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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 23/06/2026
Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thank you, birthright citizenship, for that goal
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/06/2026
Senior researchers at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association were handing out copies of an editorial, published in the association's journal, condemning Trump administration cuts to diabetes research. Police came to arrest them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...
nytimes.com
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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karitwin2.bsky.social @karitwin2.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Some food for thought from Uruguay where they've measured the heat island effect. amenazaroboto.com/the-heat-beh...
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The Heat Behind The Cloud
Twenty-five years of satellite imagery reveal that the Antel data center in Pando generates a heat island visible from space. Eleven kilometers away, Google is building another center several times bi...
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Gabriel Farías @gabrielfarias.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The "cloud" isn't in the sky. It's a building — and we just showed it's warming the ground around it. 🧵 1/3 @amenazaroboto.bsky.social
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The MAGA GOP just voted to decimate Minnesota's vital tourism and recreation sector by opening up the pristine Boundary Waters to mining by a foreign billionaire. MAGA Minions: Please explain how destroying American wetlands to give away US resources to foreign billionaires is "America First."
environmentamerica.org
STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters
U.S. Senate vote puts beloved wilderness area at risk of toxic pollution
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cozybooksonly.bsky.social @cozybooksonly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pete Stauber was the one that started this in the House! Dems fought hard against it but all GOP voted for it. Stauber and Emmer need to be voted out! www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
cbsnews.com
House Republicans vote to reverse 20-year mining ban in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
The U.S. House of Representatives is voting Wednesday on a bill that would reverse a 20-year ban on mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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Matthew @matthewmatthew.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
These motherfuckers need to be stopped. They have no right to take away our pristine boundary waters.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛 @ocanannain.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Iconic Photo
 NASA -- Artemis II crew
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knitting bee🐝 masked & vaxxed @knittingbee.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We couldn't have done it without her.💐
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...
snyder.substack.com
The president speaks genocide
The words, the law, the future
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Dani Dupree Stan Account @bohobabe449.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Cancelling $1.6 billion for NOAA just before hurricane season and cancelling money for NASA while our astronauts are still in the air is just..... Sigh.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
While this #ArtemisII post is getting views -- something else to keep in mind. Trump's budget proposal came out today. NASA employees are trying to save their funding. Also on the chopping block: NIH, NSF, EPA -- and the entire NOAA research budget.
dcmediagroup.us
NASA Workers Say Defunding Agency Will Erase Future U.S. Science and Technology Gains - DCMediaGroup
Washington, DC—Scientists, engineers, and contractors working at NASA rallied near the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum recently, warning that budget cuts will end U.S. leadership in space exploration...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just an unnecessary reminder that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is officially a war crime under US and international law.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It is historically normal for terrorists to go after the moderates who might dampen a conflict.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Something worth considering: it is incredibly radicalizing to hear the media lie about something you personally saw 9 million people are at home right now going "what the fuck, tens of thousands of people marched in my city alone" Some percentage are gonna wonder what else the media is lying about
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In Portland, as in cities across America, neighbors are volunteering to keep neighbors safe from Trump's lawless, masked thugs who assault citizens and foreigners alike with absolute impunity. I'm just a tiny speck in the movement, and in this image, but I'm in the first 'E' in 'Keep.'
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karitwin2.bsky.social @karitwin2.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Proud of my hometown!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/03/2026
No ICE. No war. No Kings. #nokings
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 28/03/2026
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
NEW FOIA Files newsletter: Docs Reveal Details About ICE Surge in Minneapolis Police logs say an ICE agent was “trapped in his car” and pelted with snowballs. Police also logged numerous calls about ICE agents patrolling schools and allegedly “harassing children” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
a set of talking points the Minneapolis Police Department’s public information officer wrote for O’Hara in advance of a press conference on Jan. 24 after Alex  Pretti’s killing. Some of the messaging appears to be more pointed than the city’s public comments.

“It is deeply disturbing to see the actions of federal agents kicking and striking a US Citizen who is down on the ground,” one of the talking points says. “Minneapolis did not create this climate, it was forced upon us. Do not destroy your own city and take the bait that the federal government has pushed upon us.”A police log documenting calls regarding ICE activity in Minneapolis. One entry says
“ICE detained and removed male after traffic stop. The vehicle with dogs inside was left parked blocking a lane of traffic.” The log recounted how officers “responded to secure the animals and tow the vehicle for safe keeping.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethnic cleaning
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 25/03/2026
This is what happens when a president relies on his inexperienced, ethically compromised son‑in‑law, a real‑estate investor with reported back‑channel ties to Israeli intel, and a vocal Putin sympathizer to handle extremely sensitive peace negotiations instead of using professional career diplomats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/03/2026
It hasn't gotten enough attention that Trump, Homan, and Duffy have all confirmed there's a plan in the works to have armed ICE agents at airports *tomorrow.* Words fail to describe how stupid this is. Let's hope more people aren't disappeared or killed.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/03/2026
Off the record at the UN, a pattern keeps emerging: • concern over what the US is saying and doing • surprise at how many are eager to align with anti–women’s rights positions • confusion over the lack of visible domestic pushback There’s more beneath the surface.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“legally evacuated to the U.S. after the fall of Kabul”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.
reuters.com
Afghan asylum-seeker dies in ICE custody, US advocacy group says
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week. Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool. But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is incredible.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Oh my god he admit it bsky.app/profile/atru...
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 10/03/2026
Oh hey that thing we were all afraid of happening. Well it fucking happened. If you haven’t already locked down your credit/identity, you should fucking do it now. I’ll put the thread I wrote on how to do that (ish, there are Reddit boards with a million more steps you can take) in the comments. 🤬🤬🤬
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Jess Lee @jesslee.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tried watching @ricksteves.bsky.social Iran episode and only made it 30 seconds before getting choked up at the sight of darling Iranian school girls. If only everyone could see their humanity. ❤️‍🩹 A must watch. youtu.be/CYoa9hI3CXg?...
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Rick Steves' Iran (2009)
YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
NEW: Watch this report just in from CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen. It is raining oil in Tehran this morning. A city of 10 million is being actively poisoned. (🎥 CNN)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon.

History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
pbs.org
In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic
While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Civilians in Tehran are reporting toxic oily rain following US and Israeli airstrikes on oil storage facilities. An estimated 10 million people face exposure to hazardous chemicals, with risks including skin burns and lung damage.
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Karami @mobinkarami.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Apocalyptic scenes from Koohsar Blvd. in the Shahran neighbourhood of northwestern Tehran.
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