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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23h

And now the Arizona Star reports: "Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation." The judge, a Trump appointee, cited news reports in his order. Journalism FTW! tucson.com/news/local/b...

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Judge orders Arizona man returned from Africa after 'unlawful' deportation

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Phoenix man who the judge determined was "unlawfully" deported to Equatorial Guinea in April and has

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just as big a lie of omission is concealing his party in the headline and subhead.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Democrats so badly failed to make it universal knowledge that the longest-standing GOP House leader was a pedophile.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes a local reporter thinks there is something more to the "suicide" of a pregnant young woman. Laura Crimaldi. kept asking questions. Tomorrow, more than five years later, a onetime police detective goes on trial for her killing. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/05/n...

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The reporter who knew there was more to Sandra Birchmore’s story — and helped uncover it - The Boston Globe

This week’s trial comes more than five years after the crime and follows Laura Crimaldi’s persistent investigation.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

wsj.com

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Minor injuries?" According to who? If you don't know what damage was inflicted by the ICE goons, please do not repeat their unverified claims about the nature of the injuries.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Where is the announcement from NYT (and every major media outlet) that it will no longer send reporters to the White House until this attack on our First Amendment is called off?

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks! I'm not yet familiar with it. Do you use it?.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Great to see this: EVERY support act on Sheeran's tour has now followed Macklemore's lead and left the tour in protest! They include Finneas, Lukas Graham, and Beoga. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore

Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is a big sacrifice and risk for a young artist. Don't just applaud--support him by buying his music or streaming on Tidal tidal.com/artist/8551355 (pays higher royalties to artists), Spotify open.spotify.com/artist/1wskV..., Apple...

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Aaron Rowe

See the releases of Aaron Rowe on TIDAL

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Undoing every harm possible inflicted by the brutal MAGA regime is the priority

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I realize you were just a child and it may have seemed that way, but please talk to some people of Middle Eastern descent about whether they recall the world being united and full of humanity after the attacks.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Length of the match is not a problem, it's a virtue. It's entirely about bad scheduling and trying to stuff too much onto one court.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

what story is this excerpt from?

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kind of a weird quiz when they ask how you pronounce a word I can't recall ever having uttered (centaur)!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Violates Catholic Social Teaching Catholic social teaching protects the right of Indigenous peoples to keep their own names for their own places. mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/trumps-ren...

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Trump’s Renaming of Lake Ontario Violates Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic social teaching protects the right of Indigenous peoples to keep their own names for their own places.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes. If you don't fight it, don't sabotage it, and don't publicly denounce it, you're supporting it.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

12.5 mph is absurdly low. I routinely ride 18-20 for going to town on my pedal powered bike on our local path and enforcing a limit this low would compel many local bike commuters to drive.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google Maps allows you to report mistakes. Tell them about it and share the urging with a few other people. Easy tutorial video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Oi...

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Report a Problem in Google Maps

YouTube video by Google Maps

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's basic journalistic competence that @npr.org fails constantly.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yet I never heard of an organized boycott. Individual choices without well-funded organizing are not going to persuade huge corporations Google and Apple

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Where's the Beef? If you're interested in the creative process, the philosophy behind my work, and behind-the-scenes sketches, videos, and commentary, I invite you to subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's not defense. Please stop helping normalize mass murder by calling it that. At least say military budget.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To publish this headline--suggesting good faith should be presumed for Trump Regime statements--is damning of CNN's competence.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Respectfully, I don't think it's helpful to use the terminology (moderate) that the corporate defenders of the abysmal status quo prefer. You're either working toward justice or you're (at best) a drag weight on those who are.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That's exactly why we should be building broad support/demand for it.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dems should publicly pledge NOW to rename absolutely everything Trump gets his name on to instead honor people of color and women and to pay for educational ceremonies funded by selling assets seized from him, Ivanka, Don Jr, et al for stealing from taxpayers.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Mothership, End Citizens United, and Progressive Turnout Project—all of whom relentlessly pummel my phone because their data-scraping flagged me as a Dem donor—are fascist saboteurs. What else would you call entities that drain >80% of donations intended for Democrats?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Good nutshell, but it omits virtually the entire Republican Party, which is reactionary, not conservative: "System went to far toward liberty and justice for all, we need to go back"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Re your subhead: a politician who supports the Trump disenfranchisement scheme, actively advancing white supremacy, is not moderate.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If only DNC leadership cared about improving the lives of ordinary people as much as they care about pleasing corporations and Wall Street

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Full memo w notes here: reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/08/2026

“Officers subsequently checked the various locations where the Flock cameras were placed and found that the poles were cut down near the base. Officers located the poles nearby in the weeds, but the cameras had been removed.”

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Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as the...

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are we supposed to believe that image is a real human being?

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If people truly considered candidates through the lens suggested by these wise words, Dems would have avoided the Graham Platner debacle (among others).

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 23/07/2026

Cheltenham is closing its Citizens Bank accounts totaling about $9 million after months of organizing from residents concerned about the bank's business with companies running detention centers.

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Cheltenham to pull millions from Citizens Bank over immigrant detention facilities

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Even the world's greatest can enjoy some good luck, too!

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Perpetrator of international crimes seeks to remove potential for anyone to hold him accountable"

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

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Jeff Milchen @jmilchen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Using "earned" in the headline should shame everyone involved in publishing this. It's grift and should be prosecuted fully by the next administration.

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