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Living through yet another period of existential dread caused by my fellow citizens. Can I leave yet?

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 56m
Something I will never understand as long as I live is phony intellectual Republicans giving free advice to Democrats. The only advice I have for Republican politicians I'd care to share with them can't be posted on here
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 4h
I’m joining the call to Investigate DOGE. In Congress, I’ll work to root out corruption across the federal government and make sure our government puts you first, not the GOP’s billionaire donors.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 4h
“They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against ‘indoctrination,’ and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 7h
Ashley Moody has 10 MILLION reasons she won’t debate me. She stole Medicaid money from sick kids. And, she’s taken millions of dirty money from the AI lobby. Floridians deserve honest answers from the two candidates running to represent Florida. #AngieForFlorida
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 10/10/2026
Musk is doing everything he can to shut this down before it reaches your eyes. On behalf of all those who lost their careers or their lives because of Musk, please share.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14h
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 18h
I think the moderate position, if there is another presidential election, is the firing, civil court subpoena, or arrest of every criminal, top to bottom, that had actively worked to curtail and trample over the rights of countless innocent people. This is the moderate position if we believe in law.
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Steven Pumpkin Spice 🦇🎃 @silent0siris.bsky.social · 20h
There’s no hell hot enough for the people who orchestrated this and we must commit to pursuing them to the ends of the earth (edit for bsky mods: so we can serve them a court order to appear for a trial in front of a jury of their peers in all due time and maybe they’ll serve a few months of proba-
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jwes8.bsky.social @jwes8.bsky.social · 19h
The Silent Majority (not a majority) continues to exist in silence. Idiots believe evil is strength. Cruelty is power. And they want to have it, but can’t, so the next best thing is to vicariously enjoy it through your elected official. Hopefully enough of them are gone now.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And now this: "The Trump administration is considering using ships, including a 500-foot training vessel and ferries, to deport migrants to Central and South America on journeys that could take days and cost millions of dollars"
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." - a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities.
npr.org
ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
#BAAJA is backed by the White House, the Oil & Gas Association and the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (the trade association of hyperscaler companies) because it will hyperaccelerate dirty-energy data center development.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is unacceptable. When I make it to Washington, I'll push to ban Congressional stock trading.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23h
Not hearing much from the Sound of Freedom crowd about this child trafficking operation, are we
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 22h
No reasonable law enforcement agency would ever fire a hail of bullets into a car that presents no safety threat … with a five-year-old in the backseat. We need an independent investigation. We need Oscar to be released from custody immediately. And we need ICE to get the hell out of our city.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/10/2026
The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is one of the very few people adequately channeling Evelyn Normielib these days the base doesn't want to hear entreaties to our better natures, they don't want to go high while the other side goes low, they want someone to come on the TV and go "these people are garbage" he's good at it
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/10/2026
This is assault
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said that some of its AI agents had taken unintended actions on federal, state and local websites, including submitting a false tip about a murder to a Philadelphia police hotline.
washingtonpost.com
Anthropic AI agents took ‘unintended’ actions on government sites
The inappropriate actions by its agents included submitting a false tip about a murder to Philadelphia police, Anthropic said.
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J.A. Adande @jadande.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Say WHAT???
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No “I’ll hurt immigrants too” or “I’ll repress trans people too” with a “that’s just what voters believe” rationalization. No treating “working class” and “white working class” as interchangeable synonyms. No effort to court tech oligarchs. No “Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents — who did not present a warrant, and who appear to have been disguised as construction workers — fired 7 shots into a car with a 5-year-old child, hitting Oscar Belgal in the neck.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He’s mad our country is run by crooks and murderers and so am I. I’m no longer interested in negotiating with these people and neither is he.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026
Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/10/2026
The party of law and order is planning more crimes.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 09/10/2026
I wrote about Jim Bakker, whose parasocial style of grifter evangelism seemed freakish to mainstream society in the 80s and is now the machinery by which mainstream society operates
theringer.com
The Death and Afterlife of an American Con Man
Jim Bakker’s vision of the future came to pass. Just not in the way the disgraced televangelist imagined.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/10/2026
“All Americans should probably watch this film like their life depends on it.” Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews the new Elon Musk documentary. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
newyorker.com
In “Musk,” Alex Gibney Punctures Elon’s Self-Mythology
“To make this film, I set out to solve a mystery,” Gibney says in the documentary. “How could Musk assume so much power, and why had we given it to him?”
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
wired.com
ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reading to children isn't a "sometimes" activity. It's every day. It's multiple times a day. It is a fundamental task of parenting. The fact that there is not one, but apparently many tech buffoons trying to wriggle their way out of this basic responsibility is frankly enraging. Their poor kids.
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Rep. Pete Aguilar @aguilar.house.gov · 09/10/2026
Reports that ICE agents are being told to “go after anybody” in California are alarming. ICE is violently terrorizing our neighborhoods. House Democrats will continue to demand oversight over this out of control agency. Accountability is coming.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
fuck these guys. put them all in prison.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 09/10/2026
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social: "I’ve heard fears that the permitting bill will make it easier to build natural gas pipelines." The natural gas pipeline industry calls the bill a "historic breakthrough". They ain't expressing fear!
ingaa.org
INGAA Statement on Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 - INGAA
WASHINGTON, District of Columbia, September 30, 2026 – Amy Andryszak, President and CEO of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA), released the following statement on the Bipartisan...
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