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No doubt the nonprofit does good work, but 51 affordable units in a fairly dense part of the city near the Glenbrook metro north station is a missed opportunity.

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 51m

Every statistic in the state is screaming “WE NEED MORE HOUSING,” but I suppose we could let longtime homeowners who already have theirs continue to pull up the ladder behind them and hold back our state www.ctinsider.com/business/art...

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'86,000 open jobs.' CT manufacturers need workers, even with production booming

Connecticut’s manufacturers are powering one of the top-performing state economies of 2026. They still face significant challenges.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is horrifying. Absolutely barbaric.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great article, really appreciate this. It underscores how fleeting opportunities are. Great to be reminded of Mike Slivinski in his DC United days.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

More fantastic reporting by @propublica.org . Couple this with other recent pieces, they are really outdoing many traditional iutlets.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The incentive structure for immigration judges, as part of the DOJ, has parallels in those for commissioners who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.

Emiliano Tahui Gómez
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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.

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He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."

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Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 20/09/2026

I watched this replay like 115 times after we got home from the game and all I can say I've already said 1,127 times: I really hope at some point MLS & NWSL get their shit together & give their referees, especially VAR, a Come to Jesus moment about how egregious their performance is. Utter trash.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With very few exceptions #DCU shots on goal were tepid as could be. Their GK wasn't bothered at all. Do better with your chances.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026

@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on the U.S.-controlled system for selling Venezuelan oil and assets: "Congress doesn’t have oversight...there’s just rogue bank accounts out there with Venezuelan money."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026

Bash: “The teenager who was driving was going to sign up to serve…He's a U.S. citizen.” Mullin: “He wasn't arrested.” Bash: “He was arrested…Do Americans need to show proof of citizenship now?” Mullin: “If you're an American citizen, you have no reason to fear."

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Don Gato 🐱🐈‍⬛🐶🐺🌈🐯 @dongato-1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nueva especie de gato descubierta después de más de 100 años Los científicos han identificado al Leopardus tilcayo, un pequeño gato salvaje encontrado en Bolivia New cat species discovered after more than 100 years Scientists have identified the Leopardus tilcayo, a small wild cat found in Bolivia🐆

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We just launched our new investigative research organization. Please give us a follow! @civildefenseinst.bsky.social We are digging deep to expose the organizations that threaten our democracy and our rights. They are powerful and have plenty of resources. But we aren’t backing down!

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fatigue, eh? Maybe a full bench of players to choose from could have helped.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In reporting about how Trump goes after his political enemies and left wing activists, experts have told me Trump's abuses were a natural consequence of sweeping powers given feds post 9/11 — It's like building a road and then being surprised when someone drives on it. Anyway, this is very good.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW: President Biden, Mayor Mamdani, and Gov. Hochul attended Archbishop Ronald Hicks’s 9/11 Memorial Mass. Biden’s attendance was unannounced, and the congregation of victims’ families applauded when he walked in. Pope Leo XIV’s appointment invited Mamdani over objections from right-wing grounds.

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Biden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance Decline

The White House declined the invitation from Pope Leo XIV’s new archbishop of New York. I interviewed both Mamdani and Biden, who told me his health is doing well.

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 08/09/2026

San Francisco's 2023 housing plan “talks a big game about reversing exclusionary zoning. But here we have, as plain as day, a proposal to reintroduce exclusionary zoning near a major transit stop. And it comes from the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect

‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is yet another telling example of the Trump regime’s racism. There’s no pretense here of targeting criminals - the usual excuse for mass deportations. DHS is specifically encouraging Haitian “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave. Any decent society would value these people.

DHS encourages “doctors, lawyers, scholars and engineers” to leave with some sort of $3,000 payout, its naked racism.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Schools regularly assign HS students "adult" books in the semester and summer. Not to mention that 14 year olds should challenge themselves and feel empowered to explore. This is nuts and continues the anti-intellectual bent our country is experiencing.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Critically important piece. Two points to highlight: we have for 4 decades+ intentionally blamed people for homelessness and then have dramatically undercounted to ensure we inadequately frame & respond to the crisis.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“no amount of new builds has ever reduced rent” Meanwhile: Austin (it seems like I have stumbled on the last vestiges of 2015 left-NIMBY Twitter on this app)

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Amid robust demand and a wave of policy reforms, Texas capital added 120,000 new homes from 2015 to 2024
Authors: Liz Clifford, Seva Rodnyansky, and Dennis Su

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026

“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.” ~Major General William Tecumseh Sherman to President Abraham Lincoln after Sherman’s U.S. troops entered and secured Atlanta on Sep. 2, 1864. (Sherman’s message was actually sent to Lincoln on Sep. 3.) Image of Gen. Sherman on horseback: Library of Congress.

This black and white photo shows the left side of a man in a Civil War Union major general’s uniform, William Tecumseh Sherman, sitting on horseback.

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RFK Refugees Podcast @rfkrefugees.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Absolute crickets about any #DCU moves... They still have time, but what a wasted opportunity thus window has been truly...

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I testified yesterday at a hearing, again about immigrants and crime. Nothing makes the Republicans more infuriated than pointing out that immigrants lower the crime rate.

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Trump Administration has abandoned American families who have lost loved ones in Nepal. Full stop. substack.com/inbox/post/2...

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The Politics of Disaster

From Nepal to North Carolina, the Trump Administration shows a cruel consistency.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gonna' have to figure out a way to process the rage. Because these stories are going to continue. And we can't ignore them.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

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Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 30/08/2026

the big lesson to take here is that corporations are fundamentally cowards and can be bullied

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jesus, Google Earth: Have some dignity. Two views just now:

Map with Lake Ontario simply listed as Lake America.

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In the article, our government says this massacre “is another reminder of the dire state of Haiti’s security crisis." Yet, our government leaders deem Haiti safe for the return of vulnerable people. Good lord.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

in 2023 *you* sent over 170 emails asking the Montgomery County Council to reinstate a Planning Board member after Marc Elrich kicked him out for basically doing his job. it happened again, so let the Council know: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board secure.everyaction.com/N2hg_35aQUKj...

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Tell the Montgomery County Council: keep James Hedrick on Planning Board

Late Friday afternoon, Marc Elrich once again vetoed the appointment of a sitting Planning Board member, James Hedrick, who's been a champion for more homes and better transit in Montgomery County. Te...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Between October 2025 and July 2026, the U.S. accepted 10,258 refugees. All but three (3!) were white South Africans. Regardless of your opinion of South Africa's laws and government, I don't know how you could call this anything other than an explicitly racist policy.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Under Trump, ICE has not stopped releasing immigrants from custody. It has cut releases of noncriminal immigrants, while actually releasing 50% more immigrants convicted of or charged with crimes than in December 2024. Trump's priorities are clear. www.cato.org/blog/ice-rel...

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d. reed, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

like the man in the white house, marc elrich is too angry, too spiteful, and frankly too much of a coward to know when to shut his mouth. i am ashamed that montgomery county democrats keep electing him bethesdamagazine.com/2026/08/26/e...

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Elrich to veto Hedrick’s appointment to Montgomery Planning Board, again

County Council could override veto with vote of nine members

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Doug Ryan @dougryan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The ruling is bad, but @rickhasen.bsky.social's post here is important. Don't despair, yet.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

KBJ has them cold:

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ll be heading back to Springfield soon but I also want to stress something: imagine what it must have been like for a Haitian family in Springfield for the past two years. To live under constant, growing threat like that from the most powerful person on the planet. Imagine what it’s been like for…

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

University leadership: We stand ready to support our faculty as they confront the disruptions & uncertainty caused by AI. Faculty: Great! We'll need smaller class sizes, especially for incoming students and— University leadership: Lol, no. We meant like subscriptions to Claude.

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