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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 14/05/2026
Ace Parsi, an Iranian immigrant and Morgantown community organizer, has narrowly won the Democratic primary for U.S. House district 2, reports Lori @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
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Iranian immigrant Parsi wins Democratic primary for U.S. House district 2 • West Virginia Watch
Ace Parsi, an Iranian immigrant and Morgantown community organizer, has narrowly won the Democratic primary for U.S. House district 2.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
When it comes to workers and AI, everyone is focused on not losing. This guy wants to win.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/04/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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jmeyer99.bsky.social @jmeyer99.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
substack.com/@themeadowbe...
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On henbit, Forugh Farrokhzad, and attention as an act of resistance
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!
Trump insane Easter postMamdani warm and gracious easter greetings
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Legitimately reports the news more clearly and accurately than the New York Times
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.
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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.altgov.info · 05/04/2026
The Trump administration already pushed out 25% of NPS staff over the past year. Now they've released a new round of early retirement incentives and want to cut the NPS budget by a quarter.
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jmeyer99.bsky.social @jmeyer99.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Tania Vergara-Gongora es coronada reina del Festival Derby 2026
Tania Vergara-Gongora se convititió en la primer reina del Festival Derby de Kentucky de origen hispano
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2026
The impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown on mothers is particularly pronounced, our analysis found: Moms of U.S. citizens have been deported at about four times the pace under the Biden administration.
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?
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Melinda🗽🇺🇸 @melindajean.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
They just keep topping themselves with new evil‼️ Article by @wessiler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
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Doug Burgum Plans To Kill National Park Visitors This Summer
National Parks are being set up to fail-by-design, in order to justify their sale
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AsAmNews @asamnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/02/2026
An exceptional accounting of WEXMAC TITUS and the contracting gears moving the machine of ICE's push to build a $38.3 billion deportation processing network. Great work, @marisakabas.bsky.social! Mandatory read for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how WEXMAC works.
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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
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KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Billionaires evaded over $168 billion in taxes while undocumented immigrants paid over $100 billion in taxes while receiving no benefits. I know who should be deported.
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“The SAVE Act will require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections…” “Only half of Americans hold a valid passport…Birth certificates are also problematic for many married women [whose] name may be different than the name on her birth certificate.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 08/02/2026
Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota
Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesot...
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/02/2026
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/02/2026
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for Haitians in the US
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thanks to a court ruling today, extending Temporary Protected Status, Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnics cleansing operation. The ruling is notable.
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jmeyer99.bsky.social @jmeyer99.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Follow the Money - January 2026: DMV Companies Awarded $19.5 Million in new ICE and CBP Contracts
Project Salt Box's monthly report on ICE and CBP procurement activities.
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Trish Anderton @trishanderton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Imagine the impact of a single House GOP member switching parties
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 24/01/2026
This is really excellent, glad to see you given the space to go big with this @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’?
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/01/2026
🚨 Normally I'd wait until #MINNESOTA's filing deadline before promoting this page, but given the ONGOING POGROM of Minneapolis, I've moved it up. secure.actblue.com/donate/mnblu... Note: Not a dime goes to me. #Blue26 If you'd prefer to help NON-political orgs: standwithminnesota.com
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In Louisiana, an ICE officer named David Courvelle has pleaded guilty on charges related to his monthslong sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan woman held in a detention center. www.wbrz.com/news/contrac...
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Contract detention officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee at ICE facility in Basile
A former ICE detention officer pleaded guilty Monday to the sexual abuse of a Nicaraguan detainee at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to court documents obtained by WBRZ.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:
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Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".
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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
How much has Operation Midway Blitz cost the federal government so far? The Trump administration isn't saying, so for the @chicagotribune.com I came up with a rough -- but conservative -- estimate of $59 million and counting. Check out more at this gift link www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
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Cost of Operation Midway Blitz: $59M and counting
A Tribune review of court filings, databases and other public records detailing the scope of the incursion and typical costs shows how much the federal government has spent since September.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
concentration camps.
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ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It’s been a long year. If you’re tired, that’s not weakness. that’s awareness. Sometimes the most important political act is living to fight another day.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Canadian tv networks once again serving as a valuable, inadvertent bulwark against US censorship
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Congrats to local public transit and Suede (the band) enthusiast @jasonparis.bsky.social for starting all this in motion. A mini pentagon papers moments.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:
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SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Correct
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