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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@joshkovensky.bsky.social joined @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social of the Posting Through It podcast to talk about the influencer grifters boosting the Trump admin's agenda open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
very cool to see my new @talkingpointsmemo.com colleague @joshkovensky.bsky.social joining Posting Through It to talk with @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about all his great reporting! open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We've got another great ep of the show coming for everyone on Monday morning. This one features @joshkovensky.bsky.social, who joined us to talk about the cast of content creators making state propaganda with the Trump Administration www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky | Posting Through It
144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky by Posting Through It on Patreon. Join Posting Through It's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worth considering these charges, over posting "Time to bear spray ICE" and "Kill the ice military police!," alongside another recent indictment under the same statute, 875(c)
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
A federal grand jury indicted a Tennessee Bluesky user for allegedly threatening ICE agents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I asked Greg Bovino about the killing of Alex Pretti yesterday. He blamed a "light touch" towards "anarchists and rioters" in Minneapolis that allowed "lawlessness" to "fester" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...
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In New York, Greg Bovino Says DHS’ ‘Light Touch’ Allowed Minneapolis ‘Lawlessness’
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Greg Bovino knows Minneapolis is a problem.  The...
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Census Bureau wants to use your tax data to identify where you live even though officials from Treasury (IRS) told them not to. Census moved forward anyway. Why? To exclude most immigrants from being counted and shift political power to Republican states talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Commerce Overruled Treasury Concerns in Push to Narrow Census Count
Before the Trump administration issued its rule aiming to reshape the Census...
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Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The team is breaking news every day @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Greg Bovino is at the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan tonight. He describes one of the city operations last year as “the most violent law enforcement mission in American history”
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 16/09/2026
Last year, the Trump admin directed federal law enforcement to treat ideas like “anti-capitalism” and “extremism on race and gender” as signs of domestic terrorism. Records we obtained show at least 13 IRS employees and two from DOJ assigned to the work. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This morning, Rawson posted a photo of himself w/ members of the University of Florida College Republicans. The group was reinstated by university only few days ago. It was disbanded in March... after two members were photographed performing Nazi salutes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Exclusive | States Delayed in Getting Covid Shots for Children’s Immunization Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t opened up the ordering process, raising concerns about delays as vaccination programs kick off.
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Aaaand the Trump tirade has come talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is insane. DOJ officials who by law are required to exercise independent judgment appear to have been ordered to overturn torture protections granted to a political opponent of a Trump ally, with a deportation flight fueled up and ready for their preordained decision made in less than 24 hours.
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U.S. Fast-Tracked Deportation of Ecuadorean Politician Despite Torture Fears
The removal of José Serrano, a critic of President Daniel Noboa who has been accused of criminal activity, underscores how the Trump administration has asserted control over U.S. immigration courts.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Texas Republicans—and Bo French in particular—have spent the past year campaigning on demonizing Muslims, as @joshkovensky.bsky.social points out. But now Rs are coming out of the woodwork to condemn French's bigotry towards South Asian college students at UT talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-mad...
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GOP Mad at Candidate For Doing Xenophobia The Wrong Way
Bo French wasn’t always this way. When he first ran for statewide...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rawson has responded to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story. He neither denies or apologizes for: -condoning slavery -calling for gay people to be executed -advocating lynching -marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -his involvement w/ League of the South, a neo-Confederate/southern secessionist group
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 15/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com with an exclusive on DOJ/IRS records obtained by my team at @weareoversight.bsky.social regarding the FBI launching its NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center to investigate dissent against the US government.
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 15/09/2026
Please read this piece from @talkingpointsmemo.com @joshtpm.bsky.social @joshkovensky.bsky.social -- NSPM-7 is one of the scariest government documents we have every seen. Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FBI's NSPM-7 Center Pulls in IRS Agents to Police "Anti-Capitalism" and "Anti-Christianity" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The IRS has sent 10 agents and three analysts to take part in a DOJ-led, national-wide effort to police “anti-capitalism” and “extremism on migration, race, and gender,” @joshkovensky.bsky.social reports.
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jay Alan Sekulow taking John Eastman's disbarment case to the U.S. Supreme Court is just perfect. Thomas and Alito's dissent from denial of cert is gonna be wild. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...
In the Supreme Court of the United States
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JOHN C. EASTMAN,
Petitioner,
U.
THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA,
Respondent.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of California
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
ALEXANDER HABERBUSH
CONSTITUTIONAL
COUNSEL GROUP

JAY ALAN SEKULOW
Counsel of Record
JORDAN A. SEKULOW
STUART J. ROTH
ANDREW J. EKONOMOU
CHRISTINA A. COMPAGNONE
BENJAMIN P. SISNEY
WALTER M. WEBER
GEOFFREY R. SURTEES
NATHAN J. MOELKER
AMERICAN CENTER
FOR LAW & JUSTICE

Counsel for Petitioner
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@letsgomathias.bsky.social first official day w/ TPM is tomorrow & he's kicked off his first week at @talkingpointsmemo.com with a major exclusive about the GOP nominee for the FL legislature who is expected to win in a few weeks. He marched during Charlottesville, but that's not all. More here ⬇️
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The OIG finds that each person detained at Alligator Alcatraz was in cells offering just 28 square feet per detainee, less than half than the 75 required. People could only leave their cells a few times per day, and were only allowed showers 3 times per week.
Key Finding 1: FSSF Did not Comply with Environmental Health and
Safety Standards
FSSF did not provide detainees with sufficient living space — less than half of what is required —
creating cramped conditions for detainees who spent most of their time in their housing units.
The lack of living space risks detainees’ well-being and may negatively impact their physical and
mental health. The applicable standards require at least 75 square feet of floor space per inmate
in dormitory8 housing units.9
 At maximum capacity, the FSSF housing units provided 28 square
feet per detainee — well below the required minimum. Detainees spent most of their time in the
housing units; they could only leave their units for:
• mealtime (three times a day);10
• recreation (1 hour a day, 3 days a week);
• showers (three times a week); and
• medical reasons.

General Population FSSF’s general population housing consisted of eight windowless soft-sided structures, or housing pods, without views to the outside and a lack of natural light. Each soft-sided structure contained eight housing units surrounded by metal fencing on all sides, measured 39 feet long by 23 feet wide (897 square feet of floor space). The units were topped with metal fencing that was 9 feet high. Each unit contained three toilets, three wash basins, and four telephones. They were designed to hold 32 detainees (See Figures 2-7). Furnishings in the enclosures consisted of bunk beds with no common areas, seating, tables, or storage areas providedFigure 4: Inside a Detainee Housing Unit; Observed January 21, 2026. The picture shows a row of bunk beds set up in a small interior space surrounded by chain-link fence. In the middle of the space is a set of three toilets, entirely open, with a low 3-4 foot high wall blocking full view (but the toilets would be entirely visible form people on the top bunks). Perched on the wall of the toilets is a large water jug.Figure 5. Detainee Housing Unit Toilet and Washbasin Facilities;
Observed January 21, 2026

A close-up image of the toilet set-up, with the paint shown as already peeling. The toilets are standard prison toilets which are both toilet and sink.Figure 6. Detainee Housing Unit Sleeping Bunks; Observed
January 21, 2026

A picture of the same cell, this time from near the toilets and looking out across the cell. You can see how there is zero privacy, and how each cell is surrounded by other chain-link cells.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 14/09/2026
DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
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DHS watchdog finds immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Marshall Rawson, who is expected to win a seat in the Florida legislature, marched with neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. Great, comprehensive story that gets at the state of the modern, MAGAfied GOP from @letsgomathias.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NSPM-7 directed the DOJ to target left-leaning beliefs. Now, prosecutors are going after randos online. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nspm-7-...
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NSPM-7 Directed Trump’s DOJ to Target Left-Leaning Ideology. It’s Going After Randos Online.
National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the Trump White House’s memo directing federal...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal."
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14/09/2026
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal.
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why is the Trump admin bombing Somalia so much? www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Tom Stevenson | Why is Trump bombing Somalia?
Over the past twenty months, the US has launched airstrikes in Somalia using MQ-9 Reaper drones and sometimes manned...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Spoke with some of 600+ people who were punished for Charlie Kirk-related speech over the past year — about the anxieties they’ve faced, the crazy reasons they were fired or even arrested, and what their life has been like since:
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A Year Ago, Charlie Kirk Was Killed. Meet the People Who Were Fired for Speaking Out About Him
In the year since the murder of the far-right commentator, those who were punished for comments about his death have met mixed fortunes. Over in Dallas, the GOP’s mad midterm Trumpapalooza began.
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JC 💙🦋🛸 @colorado80537.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great 🧵. Make sure you read the attached sources/articles.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A small note at the end of a DHS case report in Minneapolis said that an investigation into protestors had been "accepted under CUC Op Keyhole" What did this mean?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/09/2026
US prosecutor overseeing probe of Trump foes resigns reut.rs/4gNe8KP
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US prosecutor overseeing probe of Trump foes resigns
A U.S. ​prosecutor who has been overseeing a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump ‌told Reuters on Thursday that he has resigned.
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's something worse than the Census citizenship question, experts told TPM, and the Trump administration is considering it. From @joshkovensky.bsky.social and me: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Admin Officially Moves to Reshape National Political Power With New Changes to 2030 Census
A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Watch this episode @jragazzo.bsky.social and I did on the Catholic Church and the American right with @massimofaggioli.bsky.social It helped me answer a lot of questions I had about what the religious right in the US looks like, and why www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUU...
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Our Roman Empire | TPM Social Club
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New census story w/@laylaayanna.bsky.social: the Trump admin officially submitted its rule to reshape the 2030 census. It's more aggressive than the draft we obtained last month talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Admin Officially Moves to Reshape National Political Power With New Changes to 2030 Census
A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from...
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Joe Ragazzo @jragazzo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This week @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I spoke with @massimofaggioli.bsky.social, a professor of historical theology at Villanova and author of Leo XIV and the Global Church. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUU...
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Our Roman Empire | TPM Social Club
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DHS used the PATRIOT Act to conduct a warrantless search for financial records in an NSPM-7 investigation talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-nsp...
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DHS Brings PATRIOT Act Tool to Bear in NSPM-7 Investigation
The Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How DHS used a warrantless search for financial records, created by the PATRIOT Act, in the Minneapolis 15 case talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-nsp...
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DHS Brings PATRIOT Act Tool to Bear in NSPM-7 Investigation
The Trump administration used a tool created in the early days of...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026
USAID’s destruction has also helped create an apocalyptically horrible funding environment for human rights investigation and atrocities prevention - IE, the work that helps expose mass-murder in places like Gaza and Sudan. Many of those programs are now close to the brink of closing.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Along with the other Reconstruction amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship committed America to a radical vision of equality. And now, along with the other Reconstruction amendments, MAGA has placed that guarantee under attack.
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How the Right Could Actually End Birthright Citizenship
The conservative legal movement doesn’t consider the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to be the final word on the Fourteenth Amendment. And it already has a playbook for overturning it.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026
USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere
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