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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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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 than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dead on analysis here. Read the 🧵and then read the article by Liliana Mason. Powerful stuff.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The exceptions are few and far between for sure. The Michelle Go Act (not yet passed) might be one. It would “increase the number of federal Medicaid-eligible in-patient psychiatric beds for individuals who are seeking treatment for both mental health and substance use disorders.”

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Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today: Lyft pays $272M for underpaying CA drivers 2016-2020. Last week: DoorDash pays $131M for underpayments in NYC. The scale of the grift is huge: this is just 2 companies in 1 state/1 city over a few yrs. My big Q: what’s happening everywhere else?? (1/3) talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...

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What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement

This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Or more liberal younger white voters replacing older more conservative white voters?

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An sense of whether this is in-migration of white voters from more liberal states, or opinion shifts among existing white Texans?

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This seems like a pretty straightforward example of collusion if any state AGs wanted to bring an antitrust case against these stadium owners (knowing the Feds obviously won’t).

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Shanah Tovah Mr. Mayor! 🍎🍯

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026

"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The correct headline would be: Increasingly Desperate Trump Offers Illegal Bribe to Voters in Last Ditch Attempt to Avoid Humiliating Midterm Losses

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) exchange discussing political pragmatism and the Overton window.
The initial post by onion person (@CantEverDie) reads:
> "doesn't matter, this is about what the right is able to push with the overton window. first its democrats needing to disavow trans women in sports to get elected, next it'll be agreeing to ban access to HRT to get elected. we've seen how this plays out"
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A reply from Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) reads:
> "Are you insane? The Overton window didn’t even include this discussion until recently. The public has never been in favor of desegregating the sports by sex.
> Personally I’m glad Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008. Not because that was the right position, or one he even actually held, but because he knew the public wasn’t with him on it. If he hadn’t won he wouldn’t have been able to appoint 2 of the justices who ultimately voted in the majority for Obergefell.
> Lincoln in 1860 didn’t even run on abolishing slavery! He just wanted to stop its expansion. And thankfully he did that and won because a more extreme and morally correct position would have lost. As a result he was able to win the Civil War and push through the 13 amendment.
> Political practicality is the entire history of progress in America. There’s no other way."
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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m starting to suspect that Republicans aren’t the salt of the earth working class party they claim to be.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Elon Musk: #1 Republican Party donor and world’s most prominent neo-Nazi.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the one hand, unlike the NYPD Commissioner on 9/11, Zohran hasn’t been convicted of multiple federal felonies for tax fraud and lying under oath. Nor was he disbarred for lying about an attempted coup like Rudy. On the other hand, he’s Muslim and not white, so who’s to say which is worse?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026

The Pentagon is purging all trans people in the military. They're going after those who didn't even transition by searching through medical records to find any evidence someone had gender dysphoria. They're purging those who detransitioned to save their jobs. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...

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Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network

Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On the fiction front, The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami is pretty great. For nonfiction, you won’t be disappointed by Molly Crabapple’s newest book: bsky.app/profile/cpoo...

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just finished Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It’s one of the most moving and powerful books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Such a promising initiative. THIS is why I knocked all those doors. Happy Labor Day!

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

*most powerful and prominent antisemite after Donald Trump.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They should launch an antisemitism task force dedicated entirely to investigating Elon Musk, #1 donor to the Republican Party and most powerful and prominent antisemite in the world.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026

Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was thinking a televised implosion with fireworks like they do with old hotels in Las Vegas. But I would be open to this too! Either way, they can sell chunks of rubble as souvenirs like they did with the Berlin Wall and raise money to repair the damage done by this administration.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Going after criminal bosses who steal from their workers and criminal landlords who harass their tenants! What a concept! Love that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has the courage to hold rich people accountable for crimes against working class New Yorkers. ✊🏽

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Alvin Bragg @manhattanda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Manhattan has the fewest murders year-to-date in recorded history, down 55% from last year. There is always more work to do, and we will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners at the NYPD to keep our borough safe! abc7ny.com/post/nypd-ny...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026

ok but renewable energy is cheaper than oil energy. in part *because* of the wars in Ukraine and Iran

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

⚠️ The Kuhestak wedding strike is reportedly the FOURTH incident in which the US struck sites with no military use in Iran and killed civilians, including children: Feb 28th: Tomahawk on Minab school Feb 28th: PrSM on Lamerd sports hall July 31st: 2K bomb on residential area

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And then remember that in the very poorest countries, the richest couple hundred people are still being driven around in Mercedes SUVs by their private security between compounds. The insane inequality means the average person is even poorer than it seems. That’s what our oligarchs want for us.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Meanwhile, some people (including some Democratic elected officials) still believe that thinking Palestinians are human beings actually is The Real Antisemitism.

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Cliff Poole 🌹 @cpoolenyc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Omg! Is this off Coney Island/Brighton Beach?

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m tremendously proud of Sam Poole, speaking out as part of @sengonzalezny.bsky.social New York Fights AI Data Centers Tour

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Amy M. Traub @amymtraub.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Governor Hochul, are you listening? “To make New York State a place where young people can afford to stay…stand up against the data centers raising our bills and ruining our air and water by signing the Responsible Data Center Development Act!”

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 28/08/2026

Go tell someone who reads a normal amount of news that Trump wants to sell off parts of Yosemite to a private Las Vegas developer and see if they believe you. It's one of those parts of the Republican Party so outrageous that people don't believe it's real.

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Julie Votes Blue @juliededit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“It’s never a good idea to fire competent generals in the middle of a war you’re losing.” We are so fucked

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