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What Idiot @whatidiot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
What idiot called it a Spirit Halloween and not Bloodbath & Beyond
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 07/10/2026
🚨Attn nonprofit org leaders🚨 As we see new reports of the Trump admin investigating civil society organizations, here's how to prepare for and respond to scenarios like search warrants, subpoenas, congressional and IRS investigations, and more. → protdem.org/NonprofitInvestigations…
A graphic titled "The Nonprofit Toolkit: Responding to Government Investigations" with the subtitle "Resources to help organizations face politicized threats while continuing to serve their communities." Includes images of a gavel, a government building, stacks of documents, and a scales of justice symbol.
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devoncopley.bsky.social @devoncopley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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DHS allows mother it deported without her toddler to return for his burial
Wendy Hernandez Reyes denies she “abandoned” her son, as ICE claimed. In an extraordinary act, she was allowed to come back to the U.S. for his burial.
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devoncopley.bsky.social @devoncopley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
That last five minutes of the 2nd was some of the best hockey I’ve seen in my life
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/04/2026
worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit
Fifteenth Amendment
Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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L. Louise Lucas (mirror bot) @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot · 16/01/2026
I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1
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J. Ackolan Ternweather @jeffinghambellw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
you've been hit by you've been struck by the Smooth Hawley Act
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A Broadway playbill of A Chorus Line
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My alma mater @yale.edu is so embarrassing. In 2024 it adopted "institutional neutrality" to not comment on political matters; that didn't stop the President from praising a right-wing group for inviting McMahon to campus, but did stop her from saying if Dept of Edu should be illegally destroyed. 🙄
McInnis adopted a policy of institutional neutrality in October 2024, following recommendations from the Committee on Institutional Voice, which advises Yale leaders to limit public statements on political matters except in rare cases. She has said her priority is working with lawmakers behind the scenes, and lobbying has been a core part of her presidency.Ahead of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s scheduled appearance at a Buckley Institute event this month, University President Maurie McInnis commended the independent Yale-adjacent organization for inviting her.

McMahon is slated to speak about diversity, gender and the government’s education policies at an April 16 event hosted by the Buckley Institute, a group that brings conservative voices to campus. The secretary, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, oversees a Department of Education that has canceled billions of dollars worth of federal funding grants to universities across the country.

“Buckley does an amazing job, as do many of our other student groups, of inviting leaders to come speak on consequential topics,” McInnis said in an interview on Tuesday. “I applaud that they have invited her.”When asked if she believed the Education Department should be scrapped, she stopped short of clearly answering affirmatively or negatively.

“I don’t believe — I — the U.S. Department of Education serves many wide and diverse functions, many of which serve our students very well,” she said, mentioning Pell Grants as an example. “I certainly think that those functions are absolutely vital and need to continue,” she added, emphasizing the word “functions.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 26/03/2026
we are not going to outchud the republican party and theirs are not our values
batman breaking a gun and saying “this is the weapon of the enemy. we do not need it. we will not use it.”
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remembering Aretha Franklin on her birthday. 💜 🙏🏼 🎵 🎹🎤
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 16/03/2026
Ally Sheedy's 'makeover' in The Breakfast Club with the text DLSS 5 OFF and DLSS 5 ON.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/02/2026
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026
...horrifying message without context, thank you
Error: entity released
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 28/01/2026
Two democratic members of congress being assaulted reminds me of the time Sarah Huckabee Sanders was politely asked to leave a restaurant
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Isn't Tom Homan that bagful of cash guy?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
All of this happened with basically no help from elected officials of the opposition party. This was entirely the people.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26/01/2026
Whatever TikTok’s problem was over the weekend,“When Trump said he ‘would save TikTok,’ we explained that that meant he would arrange to have it sold to someone beholden to him, or otherwise willing to do his bidding,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @NBCNews.com. www.nbcnews.com/tech/intern...
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TikTok blames power outage for widespread glitches that many users say are censorship
Users experienced technical glitches over the weekend, and some said they believed their posts were being censored because of political content.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
BREAKING: Stephen Miller has assumed his vaporous form in order to escape and reconstitute his dark powers.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If only you were in a position of power to exercise some kind of leverage against the administration to make this happen.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.
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Jason Wippich @wipps.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Zebras advanced the #Broncos single-handedly in OT #Bills
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
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Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I have eaten the seeds that were in the Svalbard Vault and which you were probably saving for ecological collapse
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