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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. via @carla-astudi.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Charles T. Downey @ionarts.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In case you are not Catholic and don't know any better -- DO NOT MAKE NUNS MAD AT YOU
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
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The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Another step by the Trump regime to make ICE agents unaccountable when they murder people. This is not federal law enforcement. This is federal lawlessness. This is Trump's Gestapo.
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Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations (Gift Article)
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/07/2026
Donald Trump overruled ICE’s memo telling officers to suspend vehicle stops after pushback from the MAGA base left the president worried about looking weak, officials told @jonlemire.bsky.social and @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
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Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE
Attacks from immigration hard-liners had the president worried about looking weak.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2026
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration.
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An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you, Wong Kim Ark.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja, originally from Nigeria, “lives just about a block from the church … Federal immigration agents detained her before she could arrive.” “The detained nun also needed medication, which Pimentel said federal agents didn’t allow her to get.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/06/2026
Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans. (Published March)
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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“.. The development, confirmed to The Associated Press by a Pentagon official, comes amid a growing, weekslong, flu outbreak at the U.S. Air Force’s boot camp .. that has sickened nearly 300 people. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pent...
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Gregory Schneck, a Democrat from Mesa County, chokes up as he asks the party to censure Gov Polis for giving clemency to Tina Peters. "It's personal," Schneck said, choking back tears. Peters' crimes cost Mesa County $1M to replace voting systems and led to national embarassment
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 19/05/2026
"it is a cartoonishly evil, corrupt act in defiance of all ethical and democratic norms to transfer nearly $2 billion of federal money into a slush fund over which Trump will have ultimate control" @chrisgeidner.bsky.social 🎯 www.lawdork.com/p/document-r...
Chris Geidner's headline for Lawdork about dump's slush fund
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...
In December, according to county calendar records, he met with Dan Rubinstein, the Republican county district attorney who led the prosecution of Ms. Peters. Mr. Rubinstein said in an interview that he had recommended against releasing Ms. Peters, and that he had encouraged the governor to talk to the county commissioners who had to directly confront the fallout of Ms. Peters’s actions.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
JUST IN: Abject apology from lawyers for former DHS official Joseph Guy over motion containing fake case citations hallucinated by AI. Jason Greaves of Binnall Law Group says he used Claude Console, asked associate to cite check & failed to check himself www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Interesting #copolitics
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Quizatz Haderach @lhamilton.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Always true
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.
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Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: Fidelity won't let customers donate to the SPLC anymore via their charitable gift/donor-advised funds, citing Trump admin indictment of SPLC. No response yet from Schwab, Vanguard... but soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...
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Fidelity Won’t Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When my former party today says the left “needs to tone down the rhetoric,” just pull this one out. It’s one of so very, very many.👇
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/04/2026
Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration. I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like corruption in plain sight.
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
CBP officer Nicholas Rice was charged with assault after he was caught on video grabbing a 57-year-old female protester by the hair, putting her in a chokehold, dragging her across the street, smashing her phone & then throwing her down an embankment simply because she filmed him. Psychopath.
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Federal agent charged with assault and criminal mischief in Colorado
Video showed Nicholas Rice grabbing a woman by the hair, placing her in a chokehold and shoving her to the ground
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.
Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Has anyone in the media asked Trump how he feels about his DOJ being 0-5 in lawsuits to gain access to state voter rolls? Seems like an important thing to ask.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This really should not be a surprise to anyone. But then I wrote a post in 2024 listing Hungary's influence op as one of the things NOT being covered bc of the 1000th Joe Biden Old story.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So now Trump is attacking the Pope. No respect for anybody or anything.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/04/2026
A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
New: I wrote about the battle between Gov. Wes Moore and the Baltimore Sun. The paper has been investigating Moore's record/past for misstatements/exaggerations. But in an unusual move, the owner of the Sun appears to be directly involved in the reporting process... www.semafor.com/article/04/0...
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump buddy buys Baltimore Sun, immediately goes after Black veteran Governor of Maryland, Wes Moore. Neither shocking nor surprising.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 02/04/2026
NEW: The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge. The court upheld her conviction.
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Colorado appeals court throws out Tina Peters’ 9-year prison term, orders resentencing
The panel of three judges found that the original sentencing judge wrongly based part of the sentence on Peters’ exercise of her right to free speech, according to a 78-page opinion released Thursday.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Salt Lake Tribune takes a bold step. No more paywall. "Starting in May, all newly published stories on sltrib.com and in the app will be free to read — no subscription required. Additional benefits will be available to those who donate..." www.sltrib.com/news/busines...
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Arrest quotas Palantir selected “targets” No warrants Random detainments Despicable
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
i will die of starvation before i pay "dynamic pricing" for a loaf of bread, hate these freaks
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...
In a pair of orders on the shadow docket, the court's conservatives — over the objection of
the liberal justices — allowed DOGE to access individualized, sensitive Social Security data for all Americans even as they prevented Americans from being able to access information about
DOGE.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
my guess is this is one of those pro-forma warnings. it's still messed up if it was suppressed. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump blocks FBI terror threat alert linked to Iran war
Top Trump officials ordered it placed on hold over concerns that it could show the domestic risk of the war and further erode public support.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
CNN confirming the F-15 went down in Kuwait — CENTCOM says it was actually 3 of them, calling it “a friendly fire incident” At ~$350,000,000 worth of planes that’s some expensive “friendly fire”
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I’m sorry, you didn’t know about it already?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The Epstein survivors. The citizens of Minnesota. The people of Ukraine. Three remarkable examples for all of us of courage, persistence, and resistance in dark times. We will not merely endure, we will prevail.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2026
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18/02/2026
The President and his family have made roughly $4 billion by leveraging his position—often while engaging in stark conflicts of interest. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/VZ6CgB
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Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We deserve leaders who speak the truth. Happy Presidents’ Day.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The 2028 Dem platform needs to include "prosecute everyone who lied to Congress." Whatever fake "norms" there were against that are long gone, and Trump has routinely used and threatened it, including against the Federal Reserve. Real, meritorious prosecutions need to happen at scale.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
ICE has forfeited that claim thanks to its own behavior and leadership. It’s not a “legitimate law enforcement agency.” Defund ICE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/02/2026
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Opinion | Epstein's friends aren't just pedophiles—they're also job creators. by Bret Stephens
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump, Miller and Noem are seeking vengeance… …On a five-year-old
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 06/02/2026
As immigration enforcement operations increase in Colorado, immigration lawyers say a leaked federal memo could embolden immigration enforcement officials to violate long-standing Fourth Amendment protections. via Vail Daily:
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Colorado immigration lawyers say leaked ICE memo is enabling agents to make illegal arrests
As immigration enforcement operations increase in Colorado, immigration lawyers say a leaked federal memo could embolden immigration enforcement officials to violate long-standing Fourth Amendment …
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