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Norman Jefferson

@jeffnorm.bsky.social
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Into justice, science, birds, archery. "To win the respect of intelligent people and... earn the appreciation of honest critics.." Trying not to dwell on the others.

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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m looking for opinions on something about a #Massachusetts #Boston #accent. If you have this accent, say these phrases and note where you pronounce an R: “Ma is at work.” “Stop at the bar before the show.” “Tell Ma to get some milk.” “The car is in the shop.”
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this #CornellRape case, it’s as if a rapist put up a rapist Bat Signal for all the other rapists, and the rest of Gotham just looked up and shrugged. I can’t get over that. FFS, people… If you see a fucking Groupon for a rape, you go intervene or tell someone who will.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Maj. Jason Watson, the active-duty U.S. Air Force officer arrested after calling for Trump’s removal over the Iran War, said he is willing to accept whatever punishment comes with speaking out.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This Message From Former Ambassador Michael McFaul, Who Served Under President Obama, As Ambassador To Russia.......
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.
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Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court must be reformed or dismantled at this point. It's a rogue body filled with 6 right wing extremists who want to replace democracy with a white Christian King. If a politician doesn't support Court reform then they arent the leaders for this moment. Step aside.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Someone should make a high-end #archery outfitter named “Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune”.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/06/2026
I'm starting an ICE Air podcast with @jjindc.bsky.social, called Worst Airline Ever. First ep will drop soon. I get most of my news from podcasts tbh, maybe you do too? It'll be depressing and enraging, yes. BUT we'll also tell you what you can do to fight back. www.patreon.com/cw/worstairl...
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Worst Airline Ever — A podcast unmasking ICE Air
Get more from Worst Airline Ever on Patreon. A podcast unmasking ICE Air. Support Worst Airline Ever and get exclusive access to their work.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Ben Stiller: Do It!
ALT: Ben Stiller: Do It!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
And too often we see this as putting the U.S. at a disadvantage, as if some other country will do all the research instead. Much of it won’t get done. It’s planetary loss.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
this is fascinating: gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...
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Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city
Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The US government continues to murder civilians in boats of the coast of South America. Every one of these deaths is either a civil murder or a war crime. We can not get used to this or let it go. Every one of these crimes MUST BE PROSECUTED. I will not vote for anyone who intends to “move on”.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/05/2026
This flight made yet another stop, to the Republic of Georgia, that I hope was just for fuel but was probably also a deportation. Meaning people would’ve been shackled for 50+ hours. Longest one I’ve recorded this year. (The longest I’ve ever recorded is 82 hours, in December.)
An FR24 map showing Omni’s N485AX going from Islamabad to Tblisi via a circuitous route around Kyrgyzstan.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/03/2026
Two Australian states, Victoria and Tasmania, are temporarily making public transport free in an effort to insulate residents from the widening oil shock from the Iran war.
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In Australia, Victoria and Tasmania Waive Transit Fares as Fuel Prices Soar
The measures in Victoria and Tasmania are temporary, but show how far and how intensely the oil shock from the war in Iran has spread.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Dems are going to think R judges are wrong, and Repubs are going to think D judges are wrong, but hopefully we can all agree that when judges appointed by 1 party unanimously think the law says one thing, and judges appointed by the other party unan. think the law says something else, we’re fucked.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fetterman was the deciding vote on advancing Mullin’s DHS Secretary nomination. With the GOP committee chair Rand Paul voting no, Fetterman could have single-handedly thrown sand in the gears of the agency of ICE, mass deportation, rights violations, and concentration camps. He chose the opposite.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We’re told there’s no money for universal healthcare or to end hunger in this country. But somehow $200 billion more for war will likely move through Congress without question.  Not another penny for another endless war.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Two #JourneyAviation #ICEAir jets returning from a deportation flight to Poland and possibly Ukraine by way of Ireland.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/03/2026
Overnight, two likely ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Rzeszów, Poland. This airport was previously used to transfer deport Ukrainians. It is a violation of US and international law to deport people to an active warzone, including via another country.
An ADSBx map showing Journey’s N588TN landing in SE Poland. An ADSBx map showing Journey’s N86MS landing in SE Poland.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🧵 by @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social:
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 17/03/2026
joe kent, director of national counterterrorism center (and strong maga supporter), resigns over iran war.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We see you. #JourneyAviation #ICE #ICEAir #ChingaLaMigra
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Can anyone confirm if Ukraine is a final stop for passengers on this plane? @gbrockell.bsky.social @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🧊🛩️ UKRAINE⛓️⁉️ 😲 A Journey Aviation Gulfstream 4 (tail: N86MS) is preparing to depart Arizona, transporting humans-in-chains tonight via New Hampshire and Poland to Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 09/03/2026
Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eisenhower
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law "approximately 42,695 times" when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.
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Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data
A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/02/2026
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
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Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg
Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yet again Rep. Al Green understood the assignment. He was kicked out by the "no safe space" and anti cancel culture crowd.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/02/2026
Federal judges have ordered the Trump administration at least 35 times since August to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases, according to a New York Times review of federal dockets.
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Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders
At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Last night an #OmniAir #Deportation flight flew into #Pease in NH from Harlingen, TX to refuel before continuing to Sofia, Bulgaria, knowing the entire northeastern US was about to be hit by a blizzard. Totally unsurprisingly, it has been unable to take off. 1/2
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/02/2026
🚨This plane landed in Portsmouth, NH, to refuel but sat there for 8 hours and is now headed back to Alexandria. This is how the 75-hour shackling in Oct. and the 82-hour shackling in Dec. began, w false starts. Migrants will likely be shackled in a holding area near tarmac until they try again. 1/
An ADSBx map showing Omni plane N351AX going from AEX to PSM and then turning around and heading back.
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Norman Jefferson @jeffnorm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Question for people who are knowledgeable about #olympics #bobsled: I see these bobsleds hitting 80+ mph… how fast would that track be if a regular person went down on a saucer sled or plastic toboggan?
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/02/2026
There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children. Now, what are we going to do about it?!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
None of this is normal
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Musk is a white supremacist, friend of our enemies, a liar, a lunatic and a threat to the US. No company owned or controlled by him should be permitted to do business with the US government.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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