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Kiko

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Photojournalist and librarian (I am a sliver in a Venn diagram).

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hot-pizza.bsky.social @hot-pizza.bsky.social · 5h
A group of men with obvious personality disorders self regulating. That’ll work.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
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Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 11h
The Guardian's series on the new ICE tactics continues: From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h
Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 8h
Up to 25,000 people have been deported under this Administration’s cruel third-country deportations.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h
85% of those detained in MVPC have no criminal record. Eighty-five percent.
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Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seven men took turns. 57 men where in the chat. None face charges. Three were expelled. Four wrote essays as a “punishment” One day, will one of them cry when his nomination for the US Supreme Court is questioned?
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.
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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things that Senator Eric Schmitt always confuses: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Atlanta Hawks. A John Deer Tractor vs. A Dear John Letter. Washington State vs. Washington DC. Gorrillas vs. Guerrillas. Duke University’s Blue Devils vs. Arizona State University’s Sun Devils.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Related: our analysis found this summer that it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down.
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Over 1,600 energy department webpages on utility bill savings removed as US temperatures soar
Guardian analysis found the removals coincided with the Trump administration’s push to weaken efficiency rules
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/09/2026
Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With midterms fast approaching, Trump's announcement of a steel mill that will open in Iowa in 2030 is excellent news for voters who have cars that run on steel that won’t appear for at least four years! My column on Trump's buckets of flop sweat: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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An Iowa steel mill? Trump, GOP keep ignoring Americans' needs | Opinion
As midterm voters face high food and gas prices, President Donald Trump trumpeted a new steel mill in Iowa. His flop sweat is showing.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesse Watters: You were never on Jeffrey Epstein's jet were you? RFK Jr: I was on it two times. My wife had some kind of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar eviscerates Schmitt: "For a U.S. Senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion … and imply you're in another city that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia and then call you a dirt bag is something that deserves an apology."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump: If this is the biggest thing I have done, I've done a shitty job as president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest winners from President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" were the largest tech and AI corporations, who are already worth billions of dollars. It's why I joined @warren.senate.gov to demand a full accounting of how they've taken advantage of those tax loopholes and deductions.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Foxconn II: The Squeakquel
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump shouts out Lockheed Martin and Raytheon (Trump reported owning $5.9 million in Lockheed and $6.9 million in Raytheon stocks at end of last year)
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What is ICE up to now? The agency is now anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life. Here's our latest interactive piece on ICE 2.0 – w/ @wcraft.bsky.social Andrew Witherspoon & Julius Motal
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Column: Yes, Trump is uniquely stupid about the economy. But in another sense, he's just one more Republican president f--king up the economy, which is standard operating procedure for them. newrepublic.com/article/2158... via @newrepublic.com
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More: www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...
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Outbreak Investigation of E. coli O26:H11: Raw Cheese (September 2026)
Do not eat, sell, or serve recalled Sierra Nevada Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheeses.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 28/09/2026
"The magnitude of the corruption is compounded by its elusiveness. Trump’s venal debasement of the presidency does not fit the usual categories, making its full extent unusually difficult to measure." Historian Sean Wilentz breaks down Trump the mob boss ↓
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How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in United States history. He's been preparing to use the government for self-enrichment his entire life.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist.
given our country over into the hands of MINORITIES, without regard to the rights of the majority White Christian Constitutional Americans. Mr. Truman has con-doned, rather than condemned, racketeering and corruption in high places. He has NEVER made any real attempt to ROOT OUT
Marxist-communists
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/09/2026
Universal child care is the best investment we can make for our families.
The impact of universal, affordable child care for all families would be seismic. It would mean a single mother could go back to school to become a nurse.It would mean a young family could actually save enough to buy a house. It would mean a couple could start that small business they’d been dreaming of.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seems my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America," has riled Putin's disinfo agents. They've targeted @motherjones.com as part of their attack on the midterms. See my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/47662... Check out HowRussiaWon.com.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Trump’s summit with Xi left too many questions unanswered. This is one of them.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/09/2026
“I used to think everyone opposed war. Then I realized some people actually want it — especially those who don’t have to go.” Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), German novelist
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m starting to think war is kind of a bad thing.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From @mford.bsky.social: "Trump bragged that 'there will be no facility like this anywhere in the world,' likely because it doesn’t make any sense." trib.al/fnEvPjA
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The Magic Words Trump Uses to Legally Justify His Harebrained Schemes
The president has decided that there is one neat trick for earning judicial compliance for a range of vanity projects and constitutional abuses.
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Aditya Dasgupta @adasgupta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting: www.nber.org/papers/w35720
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Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
President Xi has been providing weapons and intelligence support to Iran against the U.S. In return, Trump rolls out the red carpet for him and meets him plane-side. Absolutely ridiculous.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.
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More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled
More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/09/2026
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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ICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects, report finds
An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sad. Soft.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when Tom Cotton described slavery as a “necessary evil”?
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Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project
Republican senator who wants to ‘save’ US history from New York Times gives interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Missouri Republicans have had power for over two decades. They have had the votes. They have had the budgets. They have had every chance to fund our schools and rural hospitals and roads and libraries and make this state work. If they wanted to, they would. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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If They Wanted To, They Would
Holding all the levers of power
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