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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 21h

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026

Leading AI company OpenAI tries to navigate through a storm of controversy, touting a new wave of products and tools it said would empower users with autonomous assistants.

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OpenAI launches always-on AI agents a day after apologizing for a hack by its bots

OpenAI launched a new agent product focused on continuous work just a day after it announced it had refrained from releasing its latest system due to safety concerns.

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!

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criticalemi.bsky.social @criticalemi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After the state just did a voter roll purge. Right before a close election. Fair n Free...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 19/09/2026

Rubén Salazar was renowned for his hard-hitting journalism about the Mexican-American community. While reporting on 1970’s National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War, he was killed when a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy launched a tear gas projectile into the crowd and struck him in the head.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026

This is Eugenics. Couple amping up the libido of their chosen specimens with their bid to lower the standards on human research subjects’ informed consent and mass deportation, and what other conclusion can be reached?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Stephen Miller was exposed in a new report as the "mastermind and enforcer" behind Trump's unprecedentedly "cruel and racist" assault on children in the U.S. A damning analysis details a whole-government attack on at least 200,000 undocumented children who are denied legal immigration pathways.

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Stephen Miller's attack on kids exposed in damning report that details 'Nazi' sentiments

Stephen Miller was exposed in a new report Saturday as the "mastermind and enforcer" behind President Donald Trump's unprecedentedly "cruel and racist" assault on children in the United StatesA damnin...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026

ICE cannot be reformed. It must be abolished.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026

Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.

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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters

ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Idiot Markwayne Mullin: "We go after the worst of the worst. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear from law enforcement." REPLY: "Renee Good and Alex Pretti would like a word--but law enforcement murdered them without any justification whatsoever."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: New reporting says Ken Paxton maintained political ties to Paul Pressler and two key associates even after sexual-abuse allegations against Pressler became public. Paxton kept taking their money, using their endorsements, and standing by them.

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Paxton Kept Close to Alleged Child Abuser Long After the Allegations Surfaced, Taking Money From Him

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent more than a decade cultivating a political alliance with Paul Pressler, the once-revered Southern Baptist power

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'll defend Politico against Dementia J. Trump every time, but it is kind of educational that the fawning sycophancy of its key White House people, especially Dasha Burns, still got them this outcome

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The FCC will allow the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & Abu Dhabi to own nearly 50% of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros — potentially giving them sway over our media. This of course comes after Trump received gifts or struck business deals with these countries. See the problem?

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FCC Approves 49.5% Foreign Ownership of Paramount-Warner Bros.

The FCC has approved Paramount's petition to allow 49.5% ownership by Gulf state sovereign wealth funds as part of its W

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you worked this little, you wouldn’t keep your job. The GOP-controlled House is scheduled to be in DC just 104 days this year. Through Sept. 16, only 21 days even ran 8+ hours — and that includes long recesses. Americans deserve a Congress that actually shows up and does the job.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In Alligator Alcatraz, detainees were forced into small outdoor cages for hours at a time. In Camp East Montana, detainees report beatings from guards and denial of medical care. In Delaney Hall, detainees report unsafe drinking water and retaliatory abuse for speaking up. Unimaginable cruelty.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎯🎯 This!! And so much more...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026

The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...

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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)

The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.

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Marc Swint [ th3Engineer ] @marcswint.com · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Mystik Spiral will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges

The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.

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criticalemi.bsky.social @criticalemi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The whole thread deserves to be read. What are people enduring today at all the centers still open?

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Jaye @jaybird54.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hmm…. Suddenly The Lion King feels less like a children’s movie and more like required reading.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

This is what Ahmed Soliman's attorney wants from you:

"Everything about the way Ahmed and his fellows have been treated, from the time they were -- in Ahmed's case physically picked up off the ground when he was asking for his fear interview, invoking his rights under international and domestic law -- everything that has happened to them has been in violation of the rights that Ahmed and others and all of us grow up believing that we have," she said.

She said she hoped every American would feel "deep outrage" about the way Soliman and the others sent to Equatorial Guinea were being treated and demand their elected officials uphold their rights.

"This is the line," she said. "This is beyond the pale."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2001 cartoon by Jonik the story is still the same after 25 years #AutisticiInventati #Sep11 source: jonikcartoons.blogspot.com

2001 cartoon by Jonik: A salesman impersonating “the big commercial media” that to wrap a "speech control on the Internet" package purchased from Uncle Sam offers as wrapping paper alternately ”anti-terrorism“or ”protecting children“.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026

Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For anyone wondering about the cozy relationship the Ellisons have with the President and his family and how that relationship is driving and economically profiting from this merger. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Jared Kushner – and three Arab monarchies – are at the heart of the Paramount-WBD bid | Mohamad Bazzi

The president’s son-in-law is once again at the center of an international business deal that will require administration approval

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone has hacked the Republican Midterms Convention In Dallas's website to redirect to the DOJ Epstein Library page, which asked a question to ascertain if Donald Trump would be interested in having sex with you. (A negative reply means yes, he would!)

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We Do Have the Right to Vote… Don’t We? trevorstoneirvin.substack.com

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criticalemi.bsky.social @criticalemi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Back to back, I read @tialevingswriter.bsky.social "Well Trained Wife"; watched "Death of a Pastor's Wife"; and watched most of @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interview with Doug Wilson. Quite the class in how bad theology hurts people.

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/ Jean Paul Miller IS Comp Theology. If you’ve been watching the series on the death of Mica Miller, know this: John Paul Miller isn’t an outlier. I say that as an old pulpit jockey who has served across the Evangelical spectrum.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨NEW from @propublica.org: over "the strongest possible" objection from the Minnesota federal prosecutor in charge of the case, senior Trump officials reportedly rejected civil rights charges against the ICE officer who shot a man and then lied about it. He'll be charged with false statements only.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. Those charges are similar to the ones leveled against Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing and can carry hefty prison sentences.

Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica.

That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted.

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Never forget how it started.☠️

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/09/2026

Every. day. Everyday one of these ICE charter planes has to abort takeoff, or do an emergency return, or has a decompression, or gets stuck somewhere for 20+ hours with shackled immigrant passengers trapped onboard. And we never find out why. There is no transparency.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/09/2026

That’s a number awfully close to “just 11,780 votes” that the Trump regime could delete in one go.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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