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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026
"My family had three plots of land planted with olive trees. Two of them are now under Israeli control and have been bulldozed, so we can no longer reach them. We can still access the third, but it no longer looks like the place where we used to spend our autumns."
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3 Years Ago My Family Harvested Olives, Not Knowing It Would Be the Last Time
Two of my family’s olive groves fell under Israeli control and got bulldozed. The third is damaged beyond recognition.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is mind-boggling to me that anyone can see the rampant lawless abuses taking place with Schedule A/SAD Scheme litigation & still think we should give copyright owners an expedited way to block entire websites by bending due process www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... & www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs
Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has introduced the American Copyright Protection A...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CRINGE IS DEAD WE SUPPORT FREE PALESTINE AND SILLY LITTLE SONGS LETS GOOO
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Prism @prismreports.org · 13/09/2026
“When I was effectively barred from finishing the LSAT, it was basically the end of education on death row.” Lyle C. May became the first incarcerated person in North Carolina to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), but was barred by the prison supervisor from finishing the exam.
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LSAT interrupted
When I was prevented from completing the LSAT, I learned how North Carolina's carceral system blocks education for people on death row
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 12/09/2026
www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/09/11/s...
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San Jose police officer fired after using Flock database to track cousin’s domestic violence accuser
SJPD revealed a data breach involving a now-former officer sharing tracking information about a potential domestic violence victim to his relative.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You don't think of 2% being a particularly high rate of anything, but "2% of the House GOP caucus" is way too high of a percentage for that particular thing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you use a wheelchair, are you worried that you might not be able to use a cybercar? No problem. Your first fare includes some sort of miracle cure that allows you to not just walk again but to also store the wheelchair yourself.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Trump administration has killed at least
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civilians in 68 illegal strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since
September 2, 2025.
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Steve Brazill @stevebrazill.com · 05/09/2026
Another important post you should read from @masnick.com. TLDR: Age verification is bad. Longer TLDR: Avoid having your ID scanned for any reason. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/h...
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They were never going to prosecute him. Because they don’t believe that undocumented people have basic human rights. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
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Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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Re:Create Coalition @recreatecoalition.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Together with American Council of the Blind, they are petitioning for critical DMCA exemptions that would allow libraries to remove restrictive digital locks on e-books and streaming media, expanding access for blind and visually impaired readers.
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Library Copyright Alliance Advocates for Copyright Regulations to Facilitate Research, Teaching and Learning, Preservation, and Accessibility — Association of Research Libraries
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) triennial rulemaking cycle has kicked off again. Section 1201 of the DMCA  bars users from circumventing technological protection measures (TPMs)—digital lo...
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 27/08/2026
When I say I fully gasped.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/08/2026
My friend Marlene lost TPS because of SCOTUS. She was fired because of the ruling. She needs money now to pay rent and bills. Please share and help if you can, if my friend loses her apartment then she loses her cats and is at risk of being abducted by the state. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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Donate to Support for My TPS Journey and Living Expenses, organized by Marlene Noble
Some of you may know, and for those who don't, I have Temporary Protected… Marlene Noble needs your support for Support for My TPS Journey and Living Expenses
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 22/08/2026
www.gadgetreview.com/flock-blocke...
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Flock Blocked the Wayback Machine. That Should Worry Everyone
Flock Safety blocked its own Wayback Machine history while selling license plate readers that permanently track where your car has been.
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jonahpgh.bsky.social @jonahpgh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The fact that HBO compelled even this lukewarm non-apology out of one of the modern world's proudest and more powerful bigots means that her hatred is actually affecting their bottom line.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Cofnas may regret drawing this much attention to himself. He was very lucky to find shelter for his views (you know the ones) in Ghent and there may have been some procedural irregularities in his hiring www.brusselstimes.com/2007046/ghen...
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Ghent University under fire for appointing US philosopher with ties to 'scientific racism'
Concerns have been raised about Nathan Cofnas due to his association with controversial "race science."
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As the focus turns from Arday to the network that led the campaign against him, there's still too little awareness of the race science underground of which Cofnas is a part. The old "Pioneer Fund", which started promoting race science in the 1930's, is now the "Human Diversity Foundation" ...
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Judith Butlerian Jihad @pghguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This anonymous gate agent has done more than many of us. We can only hope to be as brave and decisive with our power when ICE comes around.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/08/2026
May Day history lives in speeches & strike calls, but also in buttons pinned to a coat, flyers passed through a crowd, pieces of paper saved for decades. On Aug. 23, Isaac Silver of Buttons of the Left brings that history to life www.allyoufascistsboundtolose.com/calendar/but...
Gallery docent speaking to a small group about a wall exhibit of political buttons—display labeled "Internationalism & Anti-Imperialism"—while two visitors stand listening.
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Farage called the dude cosplaying as a trashcan the “establishment candidate.”
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.” Turns out the artillery shell factory that doesn't work doesn't work even worse than I reported last week
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026
Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...
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No ID, No Money, No Way Out: DHS Deports a Man to a Country He Doesn't Know
The Trump administration sent Rogelio Bolufé, a Cuban national, to a cartel city in Ecuador with no means of escape.
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I have been expecting our current year-round access to all kinds of fresh produce to be reduced in my elder years due to global warming and shipping costs. I didn't expect it to be because the only fresh produce that's safe to eat comes from local farmers.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Boutros tries to dodge the problematic structure of this imagined conspiracy by criminalizing touching a car that drove into you." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/09/u...
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Undisputed! Andrew Boutros Makes a False Claim - emptywheel
In making a case that neither he nor his prosecutors should be sanctioned, Chicago Andrew Boutros rests his entire argument that prosecutors "undisputedly" complied with Judge April Perry's orders. In...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When the Secret Service shows up over an Instagram follower, it’s not a routine check-in—it’s government intimidation designed to silence influencers who dare to expose political corruption.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/08/2026
ICE is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
The agency’s body-worn camera policy could mean taxpayers, who are pitching in tens of millions of dollars to pay for cameras, may be kept in the dark about some confrontations.
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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)
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Bernadette @insolentpheasant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So Monday when the Stock Market Opens, stock will go back up, and he & his friends will have bought the dip, and can sell them off again while the stocks are up again. Everybody knows he is manipulating the markets, and he won't stop until somebody stops him.
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Trump Says He Will Order Halt To Iran Strikes After Parameters Reached For Deal To End War
Trump says he'll order American forces to hold off on strikes he had threatened against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the war.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/08/2026
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them. www.404media.co/tons-of-peop...
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Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court
The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twi...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
When our car was stolen out of our driveway in the pandemic summer of 2020, the sum total police response was for a cop to enter our house unmasked, shrug that the car would likely turn up somewhere (it was not) and, upon examining my spouse’s expired license, telling him he could arrest him for it.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026
Mr. Soliman says 17 are still imprisoned there, so most of the 43 known TCNs have been sent back to their countries of origin, despite ALL having protections in US courts. THIS IS CHAIN REFOULEMENT. IT IS ILLEGAL. Still don’t know how many in newest group. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
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Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals
Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 22,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Within living memory there was a state-level effort to designate the NAACP to stop civil rights. This is a very well-worn, evil path.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.
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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We looked into it, and it turns out the obvious truth was obviously true. We regret the error.
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