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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 1868 Louisiana elected first Black congressman. He was never seated In 1875 Louisiana elected second Black congressman. He served just one term It took 114 years for Louisiana to elect another Black member of Congress And now Roberts Court wants to wipe out Black representation across South
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 06/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s final hours at DHS included handing a donor’s company $387 million in deals. Quite the farewell gift. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kristi Noem was corrupt until the very end of her DHS tenure
In the last hours of her job, Noem gave the sweetest of corruption deals to one of her donors.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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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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404 Media @404media.co · 06/10/2026
@sanders.senate.gov, @aoc.bsky.social, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using ALPRs like Flock. Now, 404 Media needs your help. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/lawmakers-in...
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Playboy @playboy.com · 03/10/2026
“Being a college-aged woman right now is genuinely terrifying,” says Madeleine, a senior at the University of Arkansas. “Between the constant fear of sexual assault, spiked drinks, and general safety concerns, going out always comes with a baseline of anxiety.”
playboy.com
We Asked College Women About Cornell
Welcome to Fair Play, a column exploring the shifting dynamics of sex, dating and culture by Playboy Senior Editor Magdalene Taylor.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 06/10/2026
"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint." NBC's indefatigable @ryanjreilly.com reports buff.ly/bBe5Xnz
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“But I’m not from Ghana”: ICE, emboldened by the Supreme Court, targets longtime New Yorkers for third-country deportation. ICE Is detaining West African women, some of whom have been in NY for decades, w/plans to send them to countries they have no connection to, @documentedny.bsky.social reports:
documentedny.com
‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
African New Yorkers, many here for decades with protected legal status, are being arrested by ICE.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing it
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/09/2026
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation’s voter rolls, according to a federal whistle-blower’s account released on Monday.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking News: Federal agents may have broken state laws as part of an effort to find noncitizens on voter rolls, a whistle-blower said.
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Turns out the person who demanded that Macklemore be removed was Patriots owner Bob Kraft under threat that he would cancel their tour stop at the Patriots stadium. Oligarchal pressure stomping the first amendment. Also Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward. Writing about all this now.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 14/09/2026
GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is the hawkiest of deficit hawks, ready to scream about government deficits whenever the government spends money on things he doesn’t like. Read more here: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 14/09/2026
The Greater Chicago Food Depository and NORC at the University of Chicago surveyed Chicago residents this summer, finding that food insecurity is particularly pronounced on the city’s South Side.
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New report finds 35% of Chicago households don’t have sufficient food
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026
Vice President JD Vance called U.S. military commanders directly for unvarnished assessments of the Iran war, officials said. What he was told did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly. nyti.ms/4h1JUCs
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is quite a story from Will Bunch about the real life impacts of all that ICE money on rural Pennsylvania "far removed from the glare of media or the kind of organized ICE resistance you see in big cities." GIFT LINK: share.inquirer.com/Gs6T3n
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/09/2026
An anthropology professor at UCLA created a product, PredPol, and sold it to the LAPD over a a decade ago, that laid the basis for much of these flawed and dangerous tactics.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
oh. sounds legit.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is such a disturbing read
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/09/2026
A few things are as true today as they were before the Supreme Court’s latest mail voting order: Under the Constitution, the president has no role in running elections. bit.ly/46sOeFT
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Noise and Confusion from the Supreme Court
The high court’s latest doesn’t change mail voting rules.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/09/2026
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
404media.co
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Routine reminder that Bhattacharya is an economics researcher who has never practiced medicine and whose best known publication is overtly fraudulent. He has never done infectious disease research and has never treated a single virus or infection in his entire career. He’s likely never seen measles.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now thats a headline. Hat tip to @crampell.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/europe-gol...
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Europe’s Gold Fled the Nazis. Now It’s Fleeing Trump.
Our allies once trusted America to safeguard their reserves. Now they worry the president might freeze them.
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Becoming increasingly convinced we’re not ready for what El Niño has in store this fall and winter, especially layered on top of global warming www.wired.com/story/2026-s...
“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events—aside from long-term warming, which really isn't a singular event—that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing,” he says. “That's a very big deal. And I think there’s certainly going to be dramatic outcomes from this.”
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/09/2026
If you can’t opperate a nonprofit if the government disapproves of your politics, you don’t have a nonprofit sector. The tax deduction becomes a corrupt payment to quiescent cronies. This sort of viewpoint discrimination is also of course contrary to the First Amendment.
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What could go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
SCOOP: An ICE whistleblower report obtained by the NYT said ICE was cutting corners, violating the law and fast-tracking unqualified, “improperly vetted” candidates into ICE’s ranks, part of a dangerous move that exposed the agency to “grave national security risks.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So cool! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
Summary of Supremacy in The New Yorker’s best books of 2026 so far: This formidable, sharply argued history of the Supreme Court tracks the ascendance of "judicial supremacy" over two hundred years, focussing on how the Court seized the power to strike down acts of Congress. Its power to invalidate state and local laws is a double-edged sword, but its ability to overrule a coequal branch, the authors maintain, has reliably served regressive ends. By tracing the origins of this self-conferred authority, the Harvard Law School professors make the provocative case that the Supreme Court needs to be cut down to size, and that Congress should reclaim its rightful authority.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I keep thinking about how Republicans campaigned and fundraised forever off of the Clinton administration repatriating Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, how they told Cuban-Americans for generations that only Republicans could be trusted to protect their families and friends... and here we are
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The CDC has gone quiet. National health leadership is nonexistent. So here’s what they should do: give you clear, practical, science-based guidance to protect your family. As respiratory virus season begins and our kids head back to school, here’s what you need to know.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Somewhere, another 17-year-old is being offered a place on an American campus. She might build the next great American company. She might create thousands of jobs. Or, denied a visa, she might never be able to board the plane,” writes Benjamin Fernandes.
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Opinion | Trump Ended My American Dream
America has closed its doors to too many students and entrepreneurs.
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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 02/09/2026
news
US map with a Skeleton burning in hell overlayed on it. NYC is marked with a puppy and a rainbow
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.
nytimes.com
Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)
Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
nytimes.com
U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They were never going to prosecute him. Because they don’t believe that undocumented people have basic human rights. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: ICE is creating a national voter database to "support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fraud detection and data segmentation activities," according to documents reviewed by @wired.com. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
wired.com
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The fact that the party leadership cannot manage to keep its people united against this assault on democracy is why the Democrats need new leadership—and why a left-wing takeover is so necessary.
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So Moderate Democrats Are Just Going to Let MAGA Rig the Midterms, Huh?
All we needed was two months without self-sabotage. Instead, some Democratic Congresscritters have decided to sign onto a provision supporting the SAVE Act.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
👇🏽Exactly as many warned. Their cruel racist deportations of innocent people aren’t freeing up jobs, they’re hurting the economy. Immigrants are not the problem. Greedy corporate oligarchs — and the politicians they own — are.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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