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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/10/2026
Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, dies at 56.
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
The former death row inmate, who was freed after a landmark 2019 Supreme Court ruling over racial bias in jury selections, died at 56.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is what the GOP stands for — the harassment of nonwhite Americans.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
#ICYMI, read @zachdespart.bsky.social's latest story here:
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full…
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great reporting by ProPublica. Sad and infuriating that DOGE and Vought focus on cutting services to the need instead of wasteful defense spending.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/09/2026
@sarahmatthews1.bsky.social reacts to JD Vance taking a swipe at Joe Biden ahead of both men attending the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11 in New York City.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The cries of the toddler…
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Truly shameful and deplorable behavior by the Trump administration 
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Disgraceful. Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In yet another assertion of unlawful authority over Greenland, an American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. The move is seen by the Greenlanders as an intentional provocation.
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The shoddy paint job of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool was a silly summer story that should have been a relatively minor political embarrassment,” the Editorial Board writes. “Instead, the administration turned it into an appalling abuse of prosecutorial power."
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Opinion | The absurdity of the Reflecting Pool prosecutions
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped charges that her office never should have been brought. Now she's fighting to keep her job.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/08/2026
In a small room at the Atlanta International Airport, without a warrant and ignoring his protest and requests for his attorney, left-wing activist and US citizen Sam Tunick says Border Patrol officers started to search his devices, luggage and diary.
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An airport search, a wiped phone and a potential test of Fourth Amendment protections | CNN Politics
In a small room at the Atlanta International Airport, without a warrant and ignoring his protest and requests for his attorney, a left-wing activist and US citizen says Border Patrol officers started ...
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kalibomeli.bsky.social @kalibomeli.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I miss having public servants who served the public. I hope the US can get back to that.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/07/2026
"To know that you can parent freely, that you can drive freely, that you can do an Uber Eats drop off without fear, that men with guns are not going to shoot you or detain you or take your children from you. That is the American way of life."
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A Modest Request: Don’t Grow Numb to This
Goons with guns are bad.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 16/07/2026
Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
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Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
President Donald Trump urged defense contractors to "do magnets" on Wednesday, just seven weeks after ProPublica revealed that a top White House aide intervened to help secure a $620 million Pentagon loan for a rare-earth magnet startup after Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm took a stake in the company. The post Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company first appeared on Mediaite.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
2. The subpoenas require the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan this week. A top attorney for the Times called the Trump administration’s move a “brazen act” The Times reporters who received the subpoenas are Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/06/2026
A certain dam-building rodent is taking center stage in a World Cup-themed contest in Toronto. The Great Beaver Quest challenges visitors to locate 51 beaver statues that have been strategically placed throughout the city’s Old Town Toronto neighborhood.
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
THE CULT OF THE ENHANCED SELF The post-pandemic fitness craze, MAHA, the cultural rise of Nietzschean tech moguls, the dawn of GLP-1s & supplements, and fitness trackers have combined to create a new cultural norm that is (unhealthily) obsessed w/ health www.derekthompson.org/p/the-cult-o...
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Why the Healthiest Generation Is the Loneliest
Americans have never been healthier, or more alone. These things might be related.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/06/2026
Everyone involved in this scandal keeps deleting their messages. trib.al/TqYPqM9
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 02/06/2026
At least 248 data centers are planned to be built in Texas. Of those, nearly half will be built in unincorporated areas, where county officials are limited in their ability to regulate development, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.
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The 8 data centers that could transform one Texas county
At least 248 data centers are planned to be built in Texas. Of those, nearly half will be built in unincorporated areas, where county officials are limited in their ability to regulate development, ac...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026
NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
An excellent culture critique for our times: www.derekthompson.org/p/can-americ...
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Can America Escape the Cycle of Vicemaxxing?
Donald Trump did not invent political corruption. But he may be accelerating something more dangerous: the collapse of universal moral standards into a culture of endless special exceptions.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/05/2026
The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)
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IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
JD Vance Comes Out Against the New $1.8 Billion Fund
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Politico @politico.com · 15/05/2026
‘Slap in the face': Republicans skewer Pentagon over Poland troop move
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‘Slap in the face': Republicans skewer Pentagon over Poland troop move
Army leaders also appeared taken aback by the administration’s abrupt action.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.
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Terri Resists @terriresists.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
FUBAR. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-chief-...
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The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.
And you can too.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What Kilpatrick wanted, and what the Roberts Court is making possible, is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white. The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the “horrid blasphemy” that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance. This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called “reactionary colorblindness,” the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means. It takes the view that the Constitution’s “color-blindness” renders any attempt to remedy anti-Black racism unconstitutional, because by definition that would involve making racial distinctions. Similarly, the ruling in this case does not explicitly overturn the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting so much as rewrite it to allow such discrimination.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Excellent article
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/article... All the best people…
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Far-Right FEMA Official in Charge of Disaster Response Once Said He Involuntarily Teleported to a Waffle House 50 Miles Away
Gregg Phillips, who was appointed during the brutal winter storms to run FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, is a right-wing activist who has peddled conspiracy theories and promoted violence
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Well put open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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The worst cabinet in American history
And it's not even close.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
After a decade of missteps, Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...
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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...
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Jeremy C-howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
FIFA has officially issued President Trump a yellow card. If he assassinates another world leader, it’ll become an automatic red card and he won’t be eligible for another FIFA Peace Prize for 4 years.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Shameful treatment of a 65yo British woman in the US legally.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/02/2026
The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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The Trump Administration’s War on Data
A series of recent steps have erased the shared facts that help uphold democracy.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
America under the GOP: Comply or die!
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just when you thought you couldn’t hate the Trump administration more,…
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ICE agents are such tough guys. Really macho.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
letterfromjail.com A valuable read in times like these. “Injustice anyway is a threat to justice everywhere.”
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Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter to 8 white church leaders, written from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
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imarriedaswede.bsky.social @imarriedaswede.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An excellent article describing the current crisis the American people are in.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It’s like Donald Trump has declared war on smart people and you don’t even have to be that smart to be qualified as smart people
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