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Ed Cyzewski

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Woodworker, author and editor by night. Instructional designer by day. Oil pastels and hockey fan when I can. Author of Flee, Be Silent, Pray. www.edcyzewski.com and edcyzewski.substack.com.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
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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 than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Polarization Is Not the Problem." The paragraph below says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social It's starting to get attaction. So read the rest, and let me know what you think. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Ed Cyzewski @edcyzewski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've been enjoying the chance to write a bit on Substack about my creative projects and the negative self-talk that can hold us back. edcyzewski.substack.com/p/you-may-no... #woodworking #creativity #handtools #maker
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You May Not Be Able to Build This Now, But You Could Eventually
My experience with creative projects and negative self-talk.
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Karen Langsam @langsam-karen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🧵Do not scroll by. @hcrichardson.bsky.social Letter From an American must be read by all who want our democracy to survive. We can’t protect our Country without first acknowledging, as painful as it is, where we are NOW ⬇️
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is big news. The far-right Supreme Court hijacked the Constitution to let corporations spend in our elections. But we are not powerless. We can fight back.
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New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling
Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The Speaker of the Alabama House wants the courts to overrule the 14th Amendment. Listen to his exact words & understand this: We are seeing the MAGA-faction attack on our elections fully exposed this week. Now is the time to understand that & do something about it. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Remembering What The Stakes Are
Here’s what the whole gerrymandering debate is about: Who gets to have and exercise power.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It had immediate impacts. Within minutes -- literally less than 20 minutes -- Texas announced it would be enforcing a law that the federal government had already determined was racially discriminatory TWICE
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
But then, on June 25, 2013, SCOTUS killed preclearance. In a case called Shelby County v. Holder, they wrote that "things had changed" in the South, and the law was no longer justified. It was a bad decision.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Over the course of its life, Section 5 blocked thousands of discriminatory policies from ever going into effect. Importantly, these were concentrated at the LOCAL level. Most discriminatory policies are not the statewide ones that get so much attention, but rather local ones
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Corey Sznajder @allthreezones.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I still don’t know how the last Eagles Super Bowl happened with how Philly teams love to torture their fans.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Absolutely. "These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that." That's a pretty simple and effective message.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 15/04/2026
Terrible damage to children is being done in our name. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/….
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Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social)
Terrible damage to children is being done in our name. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/ice-kids-detention-over-6200-trumpICE
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
A few days after the incident in which Amalia lost consciousness, Marcano brought her back to the clinic at Dilley. A staffer measured Amalia’s blood-oxygen saturation—which, in a healthy individual, is between ninety-five and a hundred per cent—and found that it was in the low fifties. “Such a low amount of oxygen going to the brain can, if it’s long enough, kill off parts of the brain—it’s really, really high-stakes,” Prantik Saha, a pediatrician who reviewed Amalia’s medical records, told me. “It’s shocking that this level of callousness and omission of care could occur.” Amalia was taken to a local hospital, where it became clear that she needed care beyond what the facility could provide. She was transferred to a larger hospital in San Antonio, where she was given five diagnoses: Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, pneumonia, and an ear infection. She received supplemental oxygen and intensive care.
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Annette Yancey Allgood @ayallgood.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/04/2026
How are states doing on removing bureaucratic obstacles to rooftop solar power? Environment America has a new scorecard & y'all ... it's pretty dismal. No state gets an A. Only two states -- CA & TX -- get a B. State lawmakers really need to get on this.
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Solar permitting scorecard
A majority of states have done little to adopt common-sense practices that reduce the costs and delays that permitting and inspection requirements impose on families wishing to install solar panels an...
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
From Illuminated Ministry. Check out their free downloads for No Kings/Palm Sunday! www.illustratedministry.com/2026/palm-su...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17/03/2026
The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 17/03/2026
No one voted to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. We will not sit by as Donald Trump tries to destroy, single-handedly, the systems that generations of Americans have built!
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Devastating, in-depth indictment of Witkoff's handling of the Iran negotiations: "Witkoff did not have sufficient technical expertise or diplomatic experience to engage in effective diplomacy." www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03...
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U.S. Negotiators Were Ill-Prepared for Serious Nuclear Negotiations with Iran | Arms Control Association
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/03/2026
"Few in Washington are asking the most obvious question: What has this conflict already cost, and what will it ultimately cost the American taxpayer?" lnk.thebulwark.com/40dd35L
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This morning @status.news produces a long list of his attacks on press freedom before asking: "Should the WHCA treat Trump as just another president participating in a century-old Washington tradition—or as someone who blatantly attacks First Amendment freedoms at every turn?" Read to remember...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
First Venezuela, then Iran, and there's rumbling about Cuba. When will Democrats learn their lesson and stop talking about the Epstein files?
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Theodosius Calhoun @dailygrumbles.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
10/10 No notes.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump bombed Iran. Here are multiple clips of Trump campaigning against endless wars, Middle East conflicts, and boasting that he will stop World War III.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/02/2026
Donald Trump is unilaterally dragging us into another costly and deadly war in the Middle East that the American people don't want. Trump and Hegseth are putting American lives on the line to make themselves feel powerful, while our military families pay the real price.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 27/02/2026
NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:
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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center
EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.
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Shayna @shaynagoldman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
the 'everything is so political' and 'everyone is so negative' comments are something else. I don't think anyone wanted this moment to be political -- but the men's team made it that. Accepting an invite to the SOTU made it that. www.huffpost.com/entry/jack-h...
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 24/02/2026
“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2026
We found the Trump administration kept about 300 kids at the Dilley detention center for more than a month, despite a long-standing legal settlement that generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Not for nothing, but here’s the difference between men’s sports and women’s sports: There’s no fucking way female figure skaters, hockey team or any other women’s sport would be palling around with this monster.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New Jersey. You got a problem with that?
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/02/2026
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/02/2026
The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Tell Congress to reject this anti-voter bill: bit.ly/4tmVIor
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/02/2026
"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
‪Will Bunch‬: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times. How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter
Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Trump can't steal the midterms. I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands. Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has. Me, in @thebulwark.com:
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Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms
The case for being vigilant without panicking.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I started Democracy Docket as a critical tool in the fight for free and fair elections. Support its work by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.
MEMORANDUM OPINION

February 16, 2026
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place.”
George Orwell, 1984'

As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto
"Ignorance is Strength," this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government
has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain
over historical facts. It does not.
The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that
commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there,
including people enslaved by President George Washington. On January 22, 2026, the National
Park Service ("NPS") removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and
information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House.
Plaintiff City of Philadelphia ("the City" filed this lawsuit under the Administrative
Procedures Act ("APA") against the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…CONCLUsION
For the reasons stated above, the Motion for Preliminary Injunction will be granted. The preliminary injunction will remain in place pending further litigation in this matter. There can b
no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place.
Defendants shall further prevent any additions, removals, destruction, or further changes of any
kind to the President's House site, except in the event that a mutual written agreement is reachec between Defendants and the City of Philadelphia. An order will be entered.
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