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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration is carrying out wide-scale family separations, far more than in the first Trump term. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXN...
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A ‘MASSIVE CRISIS IS UNFOLDING’: The hidden family separations happening under Trump’s second term
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Saurer Regen, Waldsterben, Ozonloch & Klimawandel - es ist doch immer wieder dasselbe:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/08/2026
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, 55 people have died in ICE detention, according to the agency’s own data. The mortality rate of ICE detainees is at the highest level in more than a decade and four times that of the Biden presidency.
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The deaths ICE doesn’t count
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/07/2026
"America is being left to reckon with a President in a hurry, who cuts every corner and half-ass every task, only to be left with a bigger mess than he started with when the bodge job doesn’t work. "Trump’s half-assed political legacy is becoming impossible for even his supporters to ignore."
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Trump's half-assed persona is leaking into every decision - and he's failing
This bodge job of a presidency is becoming impossible for even his supporters to ignore
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 21/07/2026
ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NEW: A lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that ICE held monthly in-person meetings with Iranian officials in which it divulged details on Iranian asylum seekers and gave Tehran some say in which individuals the Trump administration would deport. Claims both State and ICE coordinated handing over files.
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Lawsuit Alleges Trump Administration Gave Iran Details on Asylum Seekers
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"The secret agreement was routed through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom
The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It sounds like the RSF is starting to mass around another key city of some 500,000 people in Sudan — called el-Obeid — and threatening to repeat the atrocities of El-Fasher there, if anyone still cares
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Sudan: Fears of atrocities as RSF surrounds key city
As Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces mass around the strategic city of el-Obeid, fears are growing of atrocities similar to those seen in Darfur's el-Fasher. Could sanctions still prevent bloo...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...
Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/06/2026
Jared Kushner has brought a mind-boggling array of ethical conflicts to his role as a diplomat. His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf.
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How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
1. Don't believe the headlines. Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund is not "dead." The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it's dead. But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.
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No, Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund isn't 'dead'
How major media outlets got suckered.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Trump just signed order "reclassifying" ~8,000 civil servants so they are easier to fire for political reasons -- this has been in the works since his first term www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Trump signs order moving thousands of federal employees into Schedule F
Roughly 8,000 career federal employees were stripped of their civil service protections Wednesday, making them effectively at-will employees.
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Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Aufgrund der vielen Anfragen machen wir heute einen besonderen Service für unsere „noch nicht Abonnenten“: wir schalten die Cover Story der vergangenen Woche frei. Allerdings nur heute. www.falter.at/zeitung/2026...
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Daumen vor Gericht: Wie die Justiz das „Like“ auf Social-Media kriminalisiert
Immer öfter wird ein simples „Daumen hoch“ in sozialen Medien als Straftat verurteilt. Ein Fortschritt im Kampf gegen Hass im Netz oder doch nur eine Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit?
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“More than 1,500 biologists, chemists and other experts at the EPA’s Office of Research and Development have been laid off, reassigned or pressured to retire. Today, only 124 researchers remain.” How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
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How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 07/04/2026
Trump's genocidal threat against Iran is one of the most vile and dangerous things an American president has ever done. bit.ly/4caL50a
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This Madman Is Pulling Us to the Brink of Armageddon
Trump’s genocidal threat against Iran is one of the most vile and dangerous things an American president has ever done.
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 07/04/2026
Erhoben zu Werbezwecken, verschleudert im Internet: Standortdaten aus der Werbe-Industrie können Menschen gefährden. Das zeigt die ARD Story „Gefährliche Apps“. Sie beruht auf unseren Recherchen mit dem BR zu den #DatabrokerFiles. netzpolitik.org/2026/grosse-...
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Große ARD-Doku: Achtung, Datenhandel! Lebensgefahr!
Erhoben zu Werbezwecken, verschleudert im Internet: Standortdaten aus der Werbe-Industrie können Menschen gefährden. Das zeigt die ARD-Doku
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/04/2026
Depluralize a movie. I'll start: Tree Gump
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A President simply cannot do this. It’s not like “controversial” or “breaking norms.” The President not controlling our money is the main structural support beam of American democracy. It’s the whole fucking thing. You let him do this, you have ended the separation of powers.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
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Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17/03/2026
“Dilley is a hellhole. It’s a prison for babies, toddlers and children.” Elora Mukherjee of Columbia Law School shares the stories of several families detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas — including several featured in our reporting for @nbcnews. 1/
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The narrator of this is 11 years old, a sixth-grader. The soldiers are Israeli. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/w...
"When the shooting stopped, I opened the door and started yelling, 'Please help me," he said. He said the soldiers told him to shut up, and that one pulled him out of the car by his hair. He said he had been thrown to the ground and stepped on, questioned aggressively about whether anyone else had been in the car, and beaten on the head and legs.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.
On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites. Yes. A MILLION. This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp... 🔭 🧪
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Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky
Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“It’s a choice to ensure zero abortions." Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape.
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US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.
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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator
Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.
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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...
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ICE bypasses El Paso medical examiner for autopsy on migrant
ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man and won’t release a ruling to the public.
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FALTER. Die Wochenzeitung aus Wien @falter.at · 28/01/2026
Ein psychotischer Häftling soll ins Spital. Statt ihn zu sedieren, schlagen maskierte Beamte auf ihn ein. Er stirbt. Das Justizministerium hält den Fall geheim. Was hinter der Causa steckt, fasst @klenkflorian.bsky.social​ im FALTER.morgen zusammen ↓
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Justizskandal Hirtenberg: Wie ein psychisch kranker Insasse qualvoll starb
Schläge, Tritte und Schädelbrüche: Wie Insasse Michael gestorben ist >> Wo Sie in Wien eislaufen können >> Hundstage im…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
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Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace
No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
1984: “The National Portrait Gallery removed a swath of text that mentioned President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Smithsonian removes Trump impeachment text as it swaps his portrait
A Trump official previously complained about a caption beside his National Portrait Gallery photo mentioning his impeachments and the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Status scoop: Bari Weiss is subjecting another "60 Minutes" piece to scrutiny that has yet to air: one in the works for months by Anderson Cooper examining Trump's decision to accept white South African refugees. Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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The Shadow Over ‘60’
As Sharyn Alfonsi's “60 Minutes” report remains shelved, Status has learned that an Anderson Cooper piece is also caught in a prolonged editorial review process, frustrating the veteran producer attac...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: Trump posts that the United States just "captured" Venezuela's president and his wife and has flown them out of the country. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Donald J. Trump o t @realDonald Trump
The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
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Donovan Orville Gidcomb, The Celebrated D.O.G. @thecelebrateddog.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history. boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
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Trump pardons "start at $1m," reports WSJ
A simple process: you give a lobbyist the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then Trump pardons you.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The two parties are not remotely the same, & yet they are covered in our most prominent outlets in exactly opposite proportions to the actual degree of scandal, lawbreaking, authoritarianism, etc. It has been uneven for decades, but it’s reached new levels of farce & obscenity since Trump.
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