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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Mat Honan ✅ @mathonan.com · 21/09/2026
You can read the entire series here: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/b...
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Dying on Camera
AN MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INVESTIGATION Dying on Camera The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will ...
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Cassandra Jaramillo @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New reporting from my colleagues: Ectopic-related deaths in abortion banned states are increasing. One expert said deaths from ectopic pregnancies should “really be a never event.” www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
They repeatedly position women like Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark as damsels in need of saving because they don’t consider women’s sports an actual competition but a showcase more akin to a best baby pageant.
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Jason C. Levine @jasonclevine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I started fencing in my 30s and at my first tournament my first direct elimination match was against a 12 year old girl in a Hello Kitty mask. She beat me 15-3. Mixed age and gender sports does wonders for one's sense of humility...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.
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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
personally I think we should immediately impeach supreme court justices who are willing to lie about the plain meaning of the 14th amendment
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The clear & obvious text of the Constitution wins by the slimmest possible margin at the 'court' that claims to be its most solemn guardian. This means the fascist movement currently in control of the US federal government is just one (1) vote shy of what it needs to fully suspend the Constitution.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/06/2026
In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators. ‘Is this just free money?’
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/06/2026
Want to investigate environmental harms but not sure what tools are out there that might help your work? You can find some useful tools reviewed in our Bellingcat Toolkit. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/cate... Here are a few of the tools we use and how you can get involved 🧵
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Environment & Wildlife | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Omph
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Why do y'all have 2000 revisions for human designers but accept the first piece of trash A.l. spits out?
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/06/2026
As of today, the mass warrantless surveillance law FISA Section 702 has expired. They'll try to tell you the sky is falling. Don't believe them! Instead, tell your reps: NO spying on Americans without a warrant. Period.
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📣 Take Action: Reform Section 702: End mass warrantless surveillance
Make an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“.. creating a ‘chilling effect’ that pervaded local economies, hurt businesses and affected American-born workers ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
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Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Courts should make (even) clearer that citizens have a First Amendment right to film and document law enforcement activity in public places, but in the mean time Congress has a real chance to help.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
One problem for us going forward as a country is that Biden went out of his way to provide economic support for red areas and their response was to embrace economic warfare against blue areas. Hard to see any viable way to stop that other than for blue areas to reciprocate and retaliate.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Florida AG says surrogacy is human trafficking, with big implications for families
James Uthmeier’s office is arguing against surrogacy in a pending case that could dramatically reshape reproductive issues in Florida.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Joy Connolly, the president of the American Council of Learned Societies, said in a statement: “The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
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French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images
French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and X for child sexual images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by Grok.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
And stripping Black Americans of political rights is not a step on the way to something else - it's the goal unto itself . Even if they eventually turn their attacks onto other groups (and I think we'd agree they will) this has been the mission for loser segregationist white men since the 1960s.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2026
Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.
John Lewis (foreground) is beaten by a state trooper in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. The future congressman suffered a fractured skull.
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Esotericphotog @esotericphotog.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Don't know where it comes from but my all time favorite quote - "History tells us what happened; Art tells us how we felt about it"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
There’s someone going around the world doing the Gay Rub: going to LGBTQ+ historical markers and rubbing the plaques onto paper to reproduce the copy. It’s available for exhibitions. A great way to bring the markers to the people. www.forbes.com/sites/rdanie...
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How One Man Is Preserving Queer History Marker By Marker
With black crayon and fabric, Steven Reigns has spent years taking rubbings from LGBT markers worldwide. It’s a low-tech act of resistance against historical erasure.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though: -There’s no war -The US wasn’t attacked or under threat -Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists -These may not be traffickers -It’s blatantly illegal -With no clear strategy either
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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 17/02/2026
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
One-hundred-and-twenty-eight years ago today. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 Decided March 28, 1898 supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

The foregoing considerations and authorities irresistibly lead us to these conclusions: the Fourteenth Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory, in the allegiance and under the protection of the country, including all children here born of resident aliens, with the exceptions or qualifications (as old as the rule itself) of children of foreign sovereigns or their ministers, or born on foreign public ships, or of enemies within and during a hostile occupation of part of our territory, and with the single additional exception of children of members of the Indian tribes owing direct allegiance to their several tribes. The Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States. Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States. His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate, and, although but local and temporary, continuing only so long as he remains within our territory, is yet, in the words of Lord Coke in Calvin's Case, 7 Rep. 6a, "strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;" and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, "if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle." It can hardly be denied that an alien is completely subject to the political jurisdiction of the country in which he resides - seeing that, as said by Mr. Webster, when Secretary of State, in his Report to the President on Thrasher's Case in 1851, and since repeated by this court ...
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Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And yes, being forced to upload your drivers license or a selfie is the same thing as surrendering your anonymity.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/03/2026
if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com
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TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/03/2026
An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/
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Volunteer - Habeas Dockets
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/03/2026
Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/03/2026
Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment, such as a C-section.
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They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.
Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/03/2026
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians. (Published Oct. 2024)
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Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm o...
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 16/03/2026
i have been like 95% convinced of this for several years at this point
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In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity
Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Cuba — which does NOT pose an eminent threat to the U.S. — just had it’s power grid collapse after weeks of U.S. oil blockade | CNN www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...
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Cuba’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade | CNN
Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off t...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/03/2026
We spoke with independent journalists @taliajane.bsky.social & @acatwithnews.bsky.social about how they’ve safely filmed federal agents in the field. Here’s how they did it, plus see our digital security recommendations so you can do so safely, too.
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How to film federal agents in the field — advice for independent journalists
Independent and freelance journalists working without institutional support face unique risks when filming federal agents. We share the gear, in-field security tactics, and digital security considerat...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/03/2026
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
(the median Republican is a threat to all life on earth)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/02/2026
The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and more 👇 (Published 2022)
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Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale
After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Posting this again.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What utter assholes. "At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/02/c...
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FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers
At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations.
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