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Trump’s a bum Defund and prosecute ICE Pro cats, bicycles and Philly. Pretty dumb, but I try to follow smart people on here.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/09/2025
"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts
“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
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'It infuriates us': Veterans rage at 'abusive' Trump over reports of him stiffing soldiers
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.The reports started earlier in the summer that Tru...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Miscarrying and need a D&C? Good luck! Have an ectopic pregnancy and your life is in endanger? Good luck! Elderly/immune compromised and want to update your Covid vaccine? Good luck! Have a violent past and/or mental health issue and want to buy an AR-15 to kill people? No fucking problem!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too." Seeing this billboard up has been incredible and this shot from @visionzerovancouver.ca of the team of volunteers is pretty moving TBH.
17 vision zero volunteers smiling in front of a vision zero billboard - Smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too (child biking in a painted bike lane next to a truck)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
This piece broke me. “I often think about him. I wonder about what he would have worn at eight, at thirteen, at twenty. I wonder about who he would have been friends with. I wonder who he would have had a crush on.”
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/08/2025
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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Israel starving Gaza: 263 dead from starvation, including 112 children
More and more people in Gaza are dying from a man-made famine caused by Israel’s blockade on essential food supplies.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
1) Disabled children also deserve food. 2) disabled children are MORE vulnerable so if one were to rank ethical obligations (a mistake), protecting them matters more. 3) poverty and trauma cause disability. We know why these children are more likely to be disabled.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
'them kids woulda died of malnutrition anyway' is not the devastating rhetorical comeback you think it is Bari Weiss
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/05/2025
Touch screens on cars worsen response time significantly worse than drink driving or being high: www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
A bar chart titled How drivers' reaction times slow showing the percentage increase in distracted drivers' response times. An undistracted driver typically reacts in 1 second. The chart lists various activities and their corresponding percentage increases: Drink Drive Limit 12%, Using Cannabis 21%, Hands-free Phone 27%, Android Auto (Voice) 36%, Texting 38%, Apple CarPlay (Voice) 38%, Hand-held Phone 46%, Android Auto (Touch) 53%, Apple CarPlay (Touch) 57%. The source is IAM RoadSmart.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs The "Big Beautiful Bill" was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
bottom 20% poorer, top 10% 2.7% richer, everyone else 0.1 to 1.5% better off.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Y'all don't even understand I cut off the "soda in space" right below Ghislaine!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
World leaders agree on two things: Trump’s tariffs are terrible and the only way to deal with Trump is to treat him like a kidney stone. Do what you can to minimize the pain and hope it passes quickly. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-qui...
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Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World’s Kidney Stone
The painful truth is that world leaders are being forced to go through the motions of making nonsense ‘trade agreements’ with the United States.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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F1000Research Article: A structured dataset of the federalist society’s public engagements.
Read the latest article version by Chad M. Topaz, at F1000Research.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 23/07/2025
I can't wait to see the 6-3 shadow docket decision ruling with no written opinion that Barack Obama can be prosecuted by Tulsi Gabbard for official acts notwithstanding Trump v US www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
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Gabbard Releases New Documents Targeting Obama Administration
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025
“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco said obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
There’s always a tweet
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"Realizing that people in Germany could just go to the supermarket and spend $550 on a balcony solar panel that they could install themselves vs. $30,000 for a rooftop system was, uh, mildly radicalizing" - Kim-Mai Cutler www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... US hates those cheap chinese solar...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Texas flood exposed America’s warped priorities | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, the CIA is caught lying about the JFK assassination.
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Arya Sundaram @aryasundaram.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...
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‘They’re killing us’: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions inside NYC holding site
Immigrants complain of cramped conditions, inadequate food and bathing facilities and sleeping on concrete floors.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera. You decide which is the important news.
Two headlines: from the NYTimes and Al Jazeera. "Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza" and "Netanyahu releases letter nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize"
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Tom Caswell @tomcaswell.games · 02/07/2025
Important to note; Japan has way stricter laws around laying people off. Actual protections from its government that force companies to do things like have execs take pay cuts before doing a mass layoff. The solution to this problem is not a “good” CEO. It’s systemic and complete reform.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
WHOA. Sit with this excerpt. When ICE arrested the 75-year-old who died in their custody, he had a dog with him, Chulo, whose previous owner had already been taken by ICE. ICE officers left Chulo loosely tied outside the humane society. He then got free and was hit by a car.
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"His family members said he was arrested while sitting at the Murray Nelson Government Center, a community center in Key Largo. A family friend who was present sent relatives a photo of his arrest. Pérez had three chihuahuas, two of them in Alaniz’s care. But Chulo – whose previous owner Alaniz said had also been detained by ICE – was taken by officers to a humane society. They left him tied outside, but he escaped and was hit by a car, Pérez’s family said. A woman saved the dog, and continues to take care of him. Chulo “suffered a lot with the arrest,” said Alaniz."
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I hope that I am not right, but I do not think that the GOP fucking over rural areas will result in rural areas blaming the GOP: instead they'll double-down on blaming imaginary cultural enemies and resentment/fantasy about how the cities must be worse.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I see this stuff all the time: Young guys insisting Democrats - who just last year had a football coach running for vice president - are telling men not to watch sports. Just completely made up.
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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Someone tell this dumbfuck you either embrace naked power in the service of fascism and shrug off the criticism, OR you get to whine about "harsh words" targeting judges. You don't get to do both, dipshit, and you made your choice. apnews.com/article/supr...
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Chief Justice Roberts warns against heated political words about judges
Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that elected officials’ heated words about judges can lead to threats or acts of violence by others.
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
dems to rurals: “this is real america, not the dirty cities (ew). football, cornfields, county fairs. here’s a trillion dollars” GOP to rurals: “these degenerate druggy hill people will learn the dignity of work once we defund their schools and hospitals” rural elections: [dem🟦] 7% [rep🟥] 91%
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I don't think I love anything as much as RFK loves killing children
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It’s crazy how so much is going on That nobody is even talking about the DOJ filing a lawsuit AGAINST EVERY DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN MARYLAND Seems the Chief Judge issued an order granting a 2 day stay of deportation for any immigrant who files a habeas petition And Trump didn’t like that At all
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We're talking about $26 million in allegedly fraudulent contracts -- all signed in the first half of 2020, when Andrew Cuomo was governor of New York.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
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Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/06/2025
"Kids these days just sit around playing video games"
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Outrageous decision The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture. www.vox.com/scotus/41758...
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The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: Norwegian tourist detained by ICE and refused entry to US because he had a JD Vance meme on his phone. Yes, this is a real story. 🧵
Mads Mikkelsen holds his phone up showing a meme of JD Vance in which Vance is bald and fat
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a gut punch to the trans youth fighting for a chance to blossom on their own terms, and to the families and doctors doing everything they can to help them. Be gentle with yourself and others today. All we truly have is each other.
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