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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 20h
Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.
Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h
🧵RILE FOLKS UP TO MAKE GOOD TROUBLE MUSK opens in NY & LA tonight, elsewhere 10/16 •organize a group; preorder tix for opening wked •have voting resources+info re: Musk's elex spending on your phone; share at intermission & after •if you go before 10/17, direct ppl to No Kings Vote Early protests
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MUSK | Only In Select Theaters October 9, Nationwide October 16
An incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the world’s most heralded “inventor-entrepreneur” who has enormous influence on the world in which we all live.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 4h
“overnight, she became one of the more than 95,000 Black women who were fired or laid off from the federal government as result of massive job cuts implemented by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency and the elimination of diversity programs”. Disgraceful.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 09/10/2026
UPDATE: A federal document posted Wednesday says the temporary structure planned at the Batavia, N.Y., detention center will hold up to 100 people in double bunks. ICE is giving the work to Akima without competition and calls it temporary until longer-term plans are in place.
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ICE funds tent camp for detained women at Batavia
A federal contracting record shows DHS is paying Akima for a "soft-sided tent facility" for detained women, weeks after a New York law barred county jails from holding people for DHS.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h
WTF. Even I am just seeing this now.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#Vote smart
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Ahmed Soliman, a 31-year-old Phoenix man who has been arbitrarily detained in Equatorial Guinea since April, must be returned to the United States by DHS.
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Judge Orders Trump Admin to Return Phoenix Man Deported to Equatorial Guinea
Ahmed Soliman has been detained since he was sent there in April under Trump’s third-country deportation policy.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026
ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:
From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Vote smart
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The best argument I've ever heard for universal basic income (UBI). "The reason we don't call that work is because it doesn't make rich people money." 🎤Craig Fay
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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The work that makes money relies on the vast amount of work that doesn't. Basic income recognizes both, supporting the work such as that of care, creative work, research and study, and acting in the commons.
An Iceberg showing what's visible is jobs and the huge amount Invisible is unpaid work.

#BasicIncomeNow
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gonna say that to our dept chair when he says something I don’t agree with.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what we can do and are doing in America. Let’s keep rolling it out. Such an uplifting read. Thank you.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026
Municipalities all across the country are making innovative investments in community safety departments—and it’s starting to pay off. trib.al/ZqHA7RC
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A New Approach to Public Safety Is Reshaping American Cities
Municipalities all across the country are making innovative investments in community safety departments—and it’s starting to pay off.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026
They cut down the "grandmother" tree.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Maé 🎃Disabled Immigrant👻 @its-mae-bae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎁 "Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency"
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Once again - the problem isn't "ooo AI models are too scary and powerful". It's that the developers of these products are irresponsible dolts, who have absolutely no intention of changing how they behave. Stop making excuses, use existing laws and make them responsible for their own actions.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Matching outfits.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Vote
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Patriarchy
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 03/10/2026
Missed this one. Talè! haitiantimes.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Gilbert Bigio, mogul linked to global wealthy and Haiti’s gangs, dies at 91
Businessman Gilbert Bigio, founder of GB Group, has died at 91. He built one of Haiti’s largest private business empires and was sanctioned for supporting alleged illicit activity.
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do not like the fence of shame
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
youtu.be/s5AAscy7qbI?...
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'A rapist in your path': Chilean protest song becomes feminist anthem
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That anyone can argue that a college age young woman wanted to be drugged and fucked by 7 young men is outrageous. It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t so prevalent. #Patriarchy Remember #MeToo?
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'A rapist in your path': Chilean protest song becomes feminist anthem
YouTube video by Guardian News
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant.
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Israel Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOT
Israeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So much history, globally, for us to learn from, reflect on.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Barbaric. Every member of the #GOP owns this.
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Still here for the news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ICE
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was the Cornell student paper, with an editorial board that appears to be all women, that first named the rapists and REFUSED to let the story die.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Cathrine Schmid @schmidcathrine.us · 28/09/2026
I know that UBI wouldn't solve *all* of our problems, but it seems like a good solution at least to this AI bullshit would be for the folks in charge to be like "ok yeah we did steal all of everyone's ideas for all time, here's your cut"
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We actually don't hate this administration enough
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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