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Escabeche Jones

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psych / metal / drone horror / sci fi / cheap pulp thrills Chicago via the Mid-Atlantic

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 09/09/2026
Chicago-area members of Congress have asked DHS's Inspector General to investigate a "severe pattern of incidents of excessive force" by ICE and CBP agents. The letter heavily cites our recent report on an increasingly violent group of agents we tracked across Chicago, Minnesota, and Virginia.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want an impeachment hearing where trump has to watch a series of a.i. videos and testify as to whether he believes they really happened
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is staggeringly outrageous and should go right to the top of your “worries about press freedoms” list. There is a criminal conspiracy between DOJ and DHS and it will be exposed when the rule of law is restored. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What if we just started renaming things "AmeriKKKa" spelled the Ice Cube way. I'm Gen X and I think we could be talked into this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Forcing people to live in power outages in 100+ degree weather for days while feeding energy to data centers is a form of political violence.
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Cr Meek @crmeek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You're gonna make me give my lecture on how Insane Clown Posse is the true modern-day Johnny Cash/Merle Haggard.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Note to the media: Those of us who have problems w Flock cameras are not "anti-tech". I use tech every day. It's a tool. What I resent is a police state using tech to spy on citizens with a presumption of guilt. I'm not anti-tech, I'm anti-authoritarianism. It's why we have a Constitution FFS.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
We've got quite the story for you 🧵
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Flock cameras log 20 billion license plates a month with almost no audit requirement. Officers have used them to stalk exes, track abortion clinic visits, and justify car searches based on legal out of state travel. Every known case was caught by accident.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
propublica.org
Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Trump regime admits in court papers that it canceled energy grants to blue states simply because they're blue states. This is a fascist hijacking of our government, a disgusting betrayal of the nation's taxpayers. Get angry. Get active. Defeat the dictator.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You have to show picture ID to buy cocaine. Why shouldn't you have to show it to vote?
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Frenemy of the People @frenemyofthepeople.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
If they can build a data center overnight, then they can install a solar farm overnight.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/07/2026
Virtually every country in the world *except* for the US is responding to the Iran War in a rational way -- ie, trying to reduce their reliance in imported fossil fuels.
bloomberg.com
How the Iran War Is Driving Demand for Clean Energy
For decades, the case for clean energy was rooted primarily in climate policy. Today, it is just as much about geopolitics.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO
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Lydia Medina @lydmed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nothing is more symbolic of the inept gerontocracy in congress than Grassley struggling through his statements, we are desperately in need of term limits for these people, you should not be allowed to serve until you fall apart in front of everyone
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don’t get the point of spending a trillion dollars on “national security” when they can’t defend us against breathing in wildfire smoke or getting explosive diarrhea from eating lettuce
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The CEO of Exelon, the largest utility in the US, says Americans could face major nationwide blackouts next year due to an energy supply shortfall and rise in data centers which are putting a strain on the energy grid. This is what happens when you give fascists full power.
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Chuck @4everdays.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What kind of country do we live in if no one can confirm someone is dead or not, where are the investigative reporters and private investigators?! IS MITCH MCCONNELL DEAD?!!!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)
propublica.org
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
President Claudia Sheinbaum is rolling out Universal Healthcare for 120 Million Mexican residents. Now that is leadership, I’m both jealous and very happy for the people of Mexico.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026
I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 29/06/2026
centrists love to be like “when are you socialists going to win regions and states that we centrists currently also don’t win”
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
Whenever I see OpenAI's Sam Altman with his pseudo-innocent glance, he always reminds me of Carter Burke from Aliens (1986), who deceived the entire spaceship crew in favor of his corporation, with the aim of getting rich by weaponizing a newly discovered intelligent life-form. #aliens #tech #AI
Shot from the 1986 movie Aliens, showing Carter Burke listening to Ripley.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
At this point, climate change deniers should be treated like flat-earthers. What more evidence would a reasonable person need?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The thing to understand about James Carville is that nearly 40 years ago he served as water boy for a star quarterback. Based on that job and that job only he has spent decades insisting he knows how to win Super Bowls. At best he knows how to fetch Bill Clinton’s water.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/06/2026
For decades, US Soccer sought a single identity. Instead, its most talented team emerged from a uniquely American mix of backgrounds, pathways and cultures
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US Soccer spent decades searching for coherence. It found something better
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Jeff Bezos should be forced to live like hjs lowest paid employee for 30 days and then see if he thinks biological needs aren't as necessary as industrial ones
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."
theguardian.com
The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Why is this not being universally acknowledged as a humiliating defeat for Trump, who achieved none of his purported aims? How is opening the Strait being seen as an achievement when it was open before this useless, destructive, and wasteful war?What about those 156 girls he killed?
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps I.C.E. agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with I.C.E. and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
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ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I went to a two-year-old’s birthday party today and their parents booked an LA Waste Management trash truck to come park out front and the way these kids RAN to see this thing up close!!! The WM reps also had party favors and coloring books. Lowkey want to book it for my own birthday
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
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CommonSense @comminsense.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Where are all of the so-called outraged congresspeople who claimed they would read the unredacted Epstein files on camera?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I do blame Trump for the Knicks stuff by the way. He’s such a unique vibesmonster. Just a succubus of any and all joy. A sleep paralysis demon that takes anything that looks like light and turns it into the visage of death. He is intent on haunting anywhere happiness appears for even a second.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
proelectrica.substack.com
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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