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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel died by suicide a month after immigration authorities required him to wear an ankle monitor. to.pbs.org/4hK67W9
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Haitian student's suicide reveals human toll of immigration crackdown
Over the weekend, the family of Pierre Damas Bel laid him to rest. The 20-year-old Haitian student lost his legal immigration status in July after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump admin...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump suggested tonight that Iran could "take out" American cities: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let it, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”
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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Melania Trump: "We have a direct channel with Russia"
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Unbelievable. 50 years of propaganda and misinformation has really paid off.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is what we are up against.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump administration reinterprets Endangered Species Act, narrowing wildlife protections: www.earth.com/environment/...
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Trump administration reinterprets Endangered Species Act, narrowing wildlife protections
A new federal directive changes how the Endangered Species Act applies when protected wildlife is unintentionally killed.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have a little famine with your economic recession.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Over 1,400 people were killed in gang-related violence in Haiti between April and June alone. The neighborhood struck in the latest attack had already endured an attack last month which left 105 people dead. Haiti is not safe for people to return to. Gift link: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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They came in silence: Why killings, abductions in Haiti mountain town has U.N. worried
“The mass killing in Kenscoff underscores the urgent need for national authorities to enhance the protection of the population, particularly communities living in areas affected by gang violence.”
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
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tastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
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Quinn Leone @quinnleone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Canada Begins Construction on Wall
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/07/2026
"*Can you believe it*? How many times have we said that—sometimes plaintively, sometimes mockingly, sometimes indignantly, sometimes angrily, sometimes mournfully—over the last decade?" You better believe it.
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It’s Hard to Believe This Is the Situation We Face
And somehow we are still underestimating the danger.
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Johannes Köpl @johanneskoepl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Accurate.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This. Cuts to the heart of the threat and the plan
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
💚💚💚💚
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Clayton’s answer was disqualifying. After recounts, audits, and lawsuits, there is no evidence to support Trump’s fantasies of a stolen election in 2020. Our intelligence services must be above politics.
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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact
Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity." 

A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine). 

Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026). 

Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Mainers protesting in Biddeford yesterday following the killing by ICE of 26-year-old father Joan Sebastian Guerrero. This is what democracy looks like. #ICEOutOfControl #AbolishICE
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do not fall for it. Trump has been laying the groundwork to justify massive interference in our midterms. It’s coming on Thursday. Don’t let him fool you.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/07/2026
Do we still believe in “the American Dream”? “We’re taught to believe that hard work insures a good outcome, even as the stepping stones to a secure life grow harder to find,” Hua Hsu writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/x3VMu4
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The Curious Career of “the American Dream”
How a phrase coined during the Depression became a national creed, a global brand, and a vessel for disillusionment.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Big week over at The Onion. — Thursday: InfoWars launches live at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube, Twitch and wherever you watch video. New handles and everything. Expect surprises. It is insane. — Friday: An entire history of the country, AMERICA: Birth of a Nation, airs at 8 p.m. ET on all Onion channels.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Best Movie 👍😍
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Phang: I have standing to be able to get Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan’s order, which is now telling him that on or before July 2nd, he either has to put up or shut up. He either has to bring forth unredacted files or show cause as to why he should not or cannot do so.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Yes! Good job @katiephang.bsky.social !💙
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Tina Fey's High Five Yes
ALT: Tina Fey's High Five Yes
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
JFC. We're doing crime is fine now, and also everybody cheats. I guess we've evolved beyond laws and ethics in this advanced century. The Vice President says nobody cares about that stuff.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026
In his majority opinion in Mullins, Sam Alito didn't print the racist shit Trump actually said about Haitians. But in her dissent, Elena Kagan made sure to.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump and his pack of industry lapdogs — who are busy regulating the same industries they have ties to— will do well thanks to all of this. But the rest of us won’t. We may not know for years the extent we are unprotected because of these conflicts of interest.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The Obama Presidential Center is finally opening! Tune in today on Obama.org starting at 11am CT as Michelle and I share what this moment means to us and celebrate with friends, family, and members of the community in Chicago.
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."
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Jeff Berman @jeffberman1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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I was an AI skeptic — until I saw what ordinary people were building with it
Vibe coders aren't using AI to take over the world. They're just normal people trying to solve daily problems that annoy them.
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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Prince in mid air, London, 1986 Photo by Michael Putland
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 01/06/2026
The Obama Presidential Center opens this month and it looks ready to receive people from all over. I spent a few moments on Saturday evening capturing the campus with a fiery sunset as the backdrop. Love the warm glow from within, too
An aerial image of the Obama Presidential Center at sunset in Chicago. The granite tower stands brightly in the middle of the frame with free parks and pathways in the foreground. The sky is aways in soft blues and pinks of sunset.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/05/2026
Yesterday I signed a bill to return 3,400 acres of land to the Fon du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa - a joint effort between the Tribe, the state, and the University of Minnesota.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇
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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I’m doing an anthology on Coretta Scott King with a handful of other scholars contributing chapters to capture the expanse of her life and politics. This will be the first scholarly book on her which seems crazy and thus long overdue. It will come out in April 2027 for her centennial.
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.
A Great Day in Harlem, 1958 photograph by Art Kane
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This must end. Abolish ICE and free them all.
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