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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“In total, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion, or roughly $9,000 per person, in taxes in 2022, the report shows. While their incomes are usually lower, they’re less likely to claim refunds or earn tax-preferred income”
bloomberg.com
Undocumented Immigrants in US Pay Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes
Undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion of taxes, underscoring the importance of border policies on the country’s tax collections, according to a new report.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
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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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This morning I discussed the regime's attack on history -- using the attacks against the Smithsonian Museum of American History -- and this week's hearings -- as a starting point. It's an authoritarian move, folks. I had a LOT to say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKES...
youtube.com
On History and Patriotism
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A fawn and a bobcat found at a rescue center, cuddling after they were saved from a forest fire. Original post
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 24/07/2026
More of this, please. Elected representatives who are unwilling to give-in to stadium demands. The Rays have a perfectly fine place to play in Tampa. There's no reason to build a new venue across the bay so that the billionaire owner can get richer.
tampabay.com
Tampa City Council blocks first step in Rays stadium land use change
Rays CEO Ken Babby said the stadium project can continue without the council’s vote.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/07/2026
“The push to exclude trans girls from girls’ sports has never really been about transgender athletes. There’s a much bigger gender war that they are fighting about inherent, fixed biological difference.”
motherjones.com
The Heritage Foundation only wanted to protect women's sports when it was about trans athletes
Not anymore.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/07/2026
fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 18/07/2026
If you're 60, 69% of the job growth in your lifetime came under Democratic presidents. If you're 45: 75%. If you're under 28: 100%. Not a typo. The Republican column since 1998 nets out below zero. (Source: BLS)
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I hate this game!
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Marlon Brando & Paul Newman at a civil rights march on August 23, 1963.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is why Trump is going after New York Times reporters. He is embarrassed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Jacobs: The Trump administration doesn’t give a shit about the Iranian people… They are literally deporting people back to Iran who fled the brutal Iranian regime. He doesn’t care about human rights anywhere — not here in the United States, not in Iran, not anywhere else.
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Democracy Torch @democracytorch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Russia, friend of America’s “great leader”, is reportedly giving Iran targeting intel on U.S. forces. That’s a major adversary stepping into the war. The future of the Paralympics is secure, thousands more people are being disabled every day. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 23/02/2026
Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
transitics.substack.com
The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons
The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
2/2 And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days. But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...
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MilesTougeaux @eberlambert.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Stockman rule: if fraud in a federal program is less than 5%, it cost way more to police it than to absorb it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026
JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
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Ryan P. Madden @rpmadmsu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Minnesota and the people of Minnesota should withhold their federal taxes until the federal government proves they can be good stewards of their money Furthermore, Minnesota is a “donor state” who sends @ $44B to the Federal Government than they take from it.
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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Only in the USA, a sitting president can share a meme of black people as apes but a sitting US Rep., that’s a black man, holds a sign stating ‘black people aren’t apes’ gets removed from the chamber—the people’s house. There is no free speech in America.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Please enjoy this. You will never see a happier pup,
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
NEW: Earlier today, DHS Sec Kristi Noem posted a photo of federal agents arresting civil rights attorney and ICE protestor Nekima Levy Armstrong. The White House then posted the same arrest image -- but digitally altered Levy Armstrong's face to depict her sobbing. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
White House Uses AI to Alter Protester's Face So That She's Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest
The White House published an image on X featuring an AI-altered image of an ICE protester crying during her arrest.
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Read this and consider how these two women who, after being attacked by violent thugs, literally saved the life of their abuser. And then ICE continued taking them hostage. People who work with this administration in its pursuit of fascism are not part of the same social contract that we are.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Apart from anything else, it’s a very weird choice of composition? Just photo after photo of These Are The People In Your Neighborhood looking dignified and righteous next to Fed asses?
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kathykadane.bsky.social @kathykadane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.wired.com/story/mobile...
wired.com
Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It’s just incredibly funny this is supposed to be the “freedom” party. It was never about any freedom except their right to be selfish assholes and not feel bad about it.
Megyn Kelly v @megynkelly
The whistles should be banned.
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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Man who wouldn ' wear mask to
protect people fine wearing mask
to shoot them

3 MINS AGO by ALIX MARKMAN
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...
offmessage.net
Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity
If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
youtu.be
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So basically Trump’s argument is that he only bothered talking about how much he supposedly wanted peace and performed substance-free publicity stunts to win a prize, but since that didn’t fool anyone he’s not going to bother with that charade anymore and will just invade Europe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
REPORTER: Can you speak to your letter you wrote to the prime minster saying the Nobel Prize influenced your thinking on Greenland? TRUMP: I don't care about the Nobel Prize. First of all, a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize, and I appreciate that.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A politician who had no cognitive problems would be sharp enough to avoid talking about cognitive testing all the time.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/01/2026
SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 07/06/2025
Ken will lead the revolution
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"...what’s remarkable about the [administration's] immediate responses is that they include no statements of regret or sympathy. Hours after a federal agent shot and killed a young mother, the government couldn’t even be bothered to extend its condolences."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
ncronline.org
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Show up, create chaos, scare the shit out of the citizens, and when one freaks out and tries to run, shoot her. The death penalty for disobeying ICE. Then, when you go to court, lie about how "in danger" you felt. Didn't we just claim we rescued Venezuela from a dictator attacking his own citizens?
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Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.
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