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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h
Police violently beat Hispanic man-because he hurt their feelings
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3h
So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...
cnn.com
US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11h
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 7h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 8h
By the way, à propos of nothing, we have an active volcano in Hawaii which, one feels, is in dire need of propitiation.
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Kilauea Volcano Lava Flow in Hawaii
ALT: Kilauea Volcano Lava Flow in Hawaii
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Headless Engineer - Spooky Light Dept. @cppilgram.bsky.social · 7h
More people need to learn about creating multi-post threads:
A screenshot of an Bluesky post draft that reads "I want to make a looooong thread so once I hit 300 characters, I'll click this little "+" down there to open the next post in the thread. That way I can tell an entire story at once!" There is a red arrow pointing down to a "+" symbol just above the keyboard that is circled in red.
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h
Studies of voter behavior consistently show that an overwhelming majority of voters do not consider policy in their voting decisions. It's like people turn back into children and forget about cause and effect or consequences.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 12h
Angie Nixon is running a campaign that people who want change in the D party have long called for: Go on the attack, be aggressive on ICE, talk about Democratic values—what liberals can provide for the public to make the country better—and criticize Republican bad values. This is the way in FL.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 9h
New research shows Covid vaccines may boost cancer treatment, helping the immune system fight tumors and nearly doubling patient survival compared with those unvaccinated. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/mrna-covid...
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 10h
President Trump suggested Ohio could receive less help from his administration if Democrats win in November. “If you put in Democrats, I’m less inclined to help you,” Trump said at a rally in the state.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 11h
My take on what Democrats should do in the majority  newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 12h
If you don't think a lame-duck Republican Senate isn't prepared to ram through a replacement for Alito, then you haven't been paying attention.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 12h
Notable that this could be especially problematic for children with disabilities. Assets can disqualify you for critical social welfare benefits-including SSI and Medicaid.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 13h
ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 23h
What. What?! WHAT?!?! futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok
Trump reportedly consulted with Grok for hours on his next course of action in Venezuela before launching a military invasion.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
SENATOR SLOTKIN: If you hear in the next 34 days that there is a new security threat that you’ve never heard of, that somehow requires federal law enforcement or the military and not local police, an alarm bell should go off in your brain. Do not let him get away with that
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/10/2026
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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rcpm.bsky.social @rcpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bone headed move from the real estate "genius."
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Ramstad: The maddening economics of Trump’s $496M Minnesota prison
ICE’s purchase of Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton is the biggest real estate transaction in state history.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He had already surrendered. Video captured today in Oasis, California shows a federal goons kneeling on a man he threw to the ground while tasing him. This whole time the man is surrendering.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 03/10/2026
Effort to save California's iconic Joshua trees scrapped after Trump administration blocks funding
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Effort to save California's iconic Joshua trees scrapped after Trump administration blocks funding
A slate of projects aimed at preserving the future of California's iconic Joshua tree in has been scrapped after the Trump administration blocked more than $25 million in funding for national parks this year.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Campaign Paid More Than $4.3 Million to Jan. 6 Event Organizers www.newsweek.com/trump-campai... #J6 #treason #insurrection #democracy #elections #Blues
newsweek.com
Trump Campaign Paid More Than $4.3 Million to Jan. 6 Event Organizers
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol requested info from 15 social media companies, the FBI and more.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...
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Terror in the Backyard:
ICE’s Shadow Surge in Vermont
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just about everything this administration does makes me incandescent with rage. But their fucking with special education takes me to a whole new level. progressive.org/latest/scape...
progressive.org
Scapegoating Special Ed
As the Trump Administration kneecaps federal agencies for sport, special education takes the latest hit.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.
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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE just kidnapped a woman at LAX airport Saturday Oct 3, 12:50AM. A community member was able to record when several ICE goons who refused to identify themselves grabbed the woman, put her into a van and then drove off.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lessons from a year of RFKjr's disinformation: His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health 👇
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Opinion | Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation
His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health
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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NEW COLUMN: They are a heavily armed, religiously driven group with a leader in hiding and desire to control a key waterway. But Trump is not inclined to bomb them again. What gives? www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Why Trump May Want to Avoid Messing With the Houthis
The Houthis say they’re just defending Yemen, but their moves are damaging global commerce.
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Honestly being able to navigate by map and having a reasonable grasp of the roads in your local area and major highways in your region and any areas you travel to frequently is really, really helpful even if you use a GPS. Mine sometimes recommends routes I know I don't want to take.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
-Republican operatives have on the ground in Alberta working on their campaign -The secret state department meetings last year involved the separatists offering territory and resource royalties to the US in exchange for support
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Tengrain @tengrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please Read: (and H/T @dmansini.bsky.social ) bakingitsbetterthanmurder.substack.com/p/we-are-done
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We. Are. Done.
by Lisa Lucas
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental U.S. in decades. There's a strong chance that this is the new normal, one public health expert says of the mosquito-borne infection 👇
medpagetoday.com
Florida's Dengue Outbreak Is Now the Largest in the Continental U.S. in Decades
'There's a good chance that this is the new normal,' says expert
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
what the Trump Admin means by "the Strait is Open" is that we're using Filipinos and Indians as human shields, sailing ships dark through drone infested waters, and 1 in 20 get hit and they die. the plan is literally see if we can run out of FIlipino sailors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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No Lights, No Radio: Getting Oil Through Hormuz Is a Risky Job
A tanker captain’s first-hand account shows why flows from the Middle East are rising, despite the dangers of Iranian drones and missiles.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re raising money to help volunteers across the country document ICE flights. This helps with accountability, advancing policy, and demostrates to detainees, and their loved ones, that they’re worthy of being counted, and are cared for by their community. Please help: ottergoose.net/ice
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP State Senator Dan Dawson (chair of Iowa Senate Ways and Means Committee) delivered the #ialegis speech of the day. Said Governor Kim Reynolds "negotiated against the Iowa taxpayer." He slammed "the largest corporate giveaway" in state history. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9f...
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Iowa Senate Republican's epic speech against tax incentive bill
YouTube video by Bleeding Heartland
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's ample evidence that her work informs the debate in a significant way. If you read nothing else on crypto and its spreading tentacles that aim to suck your money into its purveyors' bank accounts, you should follow -- and support -- White's sterling work.
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Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses
Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White. She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world.
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