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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is surreal.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump refused to bow his head for a solemn moment during the dignified transfer ceremony for fallen soldiers at Dover
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We are failing our kids
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 21/11/2025
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
huffpost.com
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
motherjones.com
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Andy Ngo and other far right extremists have been targeting Avalos since at least as early as July and trying to paint her as violent and a 'member of Antifa.' On court record, Ngo has admitted that his social media posts can lead to violence." It's projection from the right. All the way down.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...
popular.info
ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The so-called Homeland Security Secretary is a corrupt and malignant fraud. This video she sanctioned is fake. Manipulated by cowards who hide behind masks while violating the law.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15/10/2025
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR. When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
independent.co.uk
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/10/2025
“The Librarians” examines the experiences of school librarians who have found themselves on the front lines of a battle against censorship. to.pbs.org/46TqfiW
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The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary
According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 school year. A new documentary, “The Librarians,” examines the experiences of sc...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2025
This is not a border crossing. There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior. This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Stephen Miller accidentally blurted out that Trump had "plenary authority" on TV today. They're going for full-scale dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
nytimes.com
Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.
Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa.
Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.”
Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.” - @therickwilson.bsky.social
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.
Tweet from @laura_n_rod 

Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 06/10/2025
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN
trib.al
Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
wsj.com
Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System
The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This is not "de-escalation"—this is state violence. The actions being taken are far from calming the situation; instead, they exacerbate tensions and demonstrate a disturbing disregard for human rights.
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Republican who said trans healthcare ‘harms’ kids pleads guilty to child sex abuse imagery charges www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/30/rj-m…
thepinknews.com
Anti-trans Republican pleads guilty to child sex abuse imagery charges
RJ May III, who backed drag and trans healthcare bans to “protect childhood innocence”, has pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse material.
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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 30/09/2025
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Pretty much open corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“I don’t know how we rebuild this level of devastation at the Justice Department. It’s such an important institution. It’s just hard for me to see how, post-Trump presidency, how we come back from the damage he’s done." www.huffpost.com/entry/its-ti...
huffpost.com
'It's Time For America To Wake Up': Officials Have A Warning About Trump's DOJ
The manipulation and weaponization of the Justice Department is “by design,” one former DOJ lawyer told HuffPost.
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 20/09/2025
The U.S. Department of Education announces that it has placed Harvard University on heightened cash monitoring as a result of "growing concerns" regarding its "financial position," the latest pressure tactic against the school by the Trump administration.
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Trump administration places Harvard on heightened financial oversight
The latest pressure tactic against the school comes as a result of the administration's "concerns regarding the university's financial position," according to the Department of Education.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
There goes the First Amendment.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
insidehighered.com
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“Your critics will say it’s a crackdown on free speech.” Trump: *rants weirdly about people being on drugs*
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
forbes.com
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Hiding the truth.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Oh
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/09/2025
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
unraveledpress.com
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2025
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
A group of uniformed troops walk along the National Mall, with the Washington Monument and the Capitol in the background. A headline reads: "Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington." Photo by Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It’s spreading.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Saturday morning, officers with vests that said only police tased what appeared to be a deliveryman. The confrontation took place on 14th Street…The officers refused to identify themselves. The incident was caught on video by a person who sent it to The Bulwark.” www.thebulwark.com/p/watch-trum...
thebulwark.com
WATCH: Trump’s Masked Officers Tase Delivery Man in D.C.
The confrontation was caught on camera by a bystander and shared with The Bulwark
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is not the slightest bit surprising and it began prior to Trump coming back to power. As the idiot AG of Missouri was pursuing Missouri v Biden, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal sued me and my colleagues with the same forum-shopped judge and plaintiffs. Wake up: it’s a machine.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 15/08/2025
“This is the most savage takedown of anyone I've ever heard in my life,” one social media user said in response.
huffpost.com
Podcaster Praised For Saying MAGA Should Be ‘Banned’ From ‘Best Thing’ About America
“This is the most savage takedown of anyone I've ever heard in my life,” one social media user said in response.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
1. Get bad jobs numbers 2. Fire person who counted 3. Stop counting ‘1984’ is upon us 🇺🇸
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/08/2025
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
newyorker.com
How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency?
A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The man who attacked the CDC fired more than 180 shots into the campus
huffpost.com
Man Fired 180 Shots, Shattering 150 Windows, In CDC Attack
Bullets pierced "blast-resistant" windows, and it could take weeks or even months to repair the damage, agency officials said.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10/08/2025
The entire point of Project 2025, of the bloody swath that’s been cut through the federal government, of redistricting specifically, is to prevent the places of those in luxurious power and those struggling to get by, from ever being switched. trib.al/WyKUn0g
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