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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 18h
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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 11/08/2026
"Supreme court justice Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from his fossil fuel interests between 2005 and 2024, a new review of financial disclosures shows." Alito is rejecting calls to recuse from a climate deception case against Big Oil companies — even though he recused from the same one in 2023.
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
reuters: 

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/07/2026
Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb
Electrical transmission towers stand with hazy mountains in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Administration Admits Canceling Energy Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him." Photo by Alex Welsh for The New York Times.
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Mike Hamersky @ham12ham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Philly might steal a game next year. @ny-knicks.bsky.social in 5!
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 04/07/2026
Happy America Day.
Captain America smashes Hitler IN THE FACE, as all good Americans do in their hearts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 14/06/2026
New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote about a basketball game.
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The Right Hand of God Game
The Knicks needed a miracle. What they got was the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history.
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J.E. Skeets @jeskeets.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
OG's OMG
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Sports Illustrated (Mirror) @sinow.mirrors.bot · 11/06/2026
MSG erupted after the game-winner 😱 Original post
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026
SPEECHLESS. LFGK
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Mike Hamersky @ham12ham.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I can’t believe that just happened.
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 11/06/2026
The Knicks pulled off the largest comeback (29 PTS) in NBA Finals history.
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John Hollinger @johnhollinger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Scenes
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
TODAY: New York City’s entire electric grid just got about 20% more renewable power. That’s because it’s the first day the CHPE transmission project is sending commercial power to New York City's electric grid. 👏👏👏 Lower prices! Less pollution! HUGE!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/05/2026
Knicks forever
Mayor Mamdani with Jumaane Williams at the Knicks game.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/04/2026
Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways to phase out oil, gas, and coal. n.pr/3R8HSah
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Could this conference be a 'turning point' for the world's use of fossil fuels?
Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways to phase out oil, gas, and coal.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/04/2026
US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.
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Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in U.S.
The 44% of U.S. adults who currently worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 13/04/2026
It’s happening dot gif www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/n...
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Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...
What the cost of the Iran war could cover if used differently
Select services and how many more people they could support with funding equivalent to what is being spent on Iran war

Table with 6 columns and 6 rows.
People covered by Medicaid for a year	Children receiving free school lunch for a school year	People housed in Section 8 for a year	Children covered for year of child care	Adults with free tuition at community college for a two-year associate degree
$25 billion
Estimated likely cost of war as of March 26, 2026
3,106,000	29,614,000	3,147,000	1,780,000	2,865,000
$200 billion
Reported likely request for additional war funding
24,850,000	Every child in the United States, with >$170B left over	Every eligible person, with >$60B left over	14,237,000	22,917,000
One 30,000-pound bomb	625	5,925	625	350	575
One Tomahawk missile	275	2,600	275	150	250
One THAAD missile	1,575	15,050	1,600	900	1,450
One Patriot interceptor	500	4,850	525	300	475
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
First you laugh, then you cry. no01.substack.com/p/march-19-2...
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Actual energy independence is meeting all the country’s energy needs with domestic renewables, not drilling more fossil fuels which are unavoidably subject to global market fluctuations.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/03/2026
Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?
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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Pete Hegseth last year shut the Pentagon office focused on trying to avoid civilian deaths. And now we learn that the Iranian girls school struck by a U.S. Tomahawk missile had a robust inline presence and its playground was easily visible on Google Maps.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Media summarize Hochul’s attack on the climate law as a “clash” between “affordability” and “climate goals”. But that’s not true! Solar is the cheapest energy. Hochul’s the one who’d raise utility bills. It’s *actually* a clash between the public’s interest and the gas lobby.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No better way to show our 💙for MN than a blizzard rally outside @schumer.senate.gov (7th day in a row!) We are so thankful that ni Dems are voting for DHS$, but we also know that this is just a 1st step in stopping ICE terror! Hold the Line, Chuck! @indivisible.org @siactioncoalition.bsky.social
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social EMERGENCY PROTEST TODAY. ICE just murdered another person in Minneapolis. Union Square. 4PM.
Graphic reads " EMERGENCY PROTEST, STOP ICE TERROR, SATURDAY 1/24 4PM UNION SQUARE
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 24/01/2026
they executed a guy for filming them
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Meanwhile its 16th largest metropolitan area is occupied by unaccountable armed masked paramilitaries who are disappearing neighbors as part of a federal government-led ethnic cleansing campaign that has ground all social and economic life almost to a complete halt.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Absolutely essential from @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command
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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are the world's bad guys. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...
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We Are the Bad Guys
The swaggering threat to global stability is us.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
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Mike Hamersky @ham12ham.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Commentary: To make energy more affordable, double down on renewables www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...
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Commentary: To make energy more affordable, double down on renewables
For years, fossil-fuel infrastructure has been subsidized by taxpayers, creating an illusion of affordability. But renewable energy has lower overall system costs.
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