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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"At its root, the [Alien Terrorist Removal Court] is a domestic tribunal wherein the executive branch may deprive someone with constitutional rights of their liberty, relying on secret evidence." Excellent piece by Attorney Eric Lee via @justsecurity.org ⬇️ www.justsecurity.org/159035/dange...
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Dangerous Warning Signs from the First-Ever ATRC Case
The first-ever case brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court displayed the dangers it poses to democratic rights.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I think if we can acknowledge the kinds of logic people bring to these conversations, it creates the possibility of having better conversations. If we dismiss what they’re saying without any acknowledgement… it gets really hard to create a shared sense of understanding from which to move forward.”
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She's spent two decades talking to parents who don't vaccinate their children. Here's what she's learned
Jennifer Reich has spent two decades speaking to families about their immunization decisions. In an interview, she unpacks what she's learned.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
85 percent of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. In 2025, two immigrants died in MVPC, including 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, found hanging by his neck in a shower stall. Inside Trump's mass detention machine in Pennsylvania.
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Trump's mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is holding up to $1 billion in municipal bonds tied to cities and hospitals his policies affect qz.com/trump-munici...
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Trump municipal bond portfolio approaching $1 billion
The president's accounts have made more than 1,000 bond purchases from local governments, hospitals, and utilities — many directly touched by his administration's decisions
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Paul Szep on Nixon VP Spiro Agnew's culture war on the press, the media, anti-war protesters, Massachusetts... October 1973.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An innocent man spent 30 days in jail because of an AI-powered license plate reader. This will keep happening if we don't put a stop to the mass surveillance enabled by Flock, Axon, and other vendors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTR...
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Wrongful arrest sparks Flock camera questions
YouTube video by 11Alive
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/09/2026
An alliance of ideologues and grifters is remaking U.S. foreign policy, from Iran and Ukraine to Venezuela and Cuba. On @firinglineshow.bsky.social Watch here: youtu.be/4okBq3W_E-o
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Anne Applebaum | Full Episode 9.25.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 27/09/2026
"X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula" paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
Harvard Law School Acquires Oral History Collection on the Legacy of TransAfrica jbhe.com/2026/09/harv...
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Harvard Law School Acquires Oral History Collection on the Legacy of TransAfrica | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The new collection at Harvard features more than 120 oral histories recorded by Ronald Williams II for his forthcoming book on this history of TransAfrica, a former foreign policy advocacy organizatio...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Children are being held for months at ICE’s Dilley detention center despite posing no security threat. @monacharen.bsky.social and Casey Revkin discuss the conditions inside, and the father whose son asked him, “Why are we here if we didn’t do anything wrong?”
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
Last night, more than 1,000 of you showed up in Dayton. With your help, The Bulwark community has raised over $260k for the Haitian Support Center in Springfield. Thank you. If you're able, please give at the link below: lnk.thebulwark.com/4gXnQu2
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 26/09/2026
Employees and executives of GEO Group, ICE's largest detention contractor, appear in the metadata of a growing number of DHS detention contract solicitations. The contracts are open to competition from other companies. Neither GEO nor DHS will say what role GEO played in preparing the documents.
A metadata readout for a five-page PDF titled "Performance Work Statement." The Company field reads "GEO Group Inc." and appears twice. The file was created on Sept. 25, 2026, at 1:44 p.m. Eastern using Acrobat PDFMaker 26 for Word. The Author and Creator fields are blurred.
A PDF open in a viewer, titled "Attachment 10c1 - Enhanced Transport Requirements Requirement C (Philadelphia)." The page is headed "Moshannon Enhanced Transportation." It lists requirements for ICE offices in Philadelphia, York and Pittsburgh. These include 24-hour detention, transport and guard coverage; additional "GTI" guard and transport assets; and at least three extra transport teams per day, seven days a week, to stage near arrest teams and act as a "mobile detention facility" until the vans are full. The Pittsburgh section says a hub site would free deportation officers to make more arrests. The metadata panel shows the file was created Dec. 11, 2025, with Acrobat PDFMaker 25 for Word. The author field contains the name of a GEO Group Executive Vice President. A PDF open in a viewer, titled "Attachment 10c - Anticipated Transportation Routes Estimate Requirement C (Philadelphia)." The page is a table headed "Moshannon Incremental Mileage Estimate." It lists routes from Dover and the Pittsburgh Sub-Office to ICE offices, airports, federal prisons and about 20 county prisons, with miles per trip, vehicle type, trip frequency and total annual miles. The largest entry is Pittsburgh to Erie County Prison, five times a week, at 68,120 miles a year. The metadata panel shows the file was created Dec. 10, 2025, in Microsoft Excel. The author field contains the name of a GEO Group senior vice president.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
X is blocking the Brazilian Catholic Bishops' Conference account as polling shows Catholics backing Lula. The Church has denounced outside interference in the election
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Authors of a 2020 Journal of Financial Economics study of U.S. newspaper closures found that after a closure, towns ended up paying 5–11 basis points more to borrow.⁣ ⁣ Turns out “support local journalism” can also mean “maybe don’t jack up our municipal bond yields.” youtu.be/PXf0iEBhUaw
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Doug Milford @dougmilford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The pandemic...exposed critical failures in pandemic preparedness and weaknesses in social and health systems. Yet even though the risk of pandemics is growing, the world has failed to be ready for the next one."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of government contractors favored by the regime are cashing in on cruelty toward immigrants.
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Unused Tents and Uneaten Food: Watchdog Finds ‘Waste’ in Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
In a report Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said the Trump administration squandered millions of dollars to expand detention.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Doug Milford @dougmilford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corporate capture by the world's richest person.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Overnight this ICE flight landed in Kenya, which is not an official TCR “host,” but does transfer removals, i.e. migrants will be put onto a commercial flight to their country of origin. This is the plane that stopped in Gitmo, so this is probably the transfer deport of the Somalis who were there.
An FR24 map showing N352BH landing in Nairobi
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Doug Milford @dougmilford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"David Prentice, a cell and developmental biologist with Science Alliance for Life and Technology... raises the specter of experiments creating hybrids like those in H.G. Wells’ novel, 'The Island of Doctor Moreau,' that 'make humans less so, or the animals more like humans.'”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An ICE official desposed for this case was so evasive during a deposition that the judge declared her not credible. At one point, when asked to give a rough estimate of how many people were being held at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC in June 2025, she responded with "there's no such thing as an average."
Despite these facts, ICE officials – particularly Zanello – at other points in this case have attempted to downplay the level of overcrowding that existed during the summer of 2025. As the day-to-day supervisor of the tenth-floor hold rooms who was present on the tenth floor on at least most days from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., she was quite evasive about how many people generally were held there at a time. [see Footnote 114 in next image] 

She would not provide even an estimate. In addition to her unbelievable claims that she could not recall approximately how many people were being held at any given time and that there is no such thing as an average number of people who were being heldFootnote 114: (“Q. Over the summer of 2025 while you were there . . . there were often 100 people held on the [tenth-]floor hold rooms at a time. Right? A. I would have to look at the day. Q. What is your best recollection as you sit here of the average number of people who [were] being held in the [tenth-]floor hold rooms in July 2025? A. There is no average that you can provide . . . . [T]he best I could do was a high and a low. Q. Okay. What’s the high and the low? A. I don’t know. Q. . . . [L]et’s take one time period each day. Let’s take noon . . . . What is your best recollection of how many people were being held there at noon in July? A. . . . . I would have to look at a specific date and time to give you that number . . . . Q. Okay. I’m asking you how many people do you recollect being held? A. It depends on the day. I would have to look at the day. Q. But you have no recollection of what the numbers were like as you sit here today under oath? A. It could have been zero. It could have been max. I don’t know. I would have to look at the day. Q. Okay. Give me a rough estimate of one of the most crowded days you can remember? A. I would have to look at the day. I’m not going to guess on a number. Q. Fair to say that at times there were more than a hundred people at a time? A. I would have to look at the day . . . . Q. But sitting here today you cannot even give a rough estimate of how many people were there? . . . . [A.]Footnote 14 continued.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: The prosecutor at the center of Chicago's "Broadview Six" scandal has retired after being told by the U.S. attorney's office she was not allowed to intervene in court, her attorneys say.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS to re-start rapid third-country removals. This is the third time DOJ has taken lower court actions in the case to the justices. The first two times, the justices granted DOJ’s request — allowing the deportations to balloon. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ goes to SCOTUS to re-start rapid third-country removals
This is the third time DOJ has taken lower court actions in the case to the justices. The first two times, the justices granted DOJ’s request — allowing the deportations to balloon.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 24/09/2026
While other presidents have canceled tens of millions of dollars’ worth of restitution and fines, none of them have come anywhere near the billion-dollar mark – until now.
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Other Presidents Have Let White‑Collar Criminals Dodge Financial Penalties—But Not Like Trump
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
RFK Jr.'s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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RFK Jr.'s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access
US health deptartment said it wants to ensure the vaccine orders are "appropriate."
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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 24/09/2026
ICYMI: We officially launched our map of Chicago's bike lanes - where you can see how each ward's alder shapes how safe it is to bike in every neighborhood!
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Some Chicago Alders Block Bike Lanes - We Mapped It
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22/09/2026
A new World Relief report finds that FY2026 is likely the first year the U.S. refugee program resettled no persecuted religious minorities. On Monday, Sept. 28 at 3 pm ET, I am talking with @matthewsoerens.bsky.social about it. austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-year-t...
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The Year the U.S. Resettled No One Fleeing Religious Persecution: A Conversation with World Relief's Matthew Soerens
A new World Relief report finds FY2026 is likely the first year the U.S. refugee program resettled no one fleeing religious persecution. On Monday, September 28 at 3pm ET, I talk with Matthew Soerens.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 23/09/2026
ICE counted 20,012 people on ankle monitors in the first count of this administration and 53,192 on July 11, 2026. Evan Benz and Anthony Enriquez are suing over the memo behind that growth, and they join me Thursday at 1 pm ET. austinkocher.substack.com/p/over-50000...
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Over 50,000 People Are on ICE Ankle Monitors. Meet the Attorneys Suing to Take Them Off.
In June, two organizations sued ICE over a policy of blanket GPS monitoring. On Thursday, September 24 at 1pm ET, I am talking with the lawyers about what the case has turned up so far.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 23/09/2026
Tomorrow at 1 pm ET I am hosting Evan Benz, Anthony Enriquez and Lesley Nash on ICE's blanket GPS monitoring of more than 50,000 people. Register at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4217897688134/WN_2XlryglvSQinTRAuwFguIw
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 23/09/2026
👋 journalists, immigration attorneys, community advocates, etc. To help expand the reach of my 287(g) program report, I've been looking into feasibility of publishing MOA records as a new @atproto.com lexicon. I'm curious if an authenticated record for each agreement would be useful in your work?
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
U.S. District Judge April Perry will likely question and challenge attorneys next week when she hears oral arguments over the potential consequences of alleged misconduct by prosecutors in the "Broadview Six" case. UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
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'Broadview Six' judge to hold crucial hearing next week as she weighs consequences of feds' misconduct
U.S. District Judge April Perry will likely probe and challenge lawyers as she determines what to do about the revelations that triggered a credibility crisis for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros this sum...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026
NEW: Last month, I flew to Kansas to speak with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for Senate — as a Democrat. He talked to me about "progressive evangelicalism," and I talked to his congregants. And here's the thing: he has a real chance of winning. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 23/09/2026
If you or someone you know has any info that could shed light on GEO's use of 'mobile detention facilities,' please reach out to mwriston.410, on or off the record, full anonymity.
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 23/09/2026
Donald Trump and Republicans’ decision to gut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act is driving more than 1,200 hospitals, clinics, wards, and nursing homes to close their doors, cut services, or face the threat of closure or cuts.
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Hospital Crisis Watch: The Road to Health Care Gets Longer as GOP Cuts Force Critical Services to Disappear — Protect Our Care
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A great reflection post by Dr. Paul Sax on three recent studies which have examined very different approaches to addressing LongCOVID. We do not have a home run yet but it is a good thing that we are casting a wide net to find answers for the many affected. voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Three Very Different Ways to Treat Long Covid
Two that are promising, and one that is difficult to talk about
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
This district “is a microcosm of how far Latinos, and in this case Cuban Americans, which are a core bedrock group for the Republicans and Trump, have shifted.”
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One Miami district is testing how far Trump has fallen with Latino voters
Rep. María Elvira Salazar broke with Trump on ICE. Her opponent is betting that's not enough.
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Colleges Adopted ‘Systemic Suppression’ of Protesters, New Investigation Shows www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Colleges Adopted “Systemic Suppression” of Protesters
Drawing on records, media reports and surveys, the ACLU and Amnesty International USA break down how colleges have “disproportionately” violated the rights of pro-Palestinian students.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/09/2026
Just in: Trump reported making another 1,158 stock trades in July 2026. It appears he violated the Stock Act, again, by failing to report all of his trades within 45 days. extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026
Really good Bloomberg package on the AI data centre impact on urban heat island effects in the US, with exhaust heat raising temps up to 4ºF (2.25ºC) higher up to 1/3 mile away from the data centre. One more driver to 70% US opposition to data centres. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"We saw multiple vans & buggies bringing people of all ages to the site. Some attendees...said they came to get vaccinated because they were scared of getting sick. They explained that many people in the Plain community have contracted measles, & they wanted to protect themselves and their children"
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Peach Bottom clinic draws families seeking protection from measles
A pop-up vaccination clinic in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania, hosted by the state health department, provided measles vaccines to members of the Plain community and other people in the area amid rising c...
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"He'll be ideal for watching the chicken house—he loves chickens." Herblock on Reagan's deregulation agenda and the role of special interests, December 1980.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you watched the Reflecting Pool debacle, you would have known the chance for shoddy work that needs to be torn up and redone ANYWAY was always the likely outcome. And, here we go. Corruption sucks; it always leads to crappy outcomes for taxpayers. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICYMI — UN Special Rapporteur @profbensaul calls Hegseth & Trump’s boat bombings “Crimes against humanity” His briefing: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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