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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
All In The Family: An ABC News analysis found defense companies backed by President Trump's sons have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to government data.
abcnews.link
Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our money. Wasted. Just one of thousands of grifts by this regime.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporations and hyper-wealthy individuals amassing power and influence is a danger to our democracy. There must be checks against their power as well. Any candidate who does not support that is a no go for me.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not the move you would expect from someone who says they are extremely worried about voter fraud
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over two decades The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I'm not worried the Democrats will lose the midterms. I'm worried they'll win and use their normal ploy of installing a rotating villain to torpedo the vote as soon as something good and productive is about to happen.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
youtube.com
Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I want lying to have consequences again.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/10/2026
Former German spy chief arrested for treason ft.trib.al/vePDUVk
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Former German spy chief arrested for treason
Former intelligence head August Hanning suspected of selling state secrets to a foreign power
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
First on @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
nbcnews.com
FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Caitlin is the BEST!
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yup. All the payoffs for their loyal supporters will be coming soon. Just like their new insurance plan. And the ending of the Russian / Ukraine war. The opening of the straight of Hormuz. Inflation coming down. It’s all and always… Coming Soon!
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘Organised crime groups are using artificial intelligence to streamline their global drug-trafficking operations and create fake documents, identities and business records to facilitate large-scale imports and money-laundering.’ www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
How Australia’s underworld is weaponising AI for drug imports
Criminals are exploiting the technology to increase the speed and scale of importations flooding Australia’s lucrative illicit market and avoid police detection.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can’t be the only one getting “start of World War I” vibes
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The White House reportedly instructed Attorney General Todd Blanche to avoid taking significant abortion-related action before the November midterm elections because it could alienate voters. The reported directive includes delaying possible enfor... TAT: [Attacking science | Undermining democracy]
washingtonsun.com
White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 05/10/2026
‘The world’s oil stockpiles are now “scarily thin”, the chief executive of Saudi Aramco said, adding that it would take up to two years to rebuild inventories depleted during the Middle East conflict.‘ www.ft.com/content/53e8...
ft.com
Saudi Aramco chief warns world’s oil stockpiles are ‘scarily thin’
Amin Nasser says inventories depleted by Middle East conflict could take up to two years to rebuild
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same job - different outlet
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
uh… yeah
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NAACP files federal civil lawsuit, asking court to order Justice Dept to turn over records about its "election monitor program" NAACP argues Trump Admin is "searching for evidence related to unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud", rather than "ensuring access for voters"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
Reports out of the Irkutsk region of Russia reveal a potential public health crisis developing in the area after a lab accident released a “particularly dangerous infection” to a researcher, who later passed away.
motherjones.com
Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
seattletimes.com
Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A former political prisoner who was tortured for leading protests against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government was arrested and jailed immediately after he was deported there from the US last week. Trump appears to have notified the Sandinista regime that he was coming. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
latimes.com
The U.S. deported a former political prisoner to Nicaragua. He’s now in prison again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elder Chavez Carranza, 18, was “granted Special Immigrant Juvenile classification when he was a minor, a designation for certain immigrant children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected that provides humanitarian protection.” ICE has held him for more than 200 days.
abcnews.com
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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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Report from Trump's Death Camps: 'Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old... from Peru, passed away in ICE custody Sept. 29, 2026, at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana' and remember, he was illegal, because we say so. www.ice.gov/news/release...
ice.gov
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All evidence now points clearly to a decision having been taken by Trump to explicitly realign the US behind Putin, and to give a go-ahead to a renewed Russian war against Ukraine and possible provocations against NATO's eastern flank, which the US will abandon.
phillipspobrien.substack.com
The Key Point Being Overlooked
The Russian escalation talk proves one key thing
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE detention, marking the 26th death in ICE custody in 2026.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@angieforfl.bsky.social bringing the 🔥 & straight facts this country deserves and needs
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:
kenklippenstein.com
Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button
Not that Congress cares
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very weird goings on in Bolivia this morning, as local press says the Trump administration is reaching to extreme measures to shut down the criminal probe into Fernando Cerimedo and Brad Parscale and their operation MAGA SUR. No press coverage of any of this in US corporate media, of course.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Racist, demented asshole
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/09/2026
The multiple deaths at Delaney Hall are the predictable outcome of a rapidly expanding detention system, with no transparency or accountability. Congress must pass the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act to end mandatory detention, family detention, and private facilities like Delaney Hall.
aclu-nj.org
A Congressman said reports of deadly conditions at an ICE detention center were a “false narrative.” Then two more people died. - ACLU of New Jersey
Immigration detention is cruel and inhumane. It’s also deadly.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
26-426
(26A406)
CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Images are highlight in this CBS story: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...
cbsnews.com
Feds charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent with assaulting an officer
Federal prosecutors in Texas have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by an ICE agent earlier this month with assaulting a federal officer.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration is cutting financial aid for degrees it says don’t “pay off”—including social work, early childhood education, and the arts. These careers contribute meaningfully to our society and we should be creating pathways to education, not erecting barriers. Congress can fix this!
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2020, members of Congress got private briefings on the pandemic and some sold stock right after. Weeks later the market crashed and the rest of us took the hit. I'll vote to ban congressional stock trading with no loopholes. Serve the public or play the market. Not both. #AngieForFlorida
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Over the next roughly 15 hrs, US and Russian diplomats hammered away at the document, removing a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons, according to three people familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss
washingtonpost.com
U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. People inside the building are climbing out onto the windows to avoid being burned alive Russia has damaged 4,650 educational institutions in Ukraine. Another 423 educational institutions have been completely destroyed
euromaidanpress.com
"Reminiscent of 11 September at World Trade Center": Russia strikes Ukraine's century-old National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, people are climbing onto windows not to be buried alive - Euroma...
A Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv, setting it on fire as people inside fled through the windows.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New York Times confirms reports that, days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack. According to five former senior Israeli officials, Netanyahu never passed the warning to Israel.
yacnews.com
New York Times sources back Haaretz report that UAE president warned Netanyahu before 7 October
Five former senior Israeli officials told the Times the warning never reached Israel's security chiefs. Netanyahu denies the call and has ordered lawyers to sue Haaretz.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
wsj.com
The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This regime is filled with blatant racists
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yay! We’re going to the White House!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Border Patrol goons came to a family home without a warrant and took 3 people after cutting off the electricity and breaking a front window. The woman recording the incident was home with her 1 year old and 5 month old baby boy when her partner was also taken by the goons
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration is facing growing questions over its decision to abandon a fraud/bribery case against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani after he promised to invest $10bn in the US. For the second time this year, Democratic senators have demanded that Todd Blanche, answer questions about
theguardian.com
Trump administration faces fresh scrutiny after DoJ drops bribery case against Indian billionaire
Warren and Blumenthal raise concerns about case against Gautam Adani, who promised to invest $10bn in US
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dontcallmesurely.bsky.social @dontcallmesurely.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Photo of the year
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