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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 5h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate the teachers, educators, and child care providers who care for the future of New York and invest in our children every day. New York City doesn’t move without our teachers. We are grateful for their work today and every day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h
DHS reportedly collected data about anti-ICE protestors in Maine, uploading their photos and license plate numbers into a database. That database was built by Palantir — which may be the most dangerous corporation in America. Watch.
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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Alabama Republican Rep Brett Easterbrook spent years positioning himself the key promoter of Christian family values within the Alabama GOP. He sponsored the bill forcing trans girls to use boys bathrooms in schools. He voted to ban LGBTQ-inclusivity in classrooms, keep trans girls off girls’ teams,
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Alabama state representative, school board member charged with attempted human trafficking | Alabama Reflector
Brett Easterbrook and Kory Wesley were arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon for attempted human trafficking.
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DMin @vardm-65.bsky.social · 11h
Remember when Scalia died and Mitch McConnell said that 10 months wasn't enough time to replace the Justice, so he denied Obama an appointment. But now 60 days in a lame duck session is plenty of time.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11h
I was honored to visit Our Lady Salam, the first Arabic-speaking Lutheran parish on Staten Island. Its congregants hail from as close as Hylan Blvd to as far as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, & Egypt — yet have planted roots in our city. Many carry the weight of war and genocide daily.
Mayor Mamdani greets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.Mayor Mamdani meets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11h
From over the weekend. This means we press even harder, folks. The Senate majority is officially in play. Four weeks and one day to go, no rest till we crush them.
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 14h
Democrats Need to Confront the Length and Depth of Distrust in Government and Institutions bryannbennett.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Need to Confront the Length and Depth of Distrust in Government and Institutions
Trust in government has been at or near historic lows for nearly 20 years. Accepting this as a default characteristic of our politics is unsustainable and needs attention—desperately.
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P Maroney @patrickmaroney.bsky.social · 18h
Both King & Gandhi felt that it's a "moral responsibility" and "sacred duty" to peacefully disobey unjust laws and when a state becomes corrupt as welll as to submit peacefully to arrest as a healing, nonviolent sword that confronts state violence without returning it
MLK wrote in letter from Birmingham jail that breaking an unjust law openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty expresses the highest respect for the law
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P Maroney @patrickmaroney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When rules conflict with the higher good or constitutional duty, defiance & insubordination become a sacrifice necessary to protect the nation Here are more on their stories @goodtroublesquad.bsky.social #GTS
These figures prove that when rules conflict with the higher good or constitutional duty, defiance & insubordination become a sacrifice necessary to protect the nation

General George Washington (1775–1783): Led a revolution against his sovereign government to establish a new nation.

Theodore Roosevelt (1898): Publicly bypassed the chain of command to expose unsafe conditions for American troops during the Spanish-American War.

General Billy Mitchell (1925): Court-martialed for accusing military leadership of incompetence in order to advocate for vital air power.

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (1950): Routinely bypassed naval bureaucracy to force the creation of the nuclear navy.

Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. (1968): Defied orders and turned his weapons on fellow American soldiers to stop the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

Colonel David Hackworth (1971): Risked his career by going on national television to expose the military's strategic failures in the Vietnam War.

General Antonio Taguba (2004): Defied Pentagon preferences by exposing the truth about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

Major Jason Watson (2026): Stood up against command to uphold his constitutional oath.
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HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social · 15h
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Paul fulbrook @paulfulbrook74.bsky.social · 15h
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Robert Hindle @bodd999.bsky.social · 15h
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h
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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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 15h
Bless Jack Smith For Breaking MAGA With A T-Shirt open.substack.com/pub/thegodpo...
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Bless Jack Smith For Breaking MAGA With A T-Shirt
Suck it, losers.
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 16h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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How RAF Fairford in a Quiet Corner of England Became a U.S.-Iran Flashpoint (Gift Article)
A mysterious call last Sunday near a military base used by the U.S. set in motion a huge counterterrorism response and days of uncertainty in Britain.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
Report from Trump's Death Camps: 'Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old... from Peru, passed away in ICE custody Sept. 29, 2026, at Ochsner LSU Health Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana' and remember, he was illegal, because we say so. www.ice.gov/news/release...
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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 16h
But why would we think they would be well-regulated? This article demonstrates that even a pretense of regulation doesn't happen without a struggle.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h
NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.
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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water
The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
All evidence now points clearly to a decision having been taken by Trump to explicitly realign the US behind Putin, and to give a go-ahead to a renewed Russian war against Ukraine and possible provocations against NATO's eastern flank, which the US will abandon.
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The Key Point Being Overlooked
The Russian escalation talk proves one key thing
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
🗣️Ex FTC Chair Lina Khan on A.I. Regulation: “The idea that just because we have new technological capabilities there’s some blanket exemption from the laws on the books is totally laughable.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
Netanyahu's Likud government is systematically aligning itself with fascist political parties and their leaders in Europe, and defending them against well-documented charges of crude anti-semitism. The axiom: if you back Netanyahu, you're not an antisemite. Ze'ev Jabotinsky would approve.
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«Personne ne me convaincra que Jordan Bardella déteste le peuple juif» : le pacte tacite noué entre les extrêmes droites française et israélienne
Après les révélations de «Mediapart», Jordan Bardella a reçu le soutien d’un ministre du Likoud. Le RN ferme les yeux sur les crimes du gouvernement israélien et reçoit en échange le blanc-seing de so...
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 18h
We need to know what rad-Q is to be able to block it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 18h
Canadian cartoon deadder.substack.com/p/canadian-c...
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Canadian cartoon
Globe and Mail
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The self-deception of this man is breathtaking. bsky.app/profile/mart...
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corrupt to the core "Supreme Court" of partisan hacks bsky.app/profile/chri...
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"A search of his official Truth Social account and Commentary X accounts that archive all his posts found no relevant post matching the text in the screenshot."
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What You May Have Missed open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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What You May Have Missed
A round-up of the past seven days on the Hartmann Report
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Major Deep Dive: Trump Is Defying Congress' Power of the Purse. Here’s a Roadmap for Investigating His Misuse of Taxpayer Funds aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-deep...
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Major Deep Dive: Trump Is Defying Congress' Power of the Purse. Here’s a Roadmap for Investigating His Misuse of Taxpayer Funds
He was once forced to pay $2 million for misusing his own charity's money for politics. Now it's the federal Treasury. Here's the roadmap Congress needs.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026
Shereen Marisol Meraji and @iammrbeat.bsky.social may come from two very different worlds, but they have one important thing in common: a deep dedication to history and justice. Together, they’re hosting the ACLU’s new podcast, Let the Record Show. Learn more.
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ACLU Launches New Podcast ‘Let the Record Show’
"Let the Record Show" covers historical Supreme Court cases.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The collective ignorance of MAGA, a cult that mindlessly repeats whatever they've been told by liars—and knows no actual history.
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Heal the Planet @healamerica.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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9/4: This week, DOJ fired a prosecutor who tried to hold an ICE agent accountable for shooting an unarmed man.
TikTok video by Liz Oyer
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2026
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent and branded a “domestic terrorist” by DHS — all for just warning her neighbors and speaking her truth during Operation Midway Blitz. She deserves true justice and accountability from the federal government.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin’s fascination with the medieval takes the next step. www.newsweek.com/suspected-pl...
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Suspected Plague Death at Russian Lab Sparks ‘Anti-Epidemic’ Lockdown
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bluetsu.bsky.social @bluetsu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Serious question: Why is NO ONE insisting that Howard Lutnick resign, be held accountable for his actions and LIES to Congress about his entanglements with Jeffery Epstein?
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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What Washington Gets Wrong About Education — According to 12 Teachers From Across the Country
Christina Andrade Melly, Rebecca Fortgang, Caryn Long, Lakeisha Patterson, Christopher Albrecht, Karen Moore, Wafa’ Safi, Tyler Murphy, Kareem Neal, Michelle Pearson, Cheryl Hughes, Brian Skinner
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SedonaRocks🚫👑🇺🇦 @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Local activism can save us from federal destruction. Happy news! Story: buff.ly/A4TjojO
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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The team behind the award-winning film NAZA, which details the Israeli military’s targeting policies in Gaza and its alleged acceptance of high numbers of civilian deaths...spoke to more than 100 sources with knowledge of the military systems used in the war. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
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NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza
Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems
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jimchee.bsky.social @jimchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave
When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.
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gwpda.bsky.social @gwpda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Marc, DHS is actively using their 'database' - most recently as reported by the CBC on 15 September: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail voting by executive order. But it greenlit his administration’s use of a flawed immigration database to help states purge voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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