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BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 8h

Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported back to Haiti after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status, said Theresa Hice-Fromille, a board member of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/02/f...

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Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported after Trump ended protected status • Ohio Capital Journal

Five Haitians from Springfield, Ohio have been deported back to Haiti after President Donald Trump revoked their legal status.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10h

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 14h

This corruption must be investigated.

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Subodh Chandra @subodhchandra.bsky.social · 8h

Step up, lawyers.

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 8h

Women — especially women of color — lag average Americans in measures of wealth and wellness. But when it comes to tracking how Ohio women are doing after last year's deep cuts to the social safety net, researchers say they're flying blind. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/02/h...

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How is Ohio doing amid safety-net cuts? Trump hasn't released the data • Ohio Capital Journal

After making historic cuts to the social safety net, the Trump administration is blocking data showing their effects

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 8h

Another one of white supremacist Rep. Paul Gosar’s former interns goes to the White House.

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Formerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 8h

Big shocker! Soren Aldaco is a fake. In that she was a legal adult when she transitioned, and it was in Texas, not Ohio. She was 19, not the child she claims she was and shows photos of in her anti-Sherrod Brown ads.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12h

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Rege @rjserinko.bsky.social · 16h

Russle Vought confuses himself with Congress.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 16h

Abortion is reproductive healthcare, because sometimes having a child can literally kill you. And I cannot tell you how it angers me that at the same time, Black women like Tierra Walker dying, RFK cut funding for research into infant and mother mortality, to fund his security detail.

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Cody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 14h

Guys you can add pictures. You can force them to look at whatever it is you'd like to attach here. The options are endless.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

In terms of consequences, the changes would have two effects. First, they would eliminate existing demographic data that we use for things like estimating racial inequality. That is by design, of course. Second, it would make the Census less accurate by discouraging non-citizens from participating.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration claims the constitution is "colorblind" so there is no reason to ask about race. But thats not true! There are multiple places the constitution focuses on race that help to explain why it became a part of every set of Census questions donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-2030-c...

The first was the language in the Constitution to separate “free persons” from “other persons,” the euphemism used in Article 1 for enslaved persons. The first census statute translated “free persons” to “whites” and “other free persons” for the actual census form, and by the 1820 census Congress had added age and sex categories to distinguish the “free colored” population and the enslaved population (presumed to be “colored”).

The second was the mandate to exclude “Indians not taxed” from the “actual enumeration,” such that American population history has had to reconstruct the demography of the indigenous population from non census sources from 1790 to 1890, when the Census Office did begin to conduct censuses of the “Indian population.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

In 2019, the courts said Trump could not add a citizenship question. But that was a long time ago! And the Trump administration is considering some, uh, novel ways to use other administrative data to predict citizenship. Both very vague and disturbing. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-2030-c...

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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 16h

Actual MN GOP candidate William Beck discusses frog conspiracy theories with his podcast bros. Seriously. Minnesota voters will determine if William Beck and Republicans like him hold power in November.

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Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 16h

US President Donald Trump has earmarked $100 million to attack Brazil’s Supreme Court Accusation of US interference in the country’s Presidential elections on Sunday are piling up

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16h

One of Musks breeding allies has apparently called it quits. I know I keep harping on this but imagine the media coverage if the top donor to the Democrats was a billionaire with a baby breeding cult? And yet the media has mostly ignored this part of Musk’s story.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a lot of money and yet probably still undercounts. It’s making me queasy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Do you like "intellectual diversity" as a euphemism for imposing conservative political thought on campus? You will love "civility"! After all, the marketplace of ideas sometimes needs a subsidy!

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Quixotica @quix0tica.bsky.social · 16h

Their legal is just like “plz don’t sue us 🥺”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Pulte is the most shameless, but the overall picture is bad. We now have Inspector Generals who are party members, or previously worked for the people they are supposed to be investigating. Career IG officials know they will be fired for doing their job. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

After he fired the Veteran’s Administration Inspector General, Trump replaced him with another of his appointees, Cheryl Mason, who was a senior adviser to the Secretary of VA she was not tasked with overseeing. The new IG soon stopped issuing alerts about problems in VA after her former boss complained they were distracting, and no longer allows staff to brief Congressional committees on forthcoming reports, weakening the ability of Congress to exert oversight. A staffer in her office said: “If you believe in independent oversight, that’s not what we were doing…It’s got all the agents worried about doing anything that puts us on anyone’s radar.” Staff who raise concerns with Mason say they are likely to be labeled “a resister, and they are totally blackballed.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The same guy who has been using government records to launch phony investigations is firing the people who do actual investigations after the investigated him.

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Cody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 16h

This is absolutely insane

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Cody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 16h

This picture is the proof of a monopoly lol

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Cody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 22h

"Under real strain" Awh shucks the sportswashing campaign is taking two steps back because people found out the sportswashing campaign is /also/ corrupt as.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Among other things, the State Election Board wants DOJ to open a variety of election-related investigations. It also asks DOJ to “prohibit” the use of QR code tabulation in upcoming election.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was canvassing local businesses for a revitalization project not 2 hours ago, and the owners were still livid about ICE and telling me how much revenue they lost donating to mutual aid rent funds for immigrants in hiding. Every single business in Minneapolis has a sign like this, still:

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Formal Request for DOJ Intervention to Todd Blanche

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/10/2026

This kind of stuff really shows how anti-trans sports bans and policies meant to segregate trans people really have nothing to do with "competitive advantage." All this trans girl wanted to do was run for homecoming queen. Like the students would still have to vote for her to even win!

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 01/10/2026

To temper the backlash, communities have been switching out Flock cameras for different ALPRs with nearly identical capabilities, merely evading the negative connotation of the brand name while maintaining the surveillance. buff.ly/E60kN30

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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect

Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The NY Times has obtained more than 1,000 pages from Cornell’s Title IX investigation into the 2024 alleged gang rape of Jane Doe. Those documents include interviews of 6 of the 7 fraternity brothers. I bring you the latest on this investigation and what to expect next. youtu.be/xwA2mCsX_sM?...

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WOW! BOMBSHELL Documents REVEAL NEW Details Of Cornell ASSAULT INVESTIGATION

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Ohio Democrats Pride Caucus @ohdemspride.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here are the Ohio Democratic Party Principles that @ohdems.bsky.social Party Leaders and our Pride Caucus Leaders have sworn oaths to uphold: drive.google.com/file/d/1CpmA...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And as a member of this caucuses steering committee, I choose to focus on advocacy first.

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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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Cody Vidmar @codyvidmar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So this is what's ending the war after the midterms?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Chris Wright: "There's a very good chance we've hit peak prices, and we're almost surely going to see diesel prices decline. I think we're quite likely going to see meaningful declines in gasoline prices as well." (Bookmark this!)

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026

Randy Spivey, an attorney for Pike, said he counted at least seven needles inserted into her left arm during the execution, adding that one of them appeared bent when it was withdrawn. Read more here:

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Christa Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers say

A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026

Breaking news: Christa Pike is alive, in critical condition “and receiving lifesaving medical care,” her attorneys said, after Tennessee officials tried and failed to execute her by lethal injection the previous night.

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Christa Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution, lawyers say

A lawyer for Pike demanded that the governor commute her sentence after an attempt to execute her by lethal injection failed.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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NPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026

Citing "exceptional circumstances," a D.C. judge has ruled that the federal government cannot refile its Reflecting Pool charges against David Hearn, despite pressure from President Trump to do so. trib.al/b9WNPD9

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A judge permanently dismisses former Olympian's Reflecting Pool charges

Citing "exceptional circumstances," a D.C. judge has ruled that the federal government cannot refile its Reflecting Pool charges against David Hearn, despite pressure from President Trump to do so.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

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