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indie_rachael @indie-rachael.bsky.social · 6h
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
According to the whistleblower: - Agents have to investigate 40 voter records a day, leaving just 11.25 minutes per investigation. - Agents are using state voter registration in a way that may be illegal. - Agents are using source data that many think is completely unreliable.
The identity of the whistle-blower is not known to The Times. Democracy Defenders Fund said in its report that the whistle-blower requested anonymity because of “an extreme fear of retaliation but they feel an obligation to speak up about the misconduct and gross mismanagement they have witnessed.”

According to the whistle-blower, agents are expected to complete at least 40 reviews in each eight-hour day, giving them scant time to determine each voter’s citizenship and voting history. The consequence of the investigation is potentially vast, according to the account, because each review is recorded in a database that could affect individuals’ immigration status or legal permanent residency.The agents plugged those names and personal data into public-facing state websites to find a subject’s voter history. Some states, such as Virginia, declare explicitly that only individual voters may use the search tool to look up their own records. Others, such as California, require specific information such as a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number in an effort to limit the use of the tool to individuals. Worried about the potential legal ramifications of such actions, the whistle-blower “expressed concerns” to those leading the investigation within Homeland Security’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, according to the account.

The office of the chief counsel at D.H.S. said it was permissible for agents to use the state databases for operations such as the Unlawful Voter Initiative. Yet leadership appeared to acknowledge the potential for legal liability, responding to internal questions that agents “are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented.”Core to the operation is a compilation of data on hundreds of thousands of voters from across the country, described to agents as “source data,” according to previous reporting by The Times. Agents were given little to no information about where the source data originated; at one point, D.H.S. officials said some immigration information had been added to their source data using “supplemental magic,” according to the whistle-blower account. The mysterious origins of the “source data” comes as voting rights groups and election officials have condemned the Trump administration’s many efforts to compile a national voter file and citizenship list.

The whistle-blower report, however, indicates that the data is likely filled with errors. According to a transcript of a training video included in the account, the investigation has relied on data from multiple sources, including public voter files obtained from states, Department of Justice data and queries of records compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The data also includes what are known as alien identification numbers, the training video says, which are numbers assigned to a noncitizen that stay in their Homeland Security files permanently, even if they subsequently become citizens who are eligible to vote. If the investigation is using the existence of an alien number to flag that a voter is ineligible, many legal citizens are likely to be improperly ensnared as unlawful voters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Dirt @mbdeed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Finally! Someone is saying this essential thing about why we defend Trans-right. We don't need people to understand why. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is our birthright.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
El-Sayed calls out Jesse Watters for his fixation on culture war issues instead of pocketbook topics
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Ka Luahine @makani-noho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please, please, won't some journalist finally commit a journalism and say "what the fuck are you talking about?" or "what the fuck is wrong with you?" ??????
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Sky Bloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @sky-bloo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When an adjudicated rapist and friend of paedophiles talks about the "beautiful little bodies" of babies it makes me shudder.
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Emily Dare @strangetree.maenad.club · 22/08/2026
Yeah, emptyheaded babbling or not, it's still the President of the US talking about forced surgical detransitioning. In a world where they are already doing forced chemical detransition in the prison system.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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Susie Time @susietime777.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium
nbcsports.com
Belgium beats, then trolls, U.S. team on Monday night
Even though it was tied, 1-1, after Malik Tillman scored another goal on a free kick just outside the penalty area, it never felt close.
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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
By the powers vested in me, I do hereby make this announcement. I will follow this up with a contrary announcement tomorrow and again with a completely different announcement the day after that. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Solidarity is a strategy. Not because antisemitism is identical to every oppression, but because fascist movements themselves do not separate them cleanly. They build integrated worldviews in which hatred of Jews, Muslims, immigrants, Black people, queer people, and women reinforce one another.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Obviously, casual and structural antisemitism exists without only the insurgent far-right. But the contemporary ecosystem most consistently producing genocidal antisemitic worldviews, conspiracism, and mass-casualty political violence is the fascist right, and they now have power.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
By framing it this way, groups like the ADL actually undermine our only ability to build safety, which is through a close defensive alliance (meaning, antifascism) between those communities who are being targeted by an eliminationist far-right.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The greatest martial threat to American Muslims is the same as it is to Jews: they are coming for all of us. And yet, we are told that its actually our diversity that threatens Jewish communities in the form of Black liberation movements and Muslim immigration.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Which is why the constant attempt to flatten antisemitism into a vague “both sides” problenm, or to portray it as equally rooted in left-wing movements. This simply obscures more than it reveals because it conceals the ideological roots.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The manifesto shows the opposite. The killer’s antisemitism is the connective tissue tying all the other hatreds together. Jews are cast as the hidden force behind immigration, racial integration, feminism, queer liberation, labor decline, “degeneracy,” and social change itself.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
When reading the mosque attacker’s manifesto you realize how impossible it is to separate his Islamophobia from his obsessive antisemitism. They are not competing hatreds in the text. They are structurally intertwined in every argument he makes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
"While it's very difficult for states to prosecute federal officers, it isn’t impossible. Now, ICE agent Christian Castro, who shot a Venezuelan immigrant through a door & then spun a yarn about how he was in fear for his life, is going to get a chance to find out just how far his luck will stretch"
publicnotice.co
How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies
Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I can't even say "those are certainly words" because those aren't even words anymore
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.
alabamareflector.com
Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector
Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”
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Natsfan @natsfan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Its all about the water, Colorado River is going dry and Colorado wants/needs more water so Tina walks, now watch Trump screw them anyway
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:
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airfryerenthusiast.bsky.social @airfryerenthusiast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Boebert is straight up admitting that the commutation was extorted by withholding federal funding: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier
Republican said she hoped recent commutation of Tina Peters by governor would free up federal funding for clean drinking water
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indie_rachael @indie-rachael.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wow, it looks like everyone is caught up in the whole "she's being punished for her speech/beliefs" narrative and not the SHE ABANDONED HER OATH AND GAVE PHYSICAL SUPPORT TO A GROUP TRYING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY angle. JFC everyone's gone insane.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How bad is the Colorado governor's commutation of Tina Peters' sentence? So bad that even the Republican DA who prosecuted here pushed back, and told Polis to talk to the county officials who have to deal with threats that followed Peters' felonies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...
In December, according to county calendar records, he met with Dan Rubinstein, the Republican county district attorney who led the prosecution of Ms. Peters. Mr. Rubinstein said in an interview that he had recommended against releasing Ms. Peters, and that he had encouraged the governor to talk to the county commissioners who had to directly confront the fallout of Ms. Peters’s actions.
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Bill MAR 🦈 @cane.rocks · 17/05/2026
I think that you are more concerned with winning a good sportsmanship award than a championship.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.
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indie_rachael @indie-rachael.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's reasonable to expect that Trump can't read it; or if he could, he didn't; or if he did, he misunderstood & thought it was Iraq; or even if he read it/had it read to him he just forgot bc he's senile. And everyone knows that a narcissist can't conceive of someone having knowledge he doesn't.
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Barron W. Tramp @barronwtramp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I don't see how elected fed gov officials having to share & be transparent about their stock purchases is invasive or bad Only millionaires or shady business people care about shielding their investments & we don't want them running things anyhow If they aren't transparent, don't vote for them!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ben Meiselas on The MeidasTouch Podcast winning the iHeartPodcast Award: “When we see injustice, we call it out with moral clarity. We’re not afraid to call out fascism when we see it. When we see ICE and Border Patrol on our streets killing our people, we call it out.“
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Things are not okay.
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Also this. Grabbed it from someone talking about Loomer, but it’s about him knowing early on.
Ilan Goldenberg • @ilangoldenberg
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Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled "Why Iran Will Escalate." But who needs experts...
foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/wh...
Acyn • @Acyn • 5h
Doocy: You said: they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation?
Trump: Nobody. Nobody. No no no no. The greatest experts—nobody thought they Show more
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Dr. Philip Shields 🇦🇺 @shielphi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Cathy Wilcox Australia.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
usatoday.com
FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/03/2026
This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
6/ If Trump paid any attention to the Ukraine War he would have noticed how warfare has changed. But he didn’t. And he blundered. Worse, the Gulf states are running out of interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones - meaning that soon more oil sites will be vulnerable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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indie_rachael @indie-rachael.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Lawd, they love that Old Testament and straight up ignore everything Jesus ever said. Not sure how they can even claim to be Christian. Disgusting.
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