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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“We only tried to kill an adult, we didn’t mean to traumatize a child” is a helluva defense.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There’s this strange belief that saying the enemy’s name lends them strength, but the implicit underpinning of that idea is that saying their name requires you to adopt subtly apologetic, fearful, hedged criticisms. If you say their name while slugging them in the face, you simply look unafraid.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 09/10/2026
Oh wow. This is the sort of thing which voters absolutely HATE (well, except for Trump who gets away with it all the time). And the contrast with Marshall suing & arresting his patients for similar amounts of past-due invoices is absolutely perfect.
BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!Screenshot of Kansas baker post
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026
Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...
Proposal	Favor or oppose
Favor	Oppose
Enforce strict ethics code for justices	89	10
Limited terms for justices	79	21
Increase number of justices	53	47
Marquette Law School Poll, national survey: Sept. 2-9, 2026
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Absolutely wild. Why did ABC 404 this story?
Screenshot of ABC News page with a 404 message w a headline “oops! Page unavailable”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 01/10/2026
They come in regular envelopes so they cant be easily id and stolen.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a lot to say about this, and other folks are saying most of it. I just want to focus on one thing: the claim about the relationship between universities and "the real world."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From last year. A good history lesson.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/09/2026
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, "did you eat the Lindbergh baby" he's like, "no but I'd be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later"
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Final ratings are in for the 60 Minutes premiere. According to Nielsen, it drew 7.9 million total viewers and 1.6 million in the 25-54 demo, down 21% and 33%, respectively, compared to last year. This is the first time this century it's premiered with fewer than 9 million viewers.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16/09/2026
They should have taken the opportunity to combine the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator into a show where people assigned as guards or prisoners are repeatedly bombarded with either one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
January 8, 2020 All of this was totally foreseeable and foreseen. youtu.be/j_zJVt32fTk?...
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Hayes: A War With Iran Is Madness, And Don’t Believe Anyone Who Tells You Otherwise | All In | MSNBC
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Bin Laden was equally clear about how he thought terrorism would yield his desired result. In a March 1997 CNN interview with Peter Bergen, he spoke of transferring “the battle into the United States.” In a May 2000 speech, he told supporters that the war would henceforth be waged “against the United States, in the United States.” Americans, he observed to ABC’s John Miller in 1998, cannot tolerate pain, and will react to attacks not by fighting back and blaming al‑Qaeda, but instead by asking “what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.” In a November 2001 interview, he hinted at a theory of political change in America: Its citizens should “take the same stand that they did previously,” when they protested the Vietnam War and the presidents who waged it.
Nelly Lahoud, a professor at the Army War College and the author of the definitive book on the Abbottabad documents, told me this political pipe dream was bin Laden’s whole plan: “to replicate the anti–Vietnam War movement of the United States, to get the American public to put pressure on the U.S. government to withdraw its forces from the Middle East.” The documents reveal a man and an organization blindsided by the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. Bin Laden and his associates “didn’t think that the United States would respond by waging war,” Lahoud said. He did not contemplate or plan for the long-term occupation of Afghanistan, nor did he expect the methodical killing of his operatives in a campaign that lasted years.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/09/2026
Trump claims that his illegal and unwinnable Iran war will end right after the midterm elections. He’s lying. His own advisors know better. This war of choice will drag on until Trump leaves office unless Congress cuts off funding. We cannot wait two more years to end this disaster.
Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term
The president still says he expects the war will end ‘immediately’ after midterm elections this fall
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Alexander Ward
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Shelby Holliday
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Michael R. Gordon
Sept. 9, 2026 7:00 pm ET
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New records released today tell us Rudy Giuliani knew the air at Ground Zero was dangerous but lied to New Yorkers. People died because of this. Yet no right wing media outlet will ask him about it abcnews.com/US/nyc-mayor...
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NYC Mayor Mamdani releases thousands of long-sought city documents on 9/11 air quality
First responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on and immediately after the 9/11 attacks were likely exposed to dangerous toxins, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah, No wonder Rudy’s so mad www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Mudkip appreciation account @goldteamrules.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sorry, thought you were actually asking 😅
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Mudkip appreciation account @goldteamrules.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) coverage. It dates back to the 1930s and covered accounts are insured for up to $250,000 in the event that the bank or other account managing institution fails.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026
the whole Republican argument for years has been “elect us because government is terrible and corrupt and if you put us in charge we will prove it to you by being terrible and corrupt” and Trump has injected the whole thing with steroids and I really think we should try a different option
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com is right. You can say we have bad elites. It’s more important to reinvigorate our society by creating new paths to the top, expanding the seats that exist at the old institutions like HYPS, & rethinking what values we extol. www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
But they were never powerless. They chose the highly competitive, elite track, with all of its neuroses: its backbreaking focus on the highest achievement possible from the youngest age, and its ideological fads pushed chiefly via peer pressure rather than actual concrete power. Packer and his wife did this to themselves, and to their kids. No one else did it to them.
Is it any surprise that a cohort of people like this folded at the first sign that the wind was blowing in Trump's sails?
These people are taught from, apparently, the time they are two years old to do nothing but follow the exacting and shifting standards of their little, narrow world. Move the standards by which that world judges itself, and you will move the people within it without fail.
In this dark hour of our history, there are people and groups that have risen to the occasion. Ordinary people from Minneapolis to grand juries to Disney+ subscribers have shown that they have far more spine, far more of a moral compass, than the people who were supposed to lead them. District court judges, on the whole, have shown themselves far more committed to the rule of law
than the Supreme Court justices who govern them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On the other hand, this administration's ability to disrupt the normal lives of Americans appears to be approaching infinity
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list.
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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 02/09/2026
Dril tweet

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
i actually welcome this republican amendment because it is a very public reminder that the size of the court is not in the constitution (a common misconception)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This actually is a big deal, not just because it hides the critical decision making of the Supreme Court in mystery, but because it hides larger phenomena too. Quick thread:
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
These men shouldn’t be able to walk into a room without being spat on, shouted at, having their teeth knocked clean out. They’re THAT bad. They cannot be part of a civilized society. But instead so many with power have accommodated them, either with support, or simply the presumption of regularity.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Biden literally ran ads in 2020 siding with the protesters. They were digital spots targeted at swing states. You can still watch them! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjb...
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Progress | Joe Biden For President
YouTube video by Joe Biden
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
only in America could there be a bullshit health craze centered around eating burgers, fries, and a milkshake
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How appropriate that the “freedom fuel” gas stations were selling stolen fuel. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
made this edit in a fit of rage
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Every day, a billion dollars of trade moves between Michigan and Ontario. Michigan has 16 confirmed measles cases and has joined over 60 lawsuits against the Trump admin to stop illegal actions taken against it. But what about this one Twitch streamer? That's what matters most in the Senate race.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026
I never thought the leopards would eat MY face
If ICE has 90,000 employees, and all we are asking for is 10,000 deportations a day, that’s 9 agents per illegal. More than enough to cover investigation, apprehension and removal. What are they all waiting for?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
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What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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