yellow), ocean station data (pink), gliders (dark blue), and moored buoys (black).

**Panel a (all countries)** shows the densest coverage overall, with XBT transect lines crossing all major basins and profiling floats (grey) extensively blanketing the Southern Ocean, South Atlantic, and open Pacific.

**Panel b (USA, 1st)** dominates with bold trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic XBT lines and extensive float coverage across the Pacific — most closely resembling the all-country map.

**Panel c (Australia, 2nd)** shows XBT lines radiating into the Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean, with float data concentrated south of 40°S.

**Panel d (Japan, 3rd)** features an exceptionally dense CTD cluster in the North Pacific and trans-Pacific XBT routes, with minimal Atlantic presence.

**Panel e (France, 4th)** shows dispersed coverage across the tropical Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific, reflecting overseas territories and research voyages.

**Panel f (Germany, 5th)** displays a small number of prominent long XBT transects across the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, suggesting systematic repeat-section cruises rather than broad coverage.

**Panel g (all others combined)** shows substantial XBT and CTD activity across all basins but noticeably less profiling float coverage (grey) than panel a, indicating that the top five countries — particularly the USA — drive the majority of float-based observations globally.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
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Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
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Arianna Krinos @akrinos.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Please consider donating to this fund for students affected by a tragic fire at USF, for direct replacement of their lost items & for their student council funds. A link is also provided here for the Marine Science Operating fund (usf.to/USFMarineSci...).
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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is just blatant corruption of the federal bureaucracy.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/04/2026
a bit more simple:
The Red List of Endangered Crafts
Endangered crafts
Crafts classified as 'endangered' are those which currently have sufficient craftspeople to transmit the craft skills to the next generation, but for which there are serious concerns about their ongoing viability. This may include crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.
Armour and helmet making MORE ENDANGERED
Bagpipe making (smallpipes)
Bee skep making
Bicycle frame making
Block printing
Boat building (traditional wooden)
Brass instrument making
Brick making
Brilliant cutting
Brush making
Canal art and boat painting
Clock making
Coach building
Coach trimming
Composition picture frame making
Coopering (beer)
Coracle making
Corn dolly making
Cornish hedging.
Cricket bat making
Fairground art
Falconry furniture making
Fender making
Flax, hemp and nettle processing NEW
Flintwork (building)
Folding knife making
Free reed instrument making
Gauged brickwork
Globe making
Hand engraving
Hand grinding
Harp making
Hat making
Hazel basketmaking LESS ENDANGERED
Hewing
Horn, antler and bone working
Hurdle making
Illumination
Keyboard instrument making
Kilt making
Lace making (bobbin lace) MORE ENDANGERED
Lacquerwork (lacquer, japanning and coromandel)
Ladder making
Letterpress printing
Lithography
Lorinery
Lute making NEW
Marbling
Marionette making
Mechanical organ making
Nalbinding
Neon making
Oar, mast, spar and flagpole making Organ building MORE ENDANGERED
Orkney chair making
Pargeting, stucco and scagliola
Passementerie
Percussion instrument making
Petrakivka NEW
Pewter working (trade and manufacturing) NEW
Pigment making
Pysanky NEW
Reverse glass sign making
Rigging NEW
Rope making
Rush matting
Sail making
Scientific glassworking
Sgian dubh and dirk making
Shetland lace knitting
Shinty caman making
Shoe and boot last and tree making
Shoe and boot making
Silk weaving
Silver allied trades NEW
Skeined willow working
Slate working
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Spar making
Spectacle …
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/04/2026
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
Critically endangered crafts
Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge.
Arrowsmithing
Basketwork furniture making
Bell founding
Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED
Bow making (musical)
Bowed-felt hat making
Chain making
Clay pipe making
Clog making
Coiled straw basket making
Coppersmithing (objects)
Copper wheel engraving
Currach making
Cut crystal glass making NEW
Devon stave basket making
Diamond cutting
Encaustic tile making
Engine turned engraving
Fabric pleating
Fair Isle chair making
Fan making
Figurehead carving NEW
Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW
Flute making (concert)
Fore-edge painting
Frame knitting
Glass eye making
Glove making MORE ENDANGERED
Hat block making
Hat plaiting
Horse collar making
Horsehair weaving
Linen beetling NEW
Linen damask weaving
Maille making
Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW
Metal thread making
Millwrighting
Northern Isles basket making
Orrery making
Paper making (trade and manufacturing)
Parchment and vellum making
Piano making
Pietra dura NEW
Plane making
Plume making
Pointe shoe making
Pottery (trade and manufacturing)
Quilting (frame NEW |
Rake making MORE ENDANGERED
Rattan furniture making NEW
Saw making
Scientific and optical instrument making
Scissor making
Sieve and riddle making
Silk ribbon weaving
Silver spinning
Spade making
Spinning wheel making
Straw hat making
Sussex trug making
Swill basket making
Tanning (oak bark)
Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW
Thatching (Scottish vernacular)
Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW
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Tinsmithing
Wainwrighting
Watch face enamelling
Watch making
Whip making
Wooden fishing net making
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Election security expert David Becker says Trump new “mail-in voting” executive order is pretty much dead on arrival Becker says if you or I colored on a cocktail napkin with a crayon … we’d have as much of a chance of impacting state mail-in voting laws
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
NEW: With no authority under the Constitution to change election rules, President Trump has signed an executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. The order is expected to be challenged in court www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Help America Vote Act of 2002
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2026
BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2026
Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science. This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now. rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...
rollcall.com
Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding
The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.
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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There is something inherently cruel about waking up on a 30 degree Saturday morning when it was nearly 80 degrees on Thursday. Nature always choosing violence.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A reminder that Trump himself reportedly said he didn't want any "wounded guys" in his military parade, and doesn't like being photographed next to severely wounded veterans. "Nobody wants to see that," he says. people.com/politics/new...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The same amount of land dedicated to solar would put our country well on the way to decarbonization, and solar doesn’t require the use of prime farmland and does not inherently compete with food production.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Boosting corn demand via biofuel policy will raise prices for food consumers (especially harmful to low-income families) and cause clearing of land for agriculture elsewhere, increasing emissions, water use, and fertilizer demand (which I also hear is more expensive these days). Thread.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Farm Bureau estimates that a year-round increase from E10 to E15 (15% ethanol blend in gasoline) would increase US corn demand by 2.4 billion bushels a year. Latest yields per USDA are 188.8 bushels/acre, so growing it requires another 12.7 million acres. That’s about half the size of Indiana.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Same with Iran. Trump's decided to never negotiate again
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Lisa Talmadge💥 @lisatalmadge.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Science is amazing. A crippling horrid disease about to be eliminated .
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/03/2026
Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A patriot. “For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors' eyes?” — Yeats
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“I still have so many friends inside,” Dylan Contreras, the first known New York City public school student to be abducted by the Trump admin, said following his release from ICE detention. “We have to continue fighting for them.” gothamist.com/news/continu...
gothamist.com
'Continue fighting for them': NYC student Dylan urges help for other ICE detainees
The Bronx student was among the first local students targeted in President Trump's immigration crackdown.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"The Administration will adhere to current law" as a "concession" is quite an admission about current ICE practices
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This article does not mention Covid even one time, and suggests maybe just all 40 yos have hypertension for no particular reason at all.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This honestly explains a lot.
Tweet by Matt Duss quoting Socrates—“The unexamined life is not worth living”—in response to a post about billionaire Marc Andreessen saying he has no introspection. The image shows Andreessen seated at a table in a studio interview setting, wearing a dark sweater and smiling slightly.
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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
OMG we're watching WEAPONS on HBO MAX, and in the first 3 minutes it's got to be the worst example I've seen yet of dialogue you struggle to hear followed by BLARING MUSIC!!!!!!!!!
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Cliff Hutt 🐟🦈 🥄 @cliffordthehutt.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some worry NSF could order UW to shift the supercomputing center’s focus from climate to weather...“If we don’t maintain our ability to know what’s coming, we’re going to end up paying for it in the end.” www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/03/2026
chat is it good when the oil lines go vertical chat come back here chat stop screaming
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The footage shows that at one point an MPD officer asks Jackson and the DOGE lawyer if the USIP building is owned by the General Services Administration (which typically deals with the federal government’s real estate). “It’s a private building, and that’s why we need MPD,” Jackson says.
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The most tense moment is when DOGE, USIP and MPD all converge in one of the hallways. USIP outside counsel George Foote tries to better understand how the DOGE got into the building in the first place, but he's shut down. “I’m asking the questions, not you,” Trump's new USIP president said.
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
MPD used an extensive locksmith set to break open doors in the USIP building—included knives. At one point in the footage, there were two knives on one lock simultaneously, creating what appeared to be a dangerous situation. Fortunately no one was hurt.
thehandbasket.co
Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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