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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A rogue executive going after the citizenship and thus eligibility of a duly elected member of Congress, an attempt to usurp the House's fundamental constitutional power to decide who its own members are, is dangerous in a way that exceeds even the possibility of bogus trumped up criminal charges.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

JR: On what universe did anyone in your office think that was acceptable? DOJ: Your honor, we did our best -- JR: No, you did not do your best. You did your absolute worst.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In a scathing 28-page ruling, the judge, Gary R. Brown, condemned the agency’s tactics when it mistakenly arrested two Hispanic men, including a US citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...

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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)

Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.

36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026

This is why they wanted Pentagon reporters to sign an oath promising to seek approval before publishing anything. They wanted to lie without pushback. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

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Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed

The Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/09/2026

Note: The spectrum of religious groups that have sued/are suing the Trump administration over his immigration policies is, uh, broad.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE: When elected officials and advocates in Danbury, Connecticut, said ICE arrested a parent at a school bus stop Aug. 26, federal officials denied their accounts. I got video that appears to show such an arrest. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

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Video appears to show ICE arrest near CT school bus stop, despite federal denials

ICE has denied it made an arrest at a school bus stop, but confirmed it made 118 arrests in Connecticut that week.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The DHS OIG finds that Florida's Alligator Alcatraz failed to meet SIX different categories of detention standards: - Medical Care - Food Service - Personal Hygiene - Recreation - Environmental Health and Safety - Special Management Units Report here. www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
We found the facility complied with Intake and Use-of-Force standards but did not comply with
standards related to:
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Special Management Units (SMU)
• Medical Care
• Food Service
• Personal Hygiene
• Recreation

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just responded and QTed you at the end of the thread. Both may be true. The Amnesty report was from interviews done in September and the OIG was there in January.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Aaron, I see (and agree with) your note of suspicions re: DHS's claimed time limits in the "calming" cages, but I'd like to add: In Amnesty intvs detainees said, 1) The cages were smaller, 2) there was no awning, 3) feet were chained to the bottom so they couldn't sit www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International

This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human rights impacts of federal and state migration and asylum policie...

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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New: When I started planning for this fellowship, I had this image of visiting a church in Wittenberg and finding a moment to connect the Protestant Reformation with the current upheaval in Germany due to the AfD. See what I found in my latest for @rns.org: religionnews.com/2026/09/10/d...

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What the AfD’s victory means for German churches’ influence

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party scored a pivotal victory for the far-right in Germany, an outcome churches fiercely fought to prevent. Their inability to stop i...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/09/2026

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For only the second time on record, global sea-surface temperatures are more than 6 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 baseline, reaching 6.21SD yesterday. The record of 6.24SD was set on January 9, 2024. Maybe tomorrow? Stay tuned!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/09/2026

"No one has been arrested at a church." To be clear: DHS agents have, in fact, arrested people on church property. One of the incidents involved a pastor confronting DHS agents directly and filming them. In fact, DHS has *publicly acknowledged that this happens.* religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

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'This is domestic terror': Shaken by ICE raids, pastors rethink ministries

(RNS) — The fear of raids has pushed some congregations back to pandemic-era worship strategies.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So the folks running DHS social media aren’t just being racist; they’re openly trotting out well-known racist dogwhistles calculated to appeal to the cosmopolitan white supremacist edgelord.

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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Faith leaders in Germany at the national and regional levels are reacting to the AfD´s success in Saxony-Anhalt. Many of these religious groups advocated against the AfD prior to the election Sunday (religionnews.com/2026/09/03/a...). A roundup (translated into English)...

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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In yet another case of churches´anti-AfD standards for parishioners and employees of church-affiliated organizations, a Protestant church near Oldenburg asked a woman to resign from volunteer roles because her partner is an AfD candidate in a local race. www.nwzonline.de/oldenburg-kr...

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Ehrenamt in der Kirche: Partner kandidiert für AfD in Wardenburg – Mitarbeit einer 69-Jährigen nicht länger erwünscht

Marlene P. aus Hundsmühlen engagierte sich jahrelang ehrenamtlich in der evangelischen Kirchengemeinde. Weil ihr Lebensgefährte für die AfD kandidiert, sollte sie ihre Ämter aufgeben. Daraufhin zog si...

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Sean Sublette @subletteweather.com · 06/09/2026

Where I live? Sure. Richmond, VA had its 11th hottest summer on record. 7 of the 10 hottest have come since 2005. Monthly temperature records here go back to 1880. Side note: We just had our 2nd hottest start to September (first 5 days) — with an average temperature if 83.5°F. Follow David.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Most notable are the very high odds (>70%) of a winter that is *substantially* wetter than average (80th percentile or wetter)--particularly across California and Florida. This continues to be the strongest seasonal-scale predictive signal I've ever seen in California.

Plot showing data from ECMWF SEAS5 seasonal model September update. It depicts the odds of precipitation during Jan-Mar 2027 falling into the wettest 20% of all years (at or above 80th percentile), and California is painted as "upper tercile" with 70-100% confidence of being among the top 20% of all winters.

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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The DOJ has fired Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans, the local prosecutor who sought the civil rights charges against Castro and "objected in the strongest possible terms" to the DOJ's decision to downgrade the charges, per CBS News

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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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Liam Adams @liamsadams.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’ve spent the past month traversing Saxony-Anhalt — to Magdeburg, Zeitz, Halle, Salzwedel & Burg — to report on how churches are mobilizing against the far-right AfD before a major election. Their history re Reformation, GDR makes it all the more unique. religionnews.com/2026/09/03/a...

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As the far-right in Germany aims to take power, churches are fighting back

BURG near Magdeburg, Germany (RNS) — The AfD may gain power on Sept. 6 in Saxony-Anhalt, posing a direct threat to refugees and the German churches that serve them. Inspired by past resistance in East...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 02/09/2026

More harrowing reporting on this from Springfield via @rns.org's @kathrynpost.bsky.social: Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE Note the header image: That's the people praying over Pierre Damas Bel's grieving family. religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...

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Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — ‘All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband, Joubert Adrien, was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also...

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Carl Ruby, a Springfield pastor, said he was struggling to make sense of Bel’s untimely death. ‘I know that I’m a pastor and I’m supposed to be forgiving,’ he said. ‘But right now as I sit with a broken family, I’m crying out to God for righteous judgment in those who made this happen.’”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

looking forward to the presidential succession crisis of 2029

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Josh M @joshmenke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Or for memory’s sake, “when i and e go walking, the second one does the talking”

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in which the world's richest man appears to endorse a post calling for "shooting migrants" and "sinking boats with refugees"

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026

I think it is remarkable to the extent the opposition party is still largely silent about the extrajudicial gulag archipelago that the sitting administration is using to turn innocent immigrants into political prisoners and slaves in third nations

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Legislators and candidates should be asked whether they support changing a few words in federal law to enable people to sue federal employees who violate the Constitution. It's pretty simple stuff.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/08/2026

These are the actions of an authoritarian state. Instead of investigating the agent who killed Alex Pretti, Trump's DHS conducted sweeping surveillance of Minnesota organizations that were peacefully standing up to this Administration's lawlessness. Despicable.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 23/05/2025

The Internet is designed to let anyone look up facts on something and see some gloomy shit about it. It's not a skill at this point, it's one of the easiest decision trees on the game menu. We conflate "knowing the truth" with "knowing the bad shit" all the time. It's not working.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ossoff: If you’re CIA director John Ratcliffe, and you see what's about to happen, this is the last chance to jump ship and speak out, because you will be forever tainted by your association with these kinds of shenanigans.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If federal law enforcement officers are permitted to shoot people, cite vague concerns for "public safety," and get away with it, we're headed for a really dark place.

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Global Refuge @globalrefuge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In 2026 alone, 4 people have been killed by ICE in the streets. Another 21 have died while in ICE custody. Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal. Behind each number is a name, a family, and a grieving community. We mourn with them and demand accountability.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26
Adrian Andreas Florian, 85
Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, 63
Mamuka Artmeladze, 43
Denny Adán González, 33
Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, 27
Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49
Tuan Van Bui, 55
José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, 52
Royer Pérez Jiménez, 19
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41
Emmanuel Cleeford Damas, 56
Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, 59
Alberto Gutiérrez Reyes, 48
Jairo García-Hernández, 27
Lorth Sim, 59
Heber Sánchez Domínguez, 34
Alex Pretti, 37
Renee Good, 37
Victor Manuel Díaz, 36
Parady La, 46
Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz, 68
Luis Gustavo Nuñez Caceres, 42
Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55
Keith Porter, 43

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

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Josh M @joshmenke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

With four national languages, it'd be a fun bit to say them all every time

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

the extent to which Callais is a green light for Jim Crow just cannot be overstated

Indiana state trial judges are mostly all elected, except for three populous counties where two-thirds of the state's black voters live. There, the judges are appointed. Seventh Circuit: This was a tricky case but, after it was argued, the Supreme Court decided Callais and made it an easy one.
No evidence of intentional racial discrimination.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What an awful, awful crime this was archive.is/bAXCh

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