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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Kids just be doing shit
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
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This Is Personal
YouTube video by TMZ
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Is this the guy who bought all of his friends and followers on social media by offering money to people who liked his posts and commented and followed him? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...
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Trump Says Bill Pulte Will Take Over as Intelligence Chief on June 19
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is the way
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...
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Why is Springsteen Doing All the Hard Work?
What today's generation of best-selling artists refuses to do
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/04/2026
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 29/04/2026
Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The ears of every state or federal prosecutor who's ever worked an Embezzlement case just pricked up. If you ever wondered how Donald Trump could transfer the cost of his Fürherbunker to taxpayers while personally pocketing millions, this would be Step 1.
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Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
i will NEVER imagine dragons
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
@jcsalterego.bsky.social Is there a jerrycoin yet?
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@coachtuberville.bsky.social Is this a real post that you put out?
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 12/03/2026
If you restructure the Pentagon so that the only legal voices at the table are there to validate “lethality,” commanders will be left alone with unlawful‑order dilemmas and no independent JAG in the room to say, “This crosses the line.” www.facebook.com/SecWar/video...
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Joe Rogan feels betrayed. He will never admit or face his own inadequacy and incompetence in talking up and boosting Trump in the face of all information to the contrary. Now he is “feeling betrayed” instead of recognizing his ignorance and fixing it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...
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Joe Rogan Says Trump’s Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
This is a good point
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stop calling the department of defense by the fake tough unofficial name the fake tough babies gave it. By statute & still by statute, it’s the department of defense. Stop accepting this juvenile garbage masquerading as accomplishments. Be an adult. Demand our officials be adults
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We’re not being governed, we’re being looted. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/02/2026
Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“I asked for an attorney probably a hundred times and was never given one,” Saari said. “I was never told why I was being arrested.” Then, Saari said, “They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.” 🚨They cloned his phone without a warrant.🚨
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Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
He was observing after Alex Pretti’s killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
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Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
United States Senate Republicans posted for Iranian protesters to “keep protesting” and that help from Trump was “on its way”. That help would never come. Trump used Greenland to change the news cycle. And 3,000 to 4,500 Iranian protesters were killed by the Iranian government during its crackdown.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Forbes @forbes.com · 19/01/2026
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
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Man Detained In Minnesota Dies In ICE Custody—Gov. Walz Demands Probe
The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”
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Svatli @svatli.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A joke for the history buffs.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/01/2026
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”
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contextmatters.bsky.social @contextmatters.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Please enjoy this wholesome news moment
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 17/01/2026
Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I'm also going to keep banging the drum that <fewer than 10> <Republicans> in Washington could end almost all of this immediately, by fulfilling their oaths & caucusing with the Democrats, & we should stop giving them <total free passes> every day & laser focus on that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 16/01/2026
This is authoritarianism.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/01/2026
Trump’s second-term crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there.
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They want you to "quit demonstrating"
Trump's second-term crackdown on dissent started with pro-Palestinian activists. It didn’t end there.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Meanwhile migrants are dying in ICE custody - 5 this year already. www.fox29.com/news/man-die...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My god, I did not expect from the headline (which was bad enough on its face) just *how* bad this situation actually was. You have to read the article to realize it.
nytimes.com
Couple Says ICE Agents Gassed Them as They Drove With 6 Children
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/01/2026
BREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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