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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026

Last month, ICE told 12 Somali men they were being deported to Somalia. Instead, they sent the men to Guantanamo Bay.

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every day, a billion dollars of trade moves between Michigan and Ontario. Michigan has 16 confirmed measles cases and has joined over 60 lawsuits against the Trump admin to stop illegal actions taken against it. But what about this one Twitch streamer? That's what matters most in the Senate race.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/07/2026

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

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FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

He died at Irwin, the detention center made notorious by allegations of unwanted gynecological procedures, and that Biden had shut down. Trump reopened it. Now it’s the site of yet another death in ICE detention following claims of medical neglect.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gas is high. Groceries are high. Rent is high. Wages are stagnant. Another forever war. ICE is committing murder on our streets. We can’t eat fresh produce and our national monuments and parks are being pillaged. But, at least the president has made billions of dollars in the last year…

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/07/2026

Hey congressional comms staffers, I’ll save you some effort: “I wish my good friend Lindsey Graham had succeeded in enabling the insurrectionists to kill me, a goal that people on both sides of the aisle can agree on, so that I could have been in hell to greet him today.”

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.

More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.

As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ICE is building a car fortress in front of Delaney Hall. Based on my experience with ICE, I would guess they feel severely understaffed and need the extra barrier.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Happy to share our first campaign ad!! Www.Harrydunnformd.com

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

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Exclusive: She Helped Plan Her Teen's Abortion, So CPS Took Her Daughter Away

Child protective services is being used as an anti-abortion weapon in banned and pro-choice states

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/04/2026

Scammers are stealing homes from New Yorkers. We’re launching the Mayor’s Office of Deed Theft Prevention to defend vulnerable homeowners, and we are pausing the tax lien sale for the next six months as we review and fix a broken system.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/04/2026

The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Worth remembering that BORTAC ("Border Patrol Tactical Unit") was a lie from the beginning, it was created to beat up domestic protesters, not to battle cartels at the border or whatever. Assaulting random unarmed Americans is and always has been their sole mission, and why they should be abolished.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

More Iranian girls we killed to achieve the objective of giving the IRGC complete control of a vital global shipping lane.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So this story is just going to pretend that the United States isn't doing this to Cuba right now huh

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This Is What Happens When the Gas Runs Out

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

there's a human being who works at the New York Times who decides which of the few stories each day get sent out as a push notification to app users:

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John de Guzmán @johndeguzman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We definitely anticipated the crimes against humanity if they voted for him again, but these smaller things, like having to wait over two hours to get through security at an airport? We anticipated those as well.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/03/2026

It sometimes seems like there's a perverse contest of wills going on, with Trump getting more & more crude & disgusting & unmistakably racist & the Times concurrently working harder & harder to bury it under bland language. It's like he's daring them, challenging them, and they keep retreating.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I don't want us to lose track of RFK jr being bribed to drop out of a political race and how that should mean prison time for all involved.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The original CECOT crisis was last March. How many people have disappeared into El Salvador in the ensuing year?

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John de Guzmán @johndeguzman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Counter point: One Battle After Another is not a good movie.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We don’t need talkers right now. We need fighters. And no matter how many times they knock me down, I’ll get back up and fight with you. Every. Single. Time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises
February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

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John de Guzmán @johndeguzman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Endless corruption. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack

No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Love how we spend >$850 billion annually on defense so that we can have a week's worth of relevant munitions.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The process here will inevitably be (a) collect every immigrant's social media; (b) pay a tech company a fortune to scan them with AI asked to see if they're "anti-Trump," which will stretch all the way to being pro-vaccine or anti-tariff and beyond; (c) arbitrarily deny status to those who are.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/02/2026

Here is NBC News normalizing the concept of a presidential slush fund www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/t...

Trump also said board members had committed $7 billion for reconstruction in Gaza and announced a $10 billion commitment from the U.S. to the Board of Peace initiative, a sum that he said was small compared to the cost of war.
"It's two weeks of fighting," he said. "Sounds like a lot, but it's a very small number."
Trump did not say where the $10 billion would come from, and the White House did not respond to an inquiry from NBC News.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

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John de Guzmán @johndeguzman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Not only did Merrick Garland go out of his way to not prosecute Trump, but he sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing. He’s the reason Joe Biden was an absolute failure as a president, no matter how many laws JB signed.

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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Trump made $4B in his first year of his second term. Trump is suing the IRS for $10B. Trump just announced the US will contribute $10B to his Board of Peace. A $10 billion contribution to a Board that he chairs without congressional appropriation or authorization. WAKE THE F*CK UP AMERICA.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision. After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

Sim entered the United States as a refugee in 1983 and became a lawful permanent resident in 1986. He was arrested for disorderly conduct in 1989, indecent exposure in 1996, and larceny in 2005, receiving a suspended sentence and probation but no prison time. In 2006, ICE arrested him, and an immigration judge ordered his removal to Cambodia.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 18/02/2026

How is this even possible? Rep. Haley Stevens, who is running for #MISen, "seemed generally impressed with the staff" at an ICE detention facility, per the @michiganadvance.com. At the same event, Rep. Hillary Scholten spoke of a man "being kept in a freezing room where he couldn’t feel his toes."

Stevens also seemed generally impressed with the staff during the visit and their treatment of detainees.

“Of note, there is female leadership here, and there are women who walked with us today and explained, on the intake process, how important it is to treat people with humanity,” Stevens said. “And that obviously really stuck out to me, because some of the things that we are witnessing before our eyes, in our neighborhoods, in our streets, is really a lack of humanity.”

Both congresswomen did note, however, that at least one individual who they spoke to expressed a fear of punishment or retribution for sharing his concerns about the facility — though they attempted to speak with him privately, they were denied that opportunity. Stevens noted that she plans to remain in touch with that person’s family in Macomb County to ensure he is not punished for speaking with the congresswomen.

“He was kept for several weeks in what everyone there refers to as ‘the hole,’ which is similar to a solitary confinement,” Scholten said of the same detainee. “He spoke of being kept in a freezing room where he couldn’t feel his toes and having his food just thrown into his cell. So these are things that we really need to take seriously.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

WaPo article excerpt including the sentence: “Democrats demanded new accountability measures for field agents, including requirements that agents wear body cameras and don't wear masks, and that agents get judicial warrants before entering people's homes.”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 11/02/2026

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Hudson River Park Trust leaders dodged, deflected, and even laughed off questions about its ongoing contract with ICE that allows federal agents to park their vans at Pier 40, a popular public venue where dozens of local teams play soccer.

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Hudson River Park Trust Keeps Dodging Questions About Its ICE Contract

And more news for your Tuesday.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement: "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

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Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

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