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Helen Kennedy

@helenkennedy.com
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Newspapers 4 life. (Ex NY Daily News, Boston Herald.) NYC, North Fork. (Amateur watercolors now at @washbuckler.bsky.social) No substack. No podcast. You're welcome. Too sarcastic for my own good.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2h
Imo the next administration should raze every ICE detention facility to the ground except for the two worst. Make the worst one a museum like Auschwitz, and use the second-worst one to imprison these ghouls.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2h
Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 2h
Me at the farmer’s market
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 5h
Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h
Fetterman joined nearly every Republican senator in voting against a resolution that would have required the Trump administration to produce an unclassified report on Israeli abuses in the illegally occupied West Bank, including the imprisonment and killing of Palestinian Americans.
truthout.org
Fetterman Joins GOP to Block Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank
The measure would’ve required the State Department to issue a report on Israeli human rights practices in the West Bank.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12h
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 2h
Blanche has thoughts on….ethics.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
sfchronicle.com
ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 4h
"When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped." - Ken Paxton, surreptitiously taped at a donor meeting, according to the New York Times
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h
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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
"If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." And the next one probably won't be such an extraordinarily delusional and incompetent buffoon. Disgrace and disincentives on him and his enablers have to be imposed now, while we still can.
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America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome
The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
Despite his best efforts, Trump isn't going to establish a consolidated autocracy before he's gone, thankfully relatively soon. But it matters how much he's repudiated as a disgraceful aberration. Because if not, he's just setting the floor for what the next wannabe dictator can get away with.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 6h
The nitwit in Ireland with my name who keeps forgetting that my email address is not her email address has booked a luxury hotel in Cork and now I have the confirmation number. Considering going.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 8h
The co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 6h
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children: theatln.tc/j6Df5aTI
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 7h
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h
Seems like some version of this runs every day
Like many of her neighbors, Ms. Vuittonet had been worried about the streams of new immigrants coming across the Rio Grande during the Biden administration and had trusted that Mr. Trump would stop them. Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for "mass deportations now" during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades.
"I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers," Ms. Vuittonet said, sitting in the small coffee shop she runs from the back of an antique store.
She thought of her six children, who range from ages 6 to 12. "Of course I want the streets safe."
But when her brother was taken to an immigration detention center earlier this year, just days after a scheduled check-in with an immigration official, she said it felt like a punch to the gut.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 7h
More of this please dems!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 17h
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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John @freedoomfries.bsky.social · 14h
Someone is lying.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's long been talk about Mullin but it's the first time I've seen it in the national press. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
advocate.com
Nothing to see here? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin shares a D.C. home with a Republican congressman
The homeland security secretary, who owns dozens of properties, met Rep. Jason Smith during bipartisan congressional workouts more than a decade ago.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 19h
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21h
Someone on IG found video of Smith in the stands at the Maryland game. This guy is cooked.
Igor Bobic ( @igorbobic
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Eric Schmitt not backing down after that Jack Smith exchange:

"I asked him if he was in Atlanta. He said he was not in Atlanta. Jack Smith has lied before. He tried to jail the president of the United States. I have no sympathy for Jack Smith. He's a total dirtbag"
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 21h
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 21h
In addition to the names of the Cornell 7 we should also make famous the administrators and law enforcement officers who originally thought an apology letter would be sufficient.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21h
This is how you write a headline about the Eric Schmitt hearing debacle. @rollingstone.com
MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he was nailing the special counsel on a conspiracy theory — but he mixed up his basketball teams

By Jack Crosbie

September 29, 2026
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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 23h
Interesting post from David Gerrold the other day: "Let's talk about the Fisher space pen. "It's annoyingly common for the uneducated to say that NASA spent a million dollars inventing the space pen -- while the Russians just used pencils.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h
But Canada and Europe are "terrible." I hate this man so much.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 22h
The idea that they think a day of this is a winning pr strategy is just bizarre to me. The American ppl hate these folks
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h
What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h
Both Benny Johnson and Sean Hannity have now deleted their tweets claiming that Eric Schmitt put Jack Smith "on the spot" and set him up for perjury charges with his faceplant.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h
Staten Island judge foils Mamdani's second home tax. Because so many rich globetrotters have pieds-a-terre in Staten Island 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Judge Orders New York to Scrap Rollout of Second-Home Tax and Start Over
A Staten Island judge sided with a group of homeowners who had sued the city over its introduction of the tax, dealing a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22h
I found a pic of young Eric Schmitt
A bizarre photo from the new america.gov federal AI Chatbot welcome screen showing a young boy spreadeagled face down on an icy lake full of cracks
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23h
I appreciate bluesky's periodic dedication to reminding us of the purity of text-only posting by breaking all images on the site
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h
Judging by a quick look at Twitter, the right has decided just to pretend that Eric Schmitt did not, in fact, just shoot himself in the dick and that he totally owned Jack Smith.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
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Screenshot from the Trump Administration’s new AI Chatbot:

Can the president rename
Artificial Intelligence?

No. Official sources do not show that a president can rename the term "artificial intelligence" itself.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
When your big gotcha moment goes so epically wrong that it’s the other party sharing clips of it.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt 100% told a bunch of MAGA influencers and political reporters that he was going to get Smith to perjure himself
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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