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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Trump has raked in at least $30 million…from his own cabinet. 20 members have funneled millions right into Trump’s pockets through political donations, visits to his properties, stock holdings in his companies, and other donations. The grift never ends.
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20 White House cabinet members have directed at least $30 million to benefit Trump - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The $30 million comes in the form of political contributions, property visits, stock holdings and donations to White Hou
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Keep in mind that Pete Hegseth's reported Pentagon spending spree happened just months after Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to the social safety net in exchange for huge tax cuts for the rich. And defense spending may soon hit a record $1.5 trillion. Priorities.
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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Part of the problem is that the number of people who are insiders is very large," @denniskelleher.bsky.social tells me. “We are incentivizing lots of people to use their knowledge of classified information for their own benefit.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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How to Prevent Insider Trading on Trump’s Wars
A flurry of well-timed bets and anonymous on Polymarket right before the U.S. strike on Iran shows the need for reform.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 09/03/2026
Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to tell the story of the film the BBC didn't want you to see:
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The story behind the BBC refusing to air a documentary about Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals
Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film. Why?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Pinning your hopes on police orgs breaking with ICE is not sound thinking. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...
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Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices
The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
WW3 without any allies is going to be grim.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This guy is a legend Expressing the collective thoughts of the world.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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LexUltimaVeritas @lexultimaveritas.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Article: ICE terorrist lies about murdering someone: abc7.com/post/homelan...
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Off-duty ICE agent shoots, kills man allegedly armed with rifle in Northridge
An off-duty ICE agent shot and killed a man who allegedly shot at him with a long rifle in Northridge, according to police.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 26/12/2025
The Trump administration's National Security Strategy rejects the values of the post-1945 international order, argues Kori Schake.
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The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Glad we’ve reached the Putin shirtless horse selfie phase of the hybrid regime
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The Spectre Haunting Europe @frightfulhobgoblin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Fascism is not an electoral project. It does not need to win at the ballot box. It does not need majority support. It does not care about democracy. It doesn't even care about society. It only recognises a blunt racial animus of violence. Stop treating fascists as if you can defeat them by voting.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Trump didn't want to tell you he was going to pardon and free all the worst drug dealers, rapists, and child traffickers. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Former Honduran president released from U.S. prison after Trump pardon
President Donald Trump has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was released from a U.S. prison where he was serving a 45-year sentence on drug trafficking and firearms charg...
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028 "As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years" by @sambiddle.com and @nickturse.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/11/25/t...
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U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Through 2028
As rumors of a U.S. war on Venezuela swirl, military documents show plans to feed a buildup of troops in the region for years.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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Ross @cxrfreeman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Free speech? Freedom of the press? Not if you cross Orange Julius Caesar
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 01/12/2025
"Unless Hegseth and Bradley face criminal penalties for their illegal order," writes @attackerman.bsky.social, "the bottom will drop out of military ethics."
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Pete Hegseth And Adm. Mitch Bradley Belong In Prison
The South American boat strikes are plainly murders. Now we have the names of the murderers. Do we have the political will to lock them up?
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Dozens of Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since a US-brokered ‘ceasefire’ deal came into effect last month, according to Unicef.
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At least 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’ began: UN
UNICEF says baby girl among several children killed this week as Israel carried out a wave of bombings despite truce.
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Ben Gvir promotes head of unit involved in executing two Palestinians, and calls for an end to investigations into the killings of Palestinians
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Israel's Ben Gvir promotes head of unit involved in executing two Palestinians
The far-right minister is also calling for an end to investigations into the killings of Palestinians
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/11/2025
Israeli soldiers on Thursday appeared to kill a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they had surrendered to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.” The Israeli military said it was investigating. to.pbs.org/4pbKwsi
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Israeli soldiers appear to kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they surrender
The Israeli military said it was investigating. The killings, captured in a pair of videos shown on two Arab TV stations, came as Israel pressed ahead with its latest offensive in the West Bank, where...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Not only is food more expensive, it is much more likely to make you sick and harm you, or give your baby botulism
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Boar's Head, Locatelli brand cheese items recalled over listeria risk
The recalled Boar's Head and Locatelli-branded cheese items were sold at some grocery stores around the country. See affected products.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 27/11/2025
The GOP push to prevent trans people from deciding their own names threatens all Americans www.sfchronicle.com/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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New laws keep trans people from using the names of their choosing
OPINION: “What’s at stake isn’t just about names… It’s about a broader liberty that Americans of all stripes have long enjoyed: The right to cultivate our own public personas.”
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
9/10 If you want a deeper explanation of how states learned to override cities, block their laws, punish local officials, and prepare for takeovers, our explainer breaks it down clearly. Here is the video: youtu.be/oNasCInTJ6I
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The Death Star Law Explained
YouTube video by Daily MindBrew
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Ross @cxrfreeman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
If this isn’t fascism, I don’t know what is
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
always remember that the median elected Dem thinks ICE is peachy-keen and just wants them to do what they're doing politely and unobtrusively they hate the part that looks like the SS storming somebody's house but they like the SS disappearing the untermenschen
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 21/11/2025
BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Senators push for probe into Trump-linked crypto firm over token sales tied to North Korea and Russia | CNBC www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/s...
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Senators push for probe into Trump-linked crypto firm over token sales tied to North Korea and Russia
A group of U.S. Senators have sent a letter asking officials to investigate a Trump family-linked crypto company over reported business ties to illicit actors.
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Ross @cxrfreeman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We should follow Europe’s example and add sunlight to our political dark money miasma
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Anonymous Grave @zevonfan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Charlotte and NC folks: The ACLU of NC has an app called Mobile Justice NC that allows you to record and report police interactions in real time.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The culture of disposability around criminalized people set us up for this moment, and to fight fascism, we are going to have to rage against that culture of disposal. Submitting to it (or hiding behind it) is an egregious form of surrender.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.
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To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Building liberty (figuratively & literally) takes work — but it’s so freaking worth it. Community coming together for our biggest art build yet. See it in person in Times Sq at #NoKings 10/18 11am. @indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
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Ross @cxrfreeman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nothing to see here folks…
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Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Forty one new sponge species! Nature is bloody brilliant www.odt.co.nz/southland/re...
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Researchers find 41 new sponge species
Researchers are soaking up huge amounts of information after discovering 41 new species of sponge in Fiordland. Victoria University of Wellington...
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Sophie Fern @sophiefern.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
When politicians say that they want a "mature" or "sensible" or "reasoned" discussion about something, they are saying that if you disagree with their pov, you are being immature, foolish and unreasonable.
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Ross @cxrfreeman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Cuts to seismic warning systems is irresponsible and will cost lives. My conclusion: they want vulnerable people to die. I’ve heard harrowing stories of the rescues in L.A. harbor after the Great Alaska earthquake of ’64 from my dad, a firefighter on duty that day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Al...
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1964 Alaska earthquake - Wikipedia
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
What the hell are we doing?
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
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16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
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LeftOfCenter @leftofcenter.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
When the shit-for-brains over at Fox News forget to remove the audio while trying to glorify ICE 🤣🤣🤣 #foxnews #usa #trump #epstein #funny
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