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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Michigan, absentee ballots have gone out. The election is HERE. Make sure you have a plan to vote by November 3rd to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All! 🗳️ abdulforsenate.com/vote 🗳️
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As our president tries to paint Canada as an enemy during the 25th anniversary of 9/11, it might be a good time to see "Come From Away," the story of a small Canadians town embrace of Americans stuck there after the terror attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af77...
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Come From Away — Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
is this a good time to remind everyone that SUPREME COURTS are a very important aspect of what'll be on the ballot in November? and i wrote a guide this spring to each and every state supreme court race happening in 2026—don't miss exploring it and using it as a resource
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Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🚨NEW from me: "Because we're burning fossil fuels." Professor Julia Cole tells me the story of how her team created a 1,000-year "thermometer" of coral, showing climate change has intensified El Niño. www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...
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Human-Caused Climate Change Is Making El Niño Stronger, Corals Show
Coral skeletons reveal El Niño is stronger than at any point in 1,000 years. Scientists say human-caused climate change is the reason.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2026
For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court's term just ended, but there's no time to sit with these rulings. With 196 voting cases pending nationwide and the midterms just four months away, I explain why the pro-democracy movement needs to stay ready. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-f...
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The Supreme Court Term Just Ended. The Fight to Save the 2026 Midterms is Just Beginning.
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 19/05/2026
The $1.776B “anti-weaponization fund” announced today is a theft of our tax dollars and a fraud on the American people. Congress needs to step up and block this settlement before Trump helps himself to the rest of our tax dollars. Please share and help sound the alarm. youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4...
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Trump’s $1.8B “anti-weaponization fund”
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If you want to help me in the fight for free and fair elections, subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
Louisiana GOP is obviously & severely harming the public by nullifying the election of Calvin Duncan but also my jaw dropped, when researching, seeing how much Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are like 'fuck this one Black man in particular' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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A Black Man Won an Election In New Orleans. Republicans Are Trying to Abolish His Position Altogether
The legislative response to Calvin Duncan’s landslide victory has a long, shameful history in Louisiana.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Last month in The Onion:
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RFK Jr.: ‘I Am 6 Animal Penises Away From Curing Cancer’
WASHINGTON—To announce that his decades-long project to revolutionize modern oncology was nearing fruition, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference Friday in ...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:
DUAL NATIONALITY AND ELECTION
RICHARD W. FLOURNOY, JR. (1921)
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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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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Let’s stop softening the language. The pregnant detainees in the Texas ICE camp are children. They are not “young women.” They are minors. If pregnancies occurred while they were detained, every ICE officer must be investigated for child sexual assault. These children must be freed.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
"The govt, in the middle of an energy 'emergency' Trump declared & an energy price spike he precipitated by invading Iran, is proposing to spend nearly $1b in public funds to ensure that *less energy gets produced* b/c the current occupant of the WH lost a lawsuit 20 years ago & never got over it."
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Trump wants to bribe energy companies to kill wind energy
Burn, baby, burn.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I wrote about a museum that is near and dear to my heart, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
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A viral video series is breathing life into one of the country’s oldest Black history museums
Staff at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are spoofing what it is like to work at the legendary institution from a distinctly Black perspective.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Anyway, please read my report—which is a culmination of nearly a year of work—and subscribe to The Handbasket:
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking for you: Active Voting Rights Cases: 165 Active Redistricting Cases: 49 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 89 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 72 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 24 Stay informed. Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026
In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:
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209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/02/2026
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance theonion.com/terrified-conservative…
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Fuck Jeff Bezos. Subscribe to The Onion. membership.theonion.com
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Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I guess I have to scream this: SCRIPPS NEWS HAS BEEN DOING HEROIC WORK COVERING CONDITIONS IN THE TRUMP CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM And they're rewarded with little credit and few views. THIS IS ONLY GOING TO GET MORE CRUCIAL. Follow @scrippsnews.bsky.social and SHARE!!!
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ICE detention center in Texas locked down after measles cases confirmed
YouTube video by Scripps News
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The president of the United States had his Justice Dept. raid an election office and seize ballots in order to cast doubt on an election he lost. Yet, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day. I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies. mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
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Combatting DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections
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Jennifer Gordon Thomas @ragekitten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The appropriations bill must be passed by 60 votes in the Senate on Friday, Jan 30. If you are not calling your Senators right now and screaming at them, I don't know what to tell you. You do not have to be polite when calling. We are being murdered. Politeness is out the fucking window
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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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 Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
May Minnesota's business leaders someday find the courage of our high school journalists: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘My hands were really shaky’: high-school journalist documents ICE raids
Lila Dominguez was working on an article as agents came on to school grounds – their presence has jolted Minneapolis’s young people
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Bigotry against trans athletes was always going to be approved by SCOTUS and yesterday's arguments left no doubt. But what starts on the field never stays on the field. Republicans are testing the waters for new victims of their cruelty. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Supreme Court Just Held an Anti-Trans Hatefest
The court’s hearing on state bans on trans athletes in women’s sports was not a serious legal exercise. It was bigotry masquerading as law.
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Prosecute Renée Nicole Good’s Murderer
The ICE agent who killed Renée Nicole Good not only can be held accountable for murder—he must be.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again.
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No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
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