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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Unfortunately their pivot to doing quiet ethnic cleansing instead of having bozo agents murder people in the streets has worked and there has been basically zero coverage lately of any of this and all those whose lives are being ruined
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ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July. That marks the highest single-month total during the second Trump administration.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
cc: Every centrist Democrat who thinks promising to add more cops is politically savvy
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This should be much bigger news
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But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots-and anyone else within hundreds of miles-unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain.
There were no survivors.
The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 29/07/2026
spacex fan boys lost their minds at me when I predicted exactly this btw blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-te...
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SpaceX's Texas Rocket is Going To Cause A Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th.
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LBNL Nuclear Science Division @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) has successfully completed its commissioning run at FRIB! 🔬 Led by Berkeley Lab, the world's most advanced gamma-ray spectrometer is ready to reveal the inner workings of atomic nuclei. Read more: nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/07/28/g... #NuclearPhysics
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion." - Ben Franklin on Emmers' German ancestors
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Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · 05/06/2026
What do donuts and the cyclotron have in common? They're both round. One changed breakfast. The other changed #physics. 🍩 Nearly a century later, it's still fascinating to hear Berkeley Lab founder Ernest O. Lawrence explain his invention. #InternationalDonutDay
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johnarrington.bsky.social @johnarrington.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New series of LBL podcasts from Nuclear Science Division nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/05/07/e...
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Episode 3: The Invisible Cannonball: Tracking Alpha Therapy for the Future of Cancer Treatment – Nuclear Science Division
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/05/2026
BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.
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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 14/05/2026
There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
UPDATE: reportedly ALL Dems were stripped of committees… but white male house Dems are still listed. Only Black reps & women removed. Weird! Sexton + TN House Republicans not beating the “it’s about race” allegations. (P.S. It’s all standing committees. We have screenshots.)
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.
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ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Epstein Class solidarity at work: Texas AG Ken Paxton fought to lower the sentence for a multiple-time pedophile (and friend of his) from a felony and life in prison to thirty days in county and two misdemeanors. For "years of molestation." www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The owner of MSG and the Knicks compiled this kind of second-by-second surveillance of a trans woman while they were in the arena. They're doing this at all venues owned by James Dolan of perceived enemies. Crazy, crazy shit. www.wired.com/story/madiso...
On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was Pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored.

07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5

07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse

07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher

Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red.

08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar

08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks

08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table

It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
When people steal thousands of dollars from their bosses, they're prosecuted.
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Patricia @powermacuser1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/04/2026
1. US Median household income stats don't count people experiencing homelessness. And US homelessness peaked in 2024. 2. 48% of the US has no money left each month after paying rent and bills. None.
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Nearly half of Americans don’t have any cash left over after paying bills
The number of Americans who say that they don’t have any money left over after paying their bills is up to 48%, the highest it's been since near-peak inflation in 2022, according to the Ipsos Consumer...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/04/2026
NEW: Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The for-profit chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.
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For-Profit Hospital Chain Never Put Aside Money for Malpractice Insurance to Compensate Injured Patients
Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with no recourse.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 03/04/2026
Cops in Alabama arrested Michael Jennings, a 56-year-old Black pastor, as he was watering his neigbhors' flowers while they were away. No problem, says the Alabama Supreme Court
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Cops Arrested a Black Pastor Watering His Neighbor’s Flowers. The Alabama Supreme Court Is Fine With That
The opinion in Jennings v. Smith transforms the state’s stop-and-identify law into a show-me-your-papers regime.
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johnarrington.bsky.social @johnarrington.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 01/04/2026
OPINION: "The defense secretary’s tacit endorsement of war crimes, attacks on press freedom, and use of religious rhetoric to justify Operation Epic Fury are the latest examples of his toxic leadership style," The Inquirer Editorial Board writes.
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Pete Hegseth’s holy war | Editorial
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
What Trump has done is change the calculus so that those engaged in really big ticket fraud of public programs see a financial incentive to pay off parts of MAGA rather than pay restitution to victims. From a DOJ lawyer: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
Afterward, defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...
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President Trump's Pardons: An Embarrassment of Riches
At least the specter of corruption in previous presidential administrations (Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich or Biden’s pardon of his son) appeared to be an exception to the rule. Today, however, the ev...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Ban the fucking polymarkets. Betting on death. Betting on war while Incentivizing death and war. Shaping foreign/domestic policy by rewarding the rich people already in the know and encouraging them to make decisions that destroy the world while padding their pockets. Burn it down.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/03/2026
Reminder that the CFTC is already mandated by law to prohibit these kinds of contracts and is abdicating its responsibility
40.11 Review of event contracts based upon certain excluded commodities.

(a) Prohibition.  A registered entity shall not list for trading or accept for clearing on or through the registered entity any of the following:

(1) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based upon an excluded commodity, as defined in Section 1a(19)(iv) of the Act, that involves, relates to, or references terrorism, assassination, war, gaming, or an activity that is unlawful under any State or Federal law; or

(2) An agreement, contract, transaction, or swap based upon an excluded commodity, as defined in Section 1a(19)(iv) of the Act, which involves, relates to, or references an activity that is similar to an activity enumerated in § 40.11(a)(1) of this part, and that the Commission determines, by rule or regulation, to be contrary to the public interest.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"SLOPPINESS": The Trump administration claimed that a man detained by ICE had a criminal convictions for marijuana possession in 2009. The judge pointed out that the man was 4 years old at the time. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
-Rep. Johnny Garrett lies that 50% of Tennessee crimes are committed by undocumented immigrants 🤥 -vivian jones writes accurate article: It’s 2% 🎯 (90% of those nonviolent/traffic) -Speaker Sexton accuses her of “downplaying” it🤔 -Vivian says she’s just correcting Garrett’s lies🔥
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Democrats keep saying there is nothing they can do. In the Senate, they can begin by refusing to allow unanimous consent to advance anything, for any reason. It does not stop everything, but it would render the Senate almost unworkable. They don’t, because it will make their jobs harder.
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LBNL Nuclear Science Division @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🌌💥 New episode alert! 🚨 Episode 2 of Let's Get Nuclear explores the universe's matter-antimatter mystery 🤯. Join @BerkeleyLab experts as they discuss the neutrino's role in solving this cosmic puzzle 🔍 #NuclearPhysics #LetsGetNuclear nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/02/03/e...
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Episode 2: The Ghost in the Detector: Are neutrinos the key in solving the universe’s antimatter mystery? – Nuclear Science Division
Discover how the CUPID experiment, a revolutionary new project, aims to shed light on this mystery by looking for a rare process called neutrinoless double beta decay. Tune in to learn more about the…
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10/02/2026
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots.

“What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@pabloreports.bsky.social: Are you concerned about DHS keeping watchlists of American protesters? REP. MOULTON: Absolutely. This is state-sponsored terror ... We start by not funding DHS. We gotta crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 05/02/2026
For the doubters about the demand list: Thune is literally saying they won't engage with a list that more or less just asks to recodify that it's illegal to break the laws they're already breaking. Now they have congressional Republicans committed to letting masked goons break into your home
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LBNL Nuclear Science Division @lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Get ready to go nuclear! 🚀💥 Introducing our new podcast series, Let's Get Nuclear! 🎙️ In episode 1, we dive into the mysterious world of superheavy elements! 🌟https://nuclearscience.lbl.gov/2026/01/27/episode-1-the-quest-for-element-120-and-the-elusive-island-of-stability/
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Episode 1: The Quest for Element 120 and the Elusive Island of Stability – Nuclear Science Division
Discover the challenges of creating these elements, the mysteries of their chemical properties, and Berkeley Lab’s rich history of superheavy element discovery, including the current pursuit of…
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/01/2026
Thank you @democrats.senate.gov for voting unanimously for Senator Sanders’ Amendment to strip ICE of BBB funding. Can you please demand the Sanders Amendment as a condition to fund DHS now that you’ve successfully separated it from the larger spending package?
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 25/01/2026
Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed. Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.
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