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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Here's what’s in the US-Iran deal As Donald Trump has been speaking, senior US officials have been briefing reporters about the deal with Iran. Here are some key points from the 14-paragraph agreement:

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

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Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam

A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

NEW: The United States and Iran signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on June 17. Iran is claiming that the final MoU text satisfies some of its key war aims related to Lebanon and the Strait of Hormuz. (1/4) Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate06...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Top Trump officials are "afraid" that Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their book. Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. Independent recording devices in the Situation Room are forbidden.

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Scoop: Trump aides fear Haberman and Swan obtained Situation Room tapes for "Regime Change"

No one knows which conversations were caught.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2026

EAMON JAVERS Are you worried about oil prices— PRESIDENT TRUMP No EAMON JAVERS Given the apparent breakdown of negotiations? No? PRESIDENT TRUMP No, I don’t worry about that, no.

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Trump tells CNBC: 'I don't care' if Iran negotiations are over

President Trump spoke with CNBC's Eamon Javers about the latest with the Iran war in an interview Monday.

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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

NEW Iran has called off all negotiations with the US, per NYP.

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Rep. Seth Moulton @moulton.house.gov · 29/05/2026

So now Donald Trump is prepared to give Iran a $300 billion investment fund - on top of releasing $25 billion in Iranian frozen assets - just to get back to the status quo before Trump began this war. This is INSANE. (via @nytimes.com)

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

U.S.–Iran draft deal includes a $300 billion investment fund for Iran. Tehran wanted reparations for war damage. Washington rebranded it as an international investment vehicle. Witkoff and Kushner floated the idea, pitching Tehran real estate and a broader fund as deal sweeteners.-NYT

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/05/2026

German man flees flailing authoritarian regime for Argentina. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

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Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World

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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

BREAKING: Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up at Launch Complex-36 while attempting to static fire.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Corruption. Pure and simple.

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I think about this a lot.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

On the other hand, if you want to see what a more patrician and sophisticated segregationism looks like, may I direct your attention to Chief Justice John Roberts.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The thing that makes “gutter racism” an appropriate term for this is that it goes beyond even what segregation’s savviest defenders were willing to say in public 60-70 years ago. They understood that this level of explicit racial animus was embarrassing to the cause.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So the ceasefire is appreciably breaking down, but does it collapse?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"don't tell me what the law says, tell me who the judge is"

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Who Needs a Handle @joeyossarian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Gonna say "AI needs to be disarmed" like "Carthage must be destroyed"

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/dD7xx4n

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/05/2026

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

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Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.

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NPR @npr.org · 23/05/2026

Foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country, the Trump administration announced Friday, in a surprise change to a longstanding policy. n.pr/4utqOec

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Trump administration to force foreigners in the U.S. to apply for a green card abroad

Foreigners in the U.S. who want a green card will need to leave and apply in their home country, the Trump administration announced Friday, in a surprise change to a longstanding policy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
PM-602-0199
May 21, 2026
Policy Memorandum
SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process
Purpose
This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
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GARCIA,
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No. 3:25-cr-00115
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Then-Attorney General Robert H. Jackson warned his fellow prosecutors long ago of the
danger of picking the person first and the crime second. “Therein is the most dangerous power of
the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that
need to be prosecuted.” Robert H. Jackson, The Federal Prosecutor, 31 J. Crim. L. & Criminology
3, 5 (1940). That is the situation here.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/05/2026

pretty crazy how blatant the ending of the late show is just an act of government censorship lol

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ed Gallrein wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, beating incumbent Thomas Massie.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 20/05/2026

BREAKING: Trump-backed Ed Gallrein defeats Rep. Thomas Massie in the Republican primary for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District, according to an AP projection.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/05/2026

Jerome H. Powell steps down Friday as chair of the Federal Reserve after running the world’s most powerful central bank through a pandemic, the worst inflation in 40 years, and an unprecedented assault on the Fed’s independence.

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5 moments that defined Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve

From slashing rates during the pandemic to standing up to the president, here are the key moments that shaped Powell's eight years as Federal Reserve chair.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Chris Hayes calls it the "Sistine Chapel of Trump corruption." According to ABC News, Trump wants to drop his IRS lawsuit in exchange for a $1.7 billion fund for victims of government “weaponization.”

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Trump reportedly to launch $1.7B ‘slush fund’ for ‘weaponization’ victims

YouTube video by MS NOW

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

As others ( @brasidas.bsky.social ) have pointed out, this is a bet that the price shock will be so extreme as to compel opening. The problem with that reasoning, as I see it, is that war does not obey the logic of markets. It has its own logic and there may be no peace to be had at any price.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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SCOTUS greenlights 11th-hour Alabama redistricting plan for 2026 election

The order means that Alabama will discard its court-ordered congressional map for the 2026 primary elections and use a 2023 map that courts previously struck down as a violation under Section 2 of the...

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Chief Justice Roberts bemoans the public's view of the Justices as political actors ... and then offers no explanation at all as the Court sprints to vacate a finding of INTENTIONAL discrimination, interfering with an impending election to let Alabama Rs sneak in a touch more partisan gerrymander.

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