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Mostly reposting stuff from people smarter than myself. Trying to do what I can to ensure our kids have a future they can see themselves in. Working education/government adjacent .

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4h
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 7h
ICE is kidnapping our neighbors and putting them in chains. This is not justice. This does not keep our community safe. We must end this administration's war against the American people. We must shut this facility down. And we must Abolish ICE! #AngieforFlorida
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h
Angie Nixon wants to know which eyeliner Vice President J.D. Vance uses: “His eyes look so beautiful. They pop.”
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@curious-flutter-by @curiousflutterby.bsky.social · 7h
THIS is the the fire we need.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 9h
Agree—unfair to compare ICE to Gestapo when ICE has worked so hard to commit its own atrocities like 5000+ credible cases of ICE sexually abusing migrant children, ~200 deportations of US citizens, forcing 2-yr-old children to rep themselves, & up to 97% arrest rate of people w/o any criminal record
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 9h
Big news: Donald Trump has spent the past 18 months misappropriating taxpayer dollars for personal gain. I'm not just a journalist. I am also a lawyer. I map out exactly all the ways Trump misused taxpayer funds, and how a future prosecutor, or a future Congress could investigate him. Subscribe:
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Major Deep Dive: Trump Is Defying Congress' Power of the Purse. Here’s a Roadmap for Investigating His Misuse of Taxpayer Funds
He was once forced to pay $2 million for misusing his own charity's money for politics. Now it's the federal Treasury. Here's the roadmap Congress needs.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h
From photographer Evan Stone: a member of Lang's crew inside a silly string covered car waved what appears to be a gun at the crowd this afternoon. A Bridgeview police officer can be seen peering inside the vehicle. He then swipes its side mirror back into position:
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10h
I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Zeteo put our full conversation about end times fascism online here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS-6...
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Naomi Klein Warns Trump’s 'End Times Fascism' Is Already Here
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h
"The Department of Homeland Security agreed to pay the donor’s firm $108 million for a Boeing 737 airliner that had been converted into a massive private jet, complete with a stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15h
Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18h
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 19h
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
🥊 Hassett gets his ass kicked by Tapper 🥊 Hassett's efforts to insist Trump's economy is the greatest ever and POTUS has never failed to deliver on his promises did not go well on CNN, as Tapper brought receipts to back up the feeling the majority of Americans have about how hard it is to get by
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 19h
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
BREAM: DOJ plans to send 1k monitors to polls. Sen. Baldwin says 'our democracy depends on ppl being able to have their voices heard, but that's at risk as Trump weighs sending in armed agents.' How do you answer? BLANCHE: She should be saying 'thank God. Thank God we have a govt ready to show up'
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump's audience in Ohio pops for his dancing as his rally wraps up
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Trump’s Ohio speech tonight is at the Butler High School gym. Here is a photo of what it looks like on a regular day as posted by a user to Google Maps.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Marjory Wentworth, Springfield area activist & G92 faith group member, tells me tonight: “I have to wonder about the timing and location - the same day of the funeral for Pierre Damas Bal in Springfield. This young man was a victim of Trump's cruel policies, & the rally dishonors Pierre's memory &…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump goads the crowd into booing Kaitlan Collins, then says "she's such an unhappy person. She never smiles. She's a very unhappy person."
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@curious-flutter-by @curiousflutterby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well aren’t you just a sparkling role model for America’s youth.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bruh 🤦
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Anti-Trump demonstrators hold up large sign ahead of Trump’s midterm rally in Ohio He’s not going to like this one 📍Vandalia, Ohio
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 03/10/2026
Our government is using facial recognition technology to track us, including ICE and CBP who have used it to target immigrants and people of color. We need a moratorium on our government’s use of this technology.
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US lawmakers revive broader federal biometric surveillance moratorium | Biometric Update
US lawmakers revive a broader biometric surveillance moratorium that would require explicit congressional authorization for federal biometric systems.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
In addition to infesting government with this creepy crew of flakes and grifters, real national security work is not getting done as they chase imaginary goblins. That’s the real cost of An Audience of One, and losers/grifters who take advantage.
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How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
The effort to prove the 2020 election "stolen" failed. Diehards remain undeterred.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just arrived in the Middle East. I’m the first Democrat to be in the region since the war began. I’m here to view war damage, talk to our partners about the impact of the war, and meet with those who are working to end the conflict.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dems worried last year that this delayed implementation of the deep Medicaid cuts in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' would defang their attacks on the campaign trail, leaving voters unmoved by the message that a health care apocalypse was just around the corner. But for many, it has already arrived.
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Republicans tried to punt health care cuts until after the midterms. It didn’t work.
While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs won’t happen until 2027, Democrats are speaking to the voters already feeling the squeeze.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
Funny how their “originalism” dissipates when there’s a Republican/billionaire imperative at stake. I don’t think “originally” corporations were people, or presidents had immunity, or agencies couldn’t make “major” rules, or Congress couldn’t set terms of office. What a joke.
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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@curious-flutter-by @curiousflutterby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Eyes On Ice (@eyesonice)
CBS’s recent "exclusive" look into ICE’s record-breaking deportation crackdown is a masterclass in access journalism doubling as a carefully stage-managed, ride-along propaganda tour. By cherry-pickin...
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 03/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is attacking veterans and members of our military to distract from his failed war in Iran. He should not be serving any longer.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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@curious-flutter-by @curiousflutterby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Disband ICE Campaign Finance Reform Expand the Court
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reason #1,741 to root against the Dodgers this October
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The deal hasn’t even closed yet and already the job losses have commenced. Mind you, these folks are well off and will be fine. But thousands of middle class and blue collar workers are about to lose their livelihoods. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy to Depart at Warner Bros. Following Paramount Close
Michael De Luca & Pamela Abdy won't be part of David Ellison's management team after the Paramount Skydance & Warner Bros. Discovery merger closes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow… at Robert Kraft’s stadium…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deal with it. 🕶️
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SCAM ALERT: Buy $TRUMP & you *might* be invited to dinner with Trump & unnamed “legends” More like legendary grifters! Trump made $635M on his memecoin last year while regular investors LOST $3.8B+ Another scam to line the president's pockets when everyday Americans can't afford basics -TN
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I really, really wish it was possible to track and film ICE detainments in Doral.
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Florida City That Willingly Signed Deal With ICE Finds Itself in Crisis
Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All the celebs who are the faces of these predatory sites should be ashamed. This is a disaster. www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
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After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi
The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.
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