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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
You’re in a clothing store. You see something you might want. You hold it in your hands, only 10 steps from a fitting room, crying in frustration that you don’t have a robot to wildly guess what you might look like in it while the robot’s business partners scream at the robot, “CLOSE THE SALE”
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Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Love ya, Mary!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Lmao
Chart showing share of federal filings by pro se litigants spiking from 10-12% to 17% upon the release of ChatGPT
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 12/05/2026
Since the beginning of 2026, at least four landslides have reportedly killed hundreds of people at the Rubaya mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a major global source of coltan. www.bellingcat.com/news/africa/...
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DRC’s Coltan Belt: Verifying Deadly Landslides At Mines Under M23 Control - bellingcat
Hundreds reportedly died in landslides at DRC’s Rubaya coltan mines. What can open sources verify?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
1. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC. I decided to find out why. It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington. Follow along for details. 🧵
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Some questions that no one has asked: Why Kristi Noem put an inexperienced 20-something in charge of terrorist prevention. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/02/2026
"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)
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Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Homan might want to read our story. A few months ago, we counted at least 170 Americans detained. They were *almost all Latino.* www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Credit to @katherrun.bsky.social for this q btw
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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1-28-26 Fulton Warrant
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 26/01/2026
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A recent report showed that the destruction of just one USAID program, the anti-AIDS PEPFAR initiative, would lead to the deaths of one million people *every year* www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2025
The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily-guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to two people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.”
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/02/2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to cap what the National Institutes of Health pays universities and research organizations to cover their administrative costs. Follow live updates:
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Live updates: Federal judge blocks Trump’s move to slash NIH funding
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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