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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/09/2026
The fact that "Alligator Alcatraz" ever existed is a travesty. We challenged it in court and celebrated its closure. But systemic patterns of abuse are rampant at ICE facilities nationwide, and too often deadly. We'll keep fighting against this inhumane and illegal treatment of people.
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages to Confine Migrants, DHS Watchdog Report Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
This morning, New York City came together in remembrance of 25 years since the horrific terror attacks of September 11. 25 years of grief and loss, heroism and heartbreak, rebuilding and renewal.
Scenes from the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony. City workers in uniform hold an American flag. Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul, and other officials stand together. Mourners, including a young girl in a pink t-shirt, lay flowers at Ground Zero. A woman with grey hair mourns at Ground Zero. A man in an orange t-shirt and green baseball cap embraces a woman in a green shirt and black sunglasses. A man holds a poster of a firefighter, Michael Edward Roberts, who made the ultimate sacrifice on 9/11.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: A federal appeals court has agreed with the district court: USPS can't enforce key parts of a new rule that would interfere with mail voting this November. The Trump administration has asked SCOTUS to intervene. We're fighting to keep this illegal and unconstitutional rule blocked.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE went to a nightclub in Memphis around 1 AM and reportedly loaded more than 100 people onto buses and vans.
We are at the point where federal immigration agents can descend on a space in the middle of the night, detain masses of people, and leave families scrambling to figure out where their loved ones were taken.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A USPS whistleblower is blowing the lid off the incompetent “shitshow” in the agency’s new federal ballot portal as @blumenthal.senate.gov demands answers from the Postmaster General for this potential election catastrophe. What will happen in November? The latest here: youtu.be/7pS-R9hHlr0?...
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🚨Trump PANICS After WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSES His Election SCHEME!!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 31/08/2026
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Samuel Alito Holds More Than $175,000 In Fossil Fuel Investments Ahead Of Hearing Exxon Case, Disclosure Shows
The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check. Watch.
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TONIGHT: @coons.senate.gov joins @jonathancapehart.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
Promotional graphic for MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell featuring U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)
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ACLU @aclu.org · 30/08/2026
Urge your representatives to protect our constitutional right to record and share what we witness at aclu.org/right_to-record-
"If people can't record what federal agents do in public without fearing retribution, we can't hold our government accountable. Tell Congress: Pass the Right to Record Act." Image of a person wearing a "POLICE ICE" vest and a hand raising a phone to record. ACLU logo.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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Claude Taylor @realclaudetaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
They stole $10 million dollars. When will they be held accountable?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"There is no basis under federal law to get the post office involved in monitoring the security, or monitoring who is casting ballots. ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/08/2026
Our new animated show Know Your Rights University is the perfect homework helper, with plenty of singing and dancing along the way. Stream the first season now on YouTube. 📓
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ACLU's Know Your Rights University! | American Civil Liberties Union
Know Your Rights University (KYR-U) is an animated series that teaches kids lessons about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression! KYR-U makes learning fun, and comes at a time when being a...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/08/2026
What is going on here
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
*Wealthy media owners are using the national debt to justify cutting Social Security and Medicare instead of taxing the rich or addressing excessive health care costs* By @deanbaker13.bsky.social #EconomicInequality #UnitedStates cepr.net/publications...
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The Rich Own the Media. They Want to Take Your Social Security
The rich media owners pushing Social Security and Medicare cuts ignore how tax cuts and excessive health costs created the deficit.
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elmaestrotaino.bsky.social @elmaestrotaino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of east coast’s largest datacenters accused of ‘violating federal law’ - The Guardian
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law. An executive order is not a law.
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C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Communism!!!! How dare he create affordable housing when the city could have had a nice new data center!!!!!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton was they type of Christian that Christian Nationalists only *pretend* to be. Unlike Christian Nationalists, she didn't browbeat us with how CHRISTIAN she was. She just lived her life doing things that Jesus asked her to do, like heal the sick, help the children, and care for the poor.
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elmaestrotaino.bsky.social @elmaestrotaino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dolly Parton in 9 To 5 (1980). Subscribe and read more below.
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elmaestrotaino.bsky.social @elmaestrotaino.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’ - AOL
In addition to her groundbreaking work as a singer-songwriter, Parton also starred in movies like ‘9 to 5’ and ‘Steel Magnolias’
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BELOW: Six good reasons why Supreme Court justices should not be appointed for life.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Deranged and heartless
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/08/2026
Kids shouldn’t be spied on by police on their way to school. This new wave of mass surveillance tech is a creepy violation of privacy.
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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/08/2026
Public schools are not Sunday schools. If states want to violate the separation of church and state, they’ll have to get through us.
"Reminder this back-to-school season: Public schools are for education, not religious indoctrination." Three yellow stars. ACLU logo.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/08/2026
There’s never been a more important time to teach young people about civil rights. Know Your Rights University explores: 🧢 Student free speech rights 📚 Book bans 🏛️ The 3 branches of government 🤝 Civic activism Check it out today.
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Know Your Rights University - YouTube
Two curious students at Eastman-Baldwin Junior High learn fun and important lessons about civics and the power of our rights and freedoms from their knowledg...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/08/2026
"Why does an agency that claims it has nothing to hide want a weapon that leaves no evidence?" That's the question ICE's new multi-million-dollar shock-glove purchase can't really answer. Read the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
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ICE Wants a Weapon That Leaves No Mark
The dark, twisted logic of the agency’s new electric-shock gloves.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Target's profits just doubled, because the company got a massive $1 billion tariff refund. Ordinary people have yet to see tariff refunds from the government or these corporations. www.ft.com/content/c555...
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Target profits double after $1bn tariff refund
US retailer reports higher sales as net income boosted by Washington’s tariff return programme
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🔥 FLORIDA State Rep. @AngieNixon : “If believing a mom shouldn’t have to work 3 jobs to keep a roof over her head is extreme, call me extreme… Ashley Moody can call me whatever she wants— but in November she’ll be calling me ‘SENATOR’.”
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I know which side I'm on 💙
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19/08/2026
In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. Today, that number has spiked to 281. The system is rigged and it's time we level the playing field.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/08/2026
An insurance card from birth till death. That’s what Medicare for All provides — no more private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, or denials of care from greedy companies. No losing your healthcare if you lose your job. Universal healthcare as a human right.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trump has… -Deleted a key anti-money laundering database -Pardoned dozens of white collar criminals and fraudsters -Dropped 150+ investigations into corporate wrongdoing It’s a “New Golden Age” alright — for corporate and white collar crime.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Social Security turns 91 today, but thanks to rising inequality it may not live to see many more birthdays. I used to be a Social Security trustee — here's how we can fix it without cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.
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How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it.A CEO earning $20M/yr pays So
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
And this is just the beginning.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/08/2026
You’ve got to be shitting me. We’re spending $20 MILLION of our tax dollars on stun gloves. And we’re supposed to pretend this will cut down on lethal force AND that ICE has good judgment? This is going to lead to more abuse, not less.
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