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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20h
Katsiaryna Bartko, a Belarusian pro-democracy activist, asylum seeker and thyroid cancer survivor, is asking a federal judge to release her from ICE detention so she can receive medical treatment. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-pro-demo...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Consumer sentiment is at 48, the fourth-lowest reading since 1952. It was almost double that at this point in Bush’s second term and didn’t even fall this low during the 2008 financial crisis. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
💔 Abolish ICE!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Absolute lawlessness. Backed by American taxpayers. If the little boy running away doesn’t infuriate you something is very wrong
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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 21h
Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Measles hits the 100-case mark in Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky has now confirmed more than 100 cases of measles as the state grapples with its highest case load this century.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21h
Supreme Court justices who started prior to 1966 stayed for a median of 15.3 years, but for those who joined the Court after 1966 (excluding the current ones), the number jumped to 25.7 years. bit.ly/47DWAuZ
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3 Charts that Show the Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and narrowing Senate confirmation votes make the case for reform.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 21h
He Entered ICE Custody. By the Next Morning, He Was Dead. Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese immigrant, died a day after entering ICE custody. NPR says he was the 57th detainee death reported since Trump’s second term began. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/he-entered...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20h
Only two countries currently systematically carry out capital sentences in public: Iran and Afghanistan. In 2025, the Taliban authorities carried out six such killings and the regime in Tehran 11, according to Amnesty International. Analysis from @jasonburke2.bsky.social 👇
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Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company
Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. to give 1.6M in CDC funds to allow his Danish friends to harm African babies in unethical trial. We will be launching ways to fight back in just a couple hours. GET IN, DORKS. We have an unethical study to stop! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Could be some good reasons that the US Constitution doesn't authorize one person to take the country to war on a whim.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nice good idea, let em take out the US Third Fleet, various air craft carriers and submarines , the marines at Pendleton, the Navy Seals, let’s see what else…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump tells ranchers to eat shit 👇 Q: Nebraska is no. 1 beef state. It was striking to see universal condemnation for your choice to import 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef. What message do you have? TRUMP: So, I have been better to ranchers and to farmers than any president in history, but...
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 06/10/2026
The FBI just posted a video highlighting several current candidates for office, including Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, saying that their policies “failed” and “Americans were left exposed.” This is a clear violation of the Hatch Act. We just asked the OSC to investigate.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good piece by my former State Department colleague who used to head the treaty office.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” "We’re talking about kids who have a mom, a dad, and siblings who want them to be living with them."
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
If New York’s voluntary intoxication loophole strikes you as victim-blaming, you’re not alone; advocates of sexual assault victims and a majority of New York’s State Assembly members have long condemned the law for exactly the same.
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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started
Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as victim-blaming.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots
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Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Medical debt is linked to later-stage cancer diagnoses Higher burden of medical debt is associated with significantly increased incidence of late-stage lung, colorectal, cervical, skin, kidney, bladder, and head/neck cancer." radiologybusiness.com/topics/healt...
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Medical debt linked to later-stage cancer diagnoses
Higher burden of medical debt is associated with significantly increased incidence of late-stage lung, colorectal, cervical, skin, kidney, bladder, and head/neck cancer, new research shows.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
Her harrowing botched execution is a reminder of why we must not even entertain the idea of restoring capital punishment, says Maya Foa, CEO of the human rights charity Reprieve
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What do Britain’s death-penalty cheerleaders have to say about Christa Pike? | Maya Foa
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians funding our super secret military bunker.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CNN: “Trump's net approval rating among voters under 30 has dropped from -7 points in October 2024 to -47… young voters' trust in Trump on the economy has shifted 73 points (!!) to -62 net approval…”
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our article @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
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Yellow Jack’s Potential Return to the American South | NEJM
Environmental and socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. South may permit sharp increases in the incidence of serious arbovirus infections, and yellow fever is of particular concern.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
elifesciences.org/articles/08347
Dengue
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The "Doctors Caucus for Death from Ectopic Pregnancies" advises us not to think about Trump when voting on Virginia's repro rights amendment (Q1). I will actually think about the whole GOP and its war on women and girls. www.wvtf.org/news/2026-10...
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Anti-abortion doctors ask Virginians not to think of Trump when voting
There are more than 38,000 abortions performed in the Commonwealth every year.
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Paul Fagan 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @paulfagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sadly since then, the murder of journalists in the Middle East has become so normalized, we no longer talk about it or take the time to learn their names. In the last three years, 247 journalists and media workers have been killed, most in targeted assassinations by Israel cpj.org/2023/10/jour...
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Journalist casualties during the Israel–Gaza war and related regional conflicts - Committee to Protect Journalists
Editor’s note: In keeping with CPJ’s methodology, data will be updated as new information becomes available. See CPJ’s database for the most current data on killed journalists. As of September 24, 202...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump starts to brag about renaming the Gulf of Mexico but then remembers he's speaking to a Hispanic Heritage Month event
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Maltose 🌊🌊🌊 @maltosend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Maltose 🌊🌊🌊 @maltosend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are currently 94 nuclear reactors operating at nuclear power plants in the United States. Just company wants to build 456 new reactors on a parcel of public land to power a single monster data center. That's a 450%+ percent increase in nukes for just a single data center. Let that sink in.
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar want to ban superintelligent AI before tech billionaires build something nobody can shut off. Break the ban, face up to 20 years. Tell Congress to pass it: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control
Contact Congress today!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
Tread on me, daddy.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texas RepubliKKKans Are Postponing The True Answers, Until After The Midterms.......
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All according to plan.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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rebel288 @rebel288.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The “ostrich paradox” is a theory of human bias that explains why we consistently under-prepare for risks we know that are coming. Ostriches are understood to hide their heads in the ground when confronting danger. Humans, it turns out, often do the same. This includes presidents." #Cowardice
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: Judge Sullivan has DENIED Todd Blanche's Motion for Partial Stay (of the foreign-language documents). He has instead entered a temporary stay so Blanche can try, on an expedited basis, to get the appeals court to enter a stay pending appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order on Motion to Stay – #49 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
ORDER denying 46 Motion to Stay. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 9/21/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 09/21/2026)
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
More than 25,000 people have been deported by the Trump administration to countries that are not their own. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ intended to discourage migrants and asylum seekers from entering that is costing American taxpayers millions
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ACLU audited 1200 ICE detentions and found 155 US citizen adults and 32 US citizen children were targeted, detained, or subjected to law enforcement misconduct. So US citizens still have good reasons to fear ICE/CBP - especially if your skin is not lily white or you speak English with an accent.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join tomorrow if you’re free! We hope to see you there! 💚✊ Hands Around the Kennedy Center Friday, September 18, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET The Kennedy Center 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
America First! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
The package includes 40,000 one-ton bombs and would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 10-year Treasury yield has hit its highest level since 2007. Bad news for anyone with a mortgage, a car loan, or a credit card balance.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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