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@eks.bsky.social
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Somewhat reluctant litigator. Prefer solving the problem. And dogs, thrifting, Cal sports, and pointing out when people are wrong on the Internet.

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delfin @thedelfinclutch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
HEGSETH: Okay, we're set up. Now we wait for the cavalry to arrive. SOLDIER: Who's that? HEGSETH: Jesus Christ, of course. This is Armageddon. He will appear and clear the approach for his forces. ... ... ... HEGSETH: Annnnnnnnny time now.
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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown. "I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me. www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...
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Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown
One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Everyone reading this needs to understand that if this goes into effect you - yes, you, individually, the person reading this right now - could be deemed a "narcoterrorist" by Trump and subjected to summary execution.
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
GodDAMN
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
There are more people still illegally stuck in CECOT.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Why are places in the US that rely on foreign tourism suffering? Huh, it's a mystery. Must be because Vegas is too expensive now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My great-grandfather led a team of doctors that invented chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of breakthroughs in medical science that saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years of groundbreaking research because we put a manifestly unqualified person in charge of public health.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
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Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“Groceries.”
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Not satisfied with decimating tourism with the ever increasing headlines of unwarranted arrest and detention, they want to put a nail in the coffin. Aren't you glad you kissed the ring at the club world cup @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social ??
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Elizabeth Warren went to CNBC today and destroyed Donald Trump on the economy. Trump is trying to bury this appearance with a tantrum on his failing media site. Make sure this goes viral instead. www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren: Firing of BLS commissioner is 'dangerous'
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss her reaction President Trump's firing of BSL chief, whether Congress is able to take action, and much more.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We made it!
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/08/2025
I think Orwell put it best www.orwell.ru/library/essa...
It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not. Remarks like ‘They can't run me in; I haven't done anything wrong’, or ‘They can't do that; it's against the law’, are part of the atmosphere of England. The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as anyone else. One sees it in prison-books like Wilfred Macartney's Walls Have Mouths or Jim Phelan's Jail Journey, in the solemn idiocies that take place at the trials of conscientious objectors, in letters to the papers from eminent Marxist professors, pointing out that this or that is a ‘miscarriage of British justice’. Everyone believes in his heart that the law can be, ought to be, and, on the whole, will be impartially administered. The totalitarian idea that there is no such thing as law, there is only power, has never taken root. Even the intelligentsia have only accepted it in theory.An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face. The familiar arguments to the effect that democracy is ‘just the same as’ or ‘just as bad as’ totalitarianism never take account of this fact. All such arguments boil down to saying that half a loaf is the same as no bread. In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is a powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Fuck DOGE.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
You might need to unclench your jaw. It’s worth checking.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Free advice for this Sunday morning: When you see the byline “Eli Saslow,” you drop whatever the hell you’re doing and click on the link. Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
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ICE Took Half Their Work Force. What Do They Do Now?
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Stay mad lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump White House Rages Over 'South Park' Episode, Calls Show 'Fourth-Rate'
The White House is furious at "South Park" after the show's premiere lampooned Donald Trump, depicting him in bed with Satan.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2025
Pause for three minutes and soak up the grace of this man. Earlier today, the father of three U.S. Marines, Narciso Barranco, spoke publicly for the first time after being pinned to the ground and savagely punched by ICE agents while they arrested the landscaper outside the IHOP where he worked.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I was somehow not prepared for the last scene of that South Park episode my lord 😯 so what happens now
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you're a visual learner: white represents money FEMA is granting to build detention centers. Blue represents too much money to spend saving little girls (and a hundred other people) from drowning
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
E.g. Recently the CEO of Blackrock said he didn’t want finance or comp sci majors. He wanted history majors and English majors. Goldman Sachs agreed. / 3 fortune.com/2024/05/17/b...
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The rise of the English major: BlackRock COO wants to recruit liberal arts analysts that 'have nothing to do with finance or technology'
As AI rises, so does the demand for critical thinkers.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
An Iranian national who is married to a US citizen and is in the pipeline for a green card was pulled over by ICE while driving his child to daycare in the suburbs of Portland. They broke his car window in the day care parking lot and he’s now being detained in Tacoma. www.opb.org/article/2025...
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‘Daddy, police!’: New video shows masked ICE agents arrest father outside child’s school in Beaverton
Newly published video provides insights into the immigration arrest of a chiropractor outside of his child’s Beaverton Montessori school.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/07/2025
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/07/2025
I do think some people really are weirdly ignoring the whole “LLMs can’t go out into the world and collect information that a human hasn’t already recorded and put on the internet” thing
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Audio books that add music behind the reading, no, why! Awful.
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Disappeared from the US @disappearedfromus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rodmel Jose Angulo Orta is 32 years old. He was one of the men removed on 4/13/25 and sent to CECOT. No criminal records anywhere. His wife and sons are desperate for his return. They need our help. Please share widely www.the-disappeared.com/about/261350...
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Rodmel José Angulo Orta / About | The Disappeared
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Did Stephen Miller kill animals as a child? Just asking questions.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Proud to have signed.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My current view is that the best and maybe only truly good use for AI videos is the baby podcasts on TikTok. I will not be taking questions.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Criticize Gavin for all the things he's not doing, for his stupid podcast, etc, but to say I'm not voting if he's the nominee or we're done if he is... That's the rhetoric that builds and becomes common "knowledge" that leads straight to where we are now. Anyway Vance wore a Trump 2028 hat yesterday
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/07/2025
A lot of people are sharing and replying to this without understanding that this isn't just rogue ICE agents or something, a federal prosecutor went out and actually got them indicted for conspiracy to impede federal law enforcement. this is not just arresting them!
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Disappeared from the US @disappearedfromus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
He is a hardworking man who came to the US in search of better life. He has three young children- the youngest he never had a chance to see. Here is Miguel Vaalmondes Barrios story www.the-disappeared.com/about/261181...
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Miguel Vaalmondes Barrios / About | The Disappeared
Miguel Vaalmondes Barrios, 33, came to the US from Venezuela in 2021.He moved to New York City and was working as an Uber driver, doing DoorDash and some construction when he met Glory Browning at an ...
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I'm so sick of this deranged loser lying his gross Temu-Goebbels face off on TV.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
He mentions his fear that he could've been sent to Guantanamo or CECOT and there is no way anyone can argue that fear was unfounded. On the contrary, he's right. And he'd still be there. That's what we've become.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What in the dictatorship is this.
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Very Legal @eks.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Scary prank calls to the home phone when you were home alone.
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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Similarly, any other detention center should be named as such, no matter where it is. And don't let *anyone* tell you these are not concentration camps, because they fit the exact definition of a concentration camp.
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