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The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 16h

The redistricted CA48 is one of the tightest and most pivotal races in the 2026 election. So I'm sure the Republican running there loves that the president won't shut up about letting San Diego get nuked.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21h

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h

I'll take strapping a stick of dynamite to your foot and lighting the fuse for $500, Alex

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 07/10/2026

"Texas didn't simply lead the nation in book bans. It lapped the field. Texas reported nearly 8,200 book bans in 2025-26, more than twice as many as Florida, the nation's No. 2 leading state, with just over 3,200 book bans. 27 states did not ban a single book during the 2025-26 school year."

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Report: Texas bans more than twice as many school books as Florida

In comparison, 27 states did not ban a single book during the 2025-26 school year.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.

democracydocket.com

ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This sounds a lot like Trump’s NSPM-7 at work. NSPM-7 is a Sept. 2025 presidential directive that authorized the FBI to open investigations without concern for basic First Amendment protections. The memo erased longstanding FBI policy. Via @ryanjreilly.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters

The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This paragraph builds and builds the insane comedy but you're not ready for the kicker.

Atelier Missor, active since 2021, describes itself on X as a “classical foundry in Paris, on its way to building a new Rome.” Its founder, Missor Movahed Ghaleh Nouri, has claimed he was drawn to pursue classical sculpture after receiving a vision of Napoleon I while wandering the Place Vendôme in Paris. His staff wear identical tan suspenders, billowy shirts, and unkempt facial hair, and—per previous versions of their website—spent much of the first half of the 2020s producing bronze and clay busts of such figures as (of course) Napoleon, Nietzsche, and Jordan Peterson.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If Trump actually dislikes Collins he needs to prove it by campaigning for her

Grace Panetta & @grace_panetta
X.com
"I don't think President Trump is going to come to Maine," Collins says. "I've heard nothing from his office and I'm not exactly his favorite senator."
7:17 PM • 10/6/26 • 256 Views

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you millenials cut back on the lattes and avo toast you'd be able to afford a house

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An authoritarian government forcing people to use new politically-driven language in their speech -- call it "newspeak," if you will

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you’re an average college student, the 10-year Treasury hasn’t been this high in your lifetime. It’s at levels not seen since 2002. This is a blow to a generation that is already set to struggle with housing affordability.

A chart of the 10-year US Treasury, with a blue line rising to 5.339%on the chart. Yellow text says it is a new 52-week high today.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. In case you think this is only about the economy, data we obtained shows that in South Texas, Latinos now disapprove of Trump *on immigration and the border* by huge margins. South Texas was locus of the vaunted "realignment." Immigration has helped unravel it. newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It looks like Mike Johnson finally just crawled up in there and nested.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/10/2026

Look this is more a comment on morale than a proper forecast. That said, morale this bad is delicious.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

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JG Conley @jconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats to Jared Polis for setting this convicted felon free to engage in further criminal conspiracies to subvert free and fair elections

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

but anyway all I did was bike to the gym, get dinner near the gym, and take the metro back and I’ve seen ~50 armed soldiers

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also worth recalling that as Secretary of State, Pompeo continued to sign off on arms sales to Saudi Arabia even after the RSAF attacked a school bus full of Yemeni kids using a U.S.-origin PGM.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

RFK Jr, who makes a HUGE profit from suing vaccine manufacturers & from selling kooky anti-vaxx books, on top of the $500k a year he was getting from a very extreme anti-vaccine, anti-science group, is out there arguing that, um, pediatricians believe in vaccination because it makes them money 🤯

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh my this hits

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Insightful legal analysis of a highly problematic component of the Senate permitting deal (Sec. 1402) highly touted by bill proponents as a solution to Trump's War on Renewables but is in fact a major gift to all developers—in particular fossil fuels—that will hobble a future POTUS' climate action.

From attorney Matthew Littleton: "Section 1402 of the draft bipartisan permitting bill is deeply problematic. The apparent goal is to stop Presidents from imposing hard or soft bans (“pauses”) on development of certain types of energy resources. Whatever energy policy the next President pursues, however, the likely outcome of this provision is a massive public subsidy (hundreds of billions of dollars) for new fossil-energy projects, with little to no benefit for clean energy. Here’s why.

Section 1402 authorizes suits by developers for money damages against the United States in any federal district court where part of the proposed project is located. A developer must allege that the government missed one statutory deadline to decide on its application for a permit, right-of-way, etc. It’s up to the judge when the agency’s review clock began (there’s often dispute over when the permit application is complete) and when it ends (there’s often dispute over the degree of environmental review required). So even if the government acted in good faith to meet what it thought was the deadline, the judge can decide there’s a delay.

Next, the developer has to show a “pattern of disparate treatment,” meaning a substantial increase (as compared to the most recent 5 years) in the percentage of projects of this type that, in the judge’s estimation, were either delayed or “improperly denied.” Here’s where clean energy comes up short. Because the current Administration hasn’t moved those projects, an indefinite stall (including by a new President that continued it) would be no worse than the baseline. Lawsuits can’t be filed until late 2027, by which time the baseline will be dominated by Trump's practices."

Part 2 from Littleton: "Next, the judge decides whether the developer’s permit, were the agency to grant it, would be subject to cancellation for violating federal law. The question seems to be whether there is a hypothetical permit the agency could issue that would survive judicial review. That’s a low bar, given the deferential standard of review applied to agency factfinding and “public interest” determinations.

Section 1402 “entitles” a developer that wins its case to (1) “injunctive relief, as provided by applicable Federal law” (meaning an order that the agency decide on the application? issue the permit?); (2) attorneys fees and litigation costs; (3) “economic damages, including any costs associated with the applicable denial or delay, as the court determines appropriate” (what else is “included”?); and (4) “damages in an amount equal to not less than 50% and not more than 100% of the total reasonably expected cost of construction of the project.” The last of these four must be repaid if the project isn’t built; the developer keeps the rest of the money regardless.

A single claim under Section 1402 could top the total amount (~$40b) the government has paid out in all Judgment Fund claims over the last decade. This provision puts judges in real control over energy policy through the power of the purse."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Musk’s AI has no limits to its imagination

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is the world RFK Jr dreamed of and worked towards for many decades; he was then able to turbocharge his extreme anti-vaccine campaign when he was handed the reins of the US federal health system 😢

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026

INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out

Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants Good discussion here: www.mercor.com/blog/human-b...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.

Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.

12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

gadgetreview.com

Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Electric cars and scooters (especially the latter, since most internal combustion scooters are filthy 2-strokes) will change your world.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As we enter the final month before the midterms, don't get cocky. If anything, it's time to ramp up the work and pour it on. Check your registration. Vote early. Push your friends and family too. Look for local places to help out. Phone bank and write postcards. Volunteer for Election Day.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🤑 I don’t think there’s enough public awareness of RFK Jr’s grift The extreme & very kooky anti-vaxx activist group was paying him $500,000 a year to peddle anti-vaxx BS, there’s the massive fees he got from suing the HPV vaccine maker, the profits from peddling conspiracy theory books, etc., etc.

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