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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think often about how the golden age of WWII media came in the 1990’s and early 2000’s when the vets started to pass away in larger and larger numbers, now that there are a fewer than 30,000 left, it seems like it has become “why should I care”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Obviously he has reached some pretty impressively low polling numbers, but I am pretty sure there are STILL just millions of people out there who literally don't know things like "he is running ads about how great he is paid for by taxpayer money intended for line-of-duty death memorials"
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2026
The U.S. and its allies could be at risk for a Russia-China multifront attack, Simon Shuster reports. He asked a range of military experts and strategists what the West would do in such a situation and found that the responses rang surprisingly hollow.
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NATO’s Nightmare
The U.S. and Europe have no clear plan for a joint attack from Russia and China.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I hate that this kind of ankle-biting is necessary, but it would go a long way for even a single Democrat who was instrumental in letting them off the hook five years ago (Biden? Harris? Garland? Coons? Pelosi?) to admit that they fucked up, their critics were correct, it can’t happen again.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/07/2026
"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."
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America’s Death Squads Are Real
Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Utterly useless press corps. Our top news orgs are accepting Trump's bullshit excuse for his TACO flip-flop on his bullshit toll plan at face value, instead of reporting that he's deranged, impulsive and utterly irresponsible.. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE is a lawless Gestappo that exists purely to murder immigrants and terrorize Americans. Ask every elected official why they don't support Abolishing ICE. This is a litmus test issue moving forward. No half-assed answers. Tell us straight.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed a Colombian man. He was legally authorized to work. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least 5 times. He was not their target. Agents wore no body cameras. This is fascism. Prepare: PAXIS.app Keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The ICE agents who shot and killed a 26-year-old father in Biddeford, Maine, were searching for a different person, per DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin. The man they shot was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
Cecelia Humiston, 22, lives on Chapel Street. She was asleep with her two-year-old son when she woke up to the sounds of a commotion on surrounding streets.

When she went to investigate, she saw what appeared to be a person lying on the ground on Pool Street.

She remembers hearing an older woman with a distressed family, yelling, “You took her dad, you took her dad!”

“They were with a little girl, she couldn't have been older than three,” Humiston said. “She was still in her Bluey pajamas.”

Humiston described law enforcement as “rude,” and said they barricaded family’s car from leaving. Another yelled at the little girl, who was trying to smell flowers.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It should be a crime to conceal the death of a public official
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
here for my $10
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I really have no love for Piker, just like I have no love for other influencers-turned-political commentators like Joe Rogan and the Paul brothers, but I think there's a huge difference between a campaign reaching out to influencers and Platner's scandals.
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Keep The Republic 🏳️‍🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Let me write Jim Henson’s Dracula you cowards
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Defense contractor Leonardo is marketing SignalTrace: sensors clipped onto existing license plate cameras, already on poles in all 50 states, that sweep your phone, watch, AirPods, and pet's microchip. No warrant. No opt-out. No federal law against it.
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License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets
A new kind of license-plate-reading camera will also scrape the smart devices you take with you, and wrap all that data in a nice little bow for law enforcement and the government.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/06/2026
Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter. www.wired.com/story/west-a...
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West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice
Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I don't think people who literally just watched their party advocate for their expulsion and are sticking with it are winnable.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
American police kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day. scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...
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More than Just Collateral Damage: Pet Shootings by Police
The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforc...
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Dropout @dropout.tv · 12/06/2026
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What court-reform foes really ask is for liberals to live under a Supreme Court that doesn’t want to let them meaningfully govern and dismantles their past victories with disingenuous ease for (at minimum) most of the rest of their lives. Unless the court changes, that calculus will stay the same.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This reads like the opening scene of a pogrom
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.
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Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/06/2026
has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...
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Crémieux
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DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts.

If DOGE makes a big, broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and then that program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.
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I can only hope people realizing this won't damage the mechanism, because it's still useful to have professionals getting mad about some very good thing getting cut before it's brought back online as a result.

In a word, DOGE is responsive, which is unusual for the government!
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I agree, but it would be more efficient to spend one hour ahead of time talking to experts or just reading up on the history of a program for [disease, student testing, nuclear safety, etc.]

Plus, some programs don't have famous proponents with time to dig into the weeds.
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Feb 15, 2025
I'm highly sympathetic, but there really are thousands and thousands of programs and grants to cut, so I'm not sure the small team doing the cuts has the ability to go through them all one-by-one on their short timeline.

Maybe a system can be developed to assist with feedback.
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Stuart Buck
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Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://theatlantic.com/science/archiv
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I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [https://aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-an
nouncements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us…
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
[susan collins voice] concerning
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Democrats @democrats.org · 02/06/2026
They shot and killed two Americans in cold blood.
An image of Renee Good.An image of Alex Pretti.
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Erica Layton @snarica.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you are a California voter (or any voter who uses mail in ballots, as my state of Washington does), make sure you know what’s up. Use your drop boxes! Get your ballots in early! Make sure all your people are aware as well.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/05/2026
The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. scim.ag/43HgW4s
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/05/2026
why am i just finding out about ICE terrorizing this city and people? why is no one in the media talking about this beyond independent outlets? this is horrifying
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
They are doing this because their mass deportation goals are impossible if They actually follow the law, so they starve, freeze, bake, mistreat, and otherwise brutalize people until they leave without their say in court.
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
They are torturing people until they agree to sign away their rights. They kill some people in this process, as torturers often do. It is all in the open.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/05/2026
Pedophilia is a plank of the Republican Party, a very real policy goal that they work towards on a consistent basis, from the President to the primary electorate. The Republican Party's countless exposed sexual predators simply represent the party's view, which is that children should be molested.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.
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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away
Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/05/2026
The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i know there's a lot of crazy shit happening right now but ICE agents straight up torturing a man in broad daylight in brooklyn seems like a big one
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
still can't get over the fact that masked federal agents gunned down two American citizens in broad daylight without any investigation or trial and not a single gun nut who circlejerks about "feds" or "glowies" had anything to say about it
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
AOC on how Democrats should respond to SCOTUS weakening VRA: “And so if Republicans are going to redraw North Carolina, if they're going to redraw Texas, if they're going to redraw and gerrymander every one of their states, then unfortunately, we have to provide balance to that”
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
it’s simple. Dems need to 1. prepare retaliatory gerrymanders in every blue state now that the VRA has been overturned 2. pack the court (and prosecute Thomas/alito) in 2029 I will only even *consider* primary candidates who support both of the above going forward
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana map that fairly represents Black voters, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This devastating attack from the Court majority destroys protections for voters of color across the country.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Secondly, people lose faith in institutions when those institutions turn out to be toothless. Right now Congress is doing nothing to constrain Trump and if they want to worsen the impression that they're useless, failing to use their most important option will reinforce that.
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