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Joseph Ben Prestel @jbprestel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Seit Jahrzehnten wurde spekuliert, dass pro-palästinensische Linke hinter dem Anschlag auf das Wohnheim der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München 1970 steckten. Nun sieht die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft den Verdacht gegen einen Neonazi als erhärtet an. (1/2) www.deutschlandfunk.de/antisemitisc...

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München - Antisemitischer Anschlag mit sieben Toten von 1970 womöglich aufgeklärt

56 Jahre nach einem Brandanschlag auf ein jüdisches Altersheim in München mit sieben Toten meldet die Justiz bei der Aufklärung einen Teilerfolg.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have MR. KELLY

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Sounds like the annoying and shrill pro-DEI ladies who said that perhaps running someone who in adulthood knowingly had Nazi tattoos inked to their body was not a great idea were right...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...

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Delaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 years

Air conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is at Dartmouth College, where our president cut a deal with Anthropic--which stole the books of 133 faculty--without faculty consultation. Soon, there'll be a Claude for every student. They're already there. They feel like there's no escaping it. & they don't like it.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

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Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall

Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fascinating long thread about the disability use-case for Meta glasses and its broader implications.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14/05/2026

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The US Department of State is just openly doing the racist, antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy now, the very conspiracy theory that motivated the anti-Black Buffalo shooting of 2022 and the antisemitic Pittsburgh synagogue shooting of 2018.

Tweet from the US Department of State: "The United States will not legitimize global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations.

Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration – not replacement migration."

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/05/2026

The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.

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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/05/2026

While we're all talking about the Supreme Court and Callais sucking shit, make sure you read this new piece about how the Supreme Court and Callais are even worse than you thought ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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Samuel Alito Didn’t Only Gut the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too

The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.

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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

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ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.

“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Remember when the right complained about a “nanny state” that dictated what private citizens, businesses, and civil society institutions could and could not do?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

… and then what happened? bsky.app/profile/joel...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I want every one of my Dem friends to read this piece. The Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act and done so much other damage. The justices want to insist that they get the last word. But don't take for granted that they do. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

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Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026

Not enough people are talking about this. The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

So apparently The Daily Wire laid off half its staff today. It comes as Ben Shapiro and other MAGA influencers have seen huge losses in engagement and audience retention.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

A much more in depth piece. Bard president Leon Botstein stepping down after inquiry into his Epstein ties Investigation found Botstein – who had claimed he wasn’t friends with Epstein – made 25 visits to his townhouse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Bard president Leon Botstein stepping down after inquiry into his Epstein ties

Investigation found Botstein – who had claimed he wasn’t friends with Epstein – made 25 visits to his townhouse

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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/05/2026

BREAKING: A federal court granted anti-abortion politicians’ request to impose nationwide restrictions on telehealth access to mifepristone. If SCOTUS doesn’t block this ruling, it will upend how people across the country get abortion and miscarriage care even in states where abortion is protected.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“The VRA was eliminated not because it was no longer necessary, but because it had succeeded in challenging power structures. A court that will do this will eliminate other programs designed to make America more democratic and more fair.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Who would have thought the workers were needed. FEMA is reversing job cuts that Noem made as homeland security secretary before she was fired last month. The agency said staff members who had been let go or placed on administrative leave are now needed to prepare for hurricanes and the World Cup.

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FEMA aims to rehire most of the disaster-response employees it fired months ago

The agency is planning to bring back most of the staffers from the Cadre of On-Call Response and Recovery who were terminated as part of Kristi Noem’s plans to cut the agency.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2026

Millions of Americans that can’t afford higher health insurance premiums are dropping Obamacare coverage in the months since Congress failed to extend the generous subsidies that had become a defining feature of the Affordable Care Act. nyti.ms/4tVzbif

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taz @taz.de · 01/05/2026

Bis in die 80er verloren lesbische Mütter das Sorgerecht an ihren Kindern. Berlin bemüht sich um Aufarbeitung, doch es gibt eine rechtliche Lücke.

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Sorgerechtsentzug bei lesbischen Müttern: Eine Verletzung, die bleibt

Bis in die 80er verloren lesbische Mütter das Sorgerecht an ihren Kindern. Berlin bemüht sich um Aufarbeitung, doch es gibt eine rechtliche Lücke.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

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Lukas Wallraff @lukaswallraff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Wahnsinn: 81 Prozent finden die Verteilung des Wohlstands ungerecht! Eine absolute Mehrheit will sogar Vermögende besteuern! Und Erben höher! tazeins zu den Ergebnissen der aktuellen ARD-Umfrage @taz.de epaper.taz.de taz.de/WDR-Umfrage-...

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Titelfoto: Der Reichstag geschmückt mit roten Fahnen statt Deutschlandfahnen (taz-Montage)

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

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Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit

Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/04/2026

Celebratory dance in Hungary

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/04/2026

I'm going to point out that we spent a shit ton of taxpayer money on moderna and he's stealing it from us.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“Trump says there’s no money for daycare because we have to fight wars.” “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare,” he said. “It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.” newrepublic.com/post/208523/...

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Trump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars

President Trump used an Easter lunch to talk about how we can’t take care of kids or sick people—we can only take care of the U.S. military.

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Deutsche Bundesregierung: wir müssen den grassierenden Antisemitismus bekämpfen. Deutsche Bundesregierung: Wir kürzen jetzt massiv bei der Anne-Frank-Bildungsstätte.

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